* August 7-Álvaro Uribe Vélez is sworn in as president of Colombia ; Carolina Barco is sworn in as foreign minister.

Carolina Barco Isakson ( born 1951 ) is a Colombian-American diplomat, who has served as Ambassador of Colombia to the United States from 2006 to 2010, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia from 2002 to 2007.

Carolina Barco ( right ) with Condoleezza Rice

Carolina Barco Isakson is the daughter of Virgilio Barco Vargas, a former Mayor, Senator, Ambassador, President of Colombia and Director to the World Bank Board, and Carolina Isakson Proctor.

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He lived in the United States, where his daughter, Carolina Barco Isakson ( who would later become a Colombian politician herself ) was born.

** Currituck County High School in Barco, North Carolina

However, in a surprise development, and after intense negotiations between Mexico, Chile and the United States at the third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies in Santiago, Chile, on 29 April, Colombian foreign minister Carolina Barco announced that Derbez was withdrawing his candidacy, " in order to prevent a breakdown of hemispheric relations ".

Following her trip to Colombia, U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled with Colombian Foreign Minister Carolina Barco to attend the Community of Democracies ministerial in Chile.

: Hometown: Barco, North Carolina

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.

The insistence of Bienville upon giving liberal prices to the Indians, in order to drive back the Carolina traders, was probably a factor that led to his recall in 1724.

The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.

In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.

The death penalty was the automatic sentence by North Carolina law at the time, if two requisites in the case were satisfied.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

There was a general disdain for French cookery, even with the French Huguenots in South Carolina and French-Canadians.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

Wilhelmine Carolina was a daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange.

It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

In a report made by a Captain Mathew Munthe on an anti-piracy patrol for North Carolina, " Thatch " was described as operating " a sloop 6 gunns and about 70 men ".

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

In Turin on 29 September 1781 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 24 October 1781 ( in person ), Anton married firstly with the Princess Caroline of Savoy ( Maria Carolina Antonietta Adelaida ), daughter of the King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Spain.

On November 14, 1964, Clemente married Vera Zabala at the church of San Fernando in Carolina, which was attended by thousands of fans.

After the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and he lived in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, during which time he married a Spanish singer, Carolina (' Lina ') Codina, with whom he had two sons.

In 1923 he married the Spanish singer Carolina Codina ( 1897 – 1989, whose stage name was Lina Llubera ) before moving back to Paris.

Nuvolari was married to Carolina Perina, and together they had two children: Giorgio ( born 4 September 1918 ), who died in 1937 aged 19 from myocarditis, and Alberto, who died in 1946 aged 18 from nephritis.

Porter married again in 1907, to childhood sweetheart Sarah ( Sallie ) Lindsey Coleman, whom he met again after revisiting his native state of North Carolina.

He married his second wife, Nancy Janice Moore ( born 1946 ), Miss South Carolina of 1965, on December 22, 1968.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

# Marie Carolina ( November 15, 1697-May 8, 1740 ) married ( 1 ) Frederick Maurice de la Tour d ' Auvergne ( 2 ) Charles Godefroy de La Tour d ' Auvergne and had issue.

# Anton of Saxony ( 27 December 1755-6 June 1836 ) married Maria Carolina of Savoy no issue ; married Maria Theresa of Austria no surviving issue.

His fourth child, Anna Maria, married Thomas Green Clemson, founder of Clemson University in South Carolina.

In July 1902, Loos married 21-year-old Carolina Catherina Obertimpfler ( Lina ), a drama student.

Dole is married to former U. S. cabinet member and former U. S. Senator Elizabeth Hanford Dole of North Carolina.

The Body of Liberties adopted in 1641 by the Massachusetts Bay colonists states, “ Every married woman shall be free from bodily correction or stripes by her husband, unless it be in his own defense from her assault .” In the United States, legal decisions in Mississippi ( 1824 ) and North Carolina ( 1868 and 1874 ) make reference to — and reject — an unnamed " old doctrine " or " ancient law " by which a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no wider than his thumb.

# Maria Carolina of Savoy ( 17 January 1764 – 28 December 1782 ) married Antony, Electoral Prince of Saxony in 1781, no issue.

In 1809, Louis Philippe married Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Maria Carolina of Austria.

The couple became engaged in December 1998, and married in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 5, 1999, at Wide Awake Plantation.

Costner's patrilineal heritage originates with German immigrants to South Carolina in the 1700s ; he also has English and Irish ancestry, and has said that one of his ancestors had " married a Cherokee woman ".

He began his professional baseball career with the Greenville Spinners of the Carolina Association, married 15-year-old Katie Wynn, and eventually signed with Connie Mack to play Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics.

( His wife, Mary Izard, daughter of Walter Izard, Esq., was a cousin of South Carolina Congressman Ralph Izard ; likewise a son of Congressman Izard was married to a niece of Arthur Middleton, and another son married Arthur's daughter Emma ).