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A view of Harris Lake from the Harris Lake County Park in Wake County, North Carolina, with the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in view (2021)

North Carolina (/ˌkærəˈlaɪnə/ ^ⓘ KARR-ə-LY-nə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia to the southwest, and Tennessee to the west. The state is the 28th-largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. Along with South Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. At the 2020 census, the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its most populous city. The Charlotte metropolitan area, with an estimated population of 2,805,115 in 2023, is the most populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 22nd-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Research Triangle, with an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023, is the second-most populous combined metropolitan area in the state, 31st-most populous in the United States, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park.

The earliest evidence of human occupation in North Carolina dates back 10,000 years, found at the Hardaway Site. North Carolina was inhabited by Carolina Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan speaking tribes of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. King Charles II granted eight lord proprietors a colony they named Carolina after the king and which was established in 1670 with the first permanent settlement at Charles Town (Charleston). Because of the difficulty of governing the entire colony from Charles Town, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one of the Thirteen Colonies. The Halifax Resolves resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776, was the first formal call for independence from Great Britain among the American Colonies during the American Revolution.

On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. In the run-up to the American Civil War, North Carolina declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the tenth of eleven states to join the Confederate States of America. Following the Civil War, the state was restored to the Union on July 4, 1868. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world's first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina's Outer Banks. North Carolina often uses the slogan "First in Flight" on state license plates to commemorate this achievement, alongside a newer alternative design bearing the slogan "First in Freedom" in reference to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Halifax Resolves. (Full article...)

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Mann's 1950 Bowman football card

Robert Mann (April 8, 1924 – October 21, 2006) was an American professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). A native of New Bern, North Carolina, Mann played college football for the Hampton Pirates in 1942 and 1943 and the Michigan Wolverines in 1944, 1946 and 1947. Playing the end position, he broke the Big Ten Conference record for receiving yards in 1946 and 1947. After not being selected in the 1948 NFL Draft, Mann signed his first professional football contract with the Detroit Lions, where he stayed for two seasons. He later played for the Green Bay Packers for parts of five seasons until 1954. Mann broke the color barrier for both teams.

Mann led the NFL in receiving yards (1,014) in 1949. He was asked to take a pay cut after the 1949 season and became a holdout when the Lions opened practice in July 1950. He was traded to the New York Yanks in August 1950 and released three weeks later. Mann charged that he had been forced out of professional football for refusing to take a pay cut. He signed with the Green Bay Packers near the end of the 1950 NFL season and was the team's leading receiver in 1951. He remained with the Packers through part of the 1954 season. After his football career, Mann became a lawyer and practiced in Detroit. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1988 and died on October 21, 2006, at the age of 82. He was posthumously inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2016. (Full article...)

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The U.S. state of North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area, but has the seventh-highest number of counties in the country.

Following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, King Charles II rewarded eight persons on March 24, 1663, for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England. He gave the eight grantees, called Lords Proprietor, the land called Carolina, in honor of King Charles I, his father. The Province of Carolina, from 1663 to 1729, was a North American English (1663–1707), then British (from 1707 union with Scotland) colony. In 1729, the Province of North Carolina became a separate entity from the Province of South Carolina. (Full article...)

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Image 1William Woods Holden, a Unionist who served as the 38th and 40th Governor of North Carolina, and during the Reconstruction era (from History of North Carolina)
Image 2Union captures Fort Fisher, 1865 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 3Reconstructed royal governor's mansion, Tryon Palace, in New Bern (from History of North Carolina)
Image 4Map of the roads and railroads of North Carolina, 1854 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 51st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 6Map of North America by Vesconte Maggiolo after an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating "Tera Florida" from "Francesca" is the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Cape Fear is labeled "C. de la Forest". (from History of North Carolina)
Image 7Ceremony of Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour by English colonist John White, 1585 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 8Country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 9First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, near Kitty Hawk, 1903 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 10North Carolina is named after King Charles I of England. Carolina is taken from the Latin word for "Charles", Carolus. (from History of North Carolina)
Image 11Halifax Resolves plaque (from History of North Carolina)
Image 12Map of the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, drawn 1585–86 by Theodor de Bry, based on map by John White of the Roanoke Colony (from History of North Carolina)
Image 13Commercial Airports in North Carolina (from Transportation in North Carolina)
Image 14Signers Monument, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, in Greensboro (from History of North Carolina)
Image 15Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of the Roanoke Colony, and namesake of the capital city of North Carolina, Raleigh (from History of North Carolina)
Image 16A map showing the proposed route of the de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997 Charles Hudson map (from History of North Carolina)
Image 17Bennett Place, historic site of major Confederate surrender in Durham (from History of North Carolina)
Image 18Map of Research Triangle, with points representing NC State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (from History of North Carolina)
Image 19Artists conception of Town Creek Indian Mound during the late Town Creek-early Leak phases circa 1350 CE (from History of North Carolina)

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... that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club?
... that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans?
... that equipment from a bankrupt North Carolina TV station was dismantled, loaded on three rental trucks, and reassembled to start a station in Virginia?
... that the suspect in a deadly shooting at the University of North Carolina was a graduate student of the victim?
... that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina?
... that in 1749, James Davis became the first printer to set up shop in the colony of North Carolina?

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