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unusual facts about Raleigh, NC



1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

The Tar Heels won their first NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship and received a large welcome at Raleigh–Durham International Airport when they arrived back in North Carolina.

1986 Stanley Cup playoffs

This would happen again the following year and in 1999, by which time 3 of those teams had moved, the Quebec Nordiques to Denver, the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix, and the Hartford Whalers to Raleigh, North Carolina.

Annie E. Clark

Clark was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School.

Apex, North Carolina

Air: Raleigh-Durham International Airport is on I-40 approximately eight miles north of downtown Apex.

Arthur Poister

He also had shorter teaching stints at the University of Colorado, Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia and Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Asheville Global Report

The organization currently produces radio programming and a television show, AGR TV, that is aired on Free Speech TV and Public-access television cable TV channels in Asheville, Atlanta, Boone, Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve

Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve located within the town of Raleigh, Newfoundland and Labrador, and just northwest of Pistolet Bay Provincial Park.

Caballero: A Historical Novel

She used the pseudonym Eve Raleigh in her writing, possibly referencing to Eve, the first female, and Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh) the English explorer of the Americas.

Cary Lady Clarets

The team was coached by Jay Howell, Director of Coaching at the Capital Area Soccer League in Raleigh, North Carolina, and features many players with local amateur or collegiate affiliations from Triangle area high schools and universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University.

Charles Meeker

In his five terms as mayor and during previous service on the Raleigh City Council (1985–89 and 1991–95), Meeker, living and raising his family in Boylan Heights, has notably advocated downtown redevelopment and the creation of a light rail system connecting Raleigh to Durham, Research Triangle Park, and Chapel Hill under the auspices of the Triangle Transit Authority.

Corsley

He and his brother Carew Raleigh used to visit Dame Dorothy, who married Carew Raleigh.

David Raleigh

The success of the album gave Raleigh a platform to tour with contemporary Christian icons such as Amy Grant and The Archers.

Eduardo Catalano

Catalano had an "understanding of the indivisible relationship between space and structure", which earned him praise from Frank Lloyd Wright, who wrote to House and Home magazine when he saw the publishing of the "Raleigh House" AKA the Catalano House to say "It is refreshing to see that the shelter, which is the most important element in domestic architecture, has been so imaginatively and skillfully treated as in the house by Eduardo Catalano".

Effects of Hurricane Charley in North Carolina

Governor Mike Easley declared a state of emergency in advance of the storm, and 200 National Guard troops were dispatched to Charlotte, Raleigh, Kinston and Lumerton, while 800 more were on standby.

Elizabeth Horton

Elizabeth "Liz" Horton was Miss North Carolina 2006 and is now a weather anchor and reporter at ABC-11 (WTVD-TV) in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Flag and seal of New Hampshire

The Raleigh was built in Portsmouth in 1776, as one of the first 13 warships sponsored by the Continental Congress for a new American navy.

George Shinn

George Shinn (born May 11, 1941) is the former owner of the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets as well the Charlotte Knights and Gastonia Rangers minor league baseball teams along with the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football.

John Kerr, Sr.

At the time of his death, Kerr was coaching for Triangle Futbol Club in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Josiah Bailey

Born in Warrenton, NC, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University).

Karel Reisz

In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude.

Lawrence A. Oxley

During this period, Oxley also taught for a few years as an instructor at St. Augustine's College, a historically black college (HBCU) in the capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Lori Geary

Lori started her first reporting job at WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia where she was quickly promoted to noon anchor and later moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where she covered politics and conducted some memorable interviews with Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole, and John Edwards.

Mangrove oyster

Raleigh's widely-read account of the expedition, which had intended to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, included many exaggerated claims about the region.

Martin Earley

After PDM left the sport, he rode for Festina, then switched to mountain biking by riding for Raleigh and then for individual sponsors.

Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina

The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Progress Energy

Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, the main venue for the performing arts in Raleigh, North Carolina

RadRails

During that time, the three developers worked as co-ops from the Rochester Institute of Technology at IBM Rational in Raleigh, NC.

Raleigh Capitals

The rival Durham, North Carolina based Durham Bulls franchise who also played in the Carolina League and were a New York Mets affiliate acquired the Raleigh franchise.

Raleigh, North Dakota

The name comes from Sir Walter Raleigh and was settled by a wave of German Russians who had previously settled near Strasburg in Emmons County.

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

Richardson Pack

Pack's prologue to Sewell's Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh, and his epilogue to Thomas Southerne's Spartan Dame, were admired.

Roger North

Roger North (governor) (1585-1652), captain who sailed with Walter Raleigh in 1617 and only governor of the Oyapoc

Sherborne Town F.C.

The club then moved grounds again in 1985 to their present home of Raleigh Grove, referencing Sir Walter Raleigh’s historical connection with the town.

Shirwell

The parish was successively the seat of two of the leading families of North Devon, the Beaumonts (to the end of the 15th century) and their heirs the Chichesters of Raleigh, Pilton, both of which families lived on the estate of Youlston within the Manor of Shirwell.

Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel

Constructed between 1923 and 1924 on Fayetteville Street and named after Sir Walter Raleigh, the hotel was nicknamed North Carolina’s “third house of government,” due to its location and being a focal point for state political activity until the 1960s.

Still Live after All These Years

Still Live after All These Years is a live album from North Carolina music group, Nantucket, recorded November 29, 1991 with all six original band members at a night club called The Longbranch in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Stucley

Lewis Stukley (died 1620), Vice-admiral of Devonshire and foe of Sir Walter Raleigh

Syrian American Council

As of April 10, 2013, SAC has 21 chapters across the U.S. in Chicago, Orlando, Los Angeles, Northern California, Washington, D.C./Virginia, Dearborn, New Jersey, Georgia, Indianapolis, Panama City, West Virginia, North Carolina, San Diego, Tampa, South Florida, Flint, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Raleigh, and Detroit.

William V. Wheeler

William V. Wheeler was born in 1845 to Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Stubbs Wheeler in West Elkton, Ohio.

Willie Burden

In 2005 Burden received another special honour, being inducted into Hall of Fame for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America of Raleigh, North Carolina, for his lifetime of good works.

Wingina

Prior to the first English settlement on Roanoke Island, Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe explored the area (April 27, 1584) on behalf of Raleigh, who had received an English charter to establish a colony a month earlier.

WRAL

WRAL-TV, a television station (channel 5 analog/48 digital) licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

WPJL, a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States and once called WRAL

Wrinstone

Through her marriage to Simon de Raleigh, of Nettlecombe, Somerset, the Wrinstone manor passed to the de Raleighs, their descendants holding the manor for six generations.

WTCC

Wake Technical Community College a two-year college located in Raleigh, North Carolina USA

WUNC-FM

WUNC's 100,000-watt signal not only covers Raleigh, Durham and the Triangle, but also covers much of the eastern portion of the Piedmont Triad, including Greensboro and High Point.

WUTB

In exchange, Fox received an option to buy any combination of six Sinclair-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (two of which were standalone stations affiliated with the latter service) in three of four markets: Raleigh (WLFL and WRDC), Las Vegas (KVCW and KVMY), Cincinnati (WSTR-TV) and Norfolk (WTVZ).

WVXF

Between 1989 and 2001, CBS service was available via satellite from New York (WCBS-TV), Raleigh (WRAL-TV), and/or Erie (WSEE-TV).


see also

Fayetteville Historic District

Fayetteville Street Historic District, Raleigh, NC, listed on the NRHP in North Carolina

James Strutt

On a field trip to attend a lecture being given by Pier Luigi Nervi at North Carolina State University, Strutt took a side trip to visit the Eduardo Catalano House in Raleigh, NC and was very impressed by Catalano's modern statement.

Jeff Hart and the Ruins

Compilation of print-only reviews from 1995 - 2006 from No Depression, Jem (Japan), Big Takeover (NYC), Circus (Britain), Midwestern Skies (Sweden), Not Lame (Denver, Co.), Paisley Pop (Portland, OR), News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), The Independent (Durham, NC).

Outer Upper Inner

Inner Outer Upper is an EP by the Raleigh, NC-based rock band Birds of Avalon.

Saffron Technology

James Fleming, Chief Software Engineer, former software developer at IBM Knowledge Management and Intelligent Agent Center, Raleigh, NC.