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The Union blockade had isolated two of the biggest cities in Virginia - Richmond and Norfolk -from international trade.
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George Pickett died on July 30, 1875 in Norfolk, Virginia at the age of fifty from a liver abscess.
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A 16-year old Irish girl stowed aboard a US Navy destroyer in 1988. She came aboard while the USS Conyngham visited Cork and, with the help of five sailors, hid until the stowaway was discovered when the ship returned to Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Armed Forces Memorial Park, in Norfolk, Virginia. The park contains 20 bronzed letters, appearing to be blowing in the wind, written by American soldiers, covering wars ranging from The Revolutionary War to the Persian Gulf.
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The ship that fought the USS Monitor at the "first battle of ironclads" was actually the CSS Virginia. The Union had burned and sunk the USS Merrimack at Norfolk to prevent its capture. The Confederacy salvaged it, turned it into an ironclad and renamed it.
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In 2014, PETA killed 83.8% of all cats in its Norfolk, Virginia shelter and 68.4% of all its dogs. The less vocal Lynchburg Humane Society meanwhile killed 7.1%/2.9%.
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In 2014 two US military helicopters crashed within 24 hours of each other in Norfolk on the east coast of England & Norfolk, Virginia in America.
