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| South Dakota Facts |
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Black Hills National Cemetery, located in South Dakota, "The Arlington of the West" is a final resting place of our nation's veterans. |
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Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old. |
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The name "Black Hills" comes from the Lakota words Paha Sapa, which mean "hills that are black". Seen from a distance, these pine-covered hills, rising several thousand feet above the surrounding prairie, appear black. The Black Hills are located in South Dakota. |
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