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This New Year's Eve, around 20 Gaston County residents will spend between 16 and 18 hours travelling from door to door, serenading friends and family with a salute of musket fire. Loaded with black powder for a guaranteed loud and smoky salutation, the New Year Shooters are carrying out a German Tradition numbering some 200 years in practice.
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Containing brief histories of: William H. Jones, Cpl. Seth L. Weld, Second Lt. Samuel I. Parker, Pvt. Robert L. Blackwell, Sgt. Ray E. Eubanks, First Lt. Charles Murray, Jack Lucas, Pfc. Bryant H. Womack, Jerry K. Crump, and P.F.C Charles George, this article recognizes native North Carolinians receiving Congressional medals of honor.
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North Carolina's greatest game bird, the Ruffed Grouse, also referred to as a pheasant, is a forest dwelling creature considered to be the state's most omnivorous fowl. The first of a two part series published by the state, Tom Alexander examines attributes and characteristics of this unpredictable bird.
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Dr. Louis L. Vine, a young veterinary practitioner from Chapel Hill, operated on several hundred canines with defective ear lobes. An hour long process known as the ear-pointing operation is the best developed surgery for animals in need of plastic surgery.
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An early traveler describes Native American Cherokee stick-ball through observations conducted in Qualla Town, North Carolina, 1848.
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