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Ethel Bolden discusses why her son, Charles, chooses to be an astronaut, even in light of the dangers involved with space-flight. After the interview, the video gives a brief history of NASA space...
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Born in Craytonville, in the Pendleton District, Governor James L. Orr (1822-1873) was educated in local schools and later attended the University of Virginia to study law. After graduation, he...
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Ellen Murray (1834-1908), with two young women from the Penn School. In 1862, Ellen Murray and Laura Towne (1825-1901), members of the Port Royal Experiment, established the first school for African...
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Born in Charleston, William Moultrie (1730-1805) served in the South Carolina House of Commons, and in 1761, became involved in the Cherokee War. In 1775, he was elected to the first South Carolina...
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Dr. John Moultrie, a physician, illustrates the sometimes painful divisions within families that civil war and revolution can cause. The older brother of General William Moultrie (see William Moultrie...
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Born in Sumterville (now Sumter), Governor Franklin I. Moses (1838-1906) was educated in local schools and later studied law. As a private secretary to Governor Francis Pickens, he became involved in...
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Benjamin Mordecai, a Jewish merchant in Charleston, made the first and largest contribution to the war-chest of South Carolina, and was thanked by the Secession Convention (still in session) for his...
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George Monck (1608-1670) was one of the eight original Proprietors of Carolina. A supporter of Charles I, Monck was captured and imprisoned for two years in the Tower of London, but with the defeat of...
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Arthur Middleton (1742-1787) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Born at Middleton Place on the Ashley River, Middleton was educated in South Carolina and in England at Hackney Academy...
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Christopher Gustavus Memminger (1803-1888) became secretary of the treasury of the Confederacy, and played a key role in financing the Civil War. Born in Germany, he was brought to Charleston by his...
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The "Challenger" astronaut Ron McNair (1951-1986) and Governor Richard Riley during a joint session of the South Carolina legislature in the House Chambers on April 11, 1984. McNair, an Air Force...
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Clelia Peronneau McGowan (1865-1956) of Charleston was a pioneer woman suffragist in South Carolina. After the 19th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote, she became the first woman...
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Vardry McBee ( -1864) is known as the Father of Greenville, in spite of his living in North Carolina until 1834. In 1815, McBee purchased extensive properties in Greenville, and established flour...
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Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984) was born in Greenwood County, the son of former slaves, and educated at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and the University of Chicago, where he received his M.A. and Ph...
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Brookgreen Gardens offers several interpretative or education programs. Horry Georgetown Technical College uses the grounds and greenhouses for horticultural classes. The sculptures provide art...
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World War II is the most important event of the 20th Century. It changed everything. Fifty million people died in World War II, including 405,000 Americans. The United States became a world power, the...
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World War II occurred during the 1940s when segregation was still the norm in America. The African Americans who fought were in a segregated army even overseas in England. One of the reasons the...
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The sculpture collection at Brookgreen Gardens include works by many great figurative artists of the time like Paul Manship,Paul Jennewein, and Frederick Remington. Anna sculpted her own work...
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The Huntingtons wanted to really preserve the complexity of Brookgreen, what they saw here in the early 1930s, for their generation and for future generations. That continues to be the mission. They...
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The Huntingtons' commitment to animals lives on at Brookgreen today. Native creatures find a safe home here, and the Lowcountry wildlife area exhibits both wild and domestic animals. The Animals of...
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Brookgreen Gardens offers a diversity in terms of our sculpture, horticulture, history and ecology. Initially when Brookgreen was first put together, it was a place where the native plants and flora...
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The former rice plantations of the Waccamaw Neck began selling at bargain prices. A group of sportsmen bought Springfield, Laurel Hill, Brookgreen and The Oaks to use as a hunting preserve. They...
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Brookgreen's story begins more than 250 years ago when Europeans saw the potential for growing rice here and the backbreaking labor of enslaved Africans carved rice fields out of the swamps...
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Vocabulary covered is signs used at schools. They talk about ordinal numbers and how the are used as adjectives and adverbs. They look at non-manual features that serve as adverbs to change the...
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Styles of signing are part of this lesson. They cover more adjectives related to feelings and explain junction markers. Noun/verb pairs are described.
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They cover how to more effectively rephrase your PSE sentences so that your meaning will be clear to deaf people, specifically the classifier 1. They compare passive voice to active voice. More signs...
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This lesson looks at the past and how signs change to meet the need of the users. In the past 75 years the signs have moved inward and upward. Another change is how two separate signs were paired...
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They look at adjectives throughout this lesson including iconic adjectives that show size. They review the 4 different ways that adjectives are used in sign language.
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Prefixes and suffixes are explained. They touch on different kinds of classifiers, signs for recreational activities and talk about deaf cultures.
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This lesson covers vocabulary for rooms and furniture around the home. Also described is space used to set up comparisons in sentences as well as the 3 kinds of sentences in the deaf language.