North Carolina

Small towns/areas with interesting names:. The Bucks, therefore, will pick first in the 2005 NBA Draft. The three largest Protestant denominations in North Carolina are: Baptist (47% of the total state population), Methodist (13%), Presbyterian (4%). However, in the NBA Draft Lottery, the Bucks landed the first pick, even though they only had a 6 percent chance of landing the first pick. The religious affiliations of the citizens of North Carolina are:. In the 2004-2005 season, with injury problems and a poor defense, the Bucks missed the postseason with a dismal 30-52 record. Females made up approximately 51% of the population. In 2003, after considering selling the team, Kohl announced that he had decided against selling the Bucks to Michael Jordan and would "continue to own them, improve them and commit them to remaining in Wisconsin.".

6.7% of North Carolina's population were reported as under 5, 24.4% under 18, and 12.0% were 65 or older. Senator) Herb Kohl bought the Bucks after fears that out-of-town investors could buy the team and move it out of Milwaukee. 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 1985, Milwaukee businessman (and now U.S. The racial makeup of the state is:. In 1972, the Los Angeles Lakers had their record 33-game winning streak snapped by the Bucks during a nationally televised game, and in 1973 the Bucks recorded their third consecutive 60-win season, the first NBA team to do so. Census Bureau, as of 2003, North Carolina's population was estimated at 8,407,248 people. The championship was won faster than by any other expansion team in professional sports history (3rd season).

According to the U.S. On April 30, 1971, the Bucks won Game 4 of the NBA Finals over the Baltimore Bullets in Milwaukee 118-106, to win the NBA Championship. Some of the film/telelvision credits filmed there include: Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Cape Fear, Maximum Overdrive, and The Crow. In October, the Bucks played their first NBA regular season game against the Chicago Bulls before a Milwaukee Arena crowd of 8,467. Movie Studios are located in Shelby, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and the most popular, EUE Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. (Milwaukee Pro), a group headed by Wesley Pavalon and Marvin Fishman. North Carolina is also the largest film making state outside of California. The Milwaukee Bucks were formed in January 1968 when the NBA awarded a franchise to Milwaukee Professional Sports and Services, Inc.

Charlotte, the largest city in the state, is also the nation's largest banking presence outside of New York City. Senator Herb Kohl. Its industrial outputs are tobacco products, textile goods, chemical products, electric equipment, machinery, and tourism. The current franchise owner is U.S. North Carolina's agricultural outputs are poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle, and soybeans. The Milwaukee Bucks are a National Basketball Association team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its 2003 Per Capita Personal Income was $28,071, 38^th in the nation. Jones (Former assistant; inducted for his playing career with the Boston Celtics.).

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2003 total gross state product was $314 billion. C. 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. K. 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. He would later go on to be the NBA's first African-American team president with the Cleveland Cavaliers.). The area embraced within its boundaries is fifty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-six square miles (135,000 kmē). When he became GM of the Bucks in 1971, he was the first African-American to serve in that position in the NBA.

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). Wayne Embry (Former general manager; inducted as a contributor. 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. Terry Porter. 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. George Karl. See also List of North Carolina counties; List of cities in North Carolina; List of unincorporated communities in North Carolina. Mike Dunleavy, Sr.

Main article: Geography of North Carolina. Don Nelson. Source: [North Carolina Court System official site (http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/Default.asp)]. Joe Smith. In civil cases, the magistrate is authorized to try small claims involving up to $4,000 including landlord eviction cases. Daniel Santiago. 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. Toni Kukoc.

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. Dan Gadzuric. The trial of a criminal case in District Court is always without a jury. Desmond Mason. 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. Michael Redd. In the civil cases, juries are often waived. 33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

A jury of 12 hears the criminal cases. 32 Brian Winters. All felony criminal cases, civil cases involving more than $10,000 and misdemeanor and infraction appeals from District Court are tried in Superior Court. 16 Bob Lanier. The Trial division includes the Superior Court and the District Court. 14 Jon McGlocklin. Together, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals constitute the Appellate division of the court system. 4 Sidney Moncrief.

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. 2 Junior Bridgeman. The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court; it numbers seven justices. 1 Oscar Robertson. 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. Glenn Robinson. Black. Gary Payton.

For the 2003-2004 session, the current President Pro Tempore is Democrat Marc Basnight; The House Speaker is Democrat James B. Vin Baker. The North Carolina General Assembly consists of two houses, a 50-member Senate and a 120-member House of Representatives. Ray Allen. See List of North Carolina Governors. Oscar Robertson. The state's current governor is Democrat Mike Easley. Bob Lanier.

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. Alex English. senators are Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, both Republicans. Wayne Embry (Inducted as a contributor; see Coaches and others section for more details.). Its two U.S. Dave Cowens. The capital of North Carolina is Raleigh and its governor is Mike Easley, a Democrat. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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.