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9386
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John White, the second Caucasian artist in America, was an explorer and competent mapmaker commissioned by Sir Walter Raleigh to publicize the new domain of Queen Elizabeth. In 1585 White painted many landscapes, fauna and floral studies, and scenes of the daily lives of the Native Americans.
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9391
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The scuppernong has been the favored for winemaking in the south since 1584 when a Roanoke colonists recorded the grapes' abundance. The grape is now going commercial from Chowan County, at Wine Cellars, Inc., North Carolina's only winery.
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Sold under the brand name “Deerfield Vineyards,†Edenton's Wine Cellars, Inc. once had the distinction of being North Carolina's only legal winery. The 83-acre vineyard grows the sweet scuppernong grapes that yield a light, dry table wine.
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9406
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Edward T. Carney, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Global Government Solutions Group in the Research Triangle, is featured in NC Magazine's executive profile.
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9453
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Most people know the woods violet only as a wildflower; however, it can be a delicious and colorful addition to salads and other foods. Noonan discusses the gathering, preparation, cooking, and eating of this colorful plant.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 41 Issue 2, Feb 1977,
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9470
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Leeches are highly specialized worms and are related to earthworms and a group of marine worms called polychaets. Most live in shallow water, but some have adapted to a terrestrial environment. One terrestrial leech, Haemopis septagon, inhabits North Carolina in the swamps and moist floodplains of the eastern Piedmont and Coastal Plain. It was discovered in 1972 and is one of the newest additions to the state's known fauna.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 41 Issue 9, Sept 1977,
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For one week every April and October the world's furniture manufacturers and retail buyers come to the High Point Furniture Market, the world's largest furniture expo. Business transactions are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the local economy benefits by $1 billion. Wood describes the strength of the state's furniture industry as it moves into the twenty-first century.
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9492
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Wood discusses three mayors who lead large metropolitan cities--Pat McCrory (Charlotte); Keith Holliday (Greensboro); and Charles Meeker (Raleigh).
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9528
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Amended Title IX regulations allow local education agencies to establish single-sex classes, extracurricular activities, and schools as long as the excluded sex is offered a substantially comparable educational opportunity. Hurst and Johansen provide analysis of the new U.S. Department of Education regulations addressing the ability of public schools to offer single-sex classrooms and schools.
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9531
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East Carolina University graduate Shirley Carraway, 1975, 1985, 2000, planned a career in business, but switched her major to education. During her thirty-two years in the field she has been a speech therapist, assistant principal, principal, and school system administrator. She will retire as superintendent of the Orange County Schools on October 1, 2007.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 6 Issue 1, Fall 2007,
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9590
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A two hundred mile stretch of trail ran from Paint Rock bordering Tennessee to the Saluda Gap on the edge of South Carolina. Because seventy miles of the trail was difficult to travel, especially for cattle, a new road from the Saluda Gap to the Tennessee line was purposed in 1827. This became known as the Buncombe Turnpike, and it increased business greatly and lifted the economy of western North Carolina. By the 1870s, the railroad began moving west, and the stock driving was replaced by the more lucrative transport of corn and other cash crops.
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9679
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The Malcolm Blue Historical Society of Aberdeen is restoring the Malcolm Blue Farm, ca. 1825, in hopes of having it designated a Living Historical Farm and Agricultural Museum. There are thirty such museums in the country, but none in the state. The society hosts biannual 1899 festival on the site.
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9865
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Some of North Carolina's wildlife species, including peregrine falcons, alligators, and spiny mussels, are considered endangered. Alderman reports on a number of restoration studies that are being conducted and the results being obtained.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Feb 1989,
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9895
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The Elizabeth City Register of Deeds contains a Marriage Center that boasts an “all in 1 building for 1 hour service†where couples may become legally wed for a minimal fee.
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The Newbold-White House, north of Hertford was restored by the Perquimans County Restoration Association. The brick house is said to be the North Carolina's oldest, built somewhere between 1685 and 1725. The house-now-tourist attraction includes a museum containing several thousand artifacts from the 1700s found by archaeologists during the restoration.
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