13 Mart 2013 Çarşamba

North Carolina State Day, Motto, and Nickname

North Carolina State Day, Motto, and Nickname

STATE DAY
November 11
STATUS
Official
DATE OF ADMISSION TO UNITED STATES
November 21, 1789
RANKING IN STATE ADMISSION
12th
FORMER DESIGNATION
Province of Carolina
Province of North Carolina
HISTORY
Originally part of the Province of Carolina, founded in 1663, the seeds of North Carolina were first sown when governmental dissent led to a deputy governor being appointed to control the northern half of the colony in 1691. In 1712, the separation of North and South Carolina became official but still remained under the same proprietary control. After years of unsuccessfully trying to purchase both colonies, the British government gained control, and North Carolina became an official royal colony in 1729.
Decades later, in May 1775, an assembly of North Carolinians met in Charlotte and suspended royal government in the colony. The British responded in 1776 by sending troops, who were defeated in battle by North Carolina irregulars. In April 1776, an assembly of North Carolinians met in Halifax and resolved to have their representatives at the Continental Congress vote for independence. In November 1789, North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution. There were a few more boundary resolutions made to North Carolina borders after the federal government was established, and by 1790 the state assumed its final dimensions.
November 11 is designated North Carolina Day in remembrance of the World War I Armistice Day. This day is a state holiday, and a similar national holiday on the same day is called Veterans Day.
MOTTO
Esse quam videri ("To be, rather than to seem")
The North Carolina General Assembly adopted the motto in 1893 and required that it be included on the state seal. It is taken from a passage in "On Friendship," in which Cicero comments on the perception and reality of true virtue, i.e., "Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it."
NICKNAMES
"The Tar Heel State," "The Old North State," "The Turpentine State," "Variety Vacationland"
The origin of "The Tar Heel State" as a nickname is obscure. It is true that tar is a historical product of the North Carolina economy, but there is more than one explanation for how it became such an enduring nickname. One is attributed in part to General Robert E. Lee and the North Carolinian soldiers’ determination to hold the line in battle during the Civil War.
The nickname "The Old North State" was adopted after the colony was into North and South Carolina. Turpentine was also a common product from North Carolina’s pine forests, hence the nickname "The Turpentine State." North Carolina’s varied topography, which ranges from sandy beaches to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Trail, accords it the nickname of "Variety Vacationland."

-World Trade Press


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