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North Carolina has the nation’s largest state-owned highway system (80,200 miles), 72 airports, 120+ transit systems, extensive intercity rail freight and passenger service, and several ocean ports. These resources are a key element in the state’s economic vitality and are central to its...
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An athlete with a background in Chemistry, James Grubbs (Jim) Martin served North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representative for six terms, and as governor for two terms.
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Blue Ridge Mountains have remained an iconic natural trait of North Carolina. The most prominent and the highest point on the mountain range is Grandfather Mountain, peaking at 5,964 feet.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Maybe more so than any other novelist below the Mason-Dixon line, including the 19th-century William Gilmore Simms of South Carolina, Inglis Fletcher of North Carolina painted the most comprehensive, historical portrait of the land on which she lived.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Medical Center has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 9:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Three Vidant Health hospitals have been included among the top hospitals in the state by Business North Carolina magazine.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Officials from Vidant Medical Center and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University cut the ribbon yesterday on a new hybrid operating room.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Each year employees at Vidant Children's Hospital volunteer for a chance to let pediatric patients toss Jell-o onto their faces.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Born on April 29, 1952 in the town of Kannapolis (Cabarrus County), North Carolina, Ralph Dale Earnhardt, like other racing oriented families such as the Pettys and the Labontes, was the son of a NASCAR driver.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every year, we pay homage to those that make a marked difference, who pass on from this temporal plane.
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 @ 3:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Jonathan Worth served as general superintendent of the Fayetteville and Western Plank road beginning in 1856.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During World War II, the Nazis stole 22 million works of art. Those works included great masterpieces of European painting, sculpture, literature, and music. But a small group called Monuments Men worked to track down...
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born in Polecat Creek, North Carolina, in Guilford County on April 25, 1908. The youngest of three sons, Egbert spent his first six years in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Possibly the best football player to graduate from UNC and one of the best football players to play intercollegiate ball, Charlie Justice played for the Washington Redskins before recurring injuries prematurely ended his professional career.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On October 17, 1862 the Confederate Navy Department signed a contract with the shipbuilding firm of Thomas Howard and Elijah Ellis of New Bern to construct an ironclad gunboat on the Neuse River: the CSS Neuse.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2013 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born Gaylord Jackson Perry in September 15, 1938, in Williamston, North Carolina, Perry competed at every level and in every sport during his early years and through high school in Martin County.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 11:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Over the next few years, members of the Collaborative will concentrate on implementing Lean, a business improvement philosophy and practice widely used to identify and improve business processes.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Established by Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), the Public Works Administration (PWA) was an expansive, Depression-era Federal government spending program that aimed to create jobs while improving the nation's infrastructure.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 3:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Michael L. Robinson is now practicing with Vidant Medical Group at Vidant Multispecialty Clinic-Tarboro.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2013 @ 2:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of the board of directors of Vidant Health announced a new slate of officers at a meeting today.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 2:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of the board of directors of Vidant Medical Center announced new members and officers at a meeting today.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Most North Carolinians believe the Civil Rights Movement occurred strictly in the 1960s, with the start of the Sit-Ins at the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although scholars disagree regarding the exact path of Hernando De Soto's expedition in the Southeast, all agree that the Spaniard and his expedition passed through present-day Piedmont and western North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heart disease is the cause of one in every six deaths in the United States, and Vidant Health is raising community awareness about heart health through sponsored events in February.
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bragg, a West Point graduate, was an army full general during the American Civil War. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born on April 8, 1946 James Augustus Hunter was a native son of Hertford in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1857, the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina sought to establish a school for females. Largely due to the donations of William Peace, the institution became a reality.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Established by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) in 1933, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was one of two early New Deal programs intended to revive U.S. industry after years of contraction.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Federal programs to fight the Great Depression brought almost $440 million by 1938 to North Carolina. Conservative Democrats who had fought the reforms in the state, nonetheless, eagerly accepted the largesse from Washington, D.C.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Created by the State of North Carolina in 1792 as a planned capital city, the area encompassing present-day Raleigh, North Carolina had a handful of sparse colonial settlements as early as the 1760s.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2013 @ 2:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Outer Banks Urology is now affiliated with Vidant Medical Group, operating under the name Vidant Urology-Outer Banks.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The constitutional revisions of 1835 resulted in great part from North Carolina's acceptance of Jacksonian democracy, a political movement that emphasized participation of the common man in the political process.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dare Medical Associates is now affiliated with Vidant Medical Group, operating under the name Vidant Family Medicine – Manteo.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 2:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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