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Edwin Forbis Glenn was a famous General born near Greensboro in 1857. Some of Glenn's more notable accomplishments include leading explorations in Alaska and the Philippines, guarding the Mexican border during WWI, and establishing an arms training facility in France where he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Glendon, North Carolina was named after the General.
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Mrs. Mary Lee of New Bern uses eggshells as an artistic medium. From finch eggs to ostrich eggs, Lee masterfully decorates elaborate settings such as garden, ski-slope, and Nativity scenes on the interior and ornately adorns the exteriors as well.
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Robert Frost's last ambitious poem \"Kitty Hawk\"Â alludes to his first visit to North Carolina. Having recently been rejected by Elinor White, 18 year old Frost walked from Norfolk to Dismal Swamp where he intended to commit suicide. For over sixty years, the famed poet guarded the truth about his painful confrontation about death.
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12254
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Orton Plantation Gardens turned 250 in 1975. The columned mansion built in classic antebellum architectural style provides the focal point for the historic site, first owned by \"King\"Â Roger Moore in pre-Revolutionary War days.
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12255
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Pigeon Roost resident, Harvey James Miller, was sole contributor to the Winter 1974 edition of FOXFIRE MAGAZINE, a publication dedicated to preserving the knowledge of folkways, folklore, and crafts of southern Appalachia. Miller's homespun writing style and grassroots reporting provide an authentic and thorough account of a vanishing lifestyle.
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12256
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Water dowsing, the practice of locating underground water through divining with a Y-shaped branch or metal device, is generally met with skepticism, but Russian scientists claim that hydrokinetic energy is nothing mystical.
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12257
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Dr. Garland Pardue of NCSU Zoology Department has researched fish-farming globally and is urging central and eastern North Carolina to adopt raising channel catfish as a lucrative means for generating revenue.
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12258
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Moose discusses the writing career of Heather Ross Miller of Badin.
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