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  • officer, and a post-war judge for the state of South Carolina. ... until July 1781. He was one of three South Carolina signers captured ...
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  • better known as Mary Boykin Chesnut, was a South Carolina author noted for ... As the daughter of a governor and senator from South Carolina and ...
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  • Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia. It has a population ...
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  • *Schiappa, Edward. Protagoras and Logos. Columbia, SC: University ... A Complete Translation by Several Hands. Columbia, SC: University of South ...
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  • Chickasaw, who had slaves sided with the South and were the last Confederate ... Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Columbia Guide to the American Indians ...
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  • and well-known poet of the American South, and he is one of the most ... He returned from the front and settled in Columbia, South Carolina ...
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  • president, and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first ... quit school to manage the family farm in South Carolina. But he eventually ...
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  • an A.B. degree in 1896, and continued at Columbia University receiving her ... as a lecturer on sex roles and family at Columbia University. Her involvement ...
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  • York Records collection, residing at the Columbia University Rare Book and ... html Carnegie Libraries in South Carolina] Category:library and information ...
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  • and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the signing ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...
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  • the mountain resort town Asheville, North Carolina, the last born of a large ... go to school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he ...
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  • roles). He founded the University of the South. He was a strong defender ... Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806 to Sarah and William ...
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  • of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and the passage of a new ... the slave auctions in the District of Columbia, and enacting a harsh new ...
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  • politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South ...
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  • to help the Freedmen (freed slaves) in the South, including issuing rations ... against the ruling white classes of the South, including former slaveholders ...
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  • and dependable officer. Greensboro, North Carolina, the third-largest city ... in the selection of commanders in the South. It had chosen Robert Howe ...
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  • Percy joined Foote at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ... quite alienated from both worlds, the old South and the new America." ...
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  • South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... North Carolina, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina; received Nobel ...
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  • period, interested in re-building the South by ending the power of the ... to dominate the Democratic Party in the South. They rose to power by being ...
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  • Spain. His field trips into the American South in the thirties and forties ... interest in indigenous folk music of the South. The elder Lomax was the ...
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  • Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the younger brother of ... in turn the defenses of Wilmington, North Carolina, the Department of North ...
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  • New York, approximately 25 miles south of Albany, the state capital ... in the imbroglio between Jackson and South Carolina states rights advocate ...
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  • constitution writers from the Republic of South Africa. This resulted in ... a Culture of Peace" held in Seoul, South Korea. [http://www.pwpa ...
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  • Felix Adler graduated from Columbia University in 1870 and moved to ... chair of political and social ethics at Columbia University, which he held ...
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  • War. He was later stationed in Georgia and South Carolina. As the foster son ... He was particularly interested in targeting South Carolina, the first state ...
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  • John Birks Gillespie was born October 21, 1917, in Cheraw, South Carolina ... to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. However, he dropped out ...
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  • most important authors in the history of South American magic realism. Deeply ... * Standish, Peter. Understanding Julio Cortazar. Columbia, SC: University ...
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  • to establish the school of journalism at Columbia University and the prizes ... his yacht in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina on October 29, 1911 ...
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  • from the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. [http://www.carolinaarts.com/505colmusart2.html Homecoming of Artwork from the Vatican ...
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  • 1849. Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Polk lived most of his ... James Polk was born Pineville, North Carolina in 1795. He was the ...
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  • of 1850.The opposing sides in the North and South battled over slavery and ... would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would ...
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  • * Painter, John. Just James. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1997. ISBN 1570031746. * Schneemelcher, Wilhelm (ed.). New Testament Apocrypha: ...
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  • The American System was supported by both the North and the South ... 1826 the U.S. was invited to attend the Columbia Conference of new nations ...
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  • | South Carolina | 1948 |- | Fort Pulaski | Georgia | 1924 ... #039; Home National Monument--District of Columbia (managed by the non-profit ...
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  • part of today's province of British Columbia in Canada; Americans migrated ... 8 or 9 million). Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, who had approved ...
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  • electors allocated to the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.), totaling ... Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming—each ...
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  • Elias Spingarn, a Professor Emeritus of Columbia University. ... "At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina", May 1940. Photo by ...
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  • Hemisphere in Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries, and are ... occurs in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Michigan, New Jersey, and ...
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  • performing as a trio at a radio station in South Bend, Indiana, near Hammond ... The band's late 1940s recordings for Columbia are now widely recognized ...
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  • On August 19, 1998, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of South Africa ... Memorial Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. ...
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  • The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ... as chief judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Their mother also ...
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  • *Sprague, Rosamond Kent. "The Older Sophists." Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972. ISBN 0872205568. ==External links== ...
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  • Case were put to death in the District of Columbia jail electric chair. ... his execution method, was electrocuted in South Carolina in May, 2004. Brandon ...
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  • quot; in 1567 while traveling inland from South Carolina. European settlers ... attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, who used this spelling ...
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  • Thought, Culture, and Communication (Columbia, SC: University of South ... Boeing aircraft plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, President of the ...
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  • local races in 1845 and 1846 throughout the South, was the party’s failure ... proviso, but 22 northern Democrats voted with the South. ...
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  • site is gently sloping, from north-east to south-west. Fine landscape lies ... National Identity in Postcolonial India. Columbia, SC: University of South ...
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  • slaves. All slaves in the District of Columbia were freed in this way on ... an additional manpower resource that the South would not emulate until the ...
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  • President Washington. The District of Columbia commissioners were charged ... Hoban, an Irishman living in Charlestown, South Carolina. The briefness of ...
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  • planned worker community of Pullman on the South Side of Chicago. The industrialist ... Today, all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories have ...
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