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The movie began filming on April 15, 1946 at a variety of locations, including the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood and the Samuel Goldwyn / Warner Hollywood Studios.
* In 2001, Dare County erected a marble monument to the Freedmen's Colony at the Fort Raleigh Historic Site.
North of Raleigh, U. S. 1 ( known as Capital Boulevard in northern Wake County ) crosses Interstate 540 and then again becomes a four-lane divided arterial to Interstate 85 near Henderson.
* Raleigh County ( west )
Raleigh County, founded in 1850, is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.
Raleigh County was formed on January 23, 1850 from portions of Fayette County, then a part of Virginia.
Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.
More recently, the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, which killed 29, also occurred in Raleigh County.
A substantial portion was subdivided from Fayette County to form Raleigh County in 1850.
* Raleigh County ( south )
* Raleigh County ( east )
Wake County is part of the Research Triangle metropolitan region, which encompasses the cities of Raleigh and Durham, the towns of Cary and Chapel Hill, and their surrounding suburban areas.
Wake County is the 9th fastest growing county in the United States, with the town of Cary and the city of Raleigh being the 8th and 15th fastest growing cities, respectively.
The city of Raleigh became both the state capital and the new seat of Wake County.
Person County offers a strategic location for business and industry, as it is within an hour ’ s drive of North Carolina's two major economic centers, the Research Triangle Park ( Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh ) and the Piedmont Triad ( Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point ), and a two-hour drive of Richmond, Virginia.
Onslow County ’ s flat, rolling terrain covers and is located in the southeastern coastal plain of North Carolina, approximately east of Raleigh and north of Wilmington.
A small portion of the city of Raleigh is also in Durham County.
* Shiloh, Raleigh County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

Raleigh and court
After intervention by Burghley and Sir Walter Raleigh, Oxford was reconciled to the Queen and his two-year exile from court ended at the end of May, on condition of his guarantee of good behaviour.
Raleigh spent time in the Tower of London for this and Elizabeth was expelled from the court but the marriage appears to have been a genuine love-match and survived the imprisonment.
Sir Walter Raleigh the English privateer was one of the early profiteers, sacking the Portuguese carrack Madre de Deus laden with tonnes of spices, precious gems and pearls, equivalent to half the public finances of the English court.
He moved to Raleigh, practiced law, and served as court reporter for the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1840 to 1852.
Sir Walter Raleigh, whom the Queen loves, marries a ward of her court after he learns she is carrying his child.
Walter Raleigh ( Clive Owen ) is presented at Elizabeth's court, having returned from the New World, and offers her potatoes, tobacco, two Native Americans, and gold from Spanish ships that he claims were " unable to continue their journey ".
Feeling betrayed, the queen banishes Bess from court and has Raleigh imprisoned for the crime of seducing a ward of the Queen.
The District has three staffed offices and holds court in six cities: Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Greenville, New Bern, Raleigh, and Wilmington.
Except for three years as a state appellate defender, Hudson worked in private practice in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina until 2000, when she was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals -- the first woman to be elected to an appellate court in North Carolina without being appointed first.
Rogers served solicitor of the Raleigh district of the superior court.
He attempted the Jacobean pastoral along the lines of Walter Raleigh and Philip Sidney, but his greatest successes and fame came from his attempts at apologetics for the restored court and the Established Church.
He was judge of the Raleigh County criminal court from 1933 to 1940, and was elected as a Democrat to the U. S. Senate in 1940, and won re-election twice.

Raleigh and ruled
Only one of them, Dr. Raleigh Ashlin Skelton, keeper of the Museum's map collection, had significant expertise relevant to the problems posed by the map ( his colleague George Painter, the first person to whom Davis had shown the map in 1957, was brought in for the transcription and translation of the Relation ) and the secrecy almost completely ruled out consultation with specialists.
In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore what is now the North Carolina coast, and they returned with word of a regional king ( weroance ) named Wingina, who ruled a land supposedly called Wingandacoa.

Raleigh and for
* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
The U. S. government recognized the importance of his work, and employed his firm Geodesics, Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina to make small domes for the marines.
After six months he moved to Raleigh and worked with Johnnie and Jack before heading for Richmond, Virginia, where he performed with Sunshine Sue Workman.
It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.
Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.
* 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
* 1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
* The Book of the Courtier ( 1561 ), English translation by Thomas Hoby as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900.
Instrumental in the English colonisation of North America, Raleigh was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, which paved the way for future English settlements.
* October 29 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
* 2010 – Skema Business School, opting for a multi campus strategy all around the world, in Brazil, France, China, Russia, Australia, Morocco and the USA, is the first French Business School to open a campus in the United States in Raleigh, North Carolina among the Research Triangle Park.
* Moore Square Museums Magnet Middle School ; Raleigh, North Carolina ( for being located downtown )
In 1584, the queen granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonisation of Virginia ; it was named in her honour.
Raleigh and Elizabeth sought both immediate riches and a base for privateers to raid the Spanish treasure fleets.
* 1989: Michael Skube, The News & Observer ( Raleigh, North Carolina ), " for his writing about books and other literary topics.
in his own York House on 1 October, and he blamed Cecil and Raleigh for the queen's hostility.
It is a mistake to see Boyle's ' empire ' as merely being exclusively confined to the development of the ' Raleigh estates ': for instance, his acquisition of the entirety of the town of Bandon was not completed until 1625.
Later that summer, the team dropped the Whalers ' colors of blue, green and silver for a new black-and-red scheme, matching the colors of the North Carolina State University Wolfpack, with whose men's basketball team the Hurricanes would share the arena in Raleigh.
The Hurricanes were thus forced to play home games in Greensboro, 90 minutes west of Raleigh, for their first two seasons after the move.
Raleigh hosted the 2011 NHL All-Star Game in January, and Eric Staal captained a team he selected ( opposite a team selected by the Detroit Red Wings ' Nicklas Lidstrom ) that featured Skinner ( the youngest All-Star in NHL history ), Cam Ward, and ( for the SuperSkills competition ) defenseman Jamie McBain.
After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.
He appears to have been in Ireland living on the estates of Sir Walter Raleigh, making maps of land for Raleigh's tenants, and reflecting upon the " evils and unfortunate events " which had ruined his hopes in the New World, though never giving up hope that his daughter and granddaughter were still alive.
He found, however, little leisure for a country life, and the following year took charge of the fleet fitted out by Sir Walter Raleigh to the Spanish coast, returning with a rich prize.
" The first Discovery and Settlement of this Country was by the Procurement of Sir Walter Raleigh, in Conjunction with some publick-spirited Gentlemen of that Age, under the Protection of Queen Elizabeth ; for which Reason it was then named Virginia, being begun on that Part called Ronoak-Island, where the Ruins of a Fort are to be seen at this day, as well as some old English Coins which have been lately found ; and a Brass-Gun, a Powder-Horn, and one small Quarter deck-Gun, made of Iron Staves, and hoop'd with the same Metal ; which Method of making Guns might very probably be made use of in those Days, for the Convenience of Infant-Colonies.

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