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Republicans won 50.3 percent of NC’s votes for Congress. They took 10 of 13 seats.
Critics of the North Carolina’s congressional maps, ruled unconstitutional by a court, said they provided a “protective sea wall” for Republican members during a pro-Democrat national environment.
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On this day, 13 June 1936, this photograph was taken at a rally for workers launching a new ship in Nazi Germany. The man circled, defiantly folding his arms rather than perform the Nazi salute is believed to be August Landmesser, a shipyard worker who fell in love with a Jewish woman. He was later imprisoned for the relationship and drafted into the army when he was killed in action, whereas his partner was murdered in the concentration camps.
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