An example of a successful plantation colony, Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent British colony in North America, was shipping over 20 thousand tons of tobacco per year back to England by the end of the 17th century. TheSouth CarolinaandGeorgiacolonies enjoyed similar financial success from ...
I am evidently ridonkulously homesick because I have the University of Florida/University of South Carolina football game on the TV and Ihatefootball, whether college or NFL. But it's a South Carolina home game and (despite the fact that I am highly ambivalent about USC and its athletics ...
When Kamala Harris' sister, Maya Harris, triumphantly said the vice president's name, the crowd went wild, expecting it was time for the candidate to finally take the stage. They soon learned there was just one more left: North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who made clea...
2018.04.04 • Near-realtime satellite data, gender pay gaps in Great Britain, North Korea provocations, Russian presidential voting, and more dog (and cat) names. 2018.03.07 • The electrical grid, pan-African surveys, more brain scans, a 19th-century Cuban newspaper, and powerlifting. 201...
I graduated from Clemson University with a degree in engineering and a fascination with renewable energy. I have moved around a bit growing up: born in China, lived in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina. Since college, I have found that travel gives me a sense...
“This is a very difficult loss for the Russian opposition,” he told The Associated Press after his death. Graeme Robertson, a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of a book about Putin and contemporary Russian politics, says the biggest...
Still, Haley predicted it would be a "close" and "competitive" race and has vowed to stay in the competition for the long haul, framing it as a race between David and Goliath. "Dropping out would be the easy route," she said Tuesday in a major speech in Greenville, South Carolina, ...
Alabama is one of four states—along with Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin—that don't have laws regulating wild cats. However, before you commit to a tiger, know that... Tigers usually live about 26 years in captivity and the wild. Tigers are obligate carnivores—meaning they cannot ...
The good folksThe Local Byte, a new online magazine here in Central North Carolina, were kind enough to have me back in studio for another installment ofAn Inspirational Moment. This one deals with a basic question we all have: “Who are we?” ...
trunk is apparently an oak to symbolize age and strength. The back of his head has the scholars over the years that he has influenced and that influenced him. However, the meaning of the others is not quite so clear. None-the-less it is a massive, and yet really well-crafted sculpture...