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This book is an adventure story that pulls in the reader.Four kids and a TV talk show host are stuck in a runaway hot air balloon and as they travel around the state, readers try to figure out where they are based on the geographical features glimpsed from above and clues from the characters' conversations.Students get one point for every correct answer.Excellent for a classroom game, school-wide competition or individual reading.This is a great geography skill-builder + encourages research, map reading and more.Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book.Put this title high on your list! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Wachovia, North Carolina, Midway, North Carolina, Bethabara, North Carolina, Union Cross, North Carolina, Stanleyville, North Carolina, Reynolda Gardens, Old Town, Forsyth County, North Carolina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wachovia (Pronunciation: wah-KO-vee-yah) was the area settled by Moravians in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina, US. Of the six eighteenth century Moravian "villages of the Lord" established in Wachovia, today, the town of Bethania, North Carolina and city of Winston-Salem exist within the historic Wachovia tract. The Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem has a map of the original Wachovia tract, showing the approximate locations of the first six Moravian congregations and the approximate current boundaries of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Wachovia's early settlers were mostly German-speaking people who shared a common Germanic cultural background. In 1752 Moravian Bishop August Gottlieb "Brother Joseph" Spangenberg led an expedition to locate the area where the Unitas Fratrum, or Moravian church, intended to begin the Wachovia settlements. Members of the Moravian Church in Europe purchased 98,985 acres (400.58 km) of land in the Backcountry (middle/western area) of North Carolina, from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. They named the 98,985-acre (400.58 km) tract of land die Wachau, or "Wachovia," meaning "meadow of the Wach." The name "Wachovia" is the Latin form of the German "die Wachau." "Die Wachau" was chosen as the name of the North Carolina Moravian tract, to honor Count Zinzendorf, Moravian patron and bishop whose family estate was located in the Wachau region northwest of Vienna, along the Danube River between the towns of Melk and Krems. The Moravians most likely felt that the landscape ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1249100 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Volume: 1General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1875Original Publisher: J. Turner, State printer and binderSubjects: GeologyNorth CarolinaHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / State ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Business North Carolina, published by Business North Carolina on September 1, 1999. The length of the article is 811 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Swarm of airports fight for flights and passengers.(interview with geography professor Al Stuart)(North Carolina)(Interview)
Publication: Business North Carolina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 1999
Publisher: Business North Carolina
Volume: 19Issue: 9Page: 12(1)

Article Type: Interview

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more