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Morganton is a city in and county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. [4] The population was 17,474 at the 2020 census. [5] Morganton is approximately 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Charlotte and 57 miles (92 km) east of Asheville. Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan ...
Magnolia Place is a historic home located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1818, and is a two-story, five bay by two bay, brick structure in the Federal style. Attached at the rear is a one bay by two bay temple form Greek Revival style addition built about 1850. It features a long full-height ...
Mountain View is a historic plantation house at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1815, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, Federal-style brick house. It was remodeled in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story gabled porch with decorative bargeboards.
Lyman Spitzer Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) [2] was an American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation and plasma physics and in 1946 conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space . [ 3 ]
Spitzer at the microphone in 2009. The show was launched in November 1997 on WWOZ in New Orleans. It was created by Nick Spitzer and Mary Beth Kirchner, who had worked together previously producing segments for All Things Considered. By 1998, American Routes was syndicated by American Public Radio for 39 stations. [2]
He died on May 26, 2010, at age 97 at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. [11] [14] [29] [30] After his death, Phyllis Diller stated, "In a couple of months Art Linkletter would have been 98 years old, a full life of fun and goodness, an orphan who made it to the top. What a guy." [25]
The Occaneechi Indians lived in the area of what is now Hillsborough, north of Chapel Hill, prior to European settlement. [6]The area was the home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres on the north and south side of "Lick Branch" [7] from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel ...
Todd Spitzer was born on November 26, 1960, in Whittier, California, [6] to Phyllis Ann (née Kirschenbaum) and Leonard Spitzer. [7] He has a sister, Susan, who also went on to be an attorney. [ 7 ] Todd played leading roles in the Schurr High School department of performance arts' productions of the musicals Hello, Dolly!