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3 unusual facts about Carolinian


Carolinian

Carolinian people, an Austronesian ethnic group which originates from the Caroline Islands

Something from or related to the Caroline Islands, an archipelago of tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean

Carolinian language, an Austronesian language spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean


Caroline Islands

The native inhabitants speak a variety of Micronesian languages including Pohnpeian, Chuukese, Carolinian, Yapese, and Kosraean, as well as the Western Malayo-Polynesian language Palauan.

Hamilton S. Hawkins

Despite being a South Carolinian, Hawkins served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Huckleberry Hound

Butler denied he based the voice on Carolinian actor Andy Griffith, and had been using it since the late 1940s.

Maitland River

The lower Maitland (to Wingham) has a trout and salmon run, and is home to several species at risk including Queen snake, Wavy-rayed Lampmussel and Butternut tree, as well as several Carolinian forest species, including Bitternut hickory, American Sycamore, Summer grape and Green dragon.

Martha-Bryan Allen

She played Lucy Blake in Gypsy Jim, a three-act play by Oscar Hammerstein and Milton Herbert Gropper, Appolonia Lee in Sophie Treadwell’s O, Nightingale, and Myrtle Carey in The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini and J. Harold Terry.

Paul Peek

Reeder, a fellow Carolinian, was instrumental in developing the style popularized by Little Richard.

William Woods Holden

He was recognized as "one of the foremost men in intellectual power and daring that were ever born here" by North Carolinian Walter Hines Page.


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