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10201
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Mitchell, of Youngsville High School, and Pegg, of Seaboard High School, discuss teaching the Bible in public schools. Mitchell speaks for it, and Pegg speaks against it.
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10202
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An 1881 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Charles Duncan McIver had a long career in education. He was the founder and first president of the State Normal and Industrial School for Girls, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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10203
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William Simpson was born in New York, moved to Richmond, and at age sixteen, moved with his family to Warrenton, North Carolina. Later he worked in a Richmond drugstore and for a pharmaceutical maker. During the Civil War he was assigned as a pharmacist in military hospitals in Raleigh. Simpson wanted pharmacists trained, and in 1893, he became dean of the Leonard School of Pharmacy at Shaw University.
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10204
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Rogers recounts the life of Frank Page--banker, industrialist, railroad builder, and father of the state's modern highway system.
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10205
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Rogers recounts the life of Greensboro native, William Sidney Porter, who wrote under the name of \"O. Henry\" and is considered one of the greatest American short story writers.
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10206
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Rogers recounts the life of Archibald Murphy, who was not only an attorney, legislator, jurist, and manuscript collector but is also considered the father of the state's public school system and the father of internal improvements.
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10207
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Arguments for and against the issuance of $25 million in bonds for school building purposes are presented.
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10208
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Johnson, the son of a Raleigh hotel porter who became President of the United States upon the death of Abraham Lincoln.
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10209
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James Knox Polk of Mecklenburg County was the eleventh President of the United States. As president, Polk championed the cause of westward expansion of the United States - which was known as Manifest Destiny, settled the Oregon boundary dispute with England, and gained congressional recognition of a state of war with Mexico and the annexation of Texas.
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10210
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What is now Appalachian State University in Boone began in 1899, when a group of citizens under the leadership of B. B. Dougherty and his brother D. D. began a movement to establish a school. Warren traces the school's development over the first fifty years and its economic impact on the region.
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10211
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Rogers recounts the life of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, whose birthplace is claimed by both North and South Carolina.
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10212
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Sharpe discusses the reactivation of the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The distinctive black-and-white striped tower was built in 1870, and as the sea encroached over the years, a metal tower to replace it was built in Trent Woods in the 1930s.
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10213
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Although John Paul Jones was not a native North Carolinian, he enjoyed the friendship of a number of prominent individuals in the state. Willie Jones of Halifax provided a home for him when he was down and out, and he secured his first commission in the first United States Navy through the influence of Joseph Hewes of Edenton.
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10214
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Rogers recounts the life of Calvin Henderson Wiley, who was North Carolina's first superintendent of common schools.
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10215
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James Davis came to North Carolina about two hundred years ago to become the state's first printer and to print the laws of the colony. He remained thirty-six years. He was the first man to establish a newspaper, print a magazine, and print a book.
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