Stately Knowledge: North Carolina: Just the Facts

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Just the Facts:

Capital: Raleigh
Population: 8,049,313
Governor: Michael F. Easley (D, to January 2005)
Entered the Union: November 21, 1789
As the: 12th state
Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)
Nickname: Tar Heel State
Flower: Dogwood
Bird: Cardinal
Song: The Old North State
Sports Teams: Charlotte Hornets (Basketball) and Carolina Panthers (Football)
Origin of Name: In honor of Charles I of England
Major Industries: furniture, tobacco, brick, textile products, metalworking, chemicals, paper, tobacco, corn, cotton, hay, peanuts, truck and vegetable crops, mica and lithium
Historical Sites: The Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, Guilford Courthouse and Moores Creek National Military Parks, Carl Sandburg's home near Hendersonville, and the Old Salem Restoration in Winston-Salem.
Points of Interest: The Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge National Parkway, and the Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National Seashores.
Bordering States: Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia
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Encyclopedias and Almanacs

Follow these links to read articles about North Carolina from Encyclopedias and Almanacs:

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia

Columbia Encyclopedia

Information Please Almanac

Other Helpful links:

North Carolina's Official State Homepage (http://www.sips.state.nc.us/)
Includes information about the state government and different state agencies.

North Carolina Encylopedia (http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/cover.htm)
Created by the North Carolina State Library, this is a fact filled overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of North Carolina. Includes a page on state symbols, with pictures!

North Carolina on the Web (http://www.nando.net/nao/go/nit/ncweb.html)
Billed as an "annotated guide to Tar Heel sites", this is a great place to find decriptions of all kinds of links to North Carolina web pages. An excellent one stop shopping site.

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