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In the 1925 General Assembly, Hoke County Representative S. Scott Poole introduced a bill to prohibit the teaching of evolution in state-supported schools. The issue was fought over by fundamentalists and education forces until its defeat in 1927.
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Minor leaguer Leo 'Muscle' Shoals was one of the most popular baseball players for the Reidsville Luckies of the Carolina League. He set the league homerun record in 1949. However, too much boisterous behavior kept him from reaching the major leagues.
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With over 20,000 farms in the state growing vegetables, roadside produce stands are numerous and well stocked. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has a book listing 300 of them - DIRECT DIRECTORY.
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Charlotte, with over five million trees, has been honored as \"Tree City, U.S.A.\" for 14 consecutive years. From the early 1900s, when John Nolen designed the first tree-filled suburb, the city has required trees to be in all developments.
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Few people who spend a dime know that the Roosevelt head was designed in 1943 by Mooresville native Selma Burke. Burke, now 94 and very much active artistically, is a renowned artist and sculptor whose works are known around the world.
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The state has had a long history of wine making, from settlers in the early 1700s in New Bern to present-day Biltmore Estate. Beginning with the nation's first commercial winery in Brinkleyville in 1835, the state now has five, with a sixth in progress.
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Although many from the state have played professional baseball, only five have reached the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y. They are Enos Slaughter, James Hunter, Hoyt Wilhelm, Buck Leonard, and Rick Ferrell.
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Tom Broadfoot, owner of Broadfoot Publishing Company, has re-issued a number of Civil War books. A most important one for researchers is the 40-volume CONFEDERATE VETERAN (1893-1932), containing first-hand, unpublished material by Confederate soldiers.
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The new Michael Jordan Discovery Gallery at the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington teaches children from 4 to 12 about natural history in the southeastern part of the state. Topics include upland forests, bottomlands, and maritime forests.
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Micaville Gallery in Mitchell County features works of artists from Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy Counties. The gallery was a company store for Harris Clay Company workers in the 1920s and later a country store until the late 1970s.
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James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States, was born near Pineville in Mecklenburg County. State celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of his birth will culminate on November 5, 1995, at the James K. Polk Historic Site near Pineville.
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2488
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When imports of mica, a mineral of great strategic value to American military production during World War II, were cut off, the western part of the state became the nation's mining center for this critical mineral.
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2489
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Two of the state's top photographers, Norman Poole and Kevin Adams, have definite opinions of sites for fall foliage viewing, as seen in this pictorial essay.
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2490
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Located around its namesake, a 2,700-foot peak, Pilot Mountain in Surry County is a place of history and heritage, and a blend of the old and new. Many people remember it as Mount Pilot in \"The Andy Griffith Show.\"
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Needham Bryan Cobb had a unique way to teach geography in the 19th Century. He incorporated the names of counties, creeks, sounds, and other features into poems that students then memorized from his 1887 book, POETICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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