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unusual facts about Paducah, KY



Alvis Wayne

Alvis was born in Paducah, Texas and listened to country music on the radio as a child and was given a guitar at age ten.

Callie Khouri

Following her graduation from St. Mary's High School in Paducah, Kentucky, she studied landscape architecture at Purdue University before changing her major to drama.

Clarks River

The East Fork, shown on federal maps as the main stem of the river, begins south of Murray near the community of Puryear in Henry County and is paralleled by the Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad.

Earl Goodwin

Earl Goodwin (January 21, 1901 - July, 1976) was a professional football player from Paducah, Texas.

EMD FP9

The FP10 units were 'built' in the late 1970s by the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad at its Paducah, Kentucky shops for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority using former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad F3 and F7 units.

Heather A. Ryan

She and her husband, currently a law student, have two children and live in Paducah, Kentucky.

Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility

Across the Ohio river in Paducah, Kentucky, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, can enrich the uranium hexafluoride into various levels for nuclear power or nuclear weapon purposes.

Hwang Jung-Oh

Hwang has also made outstanding contributions to various organizations such as: WHAS Crusade for Children, Easter Seals Center in Paducah, KY and the MDA.

Illinois Central 121

The trainset was shipped to the ICRR's shops at Paducah, Kentucky, for a complete overhaul, which took two months.

Jeff McWaters

He attended Paducah Tilghman High School in his home town of Paducah, playing on the football team and participating on Paducah Tilghman's 1974 state championship team.

K-25

K-25 was the prototype for later Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion facilities and those at Paducah, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio.

Leeman Bennett

A native of Paducah, Kentucky, Bennett graduated from the University of Kentucky, playing at both quarterback and defensive back under head coach Blanton Collier for three seasons beginning in 1958.

Mahmudiyah killings

Green was arrested as a civilian, and convicted by a civilian court, the U.S. District Court in Paducah, Kentucky.

McNeil's Nebula

McNeil's Nebula is a variable nebula discovered January 23, 2004 by Jay McNeil of Paducah, Kentucky.

Myrl Goodwin

Myrl Goodwin (January 21, 1901 - February 14, 1979) was a professional football player from Paducah, Texas.

Paducah, Texas

Clarence Hailey Long, the original inspiration for the Marlboro Man advertising campaign stemming from a 1949 issue of LIFE magazine, was born in Paducah in 1910.

Tom Abraham, a business and civic figure and philanthropist in Canadian, Texas, first worked in Paducah upon his graduation from Texas Tech University in 1932.

Pitchfork Ranch

On February 25, 1945, he married the former Bama Nell Smith (1924–2007) in Paducah, the seat of Cottle County, Texas.

Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway

Freight stops on the QA&P were in Red River, Carnes, Quanah, Acme, Lazare, Swearingen, Paducah, Narcisso, Summit (Motley County), Russellville, Roaring Springs, MacBain, Dougherty, Boothe Spur, and Floydada.

Shawn McKenzie

Richard Shawn McKenzie (born February 20, 1971 in Paducah, Kentucky) is an Open Source Software programmer living in Katy, Texas in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area.

Timeline of Kentucky in the American Civil War

March 25, 1864 • Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest raided Paducah as part of his campaign northward from Mississippi to upset the Union domination of the regions south of the Ohio river.

April 14, 1864 • Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford revisits Paducah to capture "140 fine horses" reported by a Dover, Tennessee newspaper to have escaped Forrest's earlier raid.

Uranium hexafluoride

In 2005, 686,500 tonnes in 57,122 storage cylinders were located near Portsmouth, Ohio, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky.

William Harding Mayes

Born in Mayfield, Kentucky, Mayes was educated at Norton's English and Classical School in Tennessee, Paducah District Methodist College in Kentucky and Vanderbilt University.

Williamson County Regional Airport

July 23, 1973: Ozark Air Lines Flight 809 between Nashville International Airport and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport had intermediate stops in Clarksville, Tennessee, Paducah, Kentucky, Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Marion-Williamson County Airport before arriving in St. Louis in the midst of a tornado warning.


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