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By Sarah Downing

The Outer Banks is far greater than an idyllic holiday vacation spot. an afternoon at a time via historical past, it has claimed its position as a colourful zone of the outdated North nation. writer and historian Sarah Downing bargains a regular examine the quirky and interesting tales from the region's four-hundred-year historical past. in the course of a fierce hand-to-hand conflict off Ocracoke Island on November 22, 1718, Lieutenant Robert Maynard killed the notorious pirate Blackbeard with 5 pistol pictures and twenty sword cuts and slashes. On February 14, 1992, a ill seal stuck a trip to security on a Coast protect patrol boat. upload a salty slice of background an afternoon or a month at time with this get together of Outer Banks heritage.

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