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16625
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Harden states that Charlotte is a city of churches. There are one hundred and eleven of them representing eighteen denominations with over 50,000 members, or a church for every 750 people in the city. Church activities are described.
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15432
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Charlotte is now the greatest church-going city in the world, ranked first in the percentage of its people who take their seats in church on Sundays. Edinburgh, Scotland was previously ranked first in this position, but Charlotte recently surpassed the city which still leads in the percentage of its population that maintains membership.
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20336
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Julius Monk of Salisbury in Rowan County is a popular cafe pianist on the national and international scene.
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16026
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Many people claim with certainty that Peter Stuart Ney, who lived and taught school in early 19th century Rowan County and Marshal Ney, Napoleon's famous General, were one and the same person. New evidence has been brought to light.
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16976
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One of the most unusual businesses in the state is operated by B. Z. Furr of Charlotte--he imports parrots. He also operates a retail pet and feed store, but his parrot business, which began three years ago, is growing. Harden recounts Furr's trips to the mountains of Mexico where he gets the birds for fifty cents apiece, how they are shipped to Charlotte and who buys them on arrival.
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17665
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The voters of North Carolina will make an important decision at the polls on October 3. On that date they will cast their ballots \"for\" or \"against\" two bond issues designed to provide badly needed improvements for public schools and mental hospitals in the state. Public schools face the emergency of lack of space and facilities, while space is also deficient for mental hospitals.
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13369
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The stretch of ocean that extends from Topsail Inlet, North Carolina to Georgetown, South Carolina, is an unmarked grave for a squadron of ships that sailed and fought for the Confederacy. A treasure ship lies off Wrightsville Beach with Robert E. Lee's undelivered gift.
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13252
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Ten miles from Siler City in western Chatham County, a strange story draws visitors to a cleared path in a perfect circle of trees on the property of L.R. Down. The story is that the Devil goes there to walk in circles as he thinks up new means of causing trouble for humanity. But there are additional legends relating to the area, including Indian tales of the lost colony of Roanoke.
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17486
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David Livingstone, the famous African explorer, scientist, and missionary for whom North Carolina's Livingstone College is named, had a son named Robert. Robert was a wanderer and came to the United States during the Civil War and joined the Union Army. Not wanting to trade on his father's name and fame, he enlisted under the name Robert Vincent. He was wounded, captured, and sent to the state's Salisbury Prison. He died there in 1864 at age nineteen and is buried in an unmarked grave.
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13487
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One of North Carolina's literary mysteries includes a puzzle that persisted for more than one hundred years: Who wrote Attempts at Rhyming, by an Old Field Teacher? Scholars finally tracked down the Old Field teacher: Alban J. X. Hart.
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