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14986
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No longer is the peanut a lowly goober - it has gone to war! While more than two hundred products are now being made form peanuts, there are many more having a wartime strategic value.
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14987
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The early Cherokees of North Carolina had an interesting life with specific habits and customs such as rules to hunting certain animals, farming ceremonies for certain crops, and the use of certain woods for beautiful carvings.
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18924
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Lawrence looks back over his almost fifty years of practicing law. One area in which he did not enjoy practicing was criminal law, which often involved capital crimes. Of the one hundred capital cases in which he represented the accused, ninety-nine escaped hanging. His last capital case was the last hanging in the state. On his next case, North Carolina had switched to the electric chair for executions, and he represented the first person to be electrocuted in the state.
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18925
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Durham has a large variety of industries. Among the best known are the tobacco factories, which employ over 6,000. Textile plants employ thousands of workers. Other plants make sheets and pillow-cases, medicines, fertilizers, wooden boxes, and many other products. Almost all the industries are working three shifts with 90 to 95 percent of their products going into the war effort.
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