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Easterseals (U.S.) President Nixon with Peter Helteme, 1971 Easter Seal Child and family. Easterseals (formerly known as Easter Seals; [1] founded in 1919 as the National Society for Crippled Children) [2] is an American 501 (c) (3) nonprofit providing disability services, with additional support areas serving veterans and military families ...
34°40′N 76°10′W / 34.67°N 76.16°W / 34.67; -76.16 (Caribsea) Carl Gerhard. 23 September 1929. Ran aground off Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Cassimer. 26 February 1942. Sank following collision with Lara off Cape Lookout. Catherine M. Monahan.
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Baltic ...
A rain squall accompanied by high winds broke out just before the SEALs conducted the water-drop rendezvous with the USS Clifton Sprague. [3] One of two C-130 cargo planes transporting the SEALs to their drop point veered off course. Four SEALs drowned upon landing in the dark while carrying a full assortment of weapons, ammunition and combat ...
Eastern North Carolina (sometimes abbreviated as ENC) is the region encompassing the eastern tier of North Carolina, United States. It is known geographically as the state's Coastal Plain region. Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Sandhills, the Lower Cape Fear (Wilmington Area), the Crystal Coast, the Inner Banks and the ...
It served as the state's only emblem for 14 years until the adoption of the state flag in 1885. Enacted by law in 2013, the newest symbols of North Carolina are the state art medium, clay; the state fossil, the megalodon teeth; the state frog, the Pine Barrens tree frog; the state marsupial, the Virginia opossum; and the state salamander, the ...
Official seals of cities, towns, and other places in the state of North Carolina. Media in category "Official seals of places in North Carolina" The following 92 files are in this category, out of 92 total.
According to an act passed by the North Carolina General Assembly on April 8, 1971, and amended in 1983: [1] [2]. The Governor shall procure of the State a Seal, which shall be called the great seal of the State of North Carolina, and shall be two and one-quarter inches in diameter, and its design shall be a representation of the figures of Liberty and Plenty, looking toward each other, but ...