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unusual facts about Alma, Nebraska



1888 in the United States

January 12 – "Schoolhouse Blizzard": Blizzards hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

Antonio Farré

Farré has worked in Mexican Soap Operas such as Chispita, La Fiera, Rosa Salvaje, Cicatrices del Alma and television shows such as Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real with Silvia Pinal.

Cesare Syjuco

A flurry of smaller exhibitions won him the Araw Ng Maynila "Patnubay Ng Sining At Kalinangan" Award in 2007 from the 436-year-old City of Manila, and the 2007 La Sallian Achievement Award for the Arts from his alma mater, De La Salle University.

Christian Peter

This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Darius Rafat

He co-produced his mother's album Con Alma in New York in 1997 which featured legendary jazz musicians Paquito D'Riviera, Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid, Claudio Roditi, Frank Wess and Ignacio Berroa.

David Jacques Way

Born in Elk Creek, Nebraska, Way was educated at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in its earliest days, where he gained his lifelong interest in graphic design and typography.

Dear Lemon Lima

After numerous unsuccessful attempts at erasing fond memories, she resolves to win Philip back at Nichols Academy (named after Yoonessi's alma mater, Nichols School), a close-minded preparatory school where the Georgey family is legendary.

Defence Housing Authority, Lahore

Other institutes in the DHA include Ibn-e-Sina College (named after the philosopher), the Lahore Alma School, and Lahore Grammar School, which has branches all over Lahore.

Dennis B. Funa

One complaint which would be the core of the criminal charges against Estrada and which would ripen to Criminal Case No. 26558 was docketed as OMB-0-00-1756 (Romeo T. Capulong, Leonard de Vera and Dennis Funa vs. Joseph Ejercito Estrada, Dr. Luisa “Loi” Ejercito, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Charlie “Atong” Ang, Delia Rajas, Eleuterio Tan, and Alma Alfaro; see Victor Jose Tan Uy v. Office of the Ombudsman et al., G.R. No. 156399-400, June 27, 2008).

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Erica Simone Turnipseed

Among her many appearances, Turnipseed has served as a guest lecturer at Spelman College, Medgar Evers College, Baruch College, Midwood High School, and her alma mater, Yale University.

Exeter-Milligan Public School

The girls basketball team completed a perfect 28-0 season in the 2003-04 high school season winning the Nebraska Class D1 State High School Championship defeating Elm Creek in the championship game 57-46.

Forty Hours' Devotion

"We have determined to establish publicly in this Mother City of Rome (in hac alma Urbe) an uninterrupted course of prayer in such wise that in the different churches (he specifies the various categories), on appointed days, there be observed the pious and salutary devotion of the Forty Hours, with such an arrangement of churches and times that, at every hour of the day and night, the whole year round, the incense of prayer shall ascend without intermission before the face of the Lord".

Fred Trosko

In 1946, Trosko was hired as an assistant football coach at his alma mater, Flint Northern High School.

George Joseph Lucas

On June 3, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Lucas the fifth Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska.

Isham Reavis

The new judge left Nebraska in August 1869, taking the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad to California before boarding a ship south to the mouth of the Colorado River.

Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

Jessie Kabwila-Kapasula

Students at Binghamton University (SUNY), Dr. Kabwila-Kapasula's alma mater, have urged Amnesty International to take up this case.

Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.

John Trobaugh

In Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Trobaugh's work was shown alongside Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.

Justin Whalin

1996: American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award: Outstanding Television Series Actor in a Crossover Role for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)

KAZO

KAZO-LP, a low-power television station (channel 57) licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States

KBRX

KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States

KLNE

KLNE-FM, a radio station (88.7 FM) licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, United States

KLTQ

KOOO, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve La Vista, Nebraska, United States, which held the call sign KLTQ from 2002 to 2007

Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben

The organization supports financial need based scholarship programs, administers Nebraska's Pioneer Farm program, Good Neighbor Awards, and Ike Friedman Leadership Awards.

Loma, Nebraska

Loma was a filming location and the primary setting of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (as the fictional village of Snydersville, Nebraska).

Lynn Amedee

After McWilliams resignation in 1991, Amedee sat out for a year, before joining Curley Hallman's coaching staff at his alma mater LSU.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Nathan Ellington

In 2005, Ellington married a Bosnian woman, Alma from Tuzla, and adopted the religion of Islam, his wife's faith, before they married.

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Orbea

Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike gold on an Orbea Alma.

Philip Abbott

A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).

Phineas Hitchcock

He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

Pillar of Fire International

Alma White, the Pillar of Fire, and their association with the Klan are dramatized in Libba Bray's New York Times best-selling 2012 murder mystery The Diviners, in a chapter titled "The Good Citizen." The Diviners is being made into a feature film by Paramount Pictures.

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Pont de l'Alma

Only the statue of the Zouave was retained: the Skirmisher was relocated to the Gravelle Stronghold in Vincennes, the Grenadier to Dijon, and the Artilleryman to La Fère.

Prairie schooner

Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rhodes University

Sir Basil Schonland, son of Selmar Schonland, became the first Chancellor of his alma mater, and Dr Thomas Alty the first Vice-Chancellor.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.

Southern Power

Southern Power District: a publicly owned electric utility in south-central Nebraska

Stacey Nuveman

Stacey has also worked broadcasts at her alma mater, UCLA and the Women's College World Series.

United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2008

Democratic Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said that he would do whatever it takes to deliver the electoral vote tied to the 2nd Congressional District to Obama, and the Obama Campaign considered Nebraska's 2nd congressional district "in play".

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

Walter Rodney

He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania during the period 1966-67 and later in Jamaica at his alma mater UWI Mona.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.


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