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5748
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Parramore discusses North Carolina inventors who were pursuing the goal of powered flight before and after the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. These include Luther Paul of Beaufort, who between 1902 and 1907, built a helicopter that flew unmanned, the world's first machine to lift vertically off the ground.
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5749
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Parramore discusses the Wright Brothers' work leading up to the historic flight on December 17, 1903, and the contributions in work and support of the Outer Bankers and men of the life-saving station.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Mar 2003,
p43-45, 47, il
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21638
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This article describes some of the theories regarding the disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists who had disappeared from Roanoke Island as posited by other historians, including the work of David Beers Quinn. Parramore debates Quinn on some issues, and also supplements Quinn's findings with his own research and thesis.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p67-83, map, f
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21630
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This article examines the fate of African-born Muslim slaves in North Carolina, with more scrutiny on the life of Umar ibn Said, an educated and upper class Muslim from Senegal. It delivers details from his life, especially after he became a slave in 1810 on a Cape Fear River plantation owned by James Owen. It also chronicles his conversion to Christianity, which was used by missionaries as an example on how to convert Muslims.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p127-150 , il, por, f
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17741
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The Carolina Aircraft Company was established March 31, 1918 in Raleigh by Harry Atwood. During World War I, the company crafted seaplanes designed by Atwood. The endeavor was short-lived due to lack of demand following the conclusion of the war.
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21404
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The second of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" This article disputes Douglas Egerton's thesis from his article, \"'Fly Across the River': The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802\", the first article of the series, stating that  the conspiracy did not originate in Halifax County, Virginia, and spread to other Virginia and North Carolina counties, rather, that the 1802 slave conspiracy consisted of a series of unrelated disturbances.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991,
p111-121, il
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16707
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Dr. James Norcom, a prominent figure in eastern North Carolina during the 19th-century, was an active local politician and respected doctor who was accused by his slave, Harriet Jacobs, as being ruthless and lascivious in her autobiography. Parramore examines the disparate portrayals of Dr. Norcom in Jacob's account and in historical records, concluding while aspects of Jacob's description are accurate, the doctor's sexual relations with his slaves and her overall characterization is prone to emotional exaggeration.
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3309
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Frank Johnson's brass band was the best-known musical group in the state from 1830 to 1870. A former slave, he organized a band that traveled the state to play for plantation aristocracy and public events.
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21324
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A look at the events surrounding the 1711 Tuscarora Iroquois Indians attack of white settlements in North Carolina that sent Christopher Gale to South Carolina to solicit aid, and the subsequent South Carolina funded relief expedition led by Colonel John (later \"Tuscarora Jack\") Barnwell that resulted in a conflict at the Tuscarora village of Torhunta, the liberation of the white settlement of Bath Town, and an attempted to capture Tuscarora chief Hancock at Catechna Creek.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 2, April 1987,
p115-138, il, por, map, f
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7767
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Spain had a formal claim to what is now North Carolina up to 1670, but most history books fail to mention that Spaniards actually occupied portions of the land for extended periods of time. Several clues indicate that this is true. When Virginia explorers landed in the Albemarle region in 1653, they came across a Native American who insisted that the explorers meet a wealthy Spaniard who had been residing with the Tuscarora Indians for seven years. Three years prior to this encounter, Edward Bland was instructed to make inquiries about a white man living with the Tuscaroras. 17th-century maps of the region, such as W. J. Blaeu's and Mercator's maps, also indicated possible connections with Spain. Spaniards might have resided with the Tuscarora Indians to keep an eye on England's settlement in the region. It is possible that Spain might have even supplied trading and arms to the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713.
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21421
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The Tuscarora Indians have often been viewed by scholars as only being significant to North Carolina during the Tuscarora War between 1711 and 1713. This is not the case as the Tuscarora dominated the region for over a century, first amongst the Indian groups of the region and then when dealing with European colonists. From the late 1500s to their defeat in 1713, the Tuscarora attempted to maintain control over their territory and trading rights in much of eastern North Carolina. Their presence demarcated the extent of English settlement in North Carolina from 1654 to 1712 and may have influenced several internal conflicts among the colonists.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982,
p307-326 , il, por, map, f
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6543
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Parramore describes a way of life that lasted for over one hundred years on the Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, the use of great sweep-seines to harvest runs of shad, herring, and other fish. He discusses the work and skill of the workers who manned the seines, which could often stretch up to two miles. The work period was short, lasting from around eight weeks in the early spring, when the fish swarmed the waters in uncountable numbers. By the beginning of World War II, use of the great seines on the Albemarle waters was over; they were victims of smaller and more efficient equipment.
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13.The Day Colonial New Bern Washed Away by Parramore, Thomas C. The State Vol. 46 Issue 8, Jan 1979
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9277
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On September 7, 1970, a hurricane struck New Bern, destroying homes and businesses and flooding much of the town. Seven people were killed by flying debris or flood waters. New Bern recovered almost entirely within fifteen months of the storm.
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Dr. Walter Reed of Murfreesboro was in Cuba in 1900 and discovered yellow fever to be transmitted by a particular kind of female mosquito, single-handedly abolishing the health threat of the disease. His home in Murfreesboro is set to be restored and used as a Satellite Medical Center. Reed, born in Virginia in 1851, courted and married Emily Lawrence of Murfreesboro. Reed died in 1902.
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16370
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The Fool Killer is probably one of North Carolina's most notable contributions to the gallery of American folk heroes. Jesse Holmes the Fool Killer was the fictional creation of Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor from 1841 to 1883 of the weekly Milton Chronicle in Caswell County. There have been several letters discovered written by the Fool Killer in an attempt to bring justice upon the fools in mid-19th-century North Carolina society.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Aug 1975,
p70-74, il
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