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The 2012 North Carolina Democratic primary was held May 8, 2012. North Carolina awarded 157 delegates proportionally. [1] No candidate ran against incumbent President Barack Obama in North Carolina's Democratic presidential preference primary. Obama received 766,079 votes, or 79.23% of the vote, with the remainder (200,810 votes, or 20.77% ...
Cotton production peaked in 1948 with Cleveland County producing 83,549 bales, making it North Carolina's premier cotton county. In the 1930s , Shelby was known as "The Leading Shopping Center between Charlotte and Asheville".
Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566 [1]), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, [a] was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 [b] poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.
Lewis was born on March 16, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family. [4] [5] His parents were Daniel "Danny" Levitch (1902–1980), a master of ceremonies and vaudevillian who performed under the stage name Danny Lewis, whose parents immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire to New York, and Rachael "Rae" Levitch (née Brodsky; 1904–1982), a WOR radio pianist and Danny ...
Horus (/ h ɔː r ə s /), [c] also known as Hor (/ h ɔː r /), [d] [5] in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky.
Napoleon II (Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte; 20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832) was the disputed Emperor of the French for a few weeks in 1815. He was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
Charles was born at the Château de Vincennes outside of Paris, the son of Prince John and Princess Bonne of France. [3] He was educated at court with other boys of his age with whom he would remain close throughout his life: his uncle Philip, Duke of Orléans (only two years older than himself), his three brothers Louis, John, and Philip, Louis of Bourbon, Edward and Robert of Bar, Godfrey of ...
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ (/ s eɪ ˌ l iː n d i ˈ ɒ n / say-LEEN dee-ON, [b] French: [selin maʁi klodɛt djɔ̃]; [c] born 30 March 1968) [3] is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads", [4] [5] she is noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals.