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Carthage, North Carolina
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Carthage is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,205 at the 2010 Census and it is the county seat of Moore County. Carthage is located at 35°19′46″N 79°24′31″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.9 square miles, of which,5.8 square miles of it is land and 0.04 square miles of it is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,871 people,653 households, the population density was 321.3 people per square mile. There were 768 housing units at a density of 131.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 67. 72% White,30. 84% African American,0. 48% Native American,0. 05% Asian,0. 37% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 86% of the population. 29. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 3.02. In the town, the population was out with 21. 5% under the age of 18,7. 9% from 18 to 24,26. 5% from 25 to 44,21. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40 years, for every 100 females there were 86.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.1 males, the median income for a household in the town was $35,050, and the median income for a family was $43,594. Males had an income of $32,305 versus $23,603 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,343, about 8. 1% of families and 14. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 4% of those under age 18 and 33. 9% of those age 65 or over. The town was the home of the Tyson Buggy Company, a predominant cart, a common story told by residents is that after the closing of the Tyson Buggy Company, Henry Ford was interested in buying the old plant and converting it into a car assembly line. According to the legend, the owners refused to let Ford buy the plant and this story is often repeated despite a lack of evidence, and runs contrary to the established pattern of Ford starting all of his businesses in Detroit. A few years afterwards, the Tyson Buggy plant burned down, another common story of folklore is that the town was originally to be the home of the University of North Carolina. In this story, however, city leaders determined that they didnt want the university built there, city leaders told the State that Carthage was on too steep of a hill for locomotives to climb and that access to the University would be limited if built there. This often-repeated story fails to take into consideration the fact that locomotives were not invented until two decades after the university had built in Chapel Hill. The town now has an event that takes place every spring called the Buggy Festival
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Professional wrestling
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Professional wrestling is a dramatized athletic performance that portrays a combat sport. Various forms of weaponry are sometimes used, the content – including match outcomes – is scripted and choreographed, and the combative actions and reactions are performed to appear violent without injuring the wrestlers. Before the 1980s, these facts were considered trade secrets, in the mid-90s, the presentation of scripted events as legitimate is known as kayfabe. Although the combative content is staged and communicated between the wrestlers, there are physical hazards involved - including permanent injury and death. While it has declined in Europe, in North America it has experienced several different periods of prominent cultural popularity during its century. The advent of television gave professional wrestling a new outlet, unlike in Europe, show wrestling has become especially prominent in Japan and in North America. In Brazil, there was a popular wrestling television program from the 1960s to the early 1980s called Telecatch. High-profile figures in the sport have become celebrities or cultural icons in their native or adopted home countries, although professional wrestling started out as petty acts in sideshows, traveling circuses and carnivals, today it is a billion-dollar industry. Revenue is drawn from live event ticket sales, network television broadcasts, pay-per-view broadcasts, personal appearances by performers, branded merchandise, pro wrestling was also instrumental in making pay-per-view a viable method of content delivery. Annual shows such as WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and formerly Bash at the Beach, Halloween Havoc, home video sales dominate the Billboard charts Recreational Sports DVD sales, with wrestling holding anywhere from 3 to 9 of the top 10 spots every week. Due to its persistent cultural presence and to its novelty within the performing arts, there have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling, the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke. Because actual events are often co-opted by writers for incorporation into storylines for the performers, special care must be taken when talking about people who perform under their own name. The actions of the character should be considered fictional events, wholly separate from the life of the performer and this is similar to other entertainers who perform with a persona that shares their own name. Some wrestlers will incorporate elements of their real-life personalities into their characters, even if they and those who participated felt that it was necessary that spectators should be kept in a constant and complete illusion of a real competition to keep audience interest. For decades, up until the mid-1980s, wrestlers lived their lives as though they were their characters. Wrestlers, bookers and promoters all rigorously enforced the illusion and very few were allowed into the society of professional wrestling to maintain suspension of disbelief. The practice of keeping the illusion, and the methods used to do so, came to be known as kayfabe within wrestling circles. An entire lexicon of slang jargon and euphemism developed to allow performers to communicate without outsiders knowledge of what was being said, occasionally a performer will deviate from the intended sequence of events
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Greenwich, Connecticut
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Greenwich /ˈɡrɛnᵻtʃ/ is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 61,171. The largest town on Connecticuts Gold Coast, it is home to many hedge funds, Greenwich is the southernmost and westernmost municipality in Connecticut as well as the six-state region of New England. It takes roughly 40-50 minutes by train from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, cNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Greenwich first on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States in 2005. The town is named after Greenwich, a borough of London in the United Kingdom, the town of Greenwich was settled in 1640. One of the founders was Elizabeth Fones Winthrop, daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, founder, Greenwich was declared a township by the General Assembly in Hartford on May 11,1665. During the American Revolution, General Israel Putnam made an escape from the British on February 26,1779. Although British forces pillaged the town, Putnam was able to warn Stamford, p1270020-300x225. jpg | Putnam Hill, where General Putnam escaped. In 1974, Gullivers Restaurant and Bar, on the border of Greenwich and Port Chester, in 1983, the Mianus River Bridge, which carries traffic on Interstate 95 over an estuary, collapsed, resulting in the death of three people. For many years, Greenwich Point, was only to town residents. However, a lawyer sued, saying his rights to freedom of assembly were threatened because he was not allowed to go there, the lower courts disagreed, but the Supreme Court of Connecticut agreed, and Greenwich was forced to amend its beach access policy to all four beaches. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 67.2 square miles, of which 47.8 square miles is land and 19.4 square miles. In terms of area, Greenwich is twice the size of Manhattan. The town is bordered to the west and north by Westchester County, New York, to the east by the city of Stamford, and faces the Village of Bayville to the south across the Long Island Sound. The Census Bureau recognizes seven CDPs within the town, Byram, Cos Cob, Glenville, Old Greenwich, Pemberwick, Riverside, the USPS lists separate zip codes for Greenwich, Cos Cob, Old Greenwich, and Riverside. Additionally, Greenwich is often divided into several smaller, unofficial neighborhoods. The Hispanic population is concentrated in the corner of the town. In 2011, numerous neighborhoods were voted by the Business Insider as being the richest neighborhoods in America, Byram, Cos Cob, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, and Riverside each have their own ZIP Codes and with the exception of Byram, each has a Metro North station
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WWE
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Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. was an American professional wrestling promotion and the sanctioning body for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and later World Wrestling Federation. Founded by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondt in 1953, Capitol Wrestling Corporation is the precursor to todays WWE, run by Jess grandson, Jess McMahon was a successful boxing promoter who began working with Tex Rickard in 1926. With the help of Rickard, he began promoting boxing at the third Madison Square Garden, a few years prior, professional wrestler Toots Mondt had created a new challenge of professional wrestling that he called “Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling”. He convinced wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow to implement this new solution, after much success, a disagreement over power caused the trio to dissolve and, with it, their promotion. Mondt later formed partnerships with other promoters, including Jack Curley in New York City. Mondt eventually took over the New York wrestling scene, due to the fact Curley was dying, with the aid of several bookers, together, McMahon and Mondt created the Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. which later joined the National Wrestling Alliance in 1953. In November 1954, Jess McMahon died and Ray Fabiani, one of Mondts associates, both men left the company in protest following the incident and formed the WWWF in the process, awarding Rogers the new WWWF World Heavyweight Championship in April of that year. He lost the championship to Bruno Sammartino a month later on May 17,1963, after gaining a television program deal and turning preliminary wrestler Lou Albano as a manager for Sammartinos heel opponents, the WWWF was doing sell out business by 1970. Mondt left the company in the late 1960s and although the WWWF had withdrawn from the NWA, Vince McMahon, at the annual meeting of the NWA in 1983, the McMahons and WWF employee Jim Barnett all withdrew from the organization. By March 1979, for marketing purposes, the World Wide Wrestling Federation was renamed the World Wrestling Federation and that same year, Vincent J. McMahons son, Vincent K. McMahon, founded Titan Sports, Inc. incorporated on February 21,1980, originally in Massachusetts. In 1982, Titan Sports Inc. acquired Capitols operations, effectively relocating its headquarters to Greenwich, in an attempt to make the WWF the premier wrestling promotion in the world, McMahon began an expansion that fundamentally changed the industry. In the end, the elder McMahon would never live to see his company grow from a promotion to what is now a worldwide organization. He died from cancer at 69 years old on May 24,1984. By 1985, Titan moved to Stamford, Connecticut then establishing a new entity in 1987 in Delaware which later merged with the old company in 1988. Titan later changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. before finally becoming World Wrestling Entertainment, list of independent wrestling promotions in the United States
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The Hardy Boyz
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The Hardy Boyz, often referred to simply as The Hardys, are a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of real-life brothers Jeff and Matt Hardy. They are the current tag team champions of six promotions, most notably being the reigning Raw Tag Team Champions in WWE and they both signed contracts with the World Wrestling Federation in 1998. In 2000, they were joined by Lita, and the trio became Team Xtreme, after splitting as a team in 2002, the brothers reunited in 2006 and teamed sporadically afterward. They also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, briefly reuniting in 2011 as members of Immortal, the Hardy Boyz gained fame for their participation in ladder matches and Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches with The Dudley Boyz/Team 3D and Edge and Christian. They are the team to have held the WWF/World, WCW, TNA, ROH. Both brothers also won championships during their run as a tag team. In 2017, they held seven Tag Team Championships from seven different promotions at the same time and they are the only tag team in history to be recognized as the TNA and ROH Tag Team Champions simultaneously. At WrestleMania 33, the Hardy Boyz made their return after 8 years to the WWE, winning the Raw Tag Team Championships in a fatal 4 way match. Real-life brothers Matt and Jeff Hardy formed a tag team in 1993 after Jeffs debut in the Trampoline Wrestling Federation, the promotion went by several names, and in 1997, it was modernized as the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts. The duo worked in several North Carolinian independent promotions holding the OMEGA Tag Team Championship, after being signed to a contract in 1998, they were trained by Dory Funk, Jr. in his Funkin Dojo. The Hardy Boyz started their run as a tag team with a win over Kaientai on the September 27,1998 episode of Sunday Night Heat. Soon after their Sunday Night Heat win, they built up a fan following through their high-flying tag team tactics. They started to become contenders for the Tag Team Championship after they became managed by Michael Hayes. They eventually dumped Hayes as their manager in August 1999, becoming villains, the fans also gave both teams a standing ovation the next night on Raw Is War. This began a two year rivalry between the Hardy Boyz and the team of Edge and Christian. During this time, they gained notoriety as a faction with Lita. With the addition of Lita, Matt and Jeff comprised the trio dubbed Team Xtreme, in 2000, they were involved in feuds with Edge and Christian and The Dudley Boyz in many ladder matches and TLC matches. They faced Edge and Christian and the Dudley Boyz at WrestleMania 2000 in a triple tag team ladder match
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Cameron, North Carolina
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Cameron is a town in Moore County, North Carolina in the United States. The population was 285 at the 2010 census, cameron grew up around a plank road that was followed in later years by a railroad. The town was planned in 1875 and incorporated in 1876, cameron was at the end of the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad. Its location made it a place of entrepreneurs to establish businesses. They built turpentine distilleries, established mercantile and hotel businesses to serve the needs of the customers and built a thriving dewberry farming. Cameron is located at 35°19′34″N 79°15′11″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile, all land. Neighboring towns include Vass to the south and Carthage to the west, as of the census of 2000, there were 151 people,66 households, and 41 families residing in the town. The population density was 143.8 people per square mile, there were 78 housing units at an average density of 74.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 64. 90% White and 35. 10% Black,31. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the family size was 2.88. In the town, the population was out with 17. 9% under the age of 18,9. 9% from 18 to 24,30. 5% from 25 to 44,20. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 42 years, for every 100 females there were 75.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.4 males, the median income for a household in the town was $32,500, and the median income for a family was $41,964. Males had an income of $32,917 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,337, there were 17. 9% of families and 21. 3% of the population living below the poverty line, including 13. 5% of those under eighteen and 45. 8% of those over 64
