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10 unusual facts about Little Rock


37th Ohio Infantry

It then followed the fortunes of that well-known corps until the reaching of Washington, D.C. From Louisville, Kentucky, it went with the 2nd Division of the Corps to Little Rock, Arkansas, and was there mustered out in August 1865.

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne (December 5, 1802 – June 10, 1862) was an Irish-American Catholic priest, who became the first Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A..

Epperson v. Arkansas

The case in Epperson v. Arkansas involved the teaching of biology in a Little Rock high school forty years later.

KHTE

KHTE-LP, a low-power television station (channel 44) licensed to Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Little Rock, Morrison County, Minnesota

Little Rock is an unincorporated community in Buckman Township, Morrison County, Minnesota, United States.

Philander Smith

Her gift that year to the Methodists’ Walden Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas resulted in its immediate renaming as Philander Smith College.

Philip H. Stoll

Born in Little Rock, Marion (now Dillon) County, South Carolina, Stoll attended the public schools.

Phyllis Crawford

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, she graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1920 and then from library school at the University of Illinois in 1924 and became an editorial assistant for H.W. Wilson.

The Hands That Built America

U2 have performed this song live in its entirety seven times, the first being at the premiere of Gangs of New York on December 9, 2002, and the last occurrence done solely by Bono and The Edge as an acoustic performance at the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas on November 18, 2004.

Veronica Nunn

Veronica Nunn (born October 7, 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American jazz singer most known as the featured vocalist with Michael Franks since 1992.


Barbara Castleton

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Castleton was one of the lower echelon stars who made films for Samuel Goldwyn Studio, along with Cullen Landis, James Kirkwood, and Rowland Lee.

Chester Ashley

In 1820 he arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas, soon becoming one of the best and most prominent lawyers in the Arkansas Territory; for a time, his partner in practice was Robert Crittenden.

Clay Fulks

Ben M. Bogard Fails to Halt Devil Darrow, an attack of ridicule on the conservative theologian Ben M. Bogard of Little Rock, Arkansas, who challenged the secularism of the Chicago attorney Clarence Darrow.

Crime 360

Crime 360 is an American reality television show based on homicide detective units in various cities across the United States, including Richmond, Virginia; Rochester, New York; Little Rock, Arkansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio.

Danny Nutt

Danny Nutt was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he grew up with his mother Emogene Nutt, father Houston Dale Nutt, and four siblings: Dickey (former head men's basketball coach at Arkansas State University), Houston, and Dennis Nutt, a former NBA player.

David Owen Dodd

In December 1863, Dodd carried some letters to business associates of his father in Union-held Little Rock, Arkansas.

ElimiDate

Episodes were filmed in over three dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Columbus, Little Rock, St. Paul, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Raleigh and Sacramento, and the syndicators usually received strong support from their affiliate stations to find contestants for the series within their cities through casting calls.

Fouke Monster

Soon after news spread about the Ford sighting, the Little Rock, Arkansas, radio station KAAY posted a $1,090 bounty on the creature.

George E. Nowotny

In 1967, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock appointed Nowotny the first ever Minority Leader of the state House because Nowotny's name was the first alphabetically among the three Republican House members.

KJLR-LP

KJLR-LP (UHF channel 28) is a low-power TV station based in Little Rock, Arkansas, currently broadcasting programming from AMGTV.

KJNE-LP

Currently, NBC is available locally on cable on KARK-TV in Little Rock and WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee; it is unknown if the two stations will still broadcast to them after KJNE-LP assumes the NBC affiliation.

KTUZ-TV

The station signed on the air three months later on November 10, branded as "OK30", under the ownership of Little Rock-based Equity Broadcasting Corporation.

Leona Troxell

She was the dean of women at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before she married Nolan Troxell (1904–1971) and moved to tiny Rose Bud in White County north of the state capital of Little Rock.

Lucius M. Walker

At dawn on Sunday, September 6, Walker and Marmaduke squared off with Colt Navy revolvers on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Little Rock.

Malco Theatres

This led to the formation of Arkansas Amusement Enterprises, Inc. with a total of 32 theatres in Arkansas with locations including Little Rock, North Little Rock, Camden, Hope, and Smackover.

Operation Provide Comfort

On-ground humanitarian aid was provided by the 353rd Civil Affairs Command, Bronx, New York, and by subordinate units 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and 431st Civil Affairs BN, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Pat Seerey

He began his career at Lamar Porter Field in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was a 1941 gradudate of Little Rock Catholic High School.

Ralph M. Gambone

After a tour of duty aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock (CLG 4), Gambone was assigned to the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. After three years with the Band and promotion to chief musician, he was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel as Assistant Budget Manager for the Navy Music Program in 1978.

Repertory theatre

Repertory theatre with mostly changing casts and longer running plays, perhaps better classed as "provincial" or "non-profit" theatre, has made a big come-back, in cities such as Little Rock, AR, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Buffalo, Kansas City, and Seattle.

Sophia Ellis

It has competed at the Sitges & Austin film festivals and has gone on to screen in Rome, Little Rock, Buenos Aires, Málaga, Horror Hound and Sacramento Film Festivals.

St. Louis Southwestern 819

Governor Bill Clinton joined his wife and the other riders on board when the train slowed to a crawl behind Barton Coliseum, just minutes from Little Rock's Union Station.

Will Boyd

He spent stints with local Little Rock punk bands such as The Visitors and Lucky Father Brown and is currently in the bands Two Spines and American Princes.

World Wide Recorder Concert

Four million children, including those from Mr. Garrison's class, are scheduled to play "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at the televised Worldwide Recorder Concert in Oklahoma City led by Yoko Ono and Kenny G, but a flood caused the concert to be relocated in Little Rock, Mr. Garrison's hometown.