Amazing North Carolina

By Theresa Jensen Lacey

Thomas Nelson
Publication date: October 2002

ISBN: 9781418538408

Digital Book format: ePub (Adobe DRM)

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Amazing North Carolina offers a rare glimpse into unusual and sometimes bizarre people and events in North Carolina's 200-year history. Reading like the Tarheel State's own version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, this book explores hundreds of incredible stories, facts, and tidbits of human interest. It contains pictures, quizzes, trivia, stories, sidebars, lists, and more. Read about . . .

How Lizard Lick, Cat's Square, Boogertown, and Rabbit Shuffle got their names
Robert Null, who invented a UFO detector
The Civil War battle where the Confederates fought without clothes on
Chang and Eng, the original "Siamese twins" who settled in Wilkesboro and married local sisters Sarah and Adelaide Yates
The strange story of Goat-Gland Binkley, who operated in North Carolina 75 years before Viagra
The annual Bald is Beautiful convention in Morehead City
The world's largest twins (at 800 pounds each)
The road that goes nowhere
Senate Bean Soup, the secret of Jesse Helms' longevity (recipe included)