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22660
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Charlotte offers many options for inexpensive shopping, services and entertainment. Here are a few suggestions for discovering the best that Charlotte has to offer without going broke.
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22662
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This article is a comprehensive guide to the private schools located around the Charlotte area.
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This article profiles a UNC-Charlotte concert featuring eighteen violins that are relics from the Holocaust, and the stories that these violins are associated with.
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22664
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This article profiles some of Charlotte's historic buildings and what they are still in use for.
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22665
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The sources for the best desserts in Charlotte include chocolate and candy makers, bakeries, restaurants and ice cream parlors.
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22666
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This article details the best beaches near Charlotte. Featured beaches include Tybee Island, Georgia; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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Carlos Suarez's father Roberto helped overthrow Cuba's dictator Fulgencia Batista in 1960 with Fidel Castro. But just a few years later, after the family settled in Miami to escape assassination attempts, Carlos trained with a master pastry chef at the Adams Mark Hotel in New York. In 1991, Carlos opened Suarez Bakery in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Charlotte, North Carolina is a sprawling city with a growing real estate market. One benefit of this is suburbs where lower land prices, lower taxes, lower home prices, and improved infrastructure are moving people outside the city. Fort Mill, Concord, Indian Trail, Huntersville, Mount Holly, Marvin, Waxhaw, and Rock Hill offer various distances from the big city and special perks.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 17 Issue 4, April 2012,
p52-60, il, por, map
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In the Fall of 2011, Charlotte, North Carolina became occupied with a movement of protesters. Becoming one of the leaders of Occupy Charlotte over time, Michael Zytkow is continuing a family tradition of activism as his grandfather fought for the Warsaw Uprising in the last days of the Nazi occupation of Poland. Occupy Charlotte seeks to empower the community as an intellectual revolution that starts from scratch.
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Dr. Tony Zeiss has traded his usual college professor look for the full dress of an American captain in the Revolutionary War as he often does for speaking engagements. Zeiss has been the president of Central Piedmont Community College for twenty years, a school which serves 70,000 people in Mecklenberg County, North Carolina in career training.
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After mills closed, jobs left, and in 2004 when the only NASCAR race left at the North Carolina Motor Speedway left, Rockingham, North Carolina seemed to wither. But an old racer bought the empty track at auction in 2007 and now the Rockingham Speedway combines the nostalgia of old NASCAR days with the modernity of the new NASCAR.
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In 1987, the Charlotte Hornets were introduced by Kannapolis resident George Shinn. The Hornets were well received and loved by the city until 1999 when Shinn's controversies set unwanted light on the team. Shinn moved his team to New Orleans in 2012 and investment in the Charlotte Bobcats has been difficult. To add fuel to the fire is the worst season in NBA history, and now, a group of fans is calling for the Charlotte Bobcats to return to their original name of Charlotte Hornets.
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This article profiles three women veterans who joined sororities in search of help for the transition to civilian life.
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From custom bicycles and wrestling memorabilia, to Simpsons memorabilia and lava lamps, Charlotte, North Carolina has some premier collections of action figures, unique art, and childhood memories.
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Whether through book or the collections at the Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina, Tom Hatchett interprets Charlotte's last 100 years as staff historian.
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