Once a light station that marked the shoals off the coast of Southport, North Carolina, for ships, the two-story Frying Pan Shoals Light Station now houses a bed-and-breakfast perched on a platform 32 miles off the coast of Cape Fear.

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The country has been run by presidents from the PAN, a conservative, business-friendly party with a base of support in the north of the country.

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