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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Colonial America [r]: The eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. [e]
- Confederate States of America [r]: Government formed by eleven southern states of the United States between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War. [e]
Subtopics
Cities and towns
- Asheville, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charlotte, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Durham, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fayetteville, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Greensboro, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Raleigh, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politics and government
- E.g., the current Governor and U.S. Senators
Social, cultural, and educational
- To include 4 yr colleges and universities, also museums, zoos, etc
Industry and agriculture
- Principal crops and farming-related articles, industrial products, etc
Geographical and geological features
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Either native born or important in some way to the state
Federal
- Institutions and installations such as military (West Point), research facilities (Los Alamos), National Paks, Wilderness areas
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park [r]: Add brief definition or description
North Carolina state history
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Associated U.S. states
- E.g., in the same region (New England) or contiguous, or CSA states, etc
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
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- 2nd Marine Division [r]: An United States Marine Corps division, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina [e]
- Air Resources Laboratory [r]: A group within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that develops climate models, air quality models and models for dispersion, transformation and removal of atmospheric pollutants. [e]
- American Civil War [r]: Major war 1861-65 fought over slavery in which the U.S. defeated the secessionist Confederate States of America. [e]
- Barack Obama [r]: (1961–) 44th President of the United States of America (2009-) and a former Senator from Illinois. [e]
- Bedford Brown [r]: (1795 - 1870) A Democratic North Carolina and U.S. Senator. [e]
- Ben Tillman [r]: (1847 - 1918) Governor of South Carolina, from 1890 to 1894, and U.S. Senator, from 1895 until his death; known as the foremost spokesman for white supremacy. [e]
- Bicameral legislature [r]: A legislature divided into two deliberative bodies. [e]
- Brunswick County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carpetbagger [r]: American northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction after the American Civil War. [e]
- Cherokee language [r]: An Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system. [e]
- Confederation [r]: A sovereign nation formed by the joining together of other sovereign nations. [e]
- Coral snake [r]: Large group of elapid snakes most notable for their red, yellow, and black colored banding. [e]
- Declaration of Independence [r]: Document formally declaring the independence of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain, July 4, 1776. [e]
- Division (military) [r]: A regularly constituted military formation that combines infantry, artillery and cavalry. [e]
- DuPont State Forest [r]: A 10,400 acre forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains between Hendersonville and Brevard in western North Carolina. [e]
- Duplin County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fort Bragg [r]: A large U.S. Army base in North Carolina, with major resident units being the XVIII Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, Army Special Operations Command and the school and center for United States Army Special Forces [e]
- Georgia (U.S. state) [r]: One of the original 13 states of the USA [e]
- Ideal gas law [r]: Relates pressure, volume and temperature for hypothetical gases of atoms or molecules with negligible intermolecular forces. [e]
- In God We Trust [r]: National motto of the United States of America since 1956, appears on United States Federal Reserve bank notes and U.S. Treasury-issued coins. [e]
- Jarai language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jesse Helms [r]: (born 1921) A Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 1973-2003, and a leader in the conservative movement with special attention to race, morals, religion and foreign policy. [e]
- John McCain [r]: (1936–) Republican Senator from Arizona (1986–) and the Republican presidential candidate in 2008; ranking minority member, Senate Armed Services Committee; member ex officio, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction [e]
- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs [r]: (1821 - 1874) Presbyterian minister and African-American officeholder during Reconstruction. [e]
- Jones County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kinston Indians [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ku Klux Klan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lee R. Berger [r]: Anthropologist / archeologist noted for work on Australopithecus africanus and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis. [e]
- Lenoir County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Library Research Service [r]: The Library Research Service generates library statistics and research for library and education professionals, public officials, and the media. [e]
- Nathanael Greene [r]: A general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; he became one of George Washington's most trusted aides. [e]
- New Hanover County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North Carolina, History [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Onslow Beach [r]: In North Carolina, USA, primarily used as amphibious training grounds for the U.S. Marine Corps. [e]
- Onslow County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paratroop [r]: A subset of air assault military forces, which arrive at a tactical objective by deliberately parachuting from aircraft [e]
- Pender County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
- R.E.M. [r]: A rock and roll band, a mainstay on college radio throughout the 1980s, and in virtue of its increasing popularity into the 90s, became credited as one of the major forces in bringing alternative rock into some mainstream acceptance. [e]
- Reconstruction [r]: The attempt from 1865 to 1877 in American history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War. [e]
- Richard Armitage [r]: A U.S. foreign policy specialist, first a U.S. Navy officer in the Vietnam War, who rose to positions including Deputy Secretary of State in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration; board, International Crisis Group [e]
- Sam Ervin [r]: (1896-1985) North Carolina Senator best known for his role in the Watergate investigation. [e]
- Scallop (animal) [r]: A group of commercially fished, mobile, shellfish with a firm sweet flesh [e]
- Snakebite [r]: Wound resulting from penetration of the flesh by the fangs or teeth of a snake. [e]
- South Carolina [r]: A State in the South-eastern USA. [e]
- Tennessee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thirteen Colonies [r]: The historical region ranging from the present-day Canadian province of Quebec to the present-day state of Georgia which
comprised the thirteen British colonies in North America. [e]
- U.S. Constitution [r]: Document that states the fundamental constitutional law of the United States of America. [e]
- U.S. Democratic Party, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Demographic History [r]: Historic trends in population growth, geographical distribution by states and urban-rural, internal migration, and components of change (births, deaths, immigration), as well as race and ethnicity, and population policy as they relate to the United States. [e]
- U.S. Republican Party [r]: One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol [e]
- USS Betelgeuse (AKA-11) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII Arcturus-class attack cargo ship [e]
- Unified Combatant Command [r]: Operational line-of-commands for United States military groups. [e]
- United States Army Special Forces [r]: United States Army organization originally created to train and lead guerillas, highly qualified to work with other cultures; acquired additional missions including foreign internal defense, direct action (military), special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, etc. [e]
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [r]: Located in Richmond, Virginia, the intermediate Federal appellate court for the mid-Atlantic area of the United States [e]
- Virginia, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Woodrow Wilson [r]: 28th U.S. President (1913-1921); founded the Federal Reserve and brought his country to fight both the Mexicans in the Mexican Revolution and the Central Powers in World War One. [e]
- XVIII Airborne Corps [r]: A corps headquarters of the United States Army, long reserved for highly mobile strategic reserve operations but now deployed when the corps level of command is needed [e]
