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Broadsheet
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A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages. The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats. Many broadsheets measure approximately 29 1⁄2 by 23 1⁄2 inches per full broadsheet spread, australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread. South African broadsheet newspapers have a spread sheet size of 820 by 578 mm or 32.3 by 22.8 in. Others measure 22 inches or 560 millimetres vertically, in the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 15 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs many U. S. newspapers have downsized to 12 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the size with dimensions representing the front page half of a broadsheet size, rather than the full. Some quote actual page size and others quote the area size. The two versions of the broadsheet are, Full broadsheet – The full broadsheet typically is folded vertically in half so that it forms four pages, the four pages are called a spread. Half broadsheet – The half broadsheet is usually a page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front. In uncommon instances, an entire newspaper can be a two-page half broadsheet or four-page full broadsheet, totally self-contained advertising circulars inserted in a newspaper in the same format are referred to as broadsheets. Broadsheets typically are also folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space, the horizontal fold however does not affect the page numbers and the content remains vertical. The most important newspaper stories are placed above the fold and this contrasts with tabloids which typically do not have a horizontal fold. The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news, historically, broadsheets developed after the British in 1712 placed a tax on newspapers based on the number of their pages. The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the penny dreadful. In this period all over Europe began to print their issues on broadsheets
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Berkshire Hathaway
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The company wholly owns GEICO, BNSF Railway, Lubrizol, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and also owns 43. Berkshire Hathaway averaged a growth in book value of 19. 7% to its shareholders for the last 49 years, while employing large amounts of capital. In the early part of Buffetts career at Berkshire, he focused on investments in publicly traded companies. According to the Forbes Global 2000 list and formula, Berkshire Hathaway is the fourth largest public company in the world, Berkshire Hathaway traces its roots to a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 as the Valley Falls Company in Valley Falls, Rhode Island. Chace had previously worked for Samuel Slater, the founder of the first successful textile mill in America, Chace founded his first textile mill in 1806. In 1929 the Valley Falls Company merged with the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company established in 1889, in Adams, the combined company was known as Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates. Hathaway had been successful in its first decades, but it suffered during a decline in the textile industry after World War I. At this time, Hathaway was run by Seabury Stanton, whose investment efforts were rewarded with renewed profitability after the Depression, after the merger Berkshire Hathaway had 15 plants employing over 12,000 workers with over $120 million in revenue and was headquartered in New Bedford. However, seven of those locations were closed by the end of the decade, in 1962, Warren Buffett began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway after noticing a pattern in the price direction of its stock whenever the company closed a mill. Eventually, Buffett acknowledged that the business was waning and the companys financial situation was not going to improve. In 1964, Stanton made a tender offer of $11 1⁄2 per share for the company to buy back Buffetts shares. A few weeks later, Warren Buffett received the offer in writing. Buffett later admitted that this lower, undercutting offer made him angry, instead of selling at the slightly lower price, Buffett decided to buy more of the stock to take control of the company and fire Stanton. However, this put Buffett in a situation where he was now majority owner of a business that was failing. Buffett initially maintained Berkshires core business of textiles, but by 1967, he was expanding into the insurance industry, Berkshire first ventured into the insurance business with the purchase of National Indemnity Company. In the late 1970s, Berkshire acquired an equity stake in the Government Employees Insurance Company, in 1985, the last textile operations were shut down. Buffett claimed that had he invested that money directly in insurance businesses instead of buying out Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshires class A shares sold for $258,000
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the fifth largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region,100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building, Winston-Salem is called the Twin City for its dual heritage and City of the Arts and Innovation for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. Camel City is a reference to the citys involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Companys Camel cigarettes. Winston-Salem is also known for its traditional furniture company, many locals refer to the city as Winston in informal speech. The Dash is referenced from the hyphen between Winston and Salem and was popularized by the nickname of the minor league baseball team. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U. S. by CBS MoneyWatch, the city of Winston-Salem is a product of the merging of the two neighboring towns of Winston and Salem in 1913. The origin of the town of Salem dates to January 1753 and he called this area die Wachau named after the ancestral estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. The land, just short of 99,000 acres, was purchased from John Carteret. On November 17,1753, the first settlers arrived at what would become the town of Bethabara. This town, despite its growth, was not designed to be the primary settlement on the tract. Some residents expanded to a settlement called Bethania in 1759. Finally, lots were drawn to select suitable sites for the location of a new town. The town established on the site was given the name of Salem chosen for it by the Moravians late patron. On January 6,1766, the first tree was felled for the building of Salem, Salem was a typical Moravian settlement congregation with the public buildings of the congregation grouped around a central square, today Salem Square. These included the church, a Brethrens House and a Sisters House for the members of the Congregation. For many years members of the Moravian Church were permitted to live in the settlement. This practice had ended by the American Civil War, many of the original buildings in the settlement have been restored or rebuilt and are now part of Old Salem Museums & Gardens
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Forsyth County, North Carolina
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Forsyth County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 350,670, Forsyth County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area. Parts of Forsyth County are in the Yadkin Valley wine region, the county was formed in 1849 from Stokes County. It was named for Colonel Benjamin Forsyth, who was killed in the War of 1812. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 413 square miles. The population density was 747 people per square mile, there were 133,093 housing units at an average density of 325 per square mile. 6. 40% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, in 200562. 9% of Forsyth countys population was non-Hispanic whites. 25. 9% of the population was African-American,1. 3% was Asian and 1. 1% reported two or more races. The decline in the last is due to changes in counting which basically excluded all Latinos from this category,28. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the family size was 2.94. In the county, the population was out with 23. 90% under the age of 18,9. 60% from 18 to 24,31. 10% from 25 to 44,22. 80% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 91.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.40 males, the median income for a household in the county was $42,097, and the median income for a family was $52,032. Males had an income of $36,158 versus $27,319 for females. The per capita income for the county was $23,023, about 7. 90% of families and 11. 00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15. 10% of those under age 18 and 9. 70% of those age 65 or over. The Forsyth County Government Center is located at 201 North Chestnut Street in Downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County is a member of the regional Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments. The Forsyth County Public Library, founded in 1906, is free for residents of Forsyth and surrounding counties, the library runs Adult, Childrens, and Hispanic Outreach programs. Its main Central Library is in downtown Winston-Salem, with locations all across the county
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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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Alleghany County, North Carolina
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Alleghany /ælɪˈɡeɪniː/ County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,155, the county was formed in 1859 from the eastern part of Ashe County, North Carolina. It was named for the Allegheny Mountains, numerous boundary adjustments have been made since it was established, but none have resulted in new counties. Alleghany County is a member of the regional High Country Council of Governments, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 235 square miles, of which 235 square miles is land and 1.5 square miles is water. It is the fifth-smallest county in North Carolina by total area with just over 235 square miles, Alleghany County is located in northwestern North Carolina, and its northern border is with the State of Virginia. The county is located entirely within the Appalachian Mountains region of western North Carolina, most of the county is located atop a rolling plateau that ranges from 2,500 feet to 3,000 feet above sea level. The southern border of the county drops abruptly nearly 1,500 feet to the Foothills region of North Carolina, the plateau is crossed by numerous hills and mountains. The highest point in the county is Peach Bottom Mountain - Catherine Knob at 4,175 feet above sea level, the major rivers of Alleghany County are the New River, and the Little River, the latter flows through the town of Sparta, the county seat. Due to its elevation, Alleghany County enjoys slightly cooler summers than the areas to the east. In the winter, however, temperatures can frequently be colder than would be expected in a southern state, daytime highs can fall into the teens or lower, and snowfall can be extremely heavy at times. According to USClimateData. com, the temperature is 52.85 °F. The population density was 46 people per square mile, there were 6,412 housing units at an average density of 27 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 69% White,1. 23% Black or African American,0. 26% Native American,0. 20% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,1. 75% from other races, and 0. 86% from two or more races. 4. 96% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,27. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the family size was 2.75. In the county, the population was out with 19. 40% under the age of 18,7. 40% from 18 to 24,26. 30% from 25 to 44,27. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 43 years, for every 100 females there were 97.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.50 males, the median income for a household in the county was $29,244, and the median income for a family was $38,473
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Ashe County, North Carolina
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Ashe County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,281, historical evidence shows that Ashe county was inhabited by Native Americans, which included the Cherokee, Creek, and Shawnee tribes. Pieces of broken pottery, arrowheads, and other Native American artifacts have been found, most of these artifacts have been found in the Old Fields area of Ashe County. Bishop Spangenberg wrote about his journey in Ashe in a diary that has been preserved by the Moravian church and he was given 100,000 acres in Virginia as a place for his fellow Moravians to settle. The only one of Spangenbergs group to return and permanently settle in Ashe County was Herman Loesch, other early settlers were David Helton, William Walling, William McLain and Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer. With the exception of Boone, these men and their families all settled in Ashe in 1771, during the Revolutionary War one skirmish was fought in Ashe County. It is called the Battle of the Big Glades, in the 1780s, Ashe County was considered a part of the State of Franklin. It consisted of three counties – Washington, Greene, and Sullivan, Ashe was considered to be a part of Washington County. The State of Franklin marked the beginnings of the State of Tennessee, Ashe County did not formally become a part of North Carolina until 1785. In late 1799 composed of 977 square miles, Ashe was finally pronounced an official county of the United States and of North Carolina. Many family surnames noted in the 1800 Ashe County Census, Blevins, Hart, Bare, Barker, Stamper, Miller, Burkett, Gambill, Baldwin, and Ballou as a sample, are still present today. Ashe County was named in honor of Samuel Ashe, a Revolutionary patriot, a court judge. From 1807 to 1913, the county went through numerous boundary changes, in 1849, to form Watauga County, the southwestern part of Ashe County was combined with parts of Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County. Ten years later in 1859, the part of the remainder of Ashe County became Alleghany County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 429 square miles. Ashe County is located in extreme northwestern North Carolina, the county is bordered by two states, Virginia on the north, and Tennessee to the west. The county is located entirely within the Appalachian Mountains region of North Carolina, most of the county is located atop a rolling plateau that ranges from 2,500 feet to 3,000 feet above sea level. On the countys southeastern border the land drops to about 2,300 feet toward the Foothills region of North Carolina in neighboring Wilkes County, numerous mountains and hills dot the plateau
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Davidson County, North Carolina
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Davidson County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 162,878 and its county seat is Lexington, and its largest city is Thomasville. Davidson County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, parts of Davidson County are in the Yadkin Valley wine region. When Tennessee was established as a state in 1796, this county became Davidson County. The current North Carolina county was formed in 1822 from Rowan County and it was named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, an American Revolutionary War general killed at the Battle of Cowans Ford on the Catawba River in 1781. In 1911, a new county called Piedmont County was proposed, with High Point as its county seat, to be created from Guilford, Davidson, many people appeared at the Guilford County courthouse to oppose the plan, vowing to go to the state legislature to protest. The state legislature voted down the plan in February 1911, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 567 square miles, of which 553 square miles is land and 14 square miles is water. Davidson County is located entirely within the Piedmont region of central North Carolina, the Piedmont consists of gently rolling terrain frequently broken by hills or shallow valleys formed by rivers and streams. An exception to this terrain are the Uwharrie Mountains in the western and southwestern sections. The Uwharries are the oldest mountain range in North America, however, time has worn them down to little more than high hills, yet due to the relative flatness of the surrounding countryside they still rise from 250 to 500 feet above their base. The highest point in the Uwharries - and the highest point in Davidson County - is High Rock Mountain in the southwestern corner. It has an elevation of 1,119 feet above sea level. US29 US52 US64 US70 NC8 NC47 NC49 NC62 NC68 NC109 NC150 As of the census of 2010, there were 149,331 people,58,156 households, the population density was 267 people per square mile. There were 62,432 housing units at a density of 113 per square mile. 3. 24% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the family size was 2.92. In the county, the population was out with 24. 30% under the age of 18,7. 60% from 18 to 24,31. 20% from 25 to 44,24. 10% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 96.00 males
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Davie County, North Carolina
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Davie County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,240, Davie County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1836 from Rowan County and it was named for William R. Davie, Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799. 1,147 soldiers from Davie County fought in the American Civil War for the Confederate States of America. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 267 square miles. Wines made from grapes grown in the Yadkin Valley AVA may use the appellation Yadkin Valley on their labels, USA Today Bestselling Author, Nancy Naigle. Www. NancyNaigle. com I‑40 US64 US158 US601 NC801 NC901 As of the census of 2000, there were 34,835 people,13,750 households, the population density was 131 people per square mile. There were 14,953 housing units at a density of 56 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 90. 44% White,6. 80% Black or African American,0. 23% Native American,0. 31% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 31% from other races, and 0. 89% from two or more races. 3. 47% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 20% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the family size was 2.91. In the county, the population was out with 24. 30% under the age of 18,7. 10% from 18 to 24,29. 40% from 25 to 44,25. 50% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 97.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.00 males, the median income for a household in the county was $40,174, and the median income for a family was $47,699. Males had an income of $33,179 versus $24,632 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,359, about 6. 40% of families and 8. 60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 20% of those under age 18 and 11. 30% of those age 65 or over. Davie County is a member of the Piedmont Triad Regional Council
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Stokes County, North Carolina
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Stokes County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 47,401, Stokes County is included in the Winston-Salem, N. C. Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point. The county was formed in 1789 from Surry County, after the war, Captain Stokes was appointed a judge of the United States district court for North Carolina. In 1849 the southern half of Stokes County became Forsyth County, during the American Civil War, Moratock Iron Furnace located near Danbury served as a foundry for the Confederate Army. It was destroyed in April 1865 when Union cavalry under the command of General George Stoneman conducted extensive raiding through the region, Hanging Rock State Park was formed primarily from blocks of land donated in 1936 and contained 6,921 acres in 2005. Many of the facilities in the park were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935 and 1942. The park is located atop the Sauratown Mountains, and contains a center, a manmade lake, and plenty of hiking trails, climbing trails, picnic areas. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 456 square miles. The county lies within the Piedmont region of western North Carolina, however, the Sauratown Mountains run across the center of the county. The Sauras are named after the Saura Native American tribe which lived in the county before European settlement, a chain of jagged ridges, the Sauratown Mountains are an isolated remnant of the Blue Ridge Mountains far to the west. Although the Sauratown Mountains occupy only 5% of Stokes County, they dominate the scenery from almost any direction, moores Knob, the highest point in the chain, rises to 2,579 feet. Most of the county is less than 1,000 feet above sea level, the Dan River runs from the northwest corner to the southeastern section of Stokes County. Stokes County is home to Hanging Rock State Park and also has the majority of Belews Lake. The population density was 99 people per square mile, there were 19,262 housing units at an average density of 43 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 93. 43% White,4. 66% Black or African American,0. 24% Native American,0. 19% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,0. 88% from other races, and 0. 54% from two or more races. 1. 87% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 80% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the family size was 2.94
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Surry County, North Carolina
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Surry County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 73,673 and its county seat is Dobson, and its largest city is Mount Airy. Surry county comprises the Mount Airy, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, the county was formed in 1771 from Rowan County. It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, in 1777 parts of Surry County and Washington District were combined to form Wilkes County. The first permanent courthouse was established at Richmond in 1779, what is now the modern-day Old Richmond Township in Forsyth County near Donnaha, however, in 1789 the eastern half of Surry County became Stokes County, thus making the Richmond site unusable for either county. In 1790, the county seat was moved to Rockford where it remained for half a century. In 1850 the half of the remaining territory south of the Yadkin River became Yadkin County. The town of Dobson was established in 1853 to be the new county seat, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 536 square miles, of which 532 square miles is land and 4.1 square miles is water. The whole county is considered part of the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area. Surry County is located in the Yadkin Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area, wines made from grapes grown in Surry County may carry the appellation Yadkin Valley on their label. Surry County is located both within the Piedmont region of central North Carolina and in the Appalachian Mountains region of western North Carolina, most of the eastern two-thirds of the county lies within the Piedmont, a region of gently rolling hills and valleys. However, the Piedmont of Surry County also contains a portion of the Sauratown Mountains. The western third of the county lies within the Blue Ridge Mountains, the mountain passes are notorious for their occasional high winds, which can force automobiles and even large Eighteen wheeler trucks off the highways which lead through the passes. As a result, high wind advisories issued by the National Weather Service are not uncommon, the highest point in Surry County is Fisher Peak in the Blue Ridge, it rises to 3,570 feet above sea level. However, the peak in Surry County is not the highest. That honor goes to Pilot Mountain, an isolated monadnock and a North Carolina landmark, Pilot Mountain sharply rises some 2,421 feet above the surrounding countryside, and can be seen for miles. Another notable peak in Surry County is Cumberland Knob, in the northwest corner of the county, the following table provides a list of some of the more prominent mountains of the county. While there are creeks and streams in Surry County, there are three recognized major rivers in the county, the Ararat, the Fisher, and the Mitchell
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Wilkes County, North Carolina
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Wilkes County is a county located in the US state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 69,340, in May 2016, the population is almost 69,000. Its county seat is Wilkesboro, and its largest town is North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County comprises the North Wilkesboro, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1777 from parts of Surry County, the first session of the county court was held in John Browns house near what is today Browns Ford. The act creating the county became effective on February 15,1778, and it was named for the English political radical John Wilkes, who lost his position as Lord Mayor of the City of London due to his support for the colonists during the American Revolution. In 1799 the northern and western parts of Wilkes County became Ashe County, in 1841 parts of Wilkes County and Burke County were combined to form Caldwell County. In 1847 another part of Wilkes County was combined with parts of Caldwell County, in 1849 additional parts of Wilkes County and Caldwell County were combined with parts of Ashe County and Yancey County to form Watauga County. Numerous boundary adjustments were made thereafter, but none resulted in new counties, Wilkes County was once known as the Moonshine Capital of the World, and was a leading producer of illegal homemade liquor. From the 1920s to the 1950s some young Wilkes County males made their living by delivering moonshine to North Carolinas larger towns, Wilkes County natives also used bootleg liquor as a means for barter far beyond the borders of North Carolina. Many Wilkes County distillers ran white liquor as far as Detroit, New Jersey, since this often involved outrunning local police and federal agents in auto chases, the county became one of the birthplaces of the sport of stock-car racing. The North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR track, it held its first race on May 18,1947, Wilkes County native and resident Junior Johnson was one of the early superstars of NASCAR, as well as a legendary moonshiner. Johnson was featured by the writer Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire magazine titled The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson, wolfes vivid article was later adapted as the movie The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine. Benny Parsons and Jimmy Pardue were two other notable NASCAR drivers from Wilkes, the North Wilkesboro Speedway was closed following the 1996 NASCAR season. Two new owners, Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith, moved North Wilkesboros NASCAR races to their tracks in Texas, Speedway Associates, Inc. obtained a three-year lease and started running races and other events at the speedway. However, in May 2011, the announced that funding had fallen through. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 757 square miles. Wilkes County is located on the slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The countys elevation ranges from 900 feet in the east to over 4,000 feet in the west, the Blue Ridge Mountains run from the southwest to the northeast, and dominate the countys western and northern horizons
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Watauga County, North Carolina
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Watauga /wɑːˈtɑːwɡɑː/ County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,079 and its county seat and largest town is Boone. Watauga County comprises the Boone, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, the county was formed in 1849 from parts of Ashe, Caldwell, Wilkes, and Yancey counties. In 1861 part of Watauga County was combined with parts of Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, in 1911, the county was reduced to roughly its current size when portions of it were combined with parts of Caldwell and Mitchell counties were combined to form Avery County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 312.56 square miles. Watauga County is extremely mountainous, and all of the terrain is located within the Appalachian Mountains range. The highest point in the county is Calloway Peak, the highest peak of Grandfather Mountain, at an elevation of 5,506 feet above sea level, Beech Mountain is the highest incorporated community east of the Mississippi River. Boone, the countys largest city and county seat, has the highest elevation of any city over 10,000 population in the Eastern United States, dramatic and unexpected changes in the weather are not uncommon in the county, particularly when it comes to precipitation. This is partly due to the elevation of the county, and partly due to orographic lifting, summers can be very warm with temperatures commonly in the 80s and on a rare occasion in the 90s. Snow usually starts in November, and there can be snow falls in April, windy conditions, also, tend to be amplified across the county due to the rugged terrain and high elevation. Many people have noted that the winters of Watauga County tend to resemble those of the northern United States instead of the South, because of the cold weather in Watauga County, the area is home to several ski resorts. Among them is Appalachian Ski Mountain, the population density was 137 people per square mile. There were 23,155 housing units at a density of 74 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 96. 45% White,1. 59% Black or African American,0. 25% Native American,0. 59% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,0. 45% from other races, and 0. 62% from two or more races. 1. 46% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race, according to the 2000 Census the largest self-reported ancestry groups in Watauga County were, English, German and Irish. Most of those claiming Irish ancestry in Watauga county are actually of Scots-Irish/Ulster-Scots Protestant background,28. 60% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the family size was 2.80. The age distribution is 16. 30% under the age of 18,27. 80% from 18 to 24,23. 40% from 25 to 44,21. 50% from 45 to 64, the median age was 30 years
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Yadkin County, North Carolina
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Yadkin County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,406, Yadkin County is included in the Winston-Salem, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1850 from the part of Surry County south of the Yadkin River, for which it was named. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 338 square miles. Yadkin County is located in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina, the Piedmont consists of rolling farmlands frequently broken by hills or valleys formed by streams. The extreme western section of the county contains the Brushy Mountains, Yadkin County marks the eastern end of the Brushy Mountains range, none of the peaks rise more than 400–500 feet above the surrounding countryside. The highest point in the county is Star Peak near Jonesville, the Yadkin River forms the countys northern and eastern borders. The county takes its name from the river, the population density was 108 people per square mile. There were 15,821 housing units at a density of 47 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 92. 54% White,3. 43% Black or African American,0. 16% Native American,0. 17% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 91% from other races, and 0. 77% from two or more races. 6. 48% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 00% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the family size was 2.92. In the county, the population was out with 24. 00% under the age of 18,7. 50% from 18 to 24,30. 20% from 25 to 44,24. 20% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 96.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.60 males, the median income for a household in the county was $36,660, and the median income for a family was $43,758. Males had an income of $29,589 versus $22,599 for females. The per capita income for the county was $18,576, about 7. 10% of families and 10. 00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10. 90% of those under age 18 and 17. 40% of those age 65 or over. Yadkin County is a member of the regional Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments, Yadkin County has three high schools, Forbush, Starmount, and the Yadkin Early College
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WGHP
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The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company. WGHP maintains studio facilities located on Francis Street, and its transmitter is located in Sophia, the station is carried on channel 10 on cable providers throughout much of the market. In 1958, the Federal Communications Commission assigned a third VHF channel frequency to the Piedmont Triad area. The channel 8 allocation was freed up by the move of Florence, South Carolinas WBTW, to channel 13, applicants for the High Point channel 8 allocation included Jefferson Standard Broadcasting, owner of WBTV in Charlotte and WBTW. The owner of WTOB-TV in Winston-Salem was also interested, Southern Broadcast Company was awarded the license and signed on WGHP on October 14,1963. It originally operated as an ABC affiliate, taking the affiliation from both WFMY-TV and WSJS-TV, which shared secondary affiliations with the network starting in 1953, WGHPs original studios were located inside the Sheraton Hotel on North Main Street in downtown High Point. Likewise, it did not carry the soap opera The Edge of Night during its 1975 to 1984 run. In its last years as an ABC affiliate, WGHP aired Nightline on a 30-minute delay in favor of running syndicated programs, Gulf then sold the station to Taft Broadcasting as part of a group deal in 1984. That same year, The station moved to its current location on Francis Street outside of downtown High Point, on October 12,1987, Taft was restructured into Great American Broadcasting after a hostile takeover. Former Taft president Dudley Taft formed a new company took the Taft Broadcasting name. The new Taft held onto channel 8 until 1992, when Great American repurchased the station, in December 1993, Great American Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was restructured again to become Citicasters, it then put its entire television division up for sale. In the winter of 1993, New World Communications agreed to buy WGHP, Citicasters kept WTSP in St. Petersburg and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati – which were both ABC affiliates at the time. Around the same time, New World had also agreed to buy Argyle Televisions four television stations, including WVTM-TV in Birmingham. On May 23,1994, Fox agreed to affiliate with 12 of New Worlds stations, with WVTM, NBC affiliate KNSD in San Diego, and independent WSBK in Boston left out of the sale. New World later determined that due to the conflicts and the fact it would go over the FCCs ownership limit, it would sell WGHP. These factors also led to New Worlds decision to sell the two stations to Fox almost immediately, Foxs owned stations division took over the operations of both stations under local marketing agreements in September 1995, WGHP subsequently switched to Fox on September 3. It carried all of the programs, including Fox Kids. The markets original Fox affiliate, WNRW, assumed the ABC affiliation, WGHP added a few more talk and reality shows, as well as some off-network sitcoms such as I Love Lucy and Seinfeld
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High Point, North Carolina
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High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of the State of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census the city had a population of 104,371. High Point is currently the ninth-largest municipality in North Carolina, High Point is known for its furniture, textiles, and bus manufacturing. The city is referred to as the Furniture Capital of the World. The citys official slogan is North Carolinas International City due to the semi-annual High Point Furniture Market that attracts 100,000 exhibitors and buyers from around the world. Most of the city is located in Guilford County, with portions spilling into neighboring Randolph, Davidson, High Point is North Carolinas only city that extends into four counties. Among the first Europeans to settle Guilford County were English Quakers, High Point was located at the highest point of the 1856 North Carolina Railroad between Charlotte and Goldsboro where it intersected the 1852 Great Western Plank Road. Its central location and transportation allowed for the delivery of raw materials like cotton and lumber and processed goods in and out of the city, settled before 1750, High Point was incorporated in 1859. Before it became a manufacturing center, the most important industries were tobacco, woodworking. The first of many High Point furniture factories was opened in 1889, established in 1924, High Point University is a liberal arts institution with approximately 4,400 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries and 46 states. It is ranked by U. S. News and World Report 2013 edition of Americas Best Colleges 1st among comprehensive universities in the South, the university offers 44 undergraduate majors,10 graduate-degree programs and one doctorate program. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA Division I, High Point is the only city in North Carolina that exists within four counties, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and Randolph. It also stands within two watersheds, the Yadkin–Pee Dee to the west and the Cape Fear to the east. Parts of the city rise above 1,000 feet, making it among the highest cities in North Carolinas Piedmont, High Point is located at 35°58′14″N 79°59′51″W. It is bordered by the city of Greensboro to the north, Jamestown to the northeast, the city limits of Trinity and Thomasville come within half a mile of the High Point city limits to the south and southwest, respectively. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 55.4 square miles, of which 53.8 square miles is land and 1.7 square miles. Summers are hot and humid, and the dew points will often climb to near or even above 70 °F by late June through much of August, nights usually remain warm above 70 degrees. Most summers the hottest day will record a maximum between 96 and 98 °F, about once every 5 to 10 years the city will climb to or above 100 °F
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WSJS
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WSJS is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina and broadcasting to the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point media market. It airs a News/Talk and Sports radio format, with national news supplied by CBS Radio News, WSJS is owned by the Curtis Media Group and its slogan is The Triads News Radio, where Triad refers to the Piedmont Triad. The station has a news sharing relationship with the Piedmont Triads NBC-TV Network affiliate, both WXII-TV and WSJS were co-owned until 1972 and both stations used to share the same WSJS call letters. WSJS has studios and offices on West Fifth Street and its transmitter is near Robinhood Road, the station operates at 5,000 watts day & night. In 1929, entrepreneur and radio engineer Doug Lee began talking with Owen Moon, the call letters refer to the newspapers, Winston-Salem Journal plus Sentinel. WSJS signed on the air on April 17,1930, Holy Thursday, three days later, the station aired live coverage of the Easter Sunrise Service from Gods Acre in Old Salem. That broadcast has continued every year since, and is believed to be the longest continuously airing special program in radio history, with WSJS owned by the two local newspapers, the original studios were in the papers newsroom in downtown Winston-Salem. The transmitter was also in that building, the antenna was a long wire suspended from two towers. In 1933, WSJS became a CBS Radio Network affiliate, moving to NBC Radio in 1940, Gordon Gray bought the newspapers and the radio station in 1937, and Harold Essex of Chicago became the manager. Together, they made WSJS as important to the area as the newspapers, increasing the stations power, in 1941, an FM station, WMIT, was added near Mount Mitchell. The Radio Center Studios building at 419 Spruce Street was built for the stations in 1942, later WSJS-FM began in Winston-Salem in 1947. WSJS added a TV station in 1953, WSJS-TV was co-located with WSJS-AM for a number of years. The newspapers were sold to Media General in 1968, but longtime publisher Gordon Gray formed Triangle Broadcasting to hold onto the WSJS stations, Gray also acquired the cable franchise for Winston-Salem, Summit Cable. When the FCC ruled that one person could not own a television station, Wally Williams hosted Carolina in the Morning from 1954 to 1979. The show included the word for the day and a daily devotional. Williams had started as an announcer on the TV station, where he continued to do the weather, when he retired, Winston-Salem mayor Wayne Corpening declared May 31 Wally Williams Day. Wayne Willard did the news during most of Williams years on the station, George Lee joined WSJS radio in 1968. Among his characters were Blue the Bionic Dog and Magnolia Sweetbreath, when signing off he would tell people to drive carefully so that the life you save may be mine
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AM broadcasting
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AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is authorized in the wave band worldwide. Commercial AM broadcasting developed from amateur broadcasts around 1920, and was the commercially important form of radio broadcasting until FM broadcasting began after World War II. This period is known as the Golden Age of Radio, today, AM competes with FM, as well as with various digital radio broadcasting services distributed from terrestrial and satellite transmitters. AM broadcasting was the first broadcasting technology invented, the technology of amplitude modulation radio transmission was developed between 1900 and 1920. This was used for private communication and message traffic, such as telegrams. The entrepreneurs who developed AM radiotelephone transmission did not anticipate broadcasting voice, the term broadcasting, borrowed from agriculture, was applied to this new activity around 1920. Prior to 1920 there was no concept of broadcasting, or that radio listeners could be a market for entertainment. Although there were a number of broadcasts during this period. True radio broadcasting didnt begin until around 1920, when it sprang up spontaneously among amateur stations, AM remained the dominant method of broadcasting for the next 30 years, a period called the Golden Age of Radio, until FM broadcasting started to become widespread in the 1950s. AM remains a popular, profitable entertainment medium today and the dominant form of broadcasting in some such as Australia. The first AM voice transmission was made by Canadian researcher Reginald Fessenden on 23 December 1900, Fessenden is a significant figure in the development of AM radio. He helped develop one of the first – the Alexanderson alternator, the first practical continuous wave AM transmitters were based on versions of the Poulsen arc transmitter invented in 1903, and the huge, expensive Alexanderson alternator, developed 1906–1910. The modifications necessary to transmit AM were clumsy and resulted in low audio quality. Modulation was usually accomplished by a carbon microphone inserted directly in the antenna wire, the limited power handling ability of the microphone severely limited the power of the first radiotelephones, in powerful transmitters water-cooled microphones had to be used. At the receiving end, the crystal radio receivers then in use could not drive loudspeakers, only earphones. The discovery in 1912 of the ability of the Audion vacuum tube, invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest
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WXII-TV
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WXII-TV, virtual channel 12, is an NBC–affiliated television station serving Greensboro, High Point and its city of license Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, WXII maintains studio facilities located on Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem, and its transmitter is located on Sauratown Mountain in Stokes County. The station is carried on cable channel 11 in most parts of the market, the station first signed on the air on September 30,1953 as WSJS-TV. It is the third-oldest surviving television station in North Carolina, behind Charlottes WBTV and channel 12s rival in the Greensboro market and it took its calls from Piedmont Publishings WSJS radio. The original call letters stood for Winston-Salem Journal Sentinel, johnny Beckman, an early employee, recalled working at WSJS-TV in those early years, The station has always been affiliated with NBC. ABC programming was shared with WFMY until WGHP signed on in October 1963, the stations operations were originally housed from the basement of the WSJS studios on Spruce Street in Winston-Salem. The first broadcast was of the first game of the 1953 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, Channel 12 originally broadcast its signal from an antenna near Kernersville. WSJS-TV opened its new site atop Sauratown Mountain in 1955. In 1959, Piedmont exercised an option agreement to buy out Pickford and Rogers, the matter ended up in court when Pickford and Rogers felt that Piedmont had undervalued the amount of their shares, but was eventually resolved in Piedmonts favor. Piedmont Publishing was sold to Media General in 1968, by this time, the Federal Communications Commission was giving serious thought to barring common ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets. Gordon Gray, the publisher of both papers, thus formed Triangle Broadcasting to hold onto WSJS-AM-FM-TV. Gray also received the franchise for the cable system, Summit Cable. However, soon afterward, the FCC ruled that companies could not own both a television station and a cable system in the same market. Gray was thus forced to sell WSJS-TV in 1972 to Multimedia Inc. earning a return on his purchase of the Journal. The new owners changed the call letters to WXII-TV. At the time of the call change, the station ran a promotional ad parodying the death of Julius Caesar to amplify the Roman numeral theme. Two other stations in the market switched to Roman numeral call letters. Multimedia swapped WXII and WFBC-TV in Greenville, South Carolina to Pulitzer in 1983 in exchange for KSD-TV in St. Louis, Pulitzer sold its entire broadcasting division, including WXII, to Hearst-Argyle Television, now Hearst Television, in 1997
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Gordon Gray (politician)
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Gordon Gray was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower associated with defense and national security. Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray, Sr. and he was married in 1938 to the former Jane Boyden Craige, and they had four sons, Gordon Gray, Jr. Burton C. After Janes death, Gray married the former Nancy Maguire Beebe and his father Bowman, his uncle James A. Gray, Jr. and later his brother, Bowman Gray, Jr. were all heads of R. J. Boyden Gray, a graduate of Harvard and the University of North Carolina Law School and he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1930, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity & the secretive, Order of Gimghoul. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1933, UNC presented Gray with an honorary law degree in 1949. Gray began his life as a lawyer and was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in 1939,1941. He entered the U. S. Army in 1942 as a private and rose to captain, serving in Europe with General Omar Bradleys forces. Grays service to the government began with his appointment as President Harry S. Trumans assistant secretary of the army in 1947. He served in this post from 1949 until 1950 and he was the second president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, succeeding Frank Porter Graham in 1950. In 1954 Gray chaired a committee appointed by AEC chairman Lewis Strauss which recommended revoking Robert Oppenheimers security clearance. The Gray Board, as it was known, issued its decision on May 27,1954, with Gray and Thomas A. Morgan recommending the revocation. In the book American Prometheus, The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer the chairmanship of Gray during the hearings was described as severely lacking, Gray had allowed that the prosecutors briefed the committee for a full week without representatives from the defendants being present. The authors called the Gray Board a veritable kangaroo court in which the head jugde accepted the prosecutors lead, less than a year later, Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson named Gray assistant secretary for international security affairs and Grays brief career in academia was ended. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him to head the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1957, Eisenhower then appointed Gray his National Security Advisor from 1958 until 1961. On January 18,1961, President Eisenhower awarded Gray the Presidential Medal of Freedom and he served on the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, in 1976, he was awarded the United States Military Academys Sylvanus Thayer Award. In controversial leaked documents, Gray is alleged to have part of the secret Majestic 12 organization. From 1962 to 1963, Gray was head of the Federal City Council, a group of business, civic, education, Gray was also publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal, chairman of the board of Piedmont Publishing Company and chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Media General
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Media General was an American media company based in Richmond, Virginia. The companys origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired The Richmond Daily Times, which later became The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Joseph Bryans son, John Stewart Bryan succeeded his father as owner and publisher of the Times-Dispatch, which merged with The Richmond News Leader in 1940 to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc. After John Stewart Bryans death in 1944, his son, D. Tennant Bryan led the company into a period of expansion into television, Media General, Inc. began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1970. In 1990, J. Stewart Bryan III, great-grandson of Joseph Bryan, became chairman, president, the fourth-generation Bryan oversaw the companys expansion into digital media and the sale of Media Generals newspaper division to Berkshire Hathaway in 2012. J. Stewart Bryan III remained chairman of Media General until his death on January 23,2016, in 2013 and 2014, Media General expanded significantly through mergers with Young Broadcasting and LIN Media. Long-time Media General CFO James F. Woodward remained as Chief Financial Officer until the dissolution in 2017. On January 11,2017, the FCC approved the sale of Media General to Nexstar Broadcasting Group for $4.6 billion. The conglomeration of newspapers was founded in 1940 when owners of Richmond, in 1969, as the companys media properties grew and diversified, it was renamed Media General. In 1982 the company acquired The William B. Tanner Company, in 1996, Media General acquired Park Acquisitions, the holding company for Park Communications, formerly owned by the media entrepreneur Roy H. Park. In 1999, Media General bought Spartanburg-based Spartan Communications, which increased Media Generals station portfolio from 14 to 27, four NBC-owned stations in smaller markets that were put up for sale on January 9,2006. On April 6, NBC Universal and Media General announced that the latter would purchase the four NBC O&Os as part of a $600 million four-station deal between the two companies. On August 2,2006, Media General announced that it would sell WIAT and KIMT to New Vision Television for $35 million, on October 29,2007, Media General announced that the company was exploring the sale of WCWJ, KALB-TV, WMBB, WTVQ, and WNEG-TV. On March 14,2008, the reached a agreement to sell KALB. The deal was closed on July 16, on June 25,2008, Media General announced the sale of WNEG-TV to the University of Georgia. On January 28,2009, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase WCWJ, the deal was finalized on May 1,2009. On November 12,2013, privately held Young Broadcasting acquired a controlling interest in Media General through a reverse merger, following the merger, the new company was owned 67.5 percent by Young shareholders and 32.5 percent by Media General shareholders. The combined company owned 30 stations, reaching 14% of the United States, and continued to operate as Media General
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Mitsubishi
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The Mitsubishi Group is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Its total revenue is about 1. 4% percent of Japans GDP and it is historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 to 1947 and was disbanded during the occupation of Japan following World War II. The former constituents of the continue to share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark. The three main companies in the group are The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the Mitsubishi company was established as a shipping firm by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870. In 1873, its name was changed to Mitsubishi Shokai, the name Mitsubishi consists of two parts, mitsu meaning three and hishi meaning water caltrop, and hence rhombus, which is reflected in the companys logo. It is also translated as three diamonds, Mitsubishi was established in 1870, two years after the Meiji Restoration, with shipping as its core business. Its diversification was mostly into related fields, the experience of overseas shipping led the firm to enter into a trading business. In 1881, the company bought into coal mining by acquiring the Takashima Mine, followed by Hashima Island in 1890 and they also diversified into shipbuilding, banking, insurance, warehousing, and trade. Later diversification carried the organization into such sectors as paper, steel, glass, electrical equipment, aircraft, oil, as Mitsubishi built a broadly based conglomerate, it played a central role in the modernization of Japanese industry. After moving to Japan, they designed the Mitsubishi 1MT, Mitsubishi B1M, Mitsubishi 1MF, the merchant fleet entered into a period of diversification that would eventually result in the creation of three entities, Mitsubishi Bank was founded in 1919. After its mergers with the Bank of Tokyo in 1996, and UFJ Holdings in 2004, Mitsubishi Atomic Industry, a nuclear power company. Mitsubishi Chemical, the largest Japan-based chemicals company Mitsubishi Power Systems, during the Second World War, Mitsubishi manufactured military aircraft under the direction of Dr. Jiro Horikoshi. The Mitsubishi A6M was a primary Japanese naval fighter in World War II and it was used by Imperial Japanese Navy pilots throughout the war, including in kamikaze attacks during the later stages. Allied pilots were astounded by its maneuverability, and it was successful in combat until the Allies devised tactics to utilize their advantage in armor. Mitsubishi made use of forced labor during this tenure, laborers included allied POWs, as well as Chinese citizens. In the post-war period, lawsuits and demands for compensations were presented against the Mitsubishi Corporation, on July 24,2015, the company agreed to formally apologize for this wartime labor, and compensated 3765 Chinese laborers who were conscripted to Mitsubishi Mining during the war. On July 19,2015, the company apologized for using American soldiers as slave laborers during World War II, Mitsubishi was involved in the opium trade in China during this period. Mitsubishi was among a number of major Japanese companies targeted for dissolution during the occupation of Japan and it was broken up into a large number of smaller enterprises whose stock was offered to the public
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Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president and he previously served in the U. S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state and he grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, in 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U. S. Senate. In 2008, Obama was nominated for president, a year after his campaign began and he was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20,2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during his first two years in office, Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since LBJs Great Society. Main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, after a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, Obama signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, Obama increased U. S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the U. S. -Russian New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, after winning re-election over Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term in 2013. Obama also advocated gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning climate change and immigration. In foreign policy, Obama ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60% approval rating. He currently resides in Washington, D. C and his presidential library will be built in Chicago. Obama was born on August 4,1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu and he is the only President to have been born in Hawaii. He was born to a mother and a black father. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss and his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a married Luo Kenyan man from Nyangoma Kogelo. Obamas parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2,1961, six months before Obama was born. In late August 1961, Obamas mother moved him to the University of Washington in Seattle for a year
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John McCain
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John Sidney McCain III is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for the 2008 U. S. presidential election, McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became an aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire, in October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973, McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds have left him with physical limitations. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Arizona, elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1982, McCain served two terms. He was first elected to the U. S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily five times, while generally adhering to conservative principles, McCain at times has had a media reputation as a maverick for his willingness to disagree with his party on certain issues. He is also known for his work in the 1990s to restore relations with Vietnam. McCain ran for the Republican nomination in 2000 but lost a primary season contest to George W. Bush of Texas. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservative stances and attitudes and largely opposed actions of the Obama administration, by 2013, however, he had become a key figure in the Senate for negotiating deals on certain issues in an otherwise partisan environment. In 2015, McCain became chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John McCain was born on August 29,1936, at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, to naval officer John S. McCain Jr. and Roberta McCain. He has a brother named Joe and an elder sister named Sandy. At that time, the Panama Canal was under U. S. control, McCains family tree includes Scots-Irish and English ancestors. Both his father and his grandfather, John S. McCain Sr. became four-star United States Navy admirals. The McCain family followed his father to various postings in the United States. Altogether, he attended about 20 schools, in 1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria. He excelled at wrestling and graduated in 1954, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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A Democrat from Texas, he previously served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and then as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961. He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader, and two more as Senate Majority Whip, Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1960 presidential election. Although unsuccessful, he was chosen by then-Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to be his running mate and they went on to win a close election over Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Johnson was sworn in as Vice President on January 20,1961. Two years and ten months later, on November 22,1963 and he successfully ran for a full term in the 1964 election, winning by a landslide over Republican opponent Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. He is one of four people who have served as President, Vice President, Senator. Johnson was renowned for his personality and the Johnson treatment. Assisted in part by an economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration. With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted Johnson the power to use force in Southeast Asia without having to ask for an official declaration of war. The number of American military personnel in Vietnam increased dramatically, from 16,000 advisors in non-combat roles in 1963 to 550,000 in early 1968, American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down. Growing unease with the war stimulated a large, angry antiwar movement based especially on university campuses in the U. S. and abroad. Johnson faced further troubles when summer riots broke out in most major cities after 1965, while he began his presidency with widespread approval, support for Johnson declined as the public became upset with both the war and the growing violence at home. In 1968, the Democratic Party factionalized as antiwar elements denounced Johnson, Republican Richard Nixon was elected to succeed him, as the New Deal coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years collapsed. After he left office in January 1969, Johnson returned to his Texas ranch, historians argue that Johnsons presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism in the United States after the New Deal era. Johnson is ranked favorably by some historians because of his policies and the passage of many major laws, affecting civil rights, gun control, wilderness preservation. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27,1908, near Stonewall, Texas, in a farmhouse on the Pedernales River. Johnson had one brother, Sam Houston Johnson, and three sisters, Rebekah, Josefa, and Lucia, the nearby small town of Johnson City, Texas, was named after LBJs cousin, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Johnson had English, German, and Ulster Scots ancestry and he was maternally descended from pioneer Baptist clergyman George Washington Baines, who pastored eight churches in Texas, as well as others in Arkansas and Louisiana
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Gary Johnson
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Gary Earl Johnson is an American businessman, author, and politician. He was the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party and he was also the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. Johnson founded one of New Mexicos largest construction companies and he entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 on a low-tax, anti-crime platform, promising a common sense business approach. He beat incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King by 50% to 40% and he cut the 10% annual growth in the budget, in part due to his use of the gubernatorial veto 200 times during his first six months. Johnson sought re-election in 1998, winning by 55% to 45%, in his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms as well as campaigning for cannabis decriminalization. Term-limited, Johnson retired from politics in 2003. In December 2011, he withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination and stood for the Libertarian nomination instead, Johnson received 1.3 million votes, more than all other minor candidates combined. Johnson ran again in 2016, once winning the Libertarian nomination. Johnson received 4.4 million votes, which is most for a third party candidate since 1996. Since the 2016 presidential election, Johnson has stated he not run for public office again. Johnson was born on January 1,1953, in Minot, North Dakota, the son of Lorraine B. who worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Earl W. Johnson, a public school teacher. In 1971, Johnson graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico and he attended the University of New Mexico from 1971 to 1975 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. While at UNM, he joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and it was there that he met his future wife, Denise Dee Simms. While in college, Johnson earned money as a door-to-door handyman and his success in that industry encouraged him to start his own business, Big J Enterprises, in 1976. When he started the business, which focused on mechanical contracting and his firms major break came when he received a large contract from Intels expansion in Rio Rancho, which increased Big Js revenue to $38 million. To cope with the growth of the company, Johnson enrolled in a management course at night school. He eventually grew Big J into a corporation with over 1,000 employees. By the time he sold the company in 1999, it was one of New Mexicos leading construction companies, Johnson entered politics in 1994 with the intention of running for governor and was advised by Republican Elders to run for the State Legislature instead
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Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, U. S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the Democratic Partys nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, after serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. In 1977, she co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and she was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Rose Law Firm the following year. As First Lady of Arkansas, she led a force whose recommendations helped reform Arkansass public schools. As First Lady of the United States, Clinton fought for gender equality, because her marriage survived the Lewinsky scandal, her role as first lady drew a polarized response from the public. Clinton was elected in 2000 as the first female senator from New York and she was re-elected to the Senate in 2006. Running for president in 2008, she won far more delegates than any previous female candidate, as Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013, Clinton responded to the Arab Spring, during which she advocated the U. S. military intervention in Libya. Leaving office after Obamas first term, she wrote her book and undertook speaking engagements. Clinton made a presidential run in 2016. She became the first female candidate to be nominated for president by a major U. S. political party, despite winning a plurality of the national popular vote, Clinton lost the Electoral College and the presidency to her Republican rival Donald Trump. Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26,1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. In 1995, Clinton claimed that her mother had named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first mountaineer to scale Mount Everest, however, the Everest climb did not take place until 1953, more than five years after Clinton was born. Clinton was raised in a United Methodist family, living first in Chicago and her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was of English and Welsh descent, and managed a small but successful textile business. Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell, was a homemaker of Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish, Clinton has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony. As a child, Rodham was a student of her teachers at the public schools that she attended in Park Ridge. She participated in such as swimming and baseball, and earned numerous badges as a Brownie. She attended Maine East High School, where she participated in the student council, the school newspaper, and was selected for the National Honor Society
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Donald Trump
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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Prior to entering politics he was a businessman and television personality, Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four. During his real career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos. Besides real estate, he started several ventures and has lent the use of his name for the branding of various products. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, as of 2017, Forbes listed him as the 544th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $3.5 billion. Trump first publicly expressed interest in running for office in 1987. He won two Reform Party presidential primaries in 2000, but withdrew his candidacy early on, in June 2015, he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among 17 candidates in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention, many of the statements he made at rallies, in interviews, or on social media were controversial or false. Trump won the election on November 8,2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. His political positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist, protectionist, Trump was born on June 14,1946 at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City. He was the fourth of five born to Frederick Christ Fred Trump. His siblings are Maryanne, Fred Jr. Elizabeth, and Robert, Trumps ancestors originated from the village of Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany on his fathers side, and from the Outer Hebrides isles of Scotland on his mothers side. All his grandparents, and his mother, were born in Europe and his mothers grandfather was also christened Donald. On a visit to his village, he met Elisabeth Christ. He died from the flu pandemic of 1918 and Elizabeth incorporated the family real estate business, Elizabeth Trump and Son, which would later become The Trump Organization. Trumps father Fred was born in the Bronx, and worked with his mother since he was 15 as a real estate developer, primarily in the New York boroughs of Queens and he eventually built and sold thousands of houses, barracks and apartments
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. The Public Service prize was one of the original Pulitzers, established in 1917 and it is the only prize in the program that awards a gold medal and is the most prestigious one for a newspaper to win. As with other Pulitzer Prizes, a committee of jurors narrows the field to three nominees, from which the Pulitzer Board generally picks a winner and finalists, finalists have been made public since 1980. The Pulitzer Board issues an official citation explaining the reason for the award, in its first 97 years to 2013, the Public Service Pulitzer was awarded 96 times. There were four years for which no award was given, in 1950,1951,1953,1955 and 1959, prizes were awarded to two newspapers. A reporter was first named in 1947, recently that has more common. 1919, Milwaukee Journal, for its strong and courageous campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign elements made such a policy hazardous from a point of view. 1920, no award given 1921, Boston Post, for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest. 1922, New York World, for exposing the operations of the Ku Klux Klan. 1923, Memphis Commercial Appeal, for its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons,1928, Indianapolis Times, for its work in exposing political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government. 1930, no award given 1931, The Atlanta Constitution, for a successful municipal graft exposure,1932, Indianapolis News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. McKee, and the exposing the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations. 1934, Medford Mail Tribune, for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County,1935, The Sacramento Bee, for its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada. 1936, Cedar Rapids Gazette, for its crusade against corruption,1937, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. 1938, Bismarck Tribune, for its news reports and editorials entitled,1939, Miami Daily News, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission. 1940, Waterbury Republican & American, for its campaign exposing municipal graft,1941, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its successful campaign against the city smoke nuisance. 1942, Los Angeles Times, for its campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution. 1943, Omaha World-Herald, for its initiative and originality in planning a campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort
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Piedmont Triad
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The Piedmont Triad is a north-central region of the U. S. state of North Carolina that consists of the area within and surrounding the three major cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group or triad of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the United States, the area of the triad is approximately 5,954 square miles. The metropolitan area is connected by Interstates 40,85,73, the Triad is not to be confused with the Triangle region, directly to the east. As of 2012, the Piedmont Triad has an population of 1,611,243 making it the 33rd largest CSA metropolitan area in the United States. However, for all intents and purposes the region still functions as a metropolitan area. The area also has its share of scientific museums, such as SciWorks, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, the Wake Forest Museum of Anthropology. The North Carolina Zoo, the worlds largest open-air natural habitat zoo, is located just outside the Randoph County city of Asheboro, the economy in the Piedmont Triad is a mixed economy. The Triad area is notable for large textile, tobacco, the Triad remains a national center for textile manufacturing, represented by corporations including Hanes based in Winston-Salem, and International Textile Group, based in Greensboro. Numerous furniture manufacturers are also headquartered in the Triad area, especially in the cities of High Point, Thomasville, the furniture and textile industries have in turn spawned large trucking, logistics, and warehousing businesses in the area. Popular brands like Thomasville and Lexington are derived from the names of these cities, recently, however, many furniture and tobacco factories have been closing and/or laying off workers across the region in response to escalating industrial globalization. After many of the old industries in the area began to die out, Dell, Inc. in the early 2000s struck a deal with local officials allowing for the construction of a new computer assembly plant near the Triad city of Kernersville. However, Dell pulled out of its contract with the city, upon full build out of the project, it is expected to be housed by two 75-acre campuses, employ approximately 2,000 people, and generate $50 million per year to the Triad economy. LabCorp, one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world, has its corporate headquarters, four major Interstate highways and numerous secondary Interstate routes and US routes serve the region, Interstate highways I-40, the primary east-west route across the region. In the eastern Triad, it is conjoined with I-85, the two routes split in Greensboro. I-40 Business, runs through Kernersville and Winston-Salem and it is a former alignment of I-40. I-840, part of the Greensboro Urban Loop, currently under construction, when complete, I-840 will be the northern half of the loop. I-73, the primary route across the region, much of which has yet to be constructed. This portion was designated as I-40, with the current
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Piedmont (United States)
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The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the eastern United States. It sits between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains, stretching from New Jersey in the north to central Alabama in the south, the Piedmont Province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division which consists of the Piedmont Upland and the Piedmont Lowlands sections. The Atlantic Seaboard fall line marks the Piedmonts eastern boundary with the Coastal Plain, to the west, it is mostly bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost range of the main Appalachians. The width of the Piedmont varies, being quite narrow above the Delaware River, the Piedmonts area is approximately 80,000 square miles. The name Piedmont comes from the French term for the physical region, literally meaning foothill, ultimately from Latin pedemontium. The region is named after the Italian region of Piedmont, the lowlands which abut the Alps, the surface relief of the Piedmont is characterized by relatively low, rolling hills with heights above sea level between 200 feet and 800 feet to 1,000 feet. Its geology is complex, with rock formations of different materials. Essentially, the Piedmont is the remnant of ancient mountain chains that have since been eroded away. Geologists have identified at least five events which have led to sediment deposition, including the Grenville orogeny. The last major event in the history of the Piedmont was the break-up of Pangaea, large basins formed from the rifting and were subsequently filled by the sediments shed from the surrounding higher ground. The series of Mesozoic basins is almost entirely located inside the Piedmont region, Piedmont soils are generally clay-like and moderately fertile. In some areas they have suffered from erosion and over-cropping, particularly in the South where cotton was historically the chief crop. In the central Piedmont region of North Carolina and Virginia, corn is the crop, while in the north region there is more diversity, including orchards, dairying. The Piedmont region is associated with the Piedmont blues, a style of blues music that originated there in the late 19th century. According to the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society, most Piedmont blues musicians came from Virginia, the Carolinas, during the Great Migration, Black Americans migrated to the Piedmont. Thus, Piedmont blues was influenced by many types of such as ragtime, country. Many major cities are located on the line, the eastern boundary of the Piedmont. The fall line, where the land rises abruptly from the plain, marks the limit of navigability on many major rivers
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Piedmont Crescent
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The Piedmont Crescent, also known as the Piedmont Urban Crescent, is a large, polycentric urbanized region in the U. S. Residents commonly attribute development of the Crescent communities to the Indian Trading Path, the Trading Path was also used by European traders, and later by settlers entering the backcountry regions of the piedmont of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Forming the shape of a crescent in North Carolina, the region is located in the central Piedmont area of the state and this region has undergone sustained population and economic growth since the late 19th century, a trend that has accelerated since the late 20th century. It is notable as the fourth-largest manufacturing region in the country, as well as a center of banking and finance, textiles, biotech. It is home to almost two-thirds of North Carolinas population and its three Combined Statistical Areas have a total population of about 6 million people, together representing over 63% of the states total population. The Piedmont Crescent name is thought to have been coined when the North Carolina Railroad company first laid tracks through the area in 1855-56, the railway, which was named the Piedmont Crescent Railroad, brought extensive growth to the communities along its route. These evolved to comprise todays interlinked urbanized region, although the freight and passenger rail corridor remains of critical importance, the regions Interstate 85 and Interstate 40 freeway system serves as its primary transportation link today. Charlotte Raleigh Greensboro Durham Winston-Salem Cary High Point Piedmont
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Interstate 85
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Interstate 85 is a major Interstate Highway in the Southeastern United States. Its current southern terminus is at an interchange with I-65 in Montgomery, Alabama, its northern terminus interchanges with I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia and it is nominally north–south, but physically mostly northeast–southwest. While most interstates that end in a 5 are cross-country routes, I-85 is mainly a regional route, I-85 begins as a fork off I-65 in Montgomery. From there, I-85 parallels U. S. Route 80 until the highway nears Tuskegee, at Tuskegee, I-85 leaves US80 and starts to parallel US29, which the highway parallels for much of its length. I-85 also passes near Auburn, Opelika, Valley and Lanett before crossing the Chattahoochee River into Georgia, I-85 will soon be rerouted southward just east of Montgomery, where it will intersect with I-65 just south of downtown Montgomery. Future I-685 will be the new designation for the route of current I-85, in Georgia, I-85 bypasses West Point before coming into the LaGrange area. East of LaGrange, I-85 intersects I-185 which connects to Columbus, in the Atlanta area, I-85 intersects I-20 and merges with I-75 through the downtown area. North of Atlanta, I-985 provides a link to Gainesville before heading through northeastern Georgia, due to a bridge collapse on March 30,2017, parts of I-85 in Atlanta were closed. I-85 provides the transportation route for the Upstate of South Carolina, linking together the major centers of Greenville. In Spartanburg, BMW has a manufacturing plant near the highway. In South Carolina, I-85 bypasses Clemson and Anderson on the way to Greenville, beginning at Anderson, I-85 widens from four to six lanes. Near Powdersville, US29 joins I-85 and they run concurrently until they cross the Saluda River, I-85 bypasses just south of Greenville, but provides two links into the city via spur routes I-185 and I-385. I-85 also bypasses Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport, which serves the Greenville–Spartanburg metropolitan area, I-85 then bypasses the city of Spartanburg to the north where its original route is now signed as Business Loop 85 and was approved by AASHTO on April 22,1995. Near mile marker 70, I-85 intersects with I-26, the exits are signed as exits 70A for eastbound traffic and 70B for westbound traffic. North of Spartanburg, I-85 narrows from six lanes back to four lanes and bypasses Gaffney, much of the terrain between Spartanburg and the North Carolina border is rural in nature. In North Carolina, I-85 enters a rural area near Kings Mountain before entering the Gastonia. North of Charlotte, the passes near Concord, Salisbury, Lexington. At Greensboro, I-85 shifts away from downtown I-85 Business Loop, from Durham, I-85 turns northeastward and heads through Oxford then Henderson toward Virginia
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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Greensboro is a city in the U. S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the county seat and largest city in Guilford County, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 269,666, and in 2015 the estimated population was 285,342. Three major interstate highways in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina were built to intersect at this city, in 1808, Greensborough was planned around a central courthouse square to succeed Guilford Court House as the county seat. In 2003, the previous Greensboro – Winston-Salem – High Point metropolitan statistical area was re-defined by the U. S. Office of Management and this region was separated into the Greensboro-High Point MSA and the Winston-Salem MSA. The 2010 population for the Greensboro-High Point MSA was 723,801, the combined statistical area of Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, popularly referred to as the Piedmont Triad, had a population of 1,599,477. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Greensboro were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura, other indigenous cultures had occupied this area for thousands of years, typically settling along the waterways, as did the early settlers. Quaker migrants from Pennsylvania, by way of Maryland, arrived at Capefair in about 1750, the new settlers began organized religious services affiliated with the Cane Creek Friends Meeting in Snow Camp in 1751. Three years later,40 Quaker families were granted approval to establish New Garden Monthly Meeting, the settlement grew rapidly during the next three years, adding members from as far away as Nantucket in Massachusetts. It soon became the most important Quaker community in North Carolina and mother of several other Quaker meetings that were established in the state and west of the Appalachians. After the Revolutionary War, the city of Greensboro was named for Major General Nathanael Greene, although the Americans lost the battle, Greenes forces inflicted heavy casualties on the British Army of General Cornwallis. Following this battle, Cornwallis withdrew his troops to a British coastal base in Wilmington, Greensboro was established near the geographic center of Guilford County, on land that was an unbroken forest with thick undergrowth of huckleberry bushes, that bore a finely flavored fruit. Property for the village was purchased from the Saura for $98. Three north-south streets were laid out intersecting with three east-west streets, the courthouse was built at the center of the intersection of Elm and Market streets. By 1821, the town was home to 369 residents, stimulated by rail traffic and improved access to markets, the city grew substantially, soon becoming known as the Gate City due to its role as a transportation hub for the Piedmont. The railroads transported goods to and from the textile mills. Many of the manufacturers developed workers housing in mill villages near their facilities, Textile companies and related businesses continued into the 21st century, when most went bankrupt, reorganized, and/or merged with other companies as textile manufacturing jobs moved offshore. Greensboro is still a center of the textile industry, with the main offices of International Textile Group, Galey & Lord, Unifi. ITG Brands, maker of Kool, Winston and Salem brand cigarettes, is the third largest tobacco company in the United States and is headquartered in Greensboro, rail traffic continues to be important for the citys economy, as Greensboro is a major regional freight hub
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Asheboro, North Carolina
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Asheboro is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 25,012 at the 2010 census and it is the home of the state-owned North Carolina Zoo. Asheboro is located at 35°42′55″N 79°48′47″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.4 square miles, of which,15.3 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square miles of it is water. Asheboro is known as the point of NC. The town lies within the Uwharrie Mountains, an ancient series of ridges, as such, Asheboro gives the impression of being in a more mountainous area than it actually is. As of the census of 2000, there were 21,672 people,8,756 households, the population density was 1,412.5 people per square mile. There were 9,515 housing units at a density of 620.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 69. 45% White,12. 08% African American,0. 51% Native American,1. 39% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,7. 72% from other races, and 1. 80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 30. 9% of the population,31. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 12. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the family size was 3.01. In the city, the population was out with 24. 1% under the age of 18,10. 5% from 18 to 24,30. 7% from 25 to 44,19. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 95.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males, built by Goodyear and acquired by Hyosung in 2011, the plant makes wires for use in car and truck tires. Asheboro is home to the Asheboro Copperheads of the Coastal Plain League, the Copperheads play at McCrary Park in Asheboro. The Copperheads began play for the 1999 season, caraway Speedway, a Whelen Southern Modified Tour racing location. It is.455 mile asphalt oval that has seen famous stockcar drivers Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, starred in motion pictures, daytime television show Days Of Our Lives, and had recording contracts spanning two decades. Keith Crisco, Secretary of Commerce for North Carolina, primary candidate for U. S. Representative, Second District. Route 220 and Interstate 73/Interstate 74, which connect it to Greensboro, U. S. Route 64, which connects it to Raleigh, and North Carolina Highway 49, Asheboro Regional Airport serves general aviation traffic to and from the city
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Burlington, North Carolina
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Burlington is a city in Alamance County in the U. S. state of North Carolina. The population was 50,042 at the 2010 census, which makes Burlington the 17th largest city in North Carolina, the Metropolitan Statistical Area population was over 150,000 in 2010. Alamance County was created when Orange County was partitioned in 1849, early settlers included several groups of Quakers, many of which remain active in the Snow Camp area, German farmers, and Scots-Irish immigrants. The need of the North Carolina Railroad in the 1850s to locate land where they could build, repair and do maintenance on its track was the genesis of Burlington, the company selected a piece of land slightly west of present-day Graham. On January 29,1856, the last spikes were driven into the tie of the North Carolina Railroad project, uniting the cities of Goldsboro. The next day, the first locomotive passed along the new route, when the iron horse arrived in Alamance County, locals referred to it as the eighth wonder of the world. Not long after this opening, the railroad realized a pressing need for repair shops. With Alamance Countys position along the new line, it became the choice for the shops location. After several debates concerning where the shops would be located, Gen. Benjamin Trollinger, Gen. Trollinger owned land just northwest of Graham, and he convinced several other prominent citizens owning adjacent lots to join him and sell their property to the railroad. By 1859, construction of the shops began, seemingly overnight, a town was born. A church, bank, hotel and restaurant sprang up, Company Shops, as the town became known, was also chosen as the railroads headquarters. By the time the shops were completed, the village had grown to twenty-seven buildings, thirty-nine white men, twenty Negro slaves and two free Negroes were employed in or around the shops. Sale of town soon started, but not surprisingly, the sale of lots was slow until after the Civil War. By 1864, Company Shops numbered about 300 persons, after twenty-five years of operations, the shops closed along with most of the areas railroad facilities. In 1886, the North Carolina Railroad Company transferred its operations to Spencer, the railroad offices and shops at Company Shops were closed. With the railroad no longer operated there, the citizens of Company Shops decided a new name was needed. Company Shops was reborn as Burlington on February 14,1893, the city of Burlington was incorporated, and a charter was issued by the State Legislature. Around the turn of the century, the era began
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Clemmons, North Carolina
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Clemmons is a village in Forsyth County, North Carolina and a suburb of Winston-Salem. The population was 18,627 at the 2010 census, with a population of 19,844 in 2015. Clemmons is located in southwestern Forsyth County at 36°1′31″N 80°23′11″W and it is bordered to the northeast by the city of Winston-Salem, to the north by the town of Lewisville, and to the southwest, across the Yadkin River, by the town of Bermuda Run in Davie County. Interstate 40 passes through the village, with access from Exits 182 and 184, downtown Winston-Salem is 10 miles northeast via I-40 and U. S. Route 421, and I-40 leads southwest 34 miles to Statesville. According to the United States Census Bureau, Clemmons has an area of 12.0 square miles, of which 11.8 square miles is land and 0.2 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 13,827 people,5,291 households, the population density was 1,291.2 people per square mile. There were 5,614 housing units at a density of 524.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 89. 87% White,5. 21% African American,0. 09% Native American,2. 10% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,1. 76% from other races, and 0. 95% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 54% of the population,5. 6% of households had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 2.97. In the village, the population was out with 25. 7% under the age of 18,6. 1% from 18 to 24,30. 6% from 25 to 44,26. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 92.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males, the median income for a household in the village was $60,486, and the median income for a family was $70,029. Males had an income of $49,892 versus $32,558 for females. The per capita income for the village was $27,679, about 2. 8% of families and 3. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 6% of those under age 18 and 8. 5% of those age 65 or over. Originally called Clemmonsville, the Village of Clemmons was founded in 1802, Clemmons is located in the Northwestern Piedmont section of North Carolina in Forsyth County. Clemmons is ten miles southwest of Winston-Salem, a city of approximately 229,617, Clemmons, population 18,627, is part of the Piedmont Triad and the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The proximity of Clemmons to this urban center and its location along Interstate 40 has contributed to the growth of the Village
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Eden, North Carolina
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Eden is a city in Rockingham County, North Carolina in the U. S state of North Carolina. The population was 15,527 at the 2010 census, the city was incorporated in 1967 through the consolidation of three separate towns, Leaksville, Spray, and Draper. Several small historic downtown areas have opened up, such as the Olde Leaksville shopping district, the phone Area code is area code 336. Eden is the largest city in Rockingham County, North Carolina and is a city of the Piedmont Triad over the 10,000 population. Eden is part of the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, Eden is located at 36°30′23″N 79°44′42″W. The Smith and the Dan River have their confluence on the side of Eden. The Dan River flows along Edens southern border while the Smith River flows from the north bisecting the city on its route to meet the Dan River, the city of Greensboro is 25 miles Southwest and Reidsville is 11 miles Southeast of the City. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 15.2 square miles. Eden was a 70, 000-acre estate owned by William Byrd II, the estate was originally called The Land of Eden. During the last years of his life, William Byrd II dreamed of bringing large numbers of Swiss Protestants to the Land of Eden and he envisioned an industrious, self-sufficient colony that would thrive on the abundance of the frontier. Byrds dream was not to be realized, Byrd died August 26,1744, as the Land of Eden began to be surrounded by the settlement of Scotch-Irish, whom Byrd had compared to the Goths and Vandals. Eden descended to William Byrd III, who shared none of his fathers dreams of colonization, young Byrd married Elizabeth Hill Carter in 1748. He sought to dispose of Eden to gain cash to support his grand lifestyle and he was finally successful on November 8,1755, when he sold 26,000 acres in North Carolina to two merchant brothers from the island of Antigua, Simon and Francis Farley. By this time, settlement was increasing at a considerable pace, the Farley brothers attempted to create plantations on some of the richest acres, but more frequently, settlers squatted on the land and built homesteads. Many later settlers migrating to the Dan River Area knew little of William Byrd and they were familiar with an old Indian village in the area near Town Creek and the Farley holdings. This location became the center of settlement, and the 26,000 acres came to be called the Sauratown tract, in 1775, James Parke Farley and his new bride moved from cosmopolitan Williamsburg, Virginia, to the Sauratown. Farley claimed that Sauratown was his, created new plantations, and he built a home overlooking the Dan River. Farley was also a member of the 3rd Provincial Congress that met at Hillsboro, in 1776, the family left the Sauratown, partly as a result of Elizabeth Farleys fathers suicide and perhaps also of her dislike of frontier life
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Graham, North Carolina
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Graham is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area, as of the 2010 census the population was 14,153. It is the county seat of Alamance County, Graham was laid out in 1849 as the county seat of the newly formed Alamance County, and was incorporated as a town in 1851, it became a city in 1961. It was named for William Alexander Graham, U. S. senator from North Carolina, the Alamance County Courthouse, Cedarock Park Historic District, Graham Historic District, William P. Morrow House, North Main Street Historic District, and Oneida Cotton Mills, Graham is located at 36°3′52″N 79°23′53″W. It is bordered to the north and the west by the city of Burlington, the Haw River runs along the east edge of Graham, and the city extends south as far as Alamance Creek. Interstate 85 runs through the city, leading east to Durham and west to Greensboro. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 9.7 square miles, of which 9.6 square miles is land and 0.077 square miles. The climate in this area is characterized by high temperatures. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Graham has a Humid subtropical climate, the local school system is known as the Alamance-Burlington School System, which was created by a merger between the Alamance County School System and the Burlington City School System in 1996. Local public schools in Graham include, Southern Alamance High School Graham Middle School Southern Middle School Alexander Wilson Elementary School B, as of the census of 2000, there were 12,833 people,5,241 households, and 3,385 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,579.3 people per square mile, there were 5,685 housing units at an average density of 699.6 per square mile. 30. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.91. In the city, the population was out with 24. 0% under the age of 18,9. 9% from 18 to 24,31. 8% from 25 to 44,20. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 90.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.4 males, the median income for a household in the city was $35,706, and the median income for a family was $40,769. Males had an income of $27,844 versus $22,163 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,865, about 11. 9% of families and 14. 9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19. 8% of those under age 18 and 14. 9% of those age 65 or over
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Kernersville, North Carolina
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Kernersville is a town in Forsyth County, in the U. S. state of North Carolina. A small portion of the town is also in Guilford County, the population was 23,123 at the 2010 census, up from 17,126 at the 2000 census. Kernersville is located at the center of the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area, flue-cured tobacco was the major crop grown in the area and is still grown in some areas today. Kernersville is located 10 miles east of Winston-Salem and 17 miles west of Greensboro, U. S. Route 421 is a four-lane freeway through the town, following the prior routing of Interstate 40 before that highway was moved to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 17.4 square miles, of which 17.3 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 23,123 people,7,286 households, the population density was 1,415.7 people per square mile. There were 7,950 housing units at a density of 657.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 84. 11% White,8. 74% African American,0. 32% Native American,1. 26% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,4. 33% from other races, and 1. 19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 36% of the population,30. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the family size was 2.88. In the town, the population was out with 23. 9% under the age of 18,9. 2% from 18 to 24,33. 8% from 25 to 44,22. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.4 males, the median income for a household in the town was $41,520, and the median income for a family was $52,266. Males had an income of $36,777 versus $26,873 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,506, about 6. 3% of families and 8. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11. 6% of those under age 18 and 11. 7% of those age 65 or over. The site was first settled by an Irishman named Jacob Story in 1756, around 1770 the site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobsons Crossroads. George Washington was served breakfast at Dobsons tavern on June 2,1791, Joseph Kerner bought the property in 1817, continuing to operate the inn, the town became known as Kerners Crossroads. Kerner left his property to two sons and a daughter, not long after the arrival of the railroad, the town was incorporated as Kernersville in 1873
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Lexington, North Carolina
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Lexington is the county seat of Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 18,931 and it is located in central North Carolina,20 miles south of Winston-Salem. Major highways include I-85, I-85B, U. S. Route 29, U. S. Route 70, U. S. Route 52, Lexington is part of the Piedmont Triad region of the state. Lexington, Thomasville, and the areas surrounding them are slowly developing as residential bedroom communities for nearby cities such as Winston-Salem, Greensboro. The Lexington area was at least sparsely settled by Europeans in 1775, the settlers named their community in honor of Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the first skirmish of the American Revolutionary War. Lexington was incorporated as a city in 1828, silver Hill Mine, located a few miles south of Lexington, opened in 1838, and was the first operating silver mine in the country. The oldest surviving house in Lexington is The Homestead, built by Dr. William Rainey Holt, the Homestead has windows, sidelights and other Palladian details characteristic of the pattern books of architect Asher Benjamin. The homes owner was a Pennsylvania-trained physician who practiced medicine after relocating to Davidson County, an ardent secessionist, Dr. Holt had three sons killed during military service for the Confederacy in the Civil War. His home was occupied by Union Army soldiers, following the war, Holt spent an increasing amount of time at his plantation Linwood, located southwest of Lexington, where he operated a scientific farm on his 1,600 acres. As president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, Holt was among the first to introduce purebred breeds of livestock to the state, in the twentieth century until the late 1990s, Lexingtons economy was mainly based on textile and furniture manufacturing. Since then, most local manufacturers have moved their facilities to Asia and Mexico as a way to reduce costs. This caused the closure of most textile and furniture factories and contributed to difficulties for a community that was heavily dependent on these two industries for employment. The Lexington industrial portfolio has since diversified, since 1984, the city has hosted the Lexington Barbecue Festival, one of the largest street festivals in North Carolina. As of 2003, the city has over twenty barbecue restaurants, in 2012, US News and World Report ranked Lexington as #4 on its list of the best cities for barbecue. Lexington-style barbecue is made with pork shoulder cooked slowly over a hardwood fire and it is basted in a sauce made with vinegar, ketchup, water, salt, pepper and other spices. The ingredients vary from restaurant to restaurant, with each recipe being a closely guarded secret. While each is based, the taste varies widely from tangy to slightly sweet or spicy. The most distinguishing feature of the Lexington Barbecue Sandwich is the inclusion of red slaw, red slaw is a combination of cabbage, vinegar, ketchup and crushed/ground black pepper
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Reidsville, North Carolina
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Reidsville is a city in Rockingham County, North Carolina. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 14,520. The American Tobacco Company was the mainstay of Reidsville economics until its sale, many textile mills were established in Reidsville as well, with Cone Mills and Burlington Industries consolidating most of them in the mid-20th century, although most have now closed. Reidsville is located at 36°2043 North, 79°4030 West, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.9 square miles, of which 13.4 square miles is land and 1.5 square miles is water. The total area is 10. 14% water and this outpost, called Wright’s Crossroads, was the earliest settlement in the present-day city and was overseen by Wright’s son, Nathan, and then Nathan Wright’s son-in-law, Robert Payne Richardson. Richardson’s home, built in 1842 on a knoll overlooking Little Troublesome Creek, Reuben Reid became a successful farmer, operated a store and a public inn maintained in a private home and served the county as a constable and justice of the peace. When the family secured a post office, aptly named Reidsville, in 1829 and he later became a State Senator, a U. S. Congressman, Governor of North Carolina and a U. S. Senator. On November 26,1858, William Lindsey of Pittsylvania County and he and his bride, Sarah Holderby, a daughter of Joseph Holderby of the northern part of the county, moved into the frame house Reuben Reid had built across from his store. It is now a landmark in Reidsville, the first frame house built in the village, Reidsville is located in east central Rockingham County. The Southern Railroad passes through the center of the city north to south. The town was incorporated in 1873 by the Legislature, Tobacco was a mainstay of the local economy for many years, with the history of the city tightly woven with that of American Tobacco Company. With the sale of American Tobacco in 1994, city leaders have diversified the economy and established Reidsville as a city that lives up to its motto. The Reidsville Chamber of Commerce, established in 1923 by business leaders in the community, is now located downtown, at the 2010 census, there were 14,520 people,6,013 households and 3,902 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,083.1 per square mile, there were 6,477 housing units at an average density of 484.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 57. 02% White,39. 52% African American,0. 21% Native American,0. 64% Asian,0. 06% Pacific Islander,1. 35% from other races, and 1. 19% from two or more races. 2. 63% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,31. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the family size was 2.92. 23. 4% of the population were under the age of 18,6. 8% from 18 to 24,28. 0% from 25 to 44,23. 0% from 45 to 64, the median age was 40 years
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Thomasville, North Carolina
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Thomasville is a city in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 26,757 at the 2010 census, the city is notable for its furniture industry, as are its neighbors High Point and Lexington. This Piedmont Triad community was established in 1852 and hosts the states oldest festival, built around the local railway system, Thomasville is home to the oldest railroad depot in the state, just a few hundred feet from the citys most notable landmark, The Big Chair. John Warwick Thomas was born June 27,1800, and by age 22 owned 384 acres in the Cedar Lodge area after marrying Mary Lambeth, by age 30 he was a state representative. In 1848 he became a state senator and he pushed to get a railroad built through Davidson County and even invested money. Knowing the railroad was coming, Thomas built the communitys first store in 1852 at present-day West Main and Salem streets, in 1855 the North Carolina Railroad was built through Davidson County, reaching Thomasville November 9. On January 8,1857, Thomasville was incorporated and occupied one square mile, in 1860 Thomasville had 308 people. After the Civil War the town had only 217 residents, but by 1880 the population was 450, long Bill Whiteheart may have been the first to make furniture, he made split-bottom chairs at home. Westmoreland also made chairs at home starting in 1866, and his factory on what became Randolph Street went up in 1879, the oldest plant still standing as of 1990 was that of Standard Chair, built in 1898. Other furniture companies were Lambeth Furniture, Thompson Chair, and Queen Chair Company, cramer Furniture was said to be the Souths second largest furniture company in 1901. Thomasville Chair, started in 1904, soon became the leading furniture manufacturer. By 1916,2,000 chairs a day were being made citywide, by 1909 Jewel Cotton Mills and Amazon Cotton Mills gave Thomasville another industry, textiles. Sellers Hosiery Mills of Burlington opened in 1913, and Thomasville Hosiery in 1916, Thomasville is commonly referred to as the Chair Town or Chair City, in reference to a 30-foot landmark replica of a Duncan Phyfe armchair that rests in the middle of the city. The original Big Chair was constructed in 1922 by the Thomasville Chair Company out of lumber, however, this chair was scrapped in 1936 after 15 years of exposure to the weather. In 1951, a concrete version of the chair was erected with the collaboration of local businesses and civic organizations. The Big Chair gained national attention in 1960 when then Presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson greeted supporters on the monument during a campaign whistle stop. Although larger ones have been built, many Thomasville residents still boast that the Big Chair between the two Main Streets is the Worlds Largest Chair, Thomasville is located in northeastern Davidson County at 35°53′9″N 80°4′38″W. It is bordered to the east by the city of Trinity in Randolph County
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Alamance County, North Carolina
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Alamance County /ˈæləmæns/ is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 151,131, formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east, Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events, textile manufacturing, and agriculture in North Carolina. Alamance County comprises the Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point. The 2012 estimated population of the area was 153,920. The paths later became the basis of the railroad and interstate highway routes, Great Alamance Creek, and in turn Little Alamance Creek, according to legend, were named after a local Native American word to describe the blue mud that was found at the bottom of the creeks. In the 1780s, the Occaneechi Native Americans returned to North Carolina from Virginia, during the early 19th century, the textile industry grew heavily in the area, and as such, the need for better transportation grew. By the 1840s several mills were set up along the Haw River and near Great Alamance Creek, between 1832 and 1880, there were at least 14 major mills powered by these rivers and streams. Mills were built by the Trollinger, Holt, Newlin, Swepson, one of the mills, built in 1832 by Ben Trollinger, is still in operation. It is owned by Copland Industries and sits in the community of Carolina and is the oldest continuously-operating mill in the state of North Carolina. One of the textiles produced in the area were the Alamance Plaids or Glencoe Plaids used in everything from clothing to tablecloths. The Alamance Plaids manufactured by textile pioneer Edwin M. Holt were the first colored cotton goods produced on power looms in the South, and paved the way for the regions textile boom. But by the late 20th century, most of the plants and mills had now gone out of business, including the mills operated by Burlington Industries, a company that was based in Burlington. By the 1840s, the industry was booming, and the railroad was being built through the area as a convenient link between Raleigh and Greensboro. The county was formed January 29,1849 from Orange County, in March,1861, Alamance County residents voted overwhelmingly against North Carolinas secession from the Union,1,114 to 254. At the time of the convention, around 30% of Alamance Countys population were slaves, overall, North Carolina was reluctant to join other Southern states in secession, the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1961 changed that. When Lincoln called up troops, Governor John Ellis replied, I can be no party to this violation of the laws of the country. You can get no troops from North Carolina, after a special legislative session, North Carolinas legislature unanimously voted in favor of secession on May 20,1861. No battles took place in the county itself, Alamance County sent its share of soldiers to the front lines
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Guilford County, North Carolina
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Guilford County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 488,406, since 1938, an additional county court has been located in High Point, North Carolina. The county was formed in 1771, Guilford County is included in the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Guilford County were a Siouan-speaking people called the Saura, beginning in the 1740s, settlers arrived in the region in search of fertile and affordable land. As population increased, the North Carolina colonial legislature organized the county in 1771, from parts of Rowan and it was named for Francis North, Earl of Guilford, father of Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. Friedens Church, whose name means peace in German, is in eastern Guilford County, at 6001 NC Hwy 61 North and it is a historic church established by some of the earliest European settlers in this area. According to a history, Rev. Friedens Church built a log structure in 1745. The second building, completed about 1771, was substantial and was used for a century. That third building was destroyed by fire on January 8,1939, the church was rebuilt and reopened in May 1939. The Quaker meeting also played a role in the European settlement of the county. Numerous Quakers still live in the county, New Garden Friends Meeting, established in 1754 and first affiliated with a Pennsylvania meeting, still operates in Greensboro. Alamance Presbyterian Church, a log structure, was built in 1762, the congregation was not officially organized until 1764 by the Rev. Henry Patillo, pastor of Hawfields Presbyterian Church. It has operated since then on the site in present-day Greensboro. According to the history, the congregation has built five churches on that site. On March 15,1781, during the American Revolution, the Battle of Guilford Court House was fought just north of present-day Greensboro between Generals Charles Cornwallis and Nathanael Greene and this battle marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South. His decision ultimately led to his later in 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, by a combined force of American. In 1779 the southern third of Guilford County was separated as Randolph County, in 1785, following the American Revolution, the northern half of its remaining territory was organized as Rockingham County. In 1808, Greensboro replaced the hamlet of Guilford Court House as the county seat and it was more centrally located, making it a better location for travelers of the time
