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10-20-2007, 02:35 PM
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Down here in the totally ignored part of WV (JK) we have John F. Nash, a native of Bluefield, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics and was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind" which I'm sure yall have seen.
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10-20-2007, 03:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Huntington, WV
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Dagmar-- Logan & Huntington, actress
Dagmar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joyce DeWitt-- Wheeling, actress on "Three's Company"
Joyce DeWitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hal Greer-- Huntington, professional basketball player
Hal Greer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lou Holtz-- Follansbee, college football coach
Lou Holtz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stonewall Jackson-- Clarksburg, Civil War general
Stonewall Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael W. Smith-- Kenova, Grammy winning Christian musician
Michael W. Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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10-22-2007, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Cumberland
497 posts, read 514,398 times
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Jason "White Chocolate" Williams - Miami Heat point guard
Deron Williams - Utah Jazz point guard
OJ Mayo - top prep BB player in America
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10-24-2007, 03:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Hinton, WV
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Now would John Henry count..Talcott,WV Haha?
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10-24-2007, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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John Henry would make my top five...I was trying to think of him and was seeing the tunnels in my mind...but couldn't put a name or face with it...could not relate those tunnels to driving steel.
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10-24-2007, 04:12 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Hinton, WV
106 posts, read 93,275 times
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10-30-2007, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kentucky
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Chris Sarandon - actor from Beckley (He was in Fright Night and Princess Bride)
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10-31-2007, 08:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: South Riding, VA
469 posts, read 360,104 times
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Vernon "Bimbo" Coles - Professional basketball player - Lewisburg, WV.
Bob Denver - "Gilligan"
Peter Marshall - game show host - Huntington, WV
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10-31-2007, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Plano, TX
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Rod Thorn - Princeton, president and general manager of the NBA's New Jersey Nets, As general manager for the Chicago Bulls and was instrumental in the team's selection of Michael Jordan in the 1984 draft.
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11-15-2007, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Patch Adams has his Gesundheit Institute in southern Pocahontas County, but I don't think he was born there.
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