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16876
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Seaman recounts the reasons for and the results of the violent and rebellious attempt by Native Americans living in Eastern North Carolina in 1711 to regain their independence. This period is known as the Tuscarora War.
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16909
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Using archival records and landscape interpretation, Downer explores the meanings embodied in the spectacular form of Blue Ridge Parkway, and the rise of the automobile tourist.
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16941
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With the movement away from tobacco in eastern North Carolina, McKinnie examines the alternatives, which include livestock.
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16952
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Examinations of the spatial patterns of disability rates by North Carolina county reveals regional patterns with eastern and mountain counties having higher levels of disabilities. Income and ethnic measures show the most frequent statistically significant associations with disability rates.
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16955
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Over the past twenty years, changing processes of globalization and economic integration have sparked an increase in Latino transnational migration to the United States. In particular, this accelerated immigration and settlement of Latino families has profoundly reshaped the demographic, economic, cultural, and social landscape of North Carolina.
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16974
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North Carolina and South Carolina argued for eighty-five years--from 1730 to 1815--over the placing of the boundary line between them. Menzies discusses the disagreement and its settlement.
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17079
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A number of individuals have expressed their views on the state's quail situation. Johnson provides an interesting summary of conditions as they now exist.
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17115
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Jefferson T. Hayes at age 75 has the distinction of being the longest serving postmaster in the state and second longest in the nation. He has been postmaster of the office at Tomotla in Cherokee County since 1882, a total of fifty-six years, without regard to whatever political party was in power.
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17119
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Probably no other officer in any American army had as rapid rise in rank as Stephen Ramseur. He began his service with the Confederate Army in April 1861 as a 2nd Lieutenant and he was a Major General when he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864.
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17149
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For some two million U.S. citizens who are males and old enough to fight, and for millions more who are their dependents, a national transition from a state of peace to a state of war naturally creates more or less acute personal problems in connection with debts, taxes, shelter, and food. The aims of the Soldier's and Sailor's Civil Relief Act of 1940 was set up in advance \"to promote and strengthen the national defense by suspending enforcement of certain civil liabilities of certain persons serving in the Military and Naval Establishments.\"
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17264
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The 1946 edition of Municipalities and the Law in Action is a cross section view of the wheels and cogs of municipal government machines all over North Carolina.
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17305
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Cochrane discusses the happenings of the 1947 North Carolina General Assembly such as the opposing philosophies on public spending and the fight for Speakership.
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17344
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Capus M. Waynick was a member of the State Senate and the Chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Constitutional Amendments in the General Assembly of 1933. As part of a two piece debate over revisions to the state constitution, Mr. Waynick offered the pro argument for amending the state constitution.
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14.Low-Rent Public Housing by Cochrane, William M. Popular Government Vol. 16 Issue 1, Sept-Oct 1949
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17448
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The new Federal Housing Act and the North Carolina Local Housing Authorities Law make it possible to provide low-rent housing to members of various communities. Local authorities in North Carolina have already begun to take advantage of these opportunities.
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17450
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Although there is no question that North Carolina's Housing Authorities Law enables municipalities to establish and operate housing authorities in the field of low-rent housing, it is doubtful whether this law authorizes condemnation of slums to be sold for redevelopment.
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