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Amazing North Carolina: Fascinating Facts, Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, and Historical Oddities about the Tarheel State

By Theresa Jensen Lacey

Book information

Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Year
2002
ISBN
9781418538408, 1558539654, 2002153074
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2675147 bytes)
Series
Amazing America
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-05 02:02:51
History; Juvenile Nonfiction; Geography; JNF038000

Description

Amazing North Carolina offers a rare glimpse into unusual and sometimes bizarre people and events in North Carolina's 200–year history. Reading like the Tarheel State's own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, this book explores hundreds of incredible stories, facts, and tidbits of human interest. It contains pictures, quizzes, trivia, stories, sidebars, lists, and more. Read about...How Lizard Lick, Cat's Square, Boogertown, and Rabbit Shuffle got their namesRobert Null, who invented a UFO detectorThe Civil War battle where the Confederates fought without clothes onChang and Eng, the original "Siamese twins" who settled in Wilkesboro and married local sisters Sarah and Adelaide YatesThe strange story of Goat–Gland Binkley, who operated in North Carolina 75 years before ViagraThe annual Bald is Beautiful convention in Morehead CityThe world's largest twins (at 800 pounds each)The road that goes nowhereSenate Bean Soup, the secret of Jesse Helms' longevity (recipe included)

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