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unusual facts about Consulate-General of Japan, Nashville



24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment served under generals Grant and Sherman and was engaged in the battles Stone's River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga.

Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori

A local newspaperman, Andrew Marschalk, who was originally from New York, sent a copy to United States Senator Thomas Reed From Mississippi who was then in town at the time, who forwarded it to the U.S. Consulate in Morocco.

Alonso Brito

As a respected songwriter he moved to Nashville in the 90’s to help write songs for Raul Malo and The Mavericks; contributing to the country band’s Grammy-award winning playlists writing for their song “Things I Cannot Change.”

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Appalachian dulcimer

Contemporary professional musicians who view the dulcimer as their primary instrument include Stephen Seifert of Nashville and Aaron O'Rourke of Tallahassee.

Bernard Dillon

Alexander Hurley, Lloyd's true husband at the time, died two months later, and Dillon and Lloyd were married at the British Consulate in Portland, Oregon, on 21 February 1914.

Bob Schultz

He was shot to death at age 55 after becoming embroiled in an argument with another patron in the bar of a Nashville Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Brad Cotter

Cotter left Silverado in 1993 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he tried to get work as a solo act and a songwriter, landing cuts by Tommy Shane Steiner and Chad Brock, in addition to recording demos.

Bud Hedinger

He worked at WFTV in Orlando from 1986 until 1989 and then worked at a TV station in Nashville before returning to Orlando in 1993.

Bulwark Protective Apparel

The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and owned by VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world’s largest apparel company.

Children of Rain

At the encouragement of Music City mogul Buddy Killen, producer of R&B immortal Joe Tex and countless country stars, including Dolly Parton, Dottie West and Roger Miller, Pam and Alan Ross moved to Nashville in late August of 1969.

Claude Batley

Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Wankaner Palace (1933) now Lincoln House, the American Consulate, Breach Candy; Bombay Central Station (1930); South Court or popularly now known as Jinnah House, (1935); Round Building (1937), Cusrow Baug in Colaba Causeway (1937–59) and its Agiary, known as The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary (1938), Bombay Club (1939) later Hotel Nataraj and now Inter-Continental Mumbai, Lalbhai House (1942) and Breach Candy Hospital (1950).

David Choby

After spending one year at Aquinas College in Nashville, Bishop Choby entered the seminary at St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa.

Federation for a Democratic China

In 2005 Chen Yonglin, then Chinese consulate-general working in Sydney, defected to the Australian government by a formal claim for political asylum.

For LP Fans Only

It is a compilation of material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One, a September 1956 session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, sessions on January 10 and 11 at RCA Studios in Nashville, two more at RCA Studios in New York, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio.

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

J. Kirk Richards

Among other locations, Richards work has been shown at the Springville Museum of Art; the Renaissance Center Juried Show in Nashville, Tennessee; the Provo Arts Council Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit; the Bountiful/Davis Art Center; at Southern Virginia University as part of its Annual Shenandoah Invitational Art Show; at the Robert N. & Peggy Sears Dixie State Invitational Art Shows in St. George, Utah; and the Museum of Church History and Art.

Jealous Heart

Recorded in Nashville in March 1966 by Trio Los Panchos led by Johnny Albino, "Celoso" entered the Top Ten in Mexico in April 1967 and - ranked in tandem with a cover by Marco Antonio Muñiz - the track reached #1 that summer spending five months in the Top Ten.

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

Joe M. Rodgers

He started American Constructors in 1979, which built Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the Wildhorse Saloon.

Karl Dean

Dean is married to Anne Davis, who is one of the four heirs of the Joe C. Davis, Jr. and Rascoe Davis coal fortunes and a proprietor of the Joe Davis Family Foundation in Nashville.

Kenny Bishop

He has been a regular performer on the Gaither Homecoming video series and radio program, and has performed on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and PBS.

Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection

In addition to the three compact discs, The 25th Anniversary Collection includes a booklet containing photographs, a biography by Nashville journalist Robert K. Oermann and comments from band members.

Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Doulcet was subsequently elected to the French Directory's Council of Five Hundred, but was suspected of Royalist sympathies, and had to spend some time in retirement between anti-monarchist coup of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the establishment of the Consulate (the 18 Brumaire coup of 9 November 1799).

Matt Fulks

Fulks started his journalism career while attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio, a producer for WSMV-TV, sports director for WAKM radio and a sports writer with the Review-Appeal.

Michael DelGiorno

His co-host Gwen Freeman succeeded him after his departure in April, 2007, but shortly afterward (February 2008) also left KFAQ, initially joining him as co-host of his Nashville program.

Nashville West

Along with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Nashville West was among the pioneering groups of the country rock genre.

Nashville, North Carolina

Phil Valentine, nationally syndicated talk radio host and movie producer

National Supermarkets

At its height, National's footprint extended from western Pennsylvania to Colorado, with stores in Denver, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, the Quad Cities, Indianapolis, Chicago, Youngstown, Memphis, and Nashville.

Never Picture Perfect

Recorded = 1989
OmniSound Recording Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Big Dog Studio
(Wichita, Kansas)
The Pond
(Franklin, Tennessee

New King James Version

It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians.

North Korea–Pakistan relations

Pakistan has an Embassy in Pyongyang while North Korea maintains an Embassy in Islamabad, a vast Consulate-General in Karachi, and consulates in other cities of Pakistan.

Opryland

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - formerly known as "Opryland Hotel", located in Nashville, Tennessee

Pablo Goldstein

In 2011, Pablo Goldstein, together with poet Karina Galvez and painter Luis Burgos Flor, was one of the only three non-Mexican artists to be invited to conmemorate the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, where he performed Franz Schubert's Ave Maria (Schubert) and several tango pieces for bandoneón.

Quonset

Quonset Hut Studio, an early recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Roy Skinner

The first player to make the team was Perry Wallace, a local schoolboy star at Nashville's Pearl High School, who enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966 and first started playing for the team in 1967, becoming the Southeastern Conference's first African American varsity player.

Scott Rauland

From 2003 through 2005, he served as Consul General in Yekaterinburg, Russia, before returning to Germany to work in Frankfurt as Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Consulate General.

Sharon Higgins

Not long after, she took the very last train from St. Louis to the Union Train Station in Nashville, Tennessee.

Singapore–United States relations

The United States first opened a consulate in Singapore in 1836, appointing Joseph Balestier to the post of consul.

The Americana Folk Festival

The Americana Folk Festival (AFF) is a grassroots art and music event held at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee (right outside Nashville.) The event focuses on folk music as it relates to various genres, particularly jazz, Americana, blues, and rock.

The Derailers

Seeking greater mainstream success, The Derailers switched to Sony’s Lucky Dog Records for their next release, Here Come the Derailers, and were paired with Nashville A-list producer Kyle Lehning.

TPAC

Tennessee Performing Arts Center, a performing arts facility in Nashville, Tennessee.

U.S. raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the detained Iranians had been working in Arbil with official sanction, and the liaison office was in the process of becoming a full consulate; however the office was yet to be classified as a consulate with diplomatic protection.

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

WCOA-FM

On November 5, 2009 at Noon, the station flipped to Top 40 as "i100, Today's Hit Music", mirroring similar (and Cumulus owned) contemporary hit radio stations KLIF-FM in Dallas, Texas and WNFN in Nashville, Tennessee.

Xul Solar

Over the following few years, despite the onset of World War I, he would move among these cities, as well as Tours, Marseille, and Florence; towards the end of the war he served at the Argentine consulate in Milan.


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