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Charlotte

City in southern North Carolina, USA, on the border with South Carolina; seat of Mecklenburg County; population (2000 est) 540,800. Industries include printing, microelectronics, data processing, textiles, chemicals, machinery, and food products. Settled around 1750, it was the gold-mining centre of the USA until gold was discovered in California (1849). Charlotte enjoyed rapid

growth in the 1970s, and is the largest city in the state.

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Charlotte is the seat of several colleges including Queens College (1857), Johnson C Smith University (1867), and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1965). University buildings are among the city's 57 entries on the national register of historic places. The Mint Museum of Arts contains paintings, sculpture, and ceramics. Two US presidents were born near Charlotte: the 7th president, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), in the rural Waxhaw area, and the 11th president, James Polk (1795–1849), in Little Sugar Creek.



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He was inwardly and deeply admiring the most youthful of the females, for the natural and simple display of those very qualities that he forgot himself to exercise, when he was roused with a feeling of something like mortification, by hearing Charlotte exclaim, with a slight glow on her cheek--
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Charlotte has won all the prizes," she added, giving her sister-in-law a little pat, which made Lady Otway more uncomfortable still.
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"MY overhearings were more to the purpose than YOURS, Eliza," said Charlotte.
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