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The largest slaughterhouse in the world is operated by the Smithfield Packing Company in Tar Heel, North Carolina.
* WCHL: local AM radio station ( 1360AM ) providing talk radio, news, and local sports coverage as the flagship station of the Tar Heel Sports Network.
* The Daily Tar Heel is the nationally-ranked, independent student newspaper that serves the university and the town.
The student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel has won national awards for collegiate media, while the student radio station WXYC provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
Wilkinson spoke off campus, while more than 1, 500 students viewed Aptheker's speech across a low campus wall at the edge of campus, christened " Dan Moore's Wall " by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor Dan K. Moore.
* The Daily Tar Heel
It was named in honor of Col. Thomas Robeson of Tar Heel, North Carolina, a hero of the Revolutionary War.
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The school also has competitive MIAA Division I athletics, having won several state titles in different sports and given rise to former major league pitcher Brian Rose and former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player Jess Gaspar along with UCONN Football star Jordan Todman and Georgia's Arthur Lynch.
Tar Heel is a town located in Bladen County, North Carolina, in the United States.
Tar Heel is located at ( 34. 732353 ,-78. 792284 ).
Tar Heel is located on the banks of the Cape Fear River, and its major highways are NC 87 and NC 131.
Col. Thomas Robeson, whom Robeson County was named after lived in the Tar Heel Community.
His home is located just to the east of Tar Heel.
Just when the village moved to what is now Tar Heel is unknown.
During the American Civil War, Colonel Thomas Purdie and Capt Daniel Munn residents of the Tar Heel area were leaders in the war, at Gettysburg and Fort Fisher.
The Town of Tar Heel was incorportated by the State of North Carolina in 1964.
Tar Heel had several turpentine stills and the remains of some of the old stills can be found in the area.
When the community people talked of going to the village it was said, they were going to get tar on their heels, thus the name Tar Heel.
The Town of Tar Heel is often confused with Chapel Hill's " Tar Heel Town ," which is home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teams mascot being named Tar Heels.

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Gamecock ( Tar Heel-Terka Hanover ) is another promising colt, and his best time is 2:32.2.
This is one of the best-tempered Tar Heels ever at the center.
Cathy J. Hanover ( Tar Heel-Kaola Hanover ), formerly called Karet Hanover, has been rather a problem child, but is getting better all the while and can pace a twice around in about 2:31.
A well documented case of the latter is that of Naram-Sin's daughter Tar ' am-Agade at Urkesh.
* WECR-FM 102. 3 FM is an Adult Contemporary radio station, mostly music, also University of North Carolina Tar Heels sports network, and Carolina Panthers football.
When used in the extemporaneous preparation of topical medications, it is supplied in the form of Coal Tar Topical Solution USP, which consists of a 20 % w / v solution of coal tar in alcohol, with an additional 5 % w / v of polysorbate 80 ; this must then be diluted in an ointment base such as petrolatum.
The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.
This is because in the Irish language there is no verb " to have ", and more particularly because Irish Gaelic uses a construction using the words " Tar éis " ( meaning " after ") to convey the sense of " having just " done something.
This is most definitively demonstrated in Star Trek: Insurrection where Picard and Worf distract an erratically behaving Data by singing two parts of A British Tar, compelling Data to sing the third part.
Tar, a leftover of petroleum extraction, is used in construction of roads.
Frank Miller has admitted the main reason the Tar Pits exist is as an excuse to draw the dinosaur statues.
ESPN is often accused of having a bias towards certain teams, including those in the Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ), particularly the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels.
The origin of the Tar River is in southeast Person County.

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* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".
In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.
The Tar Heel Community is home to various churches.
The Marion Marauders, a Tar Heel League baseball club, were a favorite local attraction in the 1940s and 50s, and was the home team of star pitcher Kelly Jack Swift, who in 1953 became the last minor league pitcher to ever win 30 games in a season, going 30-7 with a 2. 54 ERA.
During the 1983 season, Martin was involved in one of the most controversial regular season games, known as the Pine Tar Incident, where umpires nullified a game-winning home run by Yankee nemesis, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, when Martin protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat.
Lews Therin drew enough of the One Power that " he air turned to fire, the fire to light liquified ", a lightning bolt struck from a clear sky to the point where Lews Therin was standing, bored into the earth and created a volcano, and split the river Erinin in two, creating an island that is now the home of Tar Valon.
Almost three years later during the regular season, Brett got to the Goose again in the Bronx, blasting a go-ahead two-run home run in the top of the ninth in a game memorialized as the " Pine Tar Game.
An infamous example of the rule in execution is the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983, when Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett was called out after hitting an apparent home run, because after comparing the length of the pine-tar treated area to the width of home plate ( 17 inches ), the umpire determined too much of the bat was covered with pine tar.
: In the 1950s it became home to the Jack Tar marina and club.
The most famous example of the rule being applied is the Pine Tar Game, the July 24, 1983 game between the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees in which George Brett hit a home run to put the Royals ahead 5-4.
MacPhail also played a major role in the 1983 Pine Tar Game, where a home run was taken away from Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett.
Wise is the author of An American Trilogy ( 2009 ), in which he tells the story of how a piece of land in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was first the home of Native Americans until they were driven into near-extinction, then a slave plantation, and finally the site of factory hog farms and the world's largest slaughterhouse.
Noted losses include an upset by the Akron Zips ( 5 – 7 ), a third straight loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels ( 3 – 9 ), and a loss at home to the East Carolina Pirates ( 7 – 5 ).
Kenan Memorial Stadium is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is the home field of the North Carolina Tar Heels.
The previous home of the Tar Heels had been Emerson Field, which had opened in 1916 on the current site of Davis Library.
The arena is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels men's basketball team, and temporary home to the women's team during renovations to Carmichael Auditorium.
It was also the Charlotte home of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels from 1977 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 2006.

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