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Carolina

1663, North American colony named for King Charles II (the Latin form of the male proper name is Carolus). Earlier French colonists called the region Caroline (1564) in honor of Charles IX, King of France. A 1629 grant here by Charles I of England was named Carolana. The original site of the name is modern South Carolina and the tract originally included North Carolina and Georgia; North Carolina first used 1691, in reference to settlements made from Virginia. The official division into north and south dates from 1710. Used generically in forming species names in botany and zoology from 1734.

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Carolina, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 248
Housing Units (2000): 118
Land area (2000): 1.121926 sq. miles (2.905775 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.121926 sq. miles (2.905775 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12160
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.231521 N, 86.520607 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Carolina, AL
Carolina
Carolina -- U.S. Municipio in Puerto Rico
Population (2000): 186076
Housing Units (2000): 71347
Land area (2000): 45.328054 sq. miles (117.399117 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 15.016885 sq. miles (38.893551 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 60.344939 sq. miles (156.292668 sq. km)
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.389137 N, 65.966448 W
Headwords:
Carolina
Carolina, PR
Carolina Municipio
Carolina Municipio, PR
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Carolina may refer to:

Carolina (2003 film)

Carolina is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Boorem, Randy Quaid, and Jennifer Coolidge. Lisa Sheridan has a cameo role in the film, and Barbara Eden has the uncredited part of Daphne. It is set in Los Angeles, California. Shot in 2003, the film failed to find a distributor and was released direct-to-video in 2005.

Miramax Films was the domestic distributor, but failed to release it in theaters. When Harvey Weinstein screened the film he told the producers, "You have a hit movie on your hands. We're going to blast this on MTV all over Super Bowl Weekend." This was in December 2001. The producers never heard about it again until 2005 when it was suddenly released Direct-to-DVD.

The film began principal photography in July 2001. Kathy Bates was originally slated to play the role of "Grandma Millicent Mirabeau", but dropped out after make-up/hair tests due to the shut down of the original production shoot date. Shirley MacLaine eventually stepped in to play the role of "Grandma Millicent Mirabeau".

Carolina (state song)

"Carolina" is the official state song of South Carolina since 1911. In 1984, it was joined by " South Carolina On My Mind".

Carolina (Seu Jorge album)

Carolina is a 2001 album by Seu Jorge. Originally known as Samba Esporte Fino when released in Brazil in 2001, it was retitled Carolina and released internationally in 2003. This is Seu Jorge's first international album after having debuted in Brazil with Moro no Brasil in 1998.

Carolina (1934 film)

Carolina is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry King, with a screenplay by Reginald Berkley based on the play The House of Connelly by Paul Green, and starring Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Young. The supporting cast features Stepin Fetchit and Shirley Temple in a romanticized story about a post-Civil War family in the fading South regaining its former prestige.

Carolina (ship)

The Carolina, also known as the Caroline, was an American Civil War merchant ship that tried to leave Galveston, Texas by breaking though a federal blockade. The ship was last carrying cotton and sank in 1864 in the Gulf of Mexico. On March 9, 2009, contractors looking for debris from Hurricane Ike reported the discovery of the shipwreck after using sonar.

Carolina (Eric Church album)

Carolina is the second studio album by American country music artist Eric Church. It was released on Capitol Records Nashville on March 24, 2009, three years after his debut Sinners Like Me. "Love Your Love the Most" is the album's lead-off single, and Church's sixth entry on the Billboard Hot Country Songs. This song follows the non-album single "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)", which peaked outside the top 40 in mid-2008. As of November 29, 2013, the album has sold 715,000 copies in the US.

Carolina (name)

Carolina is a feminine given name in Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, Galician, Dutch and French. Pronounced kah-ro-LEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese), ker-ə-LIEN-ə (English), kar-ə-LIEN-ə (English), Kah-ro-li-nah (Dutch). From the masculine name Carolus which is Latin for Charles (English), which generally means 'free man' or 'freeholder'; however, ". Carolina" can also mean 'song of happiness or joy' from a French origin.

Carolina (Parmalee song)

"Carolina" is a song recorded by American country music group Parmalee. It was first released on their 2008 EP entitled Complicated before being remixed and re-released on February 4, 2013 as their second single for Stoney Creek Records. It is included on their album Feels Like Carolina, which was released on December 10, 2013. The song was written by group members Matt Thomas, Joshua McSwain, Scott Thomas and Barry Knox with Rick Beato.

Usage examples of "carolina".

When Edward Rutledge rescued the moment by moving that a final vote be postponed until the next day, implying that for the sake of unanimity South Carolina might change its mind, Adams and the others immediately agreed.

Afterward, when Patrick Henry declined for reasons of health, Adams chose another southerner, the Federalist governor of North Carolina, William Davie.

But the tumult on the other campuses and the antiauthoritarian tenor of the times could be measured by the length of the sideburns creeping down the faces of Carolina men.

Carolina jessamine and poison ivy coaxed to adopt the genetics of bougainvillaea and orchids, tall pines persuaded to stoop to adopt their new crowns of palm fronds.

The following day, Poppa Bowditch returned home from his Carolina expedition.

You sneer at Capers Middleton, whose only sin is trying to make South Carolina a better place to live.

When he approached the battered men of the Fourth South Carolina, they cheered him, a fellow South Carolinian, mightily.

Stanly County, the best county in all the Carolinas even though my dear wife does come from Catawba County, God bless her, and how are you?

On the arrival of Smith-Dorrien at Carolina the other columns started, their centre of advance being Ermelo.

South Carolina in check, and delay action herself, until other States can get ready, through their conventions, to unite with them, and then, on a given day and at a given hour, by concert of action, all the States willing to do so, secede in a body?

Before the meeting of the caucus of January 5, 1861, South Carolina had seceded, and Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas had taken the initial step of secession, by calling conventions for its accomplishment.

I do not find any record of an active part taken by these regiments in the campaigns which Lord Cornwallis conducted in South and North Carolina.

In mid-August, the eleven-year-old boy sailed on the South Carolina, which, after a troubled voyage, put in at La Coruna, Spain, where eventually he sailed on another American ship, Cicero, a privateer, and after more delays and adventures reached home at the end of January 1782, more than five months after leaving Amsterdam.

These dogs had not been tested since Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, fourteen months ago and it takes as long as one year after initial introduction of the microfilariae into the bloodstream before they become adults and produce the microfilariae in quantities large enough to be detected in microscopic examinations.

What follows is an exact copy of the memorandum establishing the war dog detraining program, one of the most important documents in the long history of dogs in the United States military: WAR DOG TRAINING SCHOOL SCHOOLS REGIMENT, MARINE TRAINING COMMAND CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA 27 August 1945 SCHOOL MEMORANDUM Re: WAR DOG DETRAINING AND SEPARATION.