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Richmond County native Victor Blue had a distinguished naval career of 32 years. His two spy missions in Cuba during the Spanish-American War brought information that helped defeat the Spanish Navy at Santiago, Cuba.
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Emeline Pigott of Morehead City not only cared for wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, but also spied on Union troops and delivered war supplies for the Southern cause.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley, immigrant English boys, came to Raleigh in 1880. Herbert became an outstanding taxidermist and worked for the Museum of Natural Science for sixty years, fifty-one as curator and director. Clement was an entomologist for the Agriculture Department and published the first catalog of insects in the South, The List of Insects of North Carolina. The Brimleys were the state's most influential naturalists, whose work left a lasting mark on the state. They are remembered in an exhibit at the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh.
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Not every brandy maker can have his product extolled by a governor, but R. A. Bynum of Farmville was one. In 1879, Governor Zebulon B. Vance's statement praising the apple brandy appeared on the front page of THE RALEIGH OBSERVER.
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Franklin County's Abby House, known as Aunt Abby, was defined by a fierce loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War and a cantankerous resolve to aid her friends and her kin. Her epitaph reads, \"Angel of Mercy to Confederate Soldiers.\"
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THE STATE offers a tribute to its founding fathers on the magazine's sixtieth birthday, with a brief history of the origin and evolution of the magazine included.
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Born in a log cabin in Jackson County, Felix Ray Allen grew up to be a lawyer, judge, and author, but is most famous for composing the \"Ballad of Kidder Cole\" when he was sixteen.
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In 1908, pioneer and adventurer Mrs. Bayard Wootten of New Bern and Chapel Hill became the first photographer in the state to take pictures from an airplane. She also became the first female commissioned officer in the N.C. National Guard at Camp Glenn in 1910. Her pictures of the deterioration of Camp Bragg near Fayetteville led to its rebuilding and the establishment of Fort Bragg. Mrs. Wootten started her artistic photography in the 1920s photographing of the women attending the Penland School of Crafts, which her cousin had founded. Her photographs were the main features in books, magazines and murals for public buildings. Before her death in 1959 at the age of 83, Mrs. Wootten had taken well over half a million photographs, however only 100,000 negatives and prints survived a studio fire, and are now kept in the North Carolina Collection at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Bill Nye, a famous 19th century humorist, lived and wrote in Asheville for the last ten years of his life.
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Published for the first time in 1828 by John Christian Blum, BLUM'S ALMANAC is the oldest continually published magazine in the state. The content and format have remained the same through the years, including items like sun risings and settings, household and health hints, farming help, and proverbs on moral precepts.
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In 1905, Lunsford Richardson, a Greensboro druggist, went into business to sell his own medicines. The company became a huge success, and one of the products, Vicks VapoRub, is still famous worldwide after 92 years.
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In the 1850s, wealthy women of Wilmington wore fire beetles on their clothes for formal evening occasions. Emitting a beautiful greenish light at the base and reddish light at the abdomen, fire beetles were sold at about twenty-five cents a dozen. The beetles required food, twice daily baths, and were kept in tiny cages. The bugs are native to tropical North and South America.
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Gov. John Motley Morehead, born on July 4, 1796, was one of the state's most visionary leaders of the early 19th-century. Among his many ideas were a highway system, a port at Beaufort, the North Carolina Railroad, schools for the blind and deaf, and navigable rivers.
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Daniel A. Tompkins is the South's pioneer machinery agent based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Lieutenant Roy Wilder, Jr., became a missionary of the North Carolina chitlin faith during World War II. While stationed in London, Wilder received a jar of chitlins from home. With a group of fellow North Carolinians, Wilder cooked the chitlins, creating a unusual smell in the London air. Future N.C. House of Representatives speaker pro tem Allen Barbee, Greenville lawyer William W. Speight, and future Asheville Citizen editor John A. Paris were all present at the chitlin dinner. Following the Normandy invasion, Wilder made a promise to Lindsey Nelson, a future CBS sports reporter, and Don Whitehead, a future Pulitzer Prize reporter, to meet in Germany on Thanksgiving for a chitlin dinner. This did not occur, but Wilder kept his jar of chitlins and met up with the two in March 1945 in Remagen, Germany. There, the trio cooked up a southern meal complemented with champagne, donated by fellow servicemen. Newspapers, Time magazine, the comic strip Pogo, and the Air Force Diary and Magazine reported the chitlin dinner for readers in America. Wilder later sent chitlins to fellow correspondents in Korea and Vietnam.
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