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2 unusual facts about Mangum


Elizabeth Ann Ray

She graduated from high school in Mangum, Oklahoma and attended Oklahoma College for Women for year.

Mangum, Oklahoma

Mangum is home to the fourth longest-lasting light bulb, located in a fire house, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.


Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway

The Mangum Street embankment which ran north-south along Mangum Street (parallel to today's Northside Drive, but two blocks to the east), upon which trains reached the Atlanta terminus west of Downtown Atlanta, was built in 1905 and razed circa 1990 for construction of the Georgia Dome.

Cultural depictions of Anne Frank

Neutral Milk Hotel — US indie rock band whose 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by the lead singer Jeff Mangum's affection for Anne Frank.

Dusty Mangum

After the game, according to The Daily Texan, President George W. Bush called UT football coach Mack Brown to congratulate him on the win, and to make sure he knew that he watched the entire game, right down to Mangum's last kick.

Mangum, who began his college football career as a walk-on, is best known for capping UT's 2004-2005 season with a 37-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in the 2005 Rose Bowl versus No. 13 University of Michigan.

Jittery

Live at Jittery Joe's was an album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs on eBay.

Oklahoma State University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Experiment stations currently operate in the Oklahoma cities of Stillwater, Goodwell, Woodward, Bessie, Lahoma, Haskell, Perkins, Chickasha, Fort Cobb, Altus, Mangum, Tipton, Lane, Bixby, and Idabel.

The Olivia Tremor Control

Jeff Mangum followed OTC with Neutral Milk Hotel, releasing On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, as well as a few "underground" acoustic demos.


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