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unusual facts about Manchester, Tennessee



1995–96 FA Premier League

Manchester United and Newcastle United emerged as the primary title contenders for the 1995–96 season.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

25 Minutes to Go

German singer Gunter Gabriel on his Album The Tennessee-Recordings (2003).

Alex Dawson

Dawson was the last player to score a hat trick in an FA Cup semi-final, back in 1958 when Manchester United beat Fulham 5–3 in a replay at Highbury.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Andrew Amers-Morrison

He was appointed after visiting the country on holiday and the Seychellois football officials mistakenly believed him to be Scottish former Manchester City player Andy Morrison.

Attic Records

ATIC Records, Manchester, United Kingdom electronic / Hip Hop label, founded by Aim in 2005

Beasley-Parham House

The Beasley-Parham House is located in the vicinity of Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States.

Boys Better

# "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (Gordon Lightfoot) (Gordon Lightfoot cover recorded for Manchester's Key 103 radio station)

Bulwark Protective Apparel

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

Clas Ohlson

There are now 12 stores in England and Wales, including Manchester, Leeds, Watford, Kingston upon Thames, Reading, Liverpool, Merry Hill, Cardiff, Doncaster, Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Damon Rochefort

He has also written several episodes of ITV's Britannia High, and has written the Coronation Street stage musical 'Street of Dreams' starring Paul O Grady, Kym Marsh, Katy Cavanagh and Jodie Prenger which opens in Manchester at the MEN in May 2012.

David Barnes

Dave Barnes (born 1978), singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

Days of May

In 1819 a crowd of 15,000 had gathered at Newhall Hill in Birmingham to symbolically elect Charles Wolsley as the town's "Legislatorial Attorney and Representative" in Westminster; when Manchester followed Birmingham's lead two months later troops opened fire and killed 15 in the event that became known as the Peterloo Massacre.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

DJ Tintin

His reputation as a 'stadium' DJ grew when he was given the headline DJ spot at the legendary Manchester Versus Cancer gig at the Manchester Arena in 2006 - and was invited back as the headline DJ at the VersusCancer MEN arena events in both 2007 and 2008.

Fort Loudoun

Fort Loudoun Lake, a man made lake on the Tennessee River, Tennessee, United States

Halothane

This halogenated hydrocarbon was first synthesized by C. W. Suckling of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1951 and was first used clinically by M. Johnstone in Manchester in 1956.

Hobgoblin Music

There is an online catalogue, and the eight UK branches in Crawley, London, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Wadebridge, Birmingham and Milton Keynes also stock hundreds of second hand & one off items.

Hunting My Dress

Hunting My Dress is a 2009 album by Jesca Hoop, with most of the material written and recorded after the artist moved to Manchester, England.

James Pascoe Group

As of 2013, Farmers major offerings include Women's Fashion, Men's Fashion and Mercery, Lingerie, Serviced Comestics, Health & Beauty, Accessories, Children's, Kitchen and Tabletop, Small Appliances, Manchester, and Furniture.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Leonard Behrens

Back in Britain, he became President of the Manchester Liberal Federation, and was an official of a large number of local bodies, including the Manchester Statistical Society, the Design and Industries Association, the Royal Manchester College of Music, the Hallé Concert Society and the University of Manchester.

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Luzia Woman

Richard Neave of Manchester University, who undertook a facial reconstruction of Luzia (see the photograph above), believes that it is negroid.

Manchester College

Manchester Metropolitan University, formerly Manchester Polytechnic, formed in 1977 by a merger between Manchester College of Art and Design and Manchester College of Commerce; in 1983 the City of Manchester College of Higher Education was also folded in

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, with origins in the Manchester Municipal School of Technology, later the Manchester Municipal College of Technology

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Myles and Connor

Myles Antony Ryan and Connor Jerrade Ryan (born 19 October 1995) were a British musical duo from Manchester, England who are best known for appearing on the fourth series of ITV's show Britain's Got Talent as part of the boyband 'Connected'.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

OpenGALEN

OpenGALEN has been set up as a not-for-profit Dutch Foundation by the universities of Manchester and Nijmegen to make the results of the GALEN projects available to the world.

Pickwick Lake

The lakeshore plays host to two state parks: Tennessee's Pickwick Landing State Park and Mississippi's J P Coleman State Park.

Priestnall School

They are all named after Manchester landmarks – the Bridgewater Hall, the Imperial War Museum, Urbis, the John Rylands Library, and Victoria Baths.

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley

According to the church's website, the organ was moved from Manchester's Free Trade Hall and had been the property of Sir Charles Hallé.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

Tennessee Railroad

In 1991, American country music band The Desert Rose Band filmed part of their music video for the single "You Can Go Home" at the Tennessee Railroad Museum.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Daily Service

When the Religion and Ethics department of the BBC moved to Manchester, its new base became Emmanuel Church, Didsbury.

Tony Strudwick

In April 2008, Strudwick was involved in an altercation between some of Manchester United's players, including Patrice Evra and Gary Neville, and the ground staff at Chelsea.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

Walderslade

Chris Smalling grew up in Walderslade & now plays for Manchester United & England

West Tennessee

Two future interstates are to travel in West Tennessee: Interstate 69 and Interstate 22.

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

WOPI

WOPI-CA, a television station (TV 9) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee


see also

Batesville Casket Company

In addition to Batesville, Indiana, there are factories in Batesville, Mississippi, Chihuahua, Mexico, Manchester, Tennessee, Mexico City, Mexico, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Ziock Building

Operations were successful enough to launch three subsidiaries: Beloit Hoisery in Seneca Falls, New York; Tenn-Rock Hosiery in McMinnville, Tennessee; and Manchester Mills, Inc. in Manchester, Tennessee.