Living Wage Data for Madison County NC

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Linville Caverns

Located at the southern gateway to western NC's High Country region, Linville Caverns is an ideal destination for visitors of all ages.  The beauty of our mountains is echoed within Humpback Mountain and visitors are invited to explore the splendor and wonders nature created "inside a mountain". Read More

George Masa

The Great Smoky Mountains[edit source | editbeta]

Masa came to love the mountains of Western North Carolina and worked tirelessly for their preservation - at his own expense. Using his photographic equipment and an odometer he crafted from an old bicycle,^[3] Masa meticulously catalogued a significant number of peaks,^[4] the distances between them, and the names given to them by the local settlers and the Cherokee.^[2] He was a friend ofHorace Kephart ^[5] and the two of them worked together to ensure that a large portion of the Great Smoky Mountains would be established as a national park. Masa also scouted and marked the entire North Carolina portion of the Appalachian Trail.^[6]

Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Masa

The Illuminati

 (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened") is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically the name refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, anEnlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women's education and gender equality. The Illuminati were outlawed along with other secret societies by theBavarian government leadership with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, and permanently disbanded in 1785.^[1] In the several years following, the group was vilified by conservative and religious critics who claimed they had regrouped and were responsible for the French Revolution.

In subsequent use, "Illuminati" refers to various organizations claiming or purported to have unsubstantiated links to the original Bavarian Illuminati or similar secret societies, and often alleged to conspire to control world affairs by masterminding events and planting agents ingovernment and corporations to establish a New World Order and gain further political power and influence. Central to some of the most widely known and elaborate conspiracy theories, the Illuminati have been depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings and levers of power in dozens of novels, movies, television shows, comics, video games, and music videos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati

No UFOs or aliens as US government documents acknowledge Area 51

After decades of secrecy and conspiracy theories, the US government has finally confirmed the existence of Area 51. The site of much speculation was officially acknowledged in declassified documents.

Public records on the U-2 spy plane programme were requested by Washington’s Georgetown University and contain the first official references to Area 51.

Located 130 northwest of Las Vegas, the site was developed by the CIA in the 1950s as a place to test the U-2 reconnaissance plane.

“They (the US government) obviously didn’t want the Soviet Union to know about it, and to ensure that, they wanted a facility where it could be tested away from everybody else,” explained intelligence researcher, Jeffrey Richelson from the National Security Archive.

Area 51 was the testing area for other secret aviation projects, including supersonic aircraft code-namedOXCART.

But secrecy surrounding the area, also known as Groom Lake, caused a mass of conspiracies over the years, with many centred on the US-government, UFOs and aliens.

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