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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Chapel Hill is a city in Orange County, North Carolina, and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care. The population was 57,233 at the 2010 census, Chapel Hill is the 15th-largest city in North Carolina. Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh. Chapel Hill is one of the cities of the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA. Chapel Hill sits atop a hill which was occupied by a small Anglican chapel of ease, built in 1752. The Carolina Inn now occupies the site of the original chapel, in 1819, the town was founded to serve the University of North Carolina and grew up around it. The town was chartered in 1851, and its main street, in 1968, only a year after its schools became fully integrated, Chapel Hill became the first predominantly white municipality in the South to elect an African American mayor, Howard Lee. Lee served from 1969 until 1975 and, among other things, helped establish Chapel Hill Transit, several hybrid and articulated buses have been added recently. All buses carry GPS transmitters to report their location in time to a tracking web site. Buses can transport bicycles and have wheelchair lifts, in 1993, the town celebrated its bicentennial, which resulted in the establishment of the Chapel Hill Museum. On February 10,2015, three students were killed in their home, Finley Forest Condominiums, next to the Friday Center for Continuing Education. Their next-door neighbor, Craig Stephen Hicks, was arrested by police, Chapel Hill is located in the southeast corner of Orange County. It is bounded on the west by the town of Carrboro, however, most of Chapel Hills borders are adjacent to unincorporated portions of Orange and Durham Counties rather than shared with another municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 21.3 square miles. Durham, North Carolina, is the core of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill MSA, the US Office of Management and Budget also includes Chapel Hill as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area, which has a population of 1,749,525 as of Census 2010. According to the 2010 U. S. Census,57,233 people in 20,564 households resided in Chapel Hill, the population density was 2,687 people per square mile. The racial composition of the town was 72. 8% White,9. 7% African American,0. 3% Native American,11. 9% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 7% some other race, and 2. 7% of two or more races. About 6. 4% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race, about 30. 6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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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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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Seating capacity
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Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats hundreds of thousands of people. The International Fire Code, portions of which have adopted by many jurisdictions, is directed more towards the use of a facility than the construction. It specifies, For areas having fixed seating without dividing arms and it also requires that every public venue submit a detailed site plan to the local fire code official, including details of the means of egress, seating capacity, arrangement of the seating. Once safety considerations have been satisfied, determinations of seating capacity turn on the size of the venue. For sports venues, the decision on maximum seating capacity is determined by several factors, chief among these are the primary sports program and the size of the market area. Seating capacity of venues also plays a role in what media they are able to provide, in contracting to permit performers to use a theatre or other performing space, the seating capacity of the performance facility must be disclosed. Seating capacity may influence the kind of contract to be used, the seating capacity must also be disclosed to the copyright owner in seeking a license for the copyrighted work to be performed in that venue. Venues that may be leased for private functions such as ballrooms and auditoriums generally advertise their seating capacity, seating capacity is also an important consideration in the construction and use of sports venues such as stadiums and arenas. The seating capacity for restaurants is reported as covers, a restaurant that can seat 99 is said to have 99 covers, seating capacity differs from total capacity, which describes the total number of people who can fit in a venue or in a vehicle either sitting or standing. Use of the term public capacity indicates that a venue is allowed to more people than it can actually seat. Again, the total number of people can refer to either the physical space available or limitations set by law
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It is one of the 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system, the first public institution of higher education in North Carolina, the school opened its doors to students on February 12,1795. The university offers degrees in over 70 courses of study through fourteen colleges, in 1952, North Carolina opened its own hospital, UNC Health Care, for research and treatment, and has since specialized in cancer care. The schools students, alumni, and sports teams are known as Tar Heels, the campus covers 729 acres of Chapel Hills downtown area, encompassing the Morehead Planetarium and the many stores and shops located on Franklin Street. Students can participate in over 550 officially recognized student organizations, the student-run newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the worlds first internet radio broadcast. North Carolina is one of the members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Competing athletically as the Tar Heels, North Carolina has achieved success in sports, most notably in mens basketball, womens soccer. As a result, Womans College was renamed the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1955, UNC Chapel Hill officially desegregated its undergraduate divisions. During World War II, UNC Chapel Hill was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission, during the 1960s, the campus was the location of significant political protest. Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations, the climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 Speaker Ban Law prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina. The law was criticized by university Chancellor William Brantley Aycock and university President William Friday. A group of UNC Chapel Hill students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, filed a lawsuit in U. S. federal court, and on February 20,1968, the Speaker Ban Law was struck down. From the late 1990s and onward, UNC Chapel Hill expanded rapidly with a 15% increase in student population to more than 28,000 by 2007. Professor Oliver Smithies was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics, additionally, Aziz Sancar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work in understanding the molecular repair mechanisms of DNA. The current chancellor is Carol Folt, the first woman to hold the post, UNC Chapel Hills 729-acre campus is dominated by two central quads, Polk Place and McCorkle Place. Adjacent to Polk Place is a sunken brick courtyard known as the Pit where students will gather, the Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls the quarter-hour. In 1999, UNC Chapel Hill was one of sixteen recipients of the American Society of Landscape Architects Medallion Awards and was identified as one of 50 college or university works of art by T. A, gaines in his book The Campus as a Work of Art. The universitys campus is divided into three regions, usually referred to as north campus, middle campus, and south campus
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North Carolina Tar Heels
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The North Carolina Tar Heels are the athletic teams representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The name Tar Heel is a used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina. Since the school fostered the oldest collegiate team in the Carolinas, the Tar Heels are also referred to as North Carolina, UNC, or The Heels. The mascot of the Tar Heels is Rameses, a Dorset Ram, Carolina has won 43 NCAA Division I team national championships in seven different sports, ninth all-time, and 52 individual national championships. They also appeared in the College World Series in 1960,1966,1978,1989,2008,2009,2011 and 2013, Carolina has enjoyed long success as one of the top basketball programs in the country. Overall, the Tar Heels have won six NCAA National Championships and were awarded one for the 1923–24 season by the Helms Foundation. Under coach Frank McGuire, the team won its 1st NCAA championship in 1957, after McGuire left, legendary coach Dean Smith established the team as a powerhouse in college basketball. In 31 years at Carolina, Smith set the record for the most wins of any college basketball head coach. Under Smith, the Tar Heels won two championships and had numerous talented players come through the program. Smith is also credited with coming up with the four corners offense, more recently, the Tar Heels won the national championship in 2005,2009, and 2017 under coach Roy Williams. Ward also won the British Amateur in 1952 and the U. S. Amateur in 1955 and 1956, the teams best finish was second place in 1953 and 1991. Tar Heel golfers who have had success at the professional level include Davis Love III, under Lam, the Tar Heels were a consistent top 25 NCAA team. Lam led the Tar Heels to 15 ACC tournament titles in addition to being named ACC coach of the year 10 times, following the Lam era, Mock was named ACC Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2006 in addition to claiming two ACC team titles. In 2015, Mock was fired as head wrestling coach and he was shortly replaced by Olympic bronze medalist and Oklahoma State University graduate Coleman Scott. The Tar Heel wrestling program boasts many ACC champions, All-Americans, koll is now the head coach at Cornell University where he has led the program to new heights with multiple top 10 NCAA finishes. Fisher,1998 ACC champion and Most Outstanding wrestler, who went on to become a wrestler on the international stage where he was as high as second on the United States Olympic latter. Fisher also went on to become a coach for multiple Division 1 wrestling programs including Iowa State. They also took 6th in 1995, carmichael Arena is currently the home to the Tar Heels Wrestling team located centrally on campus
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North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
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The North Carolina Tar Heels mens basketball program is the intercollegiate mens basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolinas six NCAA Tournament Championships are third-most all-time, behind UCLA, the program has produced many notable players who went on to play in the NBA, including three of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Many Tar Heel assistant coaches have gone on to head coaches elsewhere. From the Tar Heels first season in 1910–11 through the 2016–17 season, the Tar Heels also have the most consecutive 20-win seasons with 31 seasons from the 1970–71 season through the 2000–2001 season. On March 2,2010, North Carolina became the college basketball program to reach 2,000 wins in its history. The Tar Heels are currently ranked 3rd all time in wins trailing Kentucky by 33 games, the Tar Heels are one of only four Division I Mens Basketball programs to have ever achieved 2,000 victories. Kentucky, Kansas, and Duke are the other three, Carolina has played 160 games in the NCAA tournament. The Tar Heels have appeared in the NCAA Tournament Championship Game 11 times, the Tar Heels have made it into the NCAA tournament 45 times, and have amassed 116 victories. North Carolina also won the National Invitation Tournament in 1971, additionally, the team has been the number one seed in the NCAA Tournament 16 times, the latest being in 2017. North Carolina has ended the season ranked in the Top-25 of the AP Poll 43 times, further, the Tar Heels have finished the season ranked #1 in the AP Poll 5 times and ranked #1 in Coaches Poll 5 times. In 2008, the Tar Heels received the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of either the Coaches Poll or the AP Poll, in 2012, ESPN ranked North Carolina #1 on its list of the 50 most successful programs of the past 50 years. North Carolina played its first basketball game on January 27,1910, in 1921, the school joined the Southern Conference. The 1924 Tar Heels squad went 26–0, and was awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1943. Overall, the Tar Heels played 32 seasons in the Southern Conference from 1921 to 1953, during that period they won 304 games and lost 111 for a winning percentage of 73. 3%. The Tar Heels won the Southern Conference regular season 9 times, in 1953, North Carolina split from the Southern Conference and became a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The title game was the triple overtime final game in championship history. In 1960, the Tar Heels were placed on NCAA probation for improper recruiting entertainment of basketball prospects, as a result, they were barred from the 1961 NCAA tournament and also withdrew from the 1961 ACC Tournament. Following the season, Chancellor William Aycock forced McGuire to resign, as a replacement, Aycock selected one of McGuires assistants, Kansas alumnus Dean Smith
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Carmichael Arena
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William Donald Carmichael, Jr. Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels womens basketball team, the arena opened in 1965 as Carmichael Auditorium. It is named for William Donald Carmichael, Jr. a popular former school vice-president, although it was apparent by the early 1960s that the mens basketball team needed a new home to replace 27-year-old Woollen Gymnasium, the state refused to fund a completely new arena. As a result, Carmichael was built as an annex to Woollen and it originally seated just over 8,000 people, but expansions over the years brought its final capacity to 10,180 by the time the men left for the Dean Smith Center in 1986. After the most recent remodeling completed in 2009, capacity is 8,010, Carmichael was known as one of the loudest arenas in the country while the Tar Heel men played there, largely because of a low roof and a student section that ringed the court. During a 1982 game against the Virginia Cavaliers, it was so loud that the Virginia players could not even hear their own names being announced prior to the start of the game. In part due to this formidable home court advantage, the men had a record of 169-20 in just over 20 seasons there, coincidentally, Dean Smith was the Tar Heels coach for their entire tenure in Carmichael. The Tar Heels won their second NCAA title in 1981-82, while playing at the arena, a new floor was installed in 1998, after a roof fire that occurred in February during renovations. The arena was completely remodeled beginning in spring 2008, and the team joined the men in the Smith Center until completion in December 2009. The facility was officially renamed Carmichael Arena during the teams matchup against rival Duke on February 28,2010. The mens team played their first round game of the 2010 National Invitation Tournament at Carmichael because renovations were taking place at the Smith Center. On March 16,2010, they defeated William & Mary in their first official game at Carmichael in 24 years, coincidentally, William & Mary was the first-ever opponent for the mens basketball team in Carmichael Arena in 1965. The arena hosted a speech by President Barack Obama on April 24,2012, Carmichael Arena page on University of North Carolina Athletics website
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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Bynum Gymnasium
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Bynum Gymnasium was the first home of North Carolina Tar Heels mens basketball. It was built in 1904 as a gymnasium and swimming pool. The most distinctive feature of the gymnasium was its second running track suspended above the court. No longer needed for its purpose after Woollen Gymnasium was built. As of 2008, it is the Graduate Admissions Office
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Dean Smith Center
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The Dean Smith Center is a multi-purpose arena in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The arena is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels mens basketball team, opened in 1986, it is the fourth-largest college basketball arena in the United States. The arena is named after former North Carolina mens basketball coach Dean Smith, who coached the team from 1961 to 1997. Smith coached the last 11.5 years of his career in the arena, in the years prior to opening the Smith Center, UNC basketball played its home games in Carmichael Auditorium. Although Carmichael was fairly new, having opened in 1965, basketballs popularity overwhelmed the 10, 180-seat facility, as early as 1979, talks began for a new arena. With the hope of accommodating every fan who would want to attend a game, money was raised entirely from private donations, using neither university funding nor taxes. The site chosen for the arena was a ravine south of the main campus. On the first day of construction, contractors were banned from wearing Duke or N. C, State apparel on the job site. The first game at the new arena featured the #1 Tar Heels against the #3 Duke Blue Devils on January 18,1986. Mark Alarie of Duke scored the first basket, but Warren Martin soon followed with the first Tar Heel basket in the new arena, North Carolina ended up defeating Duke 95–92. The structure is notable for being a hybrid dome, a braced fabric dome forms the central area of the roof, while the surrounding area is a standard metal deck roof. The 13, 000-sq-ft dome acts as a skylight during the day, structural engineering was performed by David Geiger Associates. The seating bowl has a basic 2-level structure, with a ring formed from the front rows of the upper deck. Like most arenas of its era, the Smith Center does not have luxury boxes or separate club areas, unlike multipurpose arenas where the seats must be arranged to accommodate an ice hockey rink, the seat layout at the Smith Center is designed specifically for basketball. Seating rows begin right at the sides of the court. According to architect Glenn Corley of Corley Redfoot Zack, it was a challenge to both have fans feel close to the court and ensure unobstructed views from all angles, seating adjustments brought capacity to 21,572 in 1992. Capacity rose again to 21,750 when a standing-room-only courtside area was installed for students, the largest crowd to see a game in the Dean Dome was on March 6,2005, when 22,125 fans saw the Tar Heels win 75–73 against Duke. Major renovations have been discussed for the arena, which is now three decades old, but reconstruction would be both financially and structurally
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Rameses (mascot)
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Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. Three versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events, the origin of a ram as North Carolinas mascot dates back to 1924. In 1922, the fullback, Jack Merritt, was given the nickname the battering ram for his performance on the field. Vic Huggins, North Carolinas head cheerleader at the time, suggested the idea of a ram mascot to the business manager, Charles T. Woollen. Charles gave Vic $25 to purchase a ram, Rameses the First was shipped from Texas, just in time for the pep rally. The first appearance of Rameses was at a pep rally before the game against Virginia Military Institute on November 8,1924. After the pep rally the ram was taken to Emerson Field, through three quarters the game was scoreless. Late in the fourth quarter Bunn Hackney was called out to attempt a field goal, before stepping out on the field he rubbed Rameses head. Just a few seconds later Hackney kicked a 30-yard field goal that won the game for the Tar Heels. Rameses has been a fixture on the sidelines at UNC football games ever since, the current Rameses ram is under the care of the Hogan family of Chapel Hill. The origin of the version of Rameses dates back to the 1987-88 season. Auditions were held and a senior, Eric Chilton from Mount Airy, since auditions were held in the middle of the school year he only served for half a year and only showed up in a few basketball games in early 1988. The costume was made locally and looked different than the one used now, in October 2015, Rameses Jr. debuted as a second costumed Tar Heel mascot. Most notably, Rameses Jr. or RJ, has eyes and horns. On the evening of October 26,2015, a new Tar Heel mascot made a debut during a session of Late Night with Roy in the Smith Center auditorium. Rameses Jr. is notable for having a muscular appearance, less stern face, blue eyes and horns. In February 1996, Rameses XXIII was killed in his pasture at the Hogan farm, an attacker slashed the rams throat and cut off its left front leg, stabbing it as many as 10 times along its chest and neck. State veterinarians stated that the slash to its throat was most likely the fatal wound, police later charged 26-year-old Scott Wade, who was drunk at the time of the slaying and had stumbled into the field
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The Marching Tar Heels
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The Marching Tar Heels is the athletics pep band for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Known as The Pride of the ACC, the Marching Tar Heels is one of the largest organizations at UNC with over 275 students, the band plays at all home football games as well as travels to away games, usually as a small pep band. However, the band travels to one away football game each year. The UNC band was formed in 1903 and had their first performance at a UNC baseball game in 1904, the band first started traveling to away athletic events in 1905. The band continues to play for multiple sports including mens and womens soccer, volleyball, mens and womens lacrosse, womens basketball, the band also divides into two smaller bands and plays at all mens basketball home games, as well as sending a pep band to tournament games. The band is currently under the direction of Jeffrey Fuchs, several traditions have amassed over the years which include, The Blue and White Warm-Up Chorale is played before every rehearsal and performance of the Marching Tar Heels. It was written by band members, Joshua Potter and Ryan Ripperton. On football gameday, it has become tradition for the drumline to warm-up before joining the rest of the band for the march to the stadium, the drumline goes through warm-ups, show music, and cadences. It has become a favorite, attracting large crowds at Tar Heel Town. Also on football gameday, the trumpets and tubas perform Carolina Victory on the steps of Dey Hall one hour, directly before the march to Kenan Stadium, the band has a throwdown about that days opponent. Seniors re-write the words to the cadence of I dont know, but Ive been told. The march to the stadium is a route that begins in front of Wilson Library. During the march, the drumline plays through their cadences as the rest of the band does choreographed dances to each cadence and it has become tradition that the drumline finish each rehearsal with a final beat of each drum in unison. The drum captain gives 4 clicks on his rim and the rest of the drumline responds with a beat and it is meant to be a final period to the end of rehearsal. It is come to be called a Silent Sam, named after the statue the drumline practices around at the beginning of each marching season, the drum beat is also meant to represent Silent Sams gun going off. After the football team makes a stop on 3rd down. The Marching Tar Heels regularly play these songs at athletic events, hark The Sound Im a Tar Heel Born Here Comes Carolina Carolina Victory UNC Vamp Carolina in My Mind Sweet Caroline Aye. Zigga Zoomba Other songs that may be heard on gameday by the Marching Tar Heels are as follows, phantom The Imperial March 4-C Paint It, Black Neck Raise Up Iron Man Pirates The Marching Tar Heels have covered many different genres of music during their halftime performances
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North Carolina Tar Heels junior varsity basketball
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Tryouts for the J. V. team occur every year prior to the beginning of basketball season in October. Players are only allowed to play on the J. V. team for two years and then they are given a chance to try out for the North Carolina Tar Heels Mens Basketball Team as a walk-on. With a valid physical any student that attends the University can try out for the J. V. team, the Junior Varsity team is coached by assistant varsity coaches who are given the opportunity to gain head coaching experience while still fulfilling their assistant duties on the varsity levels. C. B. McGrath and Hubert Davis, two assistants for the Varsity team, alternate every year as the Head Coach of the J. V. team. The J. V. team originated as a team when scholarship freshmen were not allowed to play their first year as a student per NCAA rules. The Junior Varsity team plays all of their games in the Dean Smith Center three hours before the Varsity games take place, the schedule consists of between 14 and 18 regular season games. The J. V. team plays against area Division II and Division III teams as well as colleges, prep schools. No other Mens Basketball programs in the Atlantic Coast Conference field a JV team, the game is played per NCAA rules. The biggest rivals for the J. V. team are Hargrave Military Academy, there is no NCAA Tournament or National Invitational Tournament for the J. V. Team. They only play regular season games, roy Williams, head coach of the Mens Varsity Basketball team at the University of North Carolina, coached the J. V. team for 8 years when he was serving as an assistant for Dean Smith. Phil Ford, the leading scorer in North Carolina history. The current Head Coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team, Mike Fox, the current special assistant for the Gonzaga Bulldogs mens basketball team, Doug Wojcik, also served a stint as the J. V. Coach. Three of the walk-ons for the 2008–2009 National Championship team, J. B, tanner, Jack Wooten, and Patrick Moody, were all graduates of the J. V. program
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Dixie Classic (basketball tournament)
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The Dixie Classic was an annual college basketball tournament played from 1949 to 1960 in Reynolds Coliseum. North Carolina State head coach Everett Case originated the idea of the Classic and his assistant, Carl Butter Anderson provided the name. The tournament was played over a period every December, just after Christmas. The Classic consisted of three rounds, in the first round the four North Carolina schools would each play a visiting team. The winners of the first round game would advance in the winners bracket, each day would have four games played until the third and final day when a champion would be crowned. No team from outside North Carolina ever won the Classic, the tournament came to an end after a point-shaving scandal in 1961 involving players from both North Carolina State and North Carolina. In 2011 The Classic, How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South by Bethany Bradsher was published telling the story of the Dixie Classic, all games played at Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina. Retrospective on Dixe Classic by News and Observer The Classic, How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South by Bethany Bradsher
