South Carolina From A To Z
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Sinopsis
Historian and author Walter Edgar mines the riches of the South Carolina Encyclopedia to bring you South Carolina from A to Z. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.
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“R” is for Robertson, Thomas James (1823-1897)
09/05/2024 Duración: 01min“R” is for Robertson, Thomas James (1823-1897). U.S. senator. A native of Winnsboro, Robertson graduated from the South Carolina College.
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“P” is for Piedmont
08/05/2024 Duración: 01min“P” is for Piedmont. One of six landform regions in South Carolina the Piedmont is defined by high hills to the north that give way to rolling hills at the center of the state.
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“M” is for McNair, Ronald Erwin (1950-1986)
07/05/2024 Duración: 01min“M” is for McNair, Ronald Erwin (1950-1986). Astronaut. A native of Lake City, McNair earned a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. While at M.I.T. he specialized in quantum electronics and molecular spectroscopy, conducting significant work in the development of laser technology.
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“M” is for McNair, Robert Evander (1923-2007)
06/05/2024 Duración: 01min“M” is for McNair, Robert Evander (1923-2007). Attorney, legislator, governor.
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“L” is for Lizard Man
03/05/2024 Duración: 01min“L” is for Lizard Man. In midsummer 1988 a Lee County teenager spotted the Lizard Man.
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“H” is for Hilton Head Island
02/05/2024 Duración: 01min“H” is for Hilton Head Island (Beaufort County; 2020 population 37,661). Located in the southeast corner of the state Hilton Head Island is the largest of the islands that flank South Carolina’s Atlantic coast.
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“H” is for Hillsborough Township
01/05/2024 Duración: 01min“H” is for Hillsborough Township. Located on the upper Savannah River in present-day McCormick County, Hillsborough Township was named for Wills Hill, viscount of Hillsborough and president of the British Board of Trade.
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“H” is for Hill, Daniel Harvey (1821-1889)
30/04/2024 Duración: 01min“H” is for Hill, Daniel Harvey (1821-1889). Soldier. A native of York District, Hill graduated from West Point and served in a series of important battles in the Mexican War.
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“G” is for Grayson, William John (1788-1863)
29/04/2024 Duración: 01min“G” is for Grayson, William John (1788-1863). Politician, planter, poet, essayist.
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“E” is for Everett, Percival (b. 1956)
25/04/2024 Duración: 01min“E” is for Everett, Percival (b. 1956). Author, editor, educator.
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"D” is for Dorchester
24/04/2024 Duración: 01min"D” is for Dorchester. In 1697 Congregationalists from Massachusetts settled on the north bank of the Ashley River and founded Dorchester as a market village twenty miles northwest of Charleston.
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“C” is for Charleston County
23/04/2024 Duración: 01min“C” is for Charleston County (919 square miles; 2020 population 417,981). About 1682, in the first blueprint for South Carolina as an English colony, there was no Charleston County.
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“C” is for Charleston, Siege of (1863-1865)
22/04/2024 Duración: 01min“C” is for Charleston, Siege of (1863-1865). Though a continuous enemy presence off Charleston was maintained by the United States from May 1861—when the U.S. Navy established its blockade, Charleston did not find itself under continuous attack until July 1863.
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“F” is for Fuller, William Edward (1875-1958)
19/04/2024 Duración: 01min“F” is for Fuller, William Edward (1875-1958). Clergyman. Fuller became the new Colored Fire-Baptized Holiness Church's general overseer and its first bishop—a position he held until his death.
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“B” is for Big Thursday
19/04/2024 Duración: 01min“B” is for Big Thursday. For more than six decades the story of the lively football competition between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Clemson Tigers was the story of “Big Thursday,” the culmination of State Fair week.
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“W” is for Williams, David Rogerson (1776-1830)
18/04/2024 Duración: 01min“W” is for Williams, David Rogerson (1776-1830). Congressman, governor.
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“S” is for Scott, Robert Kingston (1826-1900)
17/04/2024 Duración: 01min“S” is for Scott, Robert Kingston (1826-1900). Governor.
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“S” is for Scots
16/04/2024 Duración: 01min“S” is for Scots. The 1707 Treaty of Union allowed Scots free access to the British Empire and large numbers made their way to the southern colonies.
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“R” is for Robertson, Benjamin Franklin (1903-1943)
16/04/2024 Duración: 01min“R” is for Robertson, Benjamin Franklin (1903-1943). Journalist. In 1941, Benjamin Franklin Robertson began work on Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, a celebration of Scots Irish folkways and the agrarian lifestyle—the work for which he is best remembered.
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“S” is for Saluda
03/04/2024 Duración: 01min“S” is for Saluda (Saluda County; 2020 population 3,603).