North Carolina

Small towns/areas with interesting names:. Despite their league worst-record, though, the Hawks only landed the number two pick in the 2005 NBA Draft (the first pick went to the Milwaukee Bucks.). The three largest Protestant denominations in North Carolina are: Baptist (47% of the total state population), Methodist (13%), Presbyterian (4%). In the 2004-2005 season the Hawks gained the notorious reputation of the league's worst team with a mere 13 victories. The religious affiliations of the citizens of North Carolina are:. After the change in ownership, though, the Hawks still struggled. Females made up approximately 51% of the population. In September 2003 the team was sold to a group of executives [1] (http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/business.bg?articleid=262&format=text) by Time Warner, along with the Atlanta Thrashers pro ice hockey team, with which the Hawks share the arena.

6.7% of North Carolina's population were reported as under 5, 24.4% under 18, and 12.0% were 65 or older. However, in recent years the Hawks team has struggled, yet again becoming one of the league's worst teams. The 5 largest ancestry groups in North Carolina are African American (21.6%), American (13.9%), English (9.5%), German (9.5%), Irish (7.4%). In the 1993- 1994 season coach Wilkens led the team to 57 victories, a team record, and in 1995 Wilkens broke the record (previously held by former Hawk coach Red Auerbach) for most victories by an NBA head coach with victory number 939. The racial makeup of the state is:. In 1993, Lenny Wilkens was hired as coach. Census Bureau, as of 2003, North Carolina's population was estimated at 8,407,248 people. However, the team could not advance past the semifinals of the playoffs.

According to the U.S. In 1982 the franchise acquired superstar Dominique Wilkins, and in the next four seasons the team had more than 50 victories each season. Some of the film/telelvision credits filmed there include: Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Cape Fear, Maximum Overdrive, and The Crow. In 1979 the Hawks team finished with 50 wins and won the Central Division. Movie Studios are located in Shelby, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and the most popular, EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. In 1977 Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner bought the team and hired Hubie Brown to become head coach. North Carolina is also the largest film making state outside of California. However, after this period of success, the Hawks experienced a few years of rebuilding; the Hawks had all losing records in those years and never advanced past the first round of the playoffs.

Charlotte, the largest city in the state, is also the nation's largest banking presence outside of New York City. The following years after the move showcased a talented Hawks team, including Pete Maravich, which won a division championship and advanced to the Finals yet again. Its industrial outputs are tobacco products, textile goods, chemical products, electric equipment, machinery, and tourism. In 1968, however, with new owners Thomas Cousins and Carl Sanders, the team moved to Atlanta, Georgia. North Carolina's agricultural outputs are poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle, and soybeans. The next few years the Hawks remained contenders, every year advancing deep into the playoffs and also capturing several division titles. Its 2003 Per Capita Personal Income was $28,071, 38^th in the nation. The following year, with the acquisition of rookie Lenny Wilkens, the Hawks repeated their success, but met the Celtics in the Finals again and lost in five games.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2003 total gross state product was $314 billion. In 1960, under coach Ed Macauley, the team advanced to the Finals yet again, but lost- again- to the Celtics in yet another game seven thriller. These regions are roughly divided by their elevation, with the Coastal Plain extending to areas below 400 feet above sea level; the Piedmont encompassing those areas between 400 and 1,500 feet; and the Mountain region referring to areas from 1,500 feet to the highest Appalachian peaks at more than 6,000 feet. The Hawks remained one the NBA's premier teams for the next decade. Major geographic features include the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west, the Piedmont region of the central portion of the state, the Coastal Plain, and Cape Fear, Cape Hatteras, and the Outer Banks off the eastern coast. In 1958, the Hawks again advanced to the NBA Finals under coach Alex Hannum and captured their only NBA Championship in game 6 against the Celtics. The area embraced within its boundaries is fifty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-six square miles (135,000 kmē). In 1957, the team advanced to the NBA Finals, losing to the Boston Celtics in a double-overtime thriller in game seven.

Its mean breadth from north to south is about one hundred miles (160 km); its extreme breadth is one hundred and eighty-eight miles (303 km). The extreme length of the State from east to west is five hundred miles (800 km). With acquisitions in the draft and free agency, the Hawks became of the league's top teams. Its western boundary is the crest of the Smoky Mountains, which, with the Blue Ridge, forms a part of the great Appalachian system, extending almost from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico; its eastern is the Atlantic Ocean. Louis, Missouri. The State of North Carolina is included between the parallels 34° and 36°30' north latitude, and between the meridians 75°30' and 84°30' west longitude. Despite this, the Hawks were one the league's worst teams, and in 1955 the Hawks moved yet again, this time to St. See also List of North Carolina counties; List of cities in North Carolina; List of unincorporated communities in North Carolina. In 1953, the Hawks drafted Bob Pettit, a future NBA MVP.

Main article: Geography of North Carolina. In 1951, however, the franchise relocated to Milwaukee and became the Hawks. Source: [North Carolina Court System official site (http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/Default.asp)]. Led by coach Red Auerbach, the Blackhawks had a successful year. In civil cases, the magistrate is authorized to try small claims involving up to $4,000 including landlord eviction cases. When the NBL merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA, the Blackhawks reached the playoffs in the NBA's inaugural year. Magistrates accept guilty pleas for minor misdemeanors, accept guilty pleas for traffic violations and accept waivers of trial for worthless-check cases among other things. The franchise was formed in 1946 as the Tri-City Blackhawks of the National Basketball League; it was based in the tri-city area between Moline, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.

The District Court also hears juvenile cases involving children under the age of 16 who are delinquent and children under the age of 18 who are undisciplined, dependent, neglected or abused. The Atlanta Hawks are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The trial of a criminal case in District Court is always without a jury. Lenny Wilkens. Civil cases such as divorce, custody, child support and cases involving less than $10,000 are heard in District Court, along with criminal cases involving misdemeanors and infractions. Josh Smith. In the civil cases, juries are often waived. 23 Lou Hudson.

A jury of 12 hears the criminal cases. 21 Dominique Wilkins. All felony criminal cases, civil cases involving more than $10,000 and misdemeanor and infraction appeals from District Court are tried in Superior Court. 9 Bob Pettit. The Trial division includes the Superior Court and the District Court. Spud Webb. Together, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals constitute the Appellate division of the court system. Hubie Brown (coach).

the North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state; it consists of fifteen judges who rule in rotating panels of three. Mookie Blaylock. The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court; it numbers seven justices. Stacey Augmon. The prior term's power sharing Co-Speaker arrangement is no longer in effect, as the House Democrats won a decided victory and majority of the seats in the 2004 election. Bob Pettit. Black. Pete Maravich.

For the 2003-2004 session, the current President Pro Tempore is Democrat Marc Basnight; The House Speaker is Democrat James B. Cliff Hagan. The North Carolina General Assembly consists of two houses, a 50-member Senate and a 120-member House of Representatives. Walt Bellamy. See List of North Carolina Governors. The state's current governor is Democrat Mike Easley.

The governor, lieutenant governor, and eight elected department heads form the North Carolina Council of State; Ten other department heads appointed by the Governor form the North Carolina Cabinet. senators are Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, both Republicans. Its two U.S. The capital of North Carolina is Raleigh and its governor is Mike Easley, a Democrat.

North Carolina has had three constitutions:. Recently, technology has become a driving force in the state, especially with the creation of the Research Triangle Park between Raleigh and Durham in the 1950's. Tobacco, one of North Carolina's earliest sources of revenue, remains vital to the local economy. The state's industrial output--mainly textiles, chemicals, electrical equipment, paper and paper products--ranked eighth in the nation in the early 1990s.

Over the past century, North Carolina has grown to become a leader in agriculture and industry. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, but the final surrender in North Carolina came at Waynesville in Western North Carolina in May, when remnants of Thomas' Cherokee Legion laid down their arms. Johnston surrendered one of the largest Confederate armies near Durham in late April 1865, weeks after Gen. Gen.

Sherman's advance into the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. Joseph Johnston to slow Union Gen. The largest battle that occurred in North Carolina was at Bentonville, a futile attempt by Confederate Gen. Although few major engagements took place in North Carolina itself, her troops served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dead of battlefield wounds, disease and privation. Governor Ellis, leader of the state at the war's beginning in 1861, famously declared in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops to suppress the "rebellion" that "you can get no troops from North Carolina." However, under his leadership and that of his successor, Governor Zebulon Baird Vance of Asheville, elected in 1862, the Tar Heel State did provide 125,000 troops to the Confederacy, more than any other Confederate state. Somewhat divided on whether to support the North or the South in the Civil War, North Carolina was the last state to secede from the Union in 1861. There were also about 30,000 free blacks residing in the state.

In 1860 North Carolina was a slave state with a population of slightly less than 1 million, approximately one-third of whom were enslaved. In mid-century the state's rural and commercial areas were further connected by construction of a 129 mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer's railroad," from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston-Salem). In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. Between the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War, North Carolina worked to establish its state and local governments.

On November 21, 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in the Union. It reverted to a royal colony seventeen years later. In April 1776, the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British crown. In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. By the late seventeenth century, several permanent settlements had taken hold in the Carolina territory, which encompassed present-day South Carolina and Tennessee as well.

The demise of one, the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island, remains one of the great mysteries of American history. Dare County is named for her. Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born stateside, was born in North Carolina. Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, chartered two colonies on the North Carolina coast in the late 1580s, both ending in failure.

Originally inhabited by a number of native tribes, including the Cherokee, North Carolina was the first American territory the English attempted to colonize. The USS North Carolina was named in honor of this state. It is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east. North Carolina is a southern state in the United States. North Carolina is one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.

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Rockfish, North Carolina (in Hoke County). Frying Pan Landing, North Carolina (in Tyrrell County). Rich Square, North Carolina (in Northampton County). Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina (in Dare County).

Soul City, North Carolina (in Warren County). Lizard Lick, North Carolina (in Wake County, near Raleigh). Climax, North Carolina (in Guilford County, near Greensboro). Non-Religious 5%.

Other Religions 1%. Other Christian 2%. Roman Catholic 6%. Protestant 83%.

1.3% mixed race. 1.2% American Indian. 1.4% Asian. 4.7% Hispanic.

21.6% Black. 70.2% White Non-Hispanic. 1971: This is a minor consolidation of the 1868 constitution and subsequent amendments. It was a major reorganization and modification of the original into fourteen articles.

1868: This was framed in accordance with the Reconstruction Acts after North Carolina was readmitted into the Union. The Declaration of Rights was ratified the preceding day. 1776: This one was ratified December 18, 1776, as the first constitution of the independent state.