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Curtiss NC
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The Curtiss NC was a flying boat built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and used by the United States Navy from 1918 through the early 1920s. Ten of these aircraft were built, the most famous of which is the NC-4, the NC-4 is preserved in the National Museum of Naval Aviation, at NAS Pensacola, Florida. Manufacture of the NCs began in 1918 during World War I and this was a very ambitious undertaking, given the state of aviation at the time. The Navy and Curtiss came up one of the largest biplane designs yet produced, equipped with sleeping quarters. The fourth engine was added to the midline in a pusher configuration, the maximum speed was 90 mph and the estimated maximum range was 1,500 mi. Called NC boats, with the N for Navy and C for the builder Curtiss, as originally completed the NC-1 had three tractor engines in nacelles located midway between the mainplanes, the centre nacelle housing the cockpit for two pilots. Due to a lack of power the centre nacelle was raised, elongated forwards, with this engine arrangement the pilots cockpit was moved to the hull in a more conventional position. NC-2 differed in having the engine, of its complement of three, fitted as a pusher, retaining the pilots cockpit in the centre nacelle. Also suffering from a lack of power, the NC-2 was modified with four engines in tandem outer nacelles, initially the centre cockpit nacelle was retained but this was soon removed and a similar conventional cockpit to NC-1 was added. NC-3 onwards continued with the later NC-1 arrangement of 3x tractor/1x pusher engines, on 4 October 1918, the first of these aircraft, the NC-1, made its first test flight with the early three-engine configuration. On 25 November, it again, with a world record 51 people on board. Armistice Day, signaling the end of the war in Europe, came before testing of the first NC, the NC-2 suffered damage during the testing phase and was cannibalized for spare parts. The other three NCs, NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4, set out on what was intended as the first demonstration of transatlantic flight, via Newfoundland and the Azores, on 8 May 1919. As junior officer, Mitscher, who had been allotted to one of the commands and he went on the flight as one of the pilots of the NC-1. The group met heavy fog off the Azores, making flight in the crudely instrumented aircraft extremely dangerous, without a visible horizon it was extremely difficult to keep the aircraft in level flight. NC-1 tried different altitudes and soldiered on for hours before eventually putting down just short of the Azores and was damaged beyond repair in the rough seas. Only the NC-4 made it through, the crew of NC-1 was rescued at sea. Attempts to tow the aircraft to the Azores failed, NC-3 was forced to land some 205 mi distance from the Azores, but the crew, led by Commander John Henry Towers, managed to sail her to Ponta Delgada unaided
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North Carolina's 3rd congressional district
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North Carolinas 3rd congressional district is located on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina. It covers the Outer Banks and the adjacent to the Pamlico Sound. The district is represented by Walter B and he has been its representative since 1995. In 2008, he defeated Democrat Craig Weber for reelection, and was challenged in 2010 by former Chair of the Pitt County Democratic Party Johnny Rouse, in 2012, he was challenged by Frank Palombo, the former New Bern Police Chief, for the Republican Party nomination. The winner of the Republican primary then faced Marine Corps Veteran Erik Anderson in the general election, North Carolinas congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, the Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present Rouse for Congress, North Carolina election results - Politics - Decision 2010 - msnbc. com
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Concord, North Carolina
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Concord city in Cabarrus county, in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 79,066 and it is the county seat and the largest city in Cabarrus County. In terms of population, the city of Concord is the second-largest city in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area and is the twelfth largest city in North Carolina, in 2015, Concord was ranked as the city with the 16th fastest growing economy in the United States. The city was a winner of the All-America City Award in 2004, located near the center of Cabarrus County in the Piedmont region, it is 20 miles northeast of Charlotte center city. Concord is the home to some of North Carolinas top tourist destinations, including NASCARs Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, located in todays rapidly growing northeast quadrant of the Charlotte metropolitan area, was first settled about 1750 by German and Scots-Irish immigrants. The name Concord means with harmony and this name was chosen after a lengthy dispute over where the county seat should be located between the German Lutherans and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. By United States standards, Concord is considered an old town, today, markers identifying the original town limits can be seen in the downtown area. As county seat, Concord became a center of trade and retail for the cotton-producing region, the downtown would be crowded with farmers and townfolk, in addition to lawyers and their clients. During the antebellum era, wealthy was built by planters through the cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop, located in the Piedmont, Concord became a site of industrialization with cotton mills in the late 19th century. Among the owners of the new mills in the area were men of the rising black middle-class in Wilmington, North Carolina, Dancy, and others, who organized Coleman Manufacturing Company in 1897. They built and operated what is believed to have been the first cotton mill owned by blacks in the nation and they hoped to promote economic security for people of color. But the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, with attacks on black areas of the city, caused many deaths. In 1900, Dancy was among more than 2000 blacks who left the city permanently after the riot and he moved to Washington, DC, appointed as the federal Recorder of Deeds, and serving until 1910. The mill operated under black ownership through 1904, hitting difficult times after Coleman died, the brick mill building was later taken over by Fieldcrest Cannon. Within the North Union Historic District is Memorial Garden, located on 3 acres, the garden winds through the 200-year-old cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church. From the time of incorporation in the late 1700s through the 1970s, since then, most annexations have taken place west of the center-city area towards Charlotte. Portions of the city limit boundary adjoin the Cabarrus/Mecklenburg County line, Concord is located in western Cabarrus County at 35°24′16″N 80°36′2″W. The city is located in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, land left untended will typically return to native forest land within a few years
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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Dale Earnhardt
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Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. known professionally as Dale Earnhardt, was an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR. The third child of racing driver Ralph Earnhardt and first of two to Martha Coleman, he began his career in 1975 in the World 600 as part of the Winston Cup Series. Regarded as one of the most significant drivers in NASCAR history, Earnhardt won a total of 76 Winston Cup races over the course of his career and he also earned seven NASCAR Winston Cup championships, tying for the most all-time with Richard Petty. This feat, accomplished in 1994, would not be equaled again for 22 years until Jimmie Johnson in 2016 and his aggressive driving style earned him the nickname The Intimidator. Earnhardt has been inducted into halls of fame, including the NASCAR Hall of Fame inaugural class in 2010. He was born on April 29,1951 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, as the child of Martha. Although Ralph did not want his son to pursue a career as a car driver. Ralph was a teacher for Dale and after Ralph died of a heart attack at his home in 1973 at age 45. Earnhardt had four siblings, two brothers, Danny and Randy, and two sisters, Cathy and Kaye, in 1968, at the age of 17, Earnhardt married his first wife Latane Brown. With her, Earnhardt fathered his first son Kerry a year later, Dale and Latane divorced in 1970. In 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife Brenda Gee, the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee, in his marriage with Gee, Earnhardt had two more children, a daughter Kelley King Earnhardt in 1972 and a son Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 1974. Not long after Dale Jr. was born, Earnhardt and Gee divorced, Earnhardt then married his third and final wife, Teresa Houston in 1982. She gave birth to their daughter Taylor Nicole Earnhardt in 1988, Taylor and her husband, Brandon Putnam, are professional rodeo performers. Earnhardt began his career in the Winston Cup in 1975. He drove the No.8 Ed Niegre Dodge Charger and finished 22nd in that race, just one ahead of his future car owner. Earnhardt competed in eight more races until 1979, during his sophomore season, Earnhardt, now with 20-year-old Doug Richert as his crew chief, began the season winning the Busch Clash. With wins at Atlanta, Bristol, Nashville, Martinsville, and Charlotte, to this day, Earnhardt had been the first driver in all of NASCAR Winston Cup history to follow a Rookie of the Year title with a NASCAR Winston Cup Championship the next season. He was also the driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship, following David Pearson and Richard Petty
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NASCAR
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is an American family-owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto-racing sports events. Bill France Sr. founded the company in 1948 and his grandson Brian France became its CEO in 2003, NASCAR is motorsports preeminent stock-car racing organization. The three largest racing-series sanctioned by this company are the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, the company also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing. com Series. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 of the 50 US states as well as in Canada. NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico, NASCAR has its official headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, and also maintains offices in the North Carolina cities of Charlotte, Concord, and Conover. Regional offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles, with offices in Mexico City. Owing to NASCARs Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are based in North Carolina. NASCAR is second to the National Football League among professional sports franchises in terms of television viewers, internationally, its races are broadcast on television in over 150 countries. In 2004, NASCARs Director of Security stated that the company holds 17 of the Top 20 regularly attended single-day sporting events in the world, fortune 500 companies sponsor NASCAR more than any other motor sport, although this sponsorship has declined since the early-2000s. By the time the Bonneville Salt Flats became the location for pursuit of land speed records. Drivers raced on a 4. 1-mile course, consisting of a 1. 5–2. 0-mile stretch of beach as one straightaway, the two straights were connected by two tight, deeply rutted and sand covered turns at each end. Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition, bootleggers needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police. Many of the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling, as well as increased cargo capacity, the cars continued to improve, and by the late 1940s, races featuring these cars were being run for pride and profit. These races were popular entertainment in the rural Southern United States, most races in those days were of modified cars. Street vehicles were lightened and reinforced, mechanic William France Sr. moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, from Washington, D. C. in 1935 to escape the Great Depression. He was familiar with the history of the area from the speed record attempts. France entered the 1936 Daytona event, finishing fifth and he took over running the course in 1938. He promoted a few races before World War II, France had the notion that people would enjoy watching stock cars race
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Currituck County, North Carolina
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Currituck /ˈkʊrɪtʌk/ County is the northeastern-most county in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,547, the county was formed in 1668 as a precinct of Albemarle County and later gained county status in 1739. The name is said to be an Indian word for wild geese. Currituck County is included in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Area and it is in the northeastern section of the state and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Currituck Sound, Camden County, Dare County and the state of Virginia. Currituck Court House, mentioned as early as 1755, was the name of the county seat, today the words Court House have been dropped and only Currituck is used as the town name. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 527 square miles. Currituck County includes the communities of North Carolinas Outer Banks. The population density was 70 people per square mile, there were 10,687 housing units at an average density of 41 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 90. 3% White,5. 8% Black or African American,0. 5% Native American,0. 6% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,0. 9% from other races, and 1. 8% from two or more races. 3. 0% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race,19. 40% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the family size was 2.98. The age distribution was 25. 30% under the age of 18,6. 70% from 18 to 24,30. 50% from 25 to 44,25. 40% from 45 to 64, the median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 98.60 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.50 males. The median income for a household in the county was $40,822, males had a median income of $32,619 versus $22,641 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,908,10. 70% of the population and 8. 90% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the people living in poverty,16. 10% are under the age of 18 and 8. 90% are 65 or older. Currituck County is a member of the Albemarle Commission regional council of governments, the county is run by elected county commissioners. The Board of Commissioners banned further solar farms in February 2017, Currituck County Schools are governed by a five-member, elected Board of Education
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Chevrolet
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Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors. Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3,1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2,1918. Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most automotive markets worldwide, with the exception of Oceania. However, GM reversed this move in late 2013, announcing that the brand would be withdrawn from Europe, with the exception of the Camaro, Chevrolet vehicles will continue to be marketed in the CIS states, including Russia. After General Motors fully acquired GM Daewoo in 2011 to create GM Korea, in North America, Chevrolet produces and sells a wide range of vehicles, from subcompact automobiles to medium-duty commercial trucks. Durant was cast out from the management of General Motors in 1910 for five years and he took over the Flint Wagon Works, incorporating the Mason and Little companies. As head of Buick Motor Company prior to founding GM, Durant had hired Louis Chevrolet to drive Buicks in promotional races, Durant planned to use Chevrolets reputation as a racer as the foundation for his new automobile company. Actual design work for the first Chevy, the costly Series C Classic Six, was drawn up by Etienne Planche, the first C prototype was ready months before Chevrolet was actually incorporated. However the first actual production wasnt until the 1913 model, so in essence there were no 1911 or 1912 production models, only the 1 pre-production model was made and fine tuned throughout the early part of 1912. Then in the fall of that year the new 1913 model was introduced at the New York auto show, Chevrolet first used the bowtie emblem logo in 1914 on the H series models and The L Series Model. It may have been designed from wallpaper Durant once saw in a French hotel room, more recent research by historian Ken Kaufmann presents a case that the logo is based on a logo of the Coalettes coal company. An example of this logo as it appeared in an advertisement for Coalettes appeared in the Atlanta Constitution on November 12,1911, others claim that the design was a stylized Swiss cross, in tribute to the homeland of Chevrolets parents. Chevrolet eventually unified all vehicle models with the gold bowtie in 2004, Louis Chevrolet had differences with Durant over design and in 1914 sold Durant his share in the company. By 1916, Chevrolet was profitable enough with successful sales of the cheaper Series 490 to allow Durant to repurchase a controlling interest in General Motors. After the deal was completed in 1917, Durant became president of General Motors, in 1919, Chevrolets factories were located at Flint, Michigan, branch assembly locations were located in Tarrytown, N. Y. Norwood, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, Oakland, California, Ft. Worth, Texas, mcLaughlins were given GM Corporation stock for the proprietorship of their Company article Sept.23,1933 Financial Post page 9. In the 1918 model year, Chevrolet introduced the Series D, Sales were poor and it was dropped in 1919
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Google
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Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph. D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and they incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4,1998. An initial public offering took place on August 19,2004, in August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabets leading subsidiary, will continue to be the company for Alphabets Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Googles core search engine. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, the new hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stated, a lot of the innovation that we want to do now ends up requiring controlling the end-to-end user experience. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier, alexa, a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists Google. com as the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube, Googles mission statement, from the outset, was to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful, and its unofficial slogan was Dont be evil. In October 2015, the motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase Do the right thing, Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. They called this new technology PageRank, it determined a websites relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine BackRub, because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Originally, Google ran under Stanford Universitys website, with the domains google. stanford. edu, the domain name for Google was registered on September 15,1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4,1998. It was based in the garage of a friend in Menlo Park, craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given before Google was incorporated. At least three other investors invested in 1998, Amazon. com founder Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton. Author Ken Auletta claims that each invested $250,000, early in 1999, Brin and Page decided they wanted to sell Google to Excite. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million, vinod Khosla, one of Excites venture capitalists, talked the duo down to $750,000, but Bell still rejected it. Googles initial public offering took place five years later, on August 19,2004, at that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024
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Google Maps
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Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, Google maps began as a C++ desktop program designed by Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application, after additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a realtime traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The services front end utilizes JavaScript, XML, and Ajax, Google Maps offers an API that allows maps to be embedded on third-party websites, and offers a locator for urban businesses and other organizations in numerous countries around the world. Google Map Maker allows users to expand and update the services mapping worldwide. Much of the satellite imagery is no more than three years old and is updated on a regular basis. Google Maps uses a variant of the Mercator projection. The current redesigned version of the application was made available in 2013. Google Maps for mobile was released in September 2008 and features GPS turn-by-turn navigation, in August 2013, it was determined to be the worlds most popular app for smartphones, with over 54% of global smartphone owners using it at least once. In 2012, Google reported having over 7,100 employees, Google Maps provides a route planner under Get Directions. Up to four modes of transportation are available depending on the area, driving, public transit, walking, in combination with Google Street View, issues such as parking, turning lanes, and one-way streets can be viewed before traveling. China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Jordan, Lebanon, only public transit directions are provided for South Korea. All countries of mainland North and Central America are covered contiguously, all countries of mainland South America are covered. All countries including Trinidad and Tobago* are treated contiguously, all inhabited countries and territories in the Caribbean are covered, though in general there are no connections between islands. Like many other Google web applications, Google Maps uses JavaScript extensively, as the user drags the map, the grid squares are downloaded from the server and inserted into the page. When a user searches for a business, the results are downloaded in the background for insertion into the panel and map. Locations are drawn dynamically by positioning a red pin on top of the map images, a hidden IFrame with form submission is used because it preserves browser history. The site also uses JSON for data rather than XML
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Interstate 77 in North Carolina
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In the U. S. state of North Carolina, Interstate 77 is a 105. 7-mile Interstate Highway, which serves the city of Charlotte and the Western Piedmont. It is part of a highway that goes from Columbia, South Carolina in the south to Cleveland, Ohio in the North, Interstate 77 begins at the South Carolina state line, near Fort Mill, in concurrency with US21. I-77 goes through the city of Charlotte as a major corridor, connecting the Center City with the suburbs of Pineville, Huntersville, Cornelius. Shortly after entering North Carolina, it expands to six lanes, between I-485 and I-277, the highway experiences massive traffic congestion during weekday rush hours due to commuter traffic. Just north of Center City, I-77 makes a unique configuration with Interstate 85, with north. Between I-85 and I-485, I-77 features the states only HOV lanes, after I-485, I-77 reduces to five lanes, then to four lanes after Gilead Road. At Lake Norman, I-77 crosses into Iredell County and becomes a more suburban interstate, passing by Mooresville and then Statesville and it turns more rural outside of Statesville and becomes entirely rural after exiting Iredell County. For the rest of I-77s stretch through North Carolina, the only possible rest stop is the town of Elkin, the final 5 miles of I-77 is concurrent with Interstate 74 to the Virginia state line, all within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Interstate 77 has the first and only High occupancy vehicle lanes in North Carolina, opened since December 2004, they are enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week and are closed for general traffic unless otherwise posted. They are identified by a symbol and overhead signs and are located on the leftmost lanes. Vehicles with two or more occupants can use the HOV lanes, emergency vehicles when responding to emergencies, mass transit vehicles, privately owned buses, and motorcycles may also use the lanes. Violators are subject to a fine of up to $100 plus court costs, in 2015, construction began on converting the existing HOV lanes into variable tolling lanes, to be completed in 2018. Northbound The northbound HOV lane begins north of I-85 interchange and ends north of the W. T. Harris Boulevard interchange. Southbound The southbound HOV lane begins south of the W. T. Harris Boulevard interchange ends south of the ramp for I-277. I-77 in North Carolina feature a few dedicated or memorialized stretches of freeway, Blue Star Memorial Highway – unofficial North Carolina honorary name of Interstate 77 throughout the state. Bill Lee Freeway – official North Carolina name of Interstate 77 from Woodlawn Road to the Mecklenburg-Iredell county line, charles M. Shelton Highway – official North Carolina name of Interstate 77 in Surry County. General Paul R. Younts Expressway – official North Carolina name of Interstate 77 from the South Carolina state line to Woodlawn Road, I-77 was added in 1957, increasing the states mileage to 776 miles. On 4 August 1959, the selected the routing of I-77 to run between Interstate 85 in Charlotte and a point on the Virginia border in Elkin
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Mike Easley
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Michael Francis Mike Easley is an American politician who served as the 72nd governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 2001 to 2009. He is member of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Easley was North Carolinas second Catholic governor. Thomas Burke was the first, though Easley is the first elected by popular vote, Easley was raised a Roman Catholic in otherwise overwhelmingly Protestant Nash County, North Carolina. His father, Alexander Easley, owned one of the two big tobacco warehouses in the area, Easley earned a degree with honors in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. While at UNC he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and he then attended the North Carolina Central University School of Law, earning his J. D. degree, with honors, in 1976. She is a law professor at North Carolina Central University. The two have one son, Michael Easley, Jr. Easley was elected District Attorney, one of the youngest ever in the state, in 1982. A Democrat, Easley ran unsuccessfully in that partys 1990 primary for the U. S. Senate, he lost to former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, Easley was elected North Carolina Attorney General in 1992. In the 1996 election for attorney general, Easley garnered 59. 07% of the vote, compared with opponent Robert H. Edmonds and this represented a margin of victory of 446,169 votes. In 2000, Easley ran to succeed the term-limited Hunt as Governor of North Carolina and he defeated incumbent Lieutenant Governor Dennis A. Wicker in the Democratic primary, and then successfully challenged Republican Richard Vinroot, former mayor of Charlotte, Easley was reelected in 2004, running against New Hanover County state senator Patrick J. Ballantine. In the closing weeks of the 2000 gubernatorial race, actor Andy Griffith filmed an ad endorsing Easley, the award was created to showcase public officials who have demonstrated exemplary achievements and accomplishments in advancing public education. One of Easleys major programs was More at Four, an innovative academic pre-kindergarten for at-risk children, More at Four has received extensive praise from groups such as the National Education Association. The Learn and Earn program received the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, Harvard also observed that these numbers have not been skewed by creaming that is counting of only high scoring children. The program purposely targets kids at risk, those for whom English is a second language, Easley also initiated a program to enable North Carolina students to attain a debt-free undergraduate education by receiving EARN Grants of up to $8,000 over two years. In 2007 Easley wrote and published a book, Look Out, College. The proceeds of which fund a North Carolina education charity and his tenure faced budget shortfalls, tough economic times, and natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. Easley received mixed reviews on his handling of problems in the state
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NC 115 (North Broad Street)
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