Isn't it ironic that the state motto is "Virginia is for Lovers?"

On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Elizabeth Whitaker wrote:

> I have seen _something_  _somewhere_ in which Elizabeth I's
> popularity and public image is "traced" to her "replacing" the
> Virgin Mary in the hearts of the English people after the
> Reformation. I will attempt to track that down. I believe I
> read it in a moderately recent (10 to 30 years old)
> biography.
>
> Elizabeth Whitaker
> Alexandria, Virginia -- from the "Jabez" line but my folks left
> the state in the early 1700s for North Carolina
>
> Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
>> This is a very good question that has been asked here and elsewhere
>> before but not adequately answered. Everybody knows that Walter  
>> Ralegh
>> named the place for the queen, but has anybody found a source (his or
>> another's) that explicitly states as much and gives a date? Ralegh  
>> wrote
>> quite a bit, and the answer may be concealed somewhere in one of his
>> books or in some obscure British archival source. What everybody  
>> knows
>> ain't always so.
>>
>> Brent Tarter
>> The Library of Virginia
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>>
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