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On the September day of 1862 when Zebulon Vance first took the office of governor, North Carolinians would have been hard pressed to admit that they already had a governor. In fact, there were three governors that day, including Henry T. Clark who held the office until Vance took over. North Carolina's \"surplus\"Â governor, Edward Stanly, was appointed by President Lincoln to be military governor of that part of North Carolina in Federal control.
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12674
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In the series painted by Francis V. Kughler for the Institute of Government building in Chapel Hill, the painting \"Road to North Carolina\" depicts the strong, moral people that came to the area to set their roots in the land. Kughler discusses the arrangement of main subjects in the painting, as well as his historical research, and the inspiration behind his fourth mural.
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One of the most unusual classes in North Carolina, women at the YWCA in Asheville are learning to transcribe copy into Braille, a special form of reading in which the words are felt by fingertips rather than seen with the eyes. Sighted women enrolled in the class plan to use their knowledge as volunteers in projects for the visually handicapped.
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Statesville's newest \"industry\"Â doesn't want any more orders; it's had it! An official of the three-man firm relates that the work, producing hand-made wooden shingles for building renovation, is far too difficult for mass production. J. O. Gaines, head of the organization, typically turns out three-eighths inch red oak shingles at the rate of 250 per day with the help of his sons.
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12677
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In 1793, the first sentence of death imposed by a federal court in the United States was passed at New Bern. Sentenced to death for mutiny on the high seas off Ocracoke Island, four sailors were ordered to be hung until dead. Shortly after passing Tybee Bar, two Frenchmen, two Englishmen, an Irishman, and an American conspired to murder the master and mate and take the ship to a northern European port.
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Less than a century ago, pigeons were predominant in North Carolina, with two billion pigeons counted in one flock. Witness W. C. Allen recorded a tale about the migration of a 200-mile-long flock of pigeons as it was starting from a resting place for a flight further north. Today, there isn't a single one of these passenger pigeons in the world.
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12679
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Although of short duration, the shark skin industry in North Carolina centered in Morehead city at the Ocean Leather Company in October 1918. Following suit, other sharkskin factories opened in New Jersey, and Florida, spurring the New York owners of the Ocean Leather Company to open a second location in North Carolina's Bogue Sound.
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13440
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One of the most unusual classes in North Carolina, women at the YWCA in Asheville are learning to transcribe copy into Braille, a special form of reading in which the words are felt by fingertips rather than seen with the eyes. Sighted women enrolled in the class plan to use their knowledge as volunteers in projects for the visually handicapped.
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