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goldsboro
city, seat (1850) of Wayne county, east-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated near the Neuse River about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Raleigh. Settled in 1838, it was named for Matthew T. Goldsborough of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and developed as a trade and shipping centre for farm produce. After the Battle at Bentonville (18 miles [29 km] west of Goldsboro) in March 1865, one of the last major engagements of the American Civil War, victorious Union armies under Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and John Schofield united at Goldsboro before their final advance on Durham
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Goldsboro
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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