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Medieval Times, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited
Medieval Times, Part 1 | Project Discovery Revisited

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Grades: 6 7 8

Part 1 of this program takes the viewer into the early part of the period from the end of classical civilization to the revival of the learning in the West. Visitors return to the Dark Ages as they...
James F. Byrnes | S.C. Hall of Fame
James F. Byrnes | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

James Francis Byrnes (1882-1972) was born in Charleston and served in all three branches of the federal government. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1911–25) and in the Senate (1931–41)...
James Marion Sims | S.C. Hall of Fame
James Marion Sims | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 5 8

James Marion Sims (1813-1883) was a medical doctor and surgeon who became known as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” Sims was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, and practiced in Montgomery, Alabama...
Anna Hyatt Huntington | S.C. Hall of Fame
Anna Hyatt Huntington | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Born in 1876, Anna Vaughn Hyatt came from a family that supported her interest in animals and the arts. Her mother and sister were both artists. Her father was a professor of paleontology, and she...
Cale Yarborough | S.C. Hall of Fame
Cale Yarborough | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Cale Yarborough was born in 1939 and grew up on a farm in Sardis, South Carolina. He entered his first NASCAR race in 1957 and won the Darlington 500 in 1968. Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times...
James Louis Petigru | S.C. Hall of Fame
James Louis Petigru | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

James Louis Petigru (1789-1863) was a lawyer, jurist, and Unionist politician known for his famous quote “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” Petigru was...
Frances Ravenel Smythe Edmunds | S.C. Hall of Fame
Frances Ravenel Smythe Edmunds | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Frances Ravenel Smythe Edmunds achieved national recognition as an advocate for historic preservation. She graduated from the College of Charleston in 1939. In 1947, she founded the Historic...
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings | S.C. Hall of Fame
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Ernest “Fritz” Hollings was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1922. He graduated from The Citadel in 1942 and served as an artillery officer in World War Two. After the war, he was elected to the...
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame
Anne Austin Young | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Grades: 6 7 8

Anne Austin Young was born in 1892. In a day when relatives and friends threw up their hands in horror at the thought of a woman physician and when people in her home town of Cross Hill referred to...