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In the early 1920s, University of North Carolina football player C. L. Merritt was nicknamed \"The Battering Ram.\" His charging style of play inspired the choice of the ram as the school's mascot in 1924.
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The Tory Oak, a Wilkes County landmark, was used to hang five Tories after the Battle of Kings Mountain. On June 12, 1989, a storm heavily damaged the tree, but treatment will enable it to survive.
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Born in Lincoln County in 1837, Robert Johnston, Robert Hoke, and Stephen Ramseur little knew their boyhood war games would become reality when they saw service as Confederate army generals in the Civil War.
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When Paul and Mildred Whitener founded the Hickory Museum of Art in 1944, they focused on American art, a not-too-popular form. Today the museum is one of the finest of its size in the Southeast, with works by over 75 National Academy of Design artists.
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Marion Butler was a controversial political figure, serving in three parties - Democrat, Populist, and Republican - from the General Assembly to the U.S. Senate. He gathered a host of friends and enemies, party accolades, and charges of party betrayal.
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The 1918-1919 influenza epidemic killed millions worldwide, including 13,644 in the state. A large number of Army trainees on the University of North Carolina campus died, as did UNC president Edward Kidder Graham.
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In 1919, the best pistol shots in the Allied armies met in competition at LeMans, France. The American team won, and team member Lloyd E. Griffin of Edenton was one of the world's top three shooters. He died in 1987 at age 94.
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James Glasgow was the state's first secretary of state (1776 to 1779).When people learned that the perceived model citizen had used the office for corrupt land dealings, he was fined and disgraced. A county named for him was changed to Greene County.
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Started in 1972, the Nantahala Outdoor Center near Bryson City is a nationally known center for beginners and experts who enjoy white-water canoeing, rafting, kayaking, and other outdoor activities.
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The Qualla Arts and Crafts Museum in Cherokee is one of the best centers of Native American art in the country. Creations by Cherokee craftsmen are displayed and sold. Also available is work by other Native Americans, including Navajo and Pueblo.
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Built in the 1920s, Chinqua-Penn Plantation is a 27-room mansion surrounded by 36 acres. It contains a treasure trove of art, including Chinese life-size statues, tapestries, and a Byzantine mosaic.
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Mooresville artist Cotton Ketchie is famous for his watercolor paintings of rustic scenes, including old barns, churches, cabins, and coastal areas.
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Little did Johannes Plott know when he came to the state from Germany in 1750, that his hound would be one of only four breeds started in this country, and that in 1989, the Plott hound would be named North Carolina's official state dog.
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For many, the snow storm of March 1 and 2, 1927, which blanketed the central and eastern sections of the state with twenty inches and drifts up to four feet, is the one all others are measured against.
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A chance meeting in Texas in 1897 between two traveling salesmen from the state, Fairleigh Dickinson and Maxwell Becton, led to the founding of Becton Dickinson & Company, one of the nation's largest medical-supply firms.
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