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4 unusual facts about Lamar


Lamar, South Carolina

Levon Kirkland, former NFL football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Lamar, Texas

This prosperity ended abruptly on February 11, 1864, when the town was bombarded and practically obliterated by the Union Navy.

Mirabeau B. Lamar

Lamar County, in northeast Texas, and Lamar, a small unincorporated community in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast, are both named for Mirabeau Lamar.

The Big Tree, Rockport

The Big Tree is located near the old town of Lamar, in Goose Island State Park.


Ann Hannaford Lamar

Ann Hannaford Lamar (born c. 1963) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Anthony Grooms

Grooms has received many awards for his writings: the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction (twice), the Sokolov Scholarship of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Lamar lectureship of Wesleyan College, and an Arts Administration Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Backseat Freestyle

The song is preceded by a short skit, at the end of the previous track "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe", in which Lamar's friend tells him "K-Dot get in the car nigga, we finna roll out. Nigga I got a pack of blacks and a beat CD, get your freestyles ready."

Bothriechis nigroviridis

According to Campbell and Lamar (2004), this species prefers medium to high elevations from 1,150 to over 3,000 m, and is found from the Cordillera Tilarán and Cordillera Central in the southeastern Alajuela province in Costa Rica, southeast through the Cordillera de Talamanca to Chiriquí province in Panama.

Ed Simmons

Edward Lamar Simmons (born December 31, 1963 in French Camp, California) is a former American football offensive tackle who played his entire eleven-year career with the Washington Redskins from 1987 to 1997 in the National Football League.

Eli L. Whiteley

Eli Lamar Whiteley (December 10, 1913 – December 2, 1986) was a Captain in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Sigolsheim, France during World War II.

Henry Graybill Lamar

In 1828, Lamar was elected as a Jacksonian Representative from Georgia to the 21st United States Congress to fill the remainder of the term for the vacant seat resulting from the resignation of George Rockingham Gilmer.

Lamar was reelected to the 22nd Congress and served in total from December 7, 1829, to March 3, 1833.

Jasper, Missouri

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway (a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

KLMR

KLMR-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Lamar, Colorado, United States

Lamar Cardinals basketball

During the Roccaforte era (2006–2011), Lamar Basketball Lamar had erratic success.

Lamar Stringfield

The Lamar Stringfield papers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill included Stringfield's correspondence with Robert Russell Bennett, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franko Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul Green, Thor Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski in addition to many of his works.

Lamar University College of Engineering

The Industrial Engineering Department at Lamar is headed by Dr. Victor Zaloom, who is also the Associate Dean of the College.

Lamar University System

The Lamar University System was a state university system with four institutions: the flagship, Lamar University, and the member institutions Lamar State College Port Arthur, Lamar State College Orange, and Lamar Institute of Technology.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar I

An eccentric brother of his mother claimed the naming of her children, and called them after his favorite historical heroes, in Lamar's case the Roman statesman Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus.

Mad City

"M.A.A.D City", a 2012 song by Kendrick Lamar, from his debut album Good Kid, M.A.A.D City

Mirabeau B. Lamar

Lamar served in Managua for twenty months before returning to Texas in October 1859 because of poor health.

Phi Kappa National Fraternity

As a high school student at the Lamar School in Meridian, Mississippi, actress Sela Ward was an honoree (or "little sister") for the Delta Chi chapter of Phi Kappa.

Ray Woodard

In 2008 Lamar University hired Ray Woodard as their first head football coach in almost 20 years to bring football back to Lamar.

Rocky Bridges

Everett Lamar "Rocky" Bridges (born August 7, 1927, in Refugio, Texas) is a former utility infielder with an 11-year career in American Major League Baseball from 1951 to 1961.

Sail Out

Aiko stated that she was looking forward to working with American artist Kid Cudi saying "It's on my wish list, I'm not gonna say, you know, that he's gonna be on there. One day, maybe", she also revealed that American rapper Big Sean and members of the TDE cats (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock) may make an appearance on "Souled Out".

Sheldon Pinnell

Sheldon Pinnell is an American dermatological scientist and J. Lamar Callaway Professor of Dermatology, Emeritus at Duke University.

The God of Cookery

An 35-mm print of the film brought by Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy was shown at a sold-out screening at one of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema South Lamar's "Food and Film Events".

Themes in Minority Report

The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess.

We Up

While performing at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on February 27, 2013, Kendrick Lamar brought out 50 Cent for We Ups performance, along with G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo.


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