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11 unusual facts about Selma


Amelia Boynton Robinson

She contended that the 1999 TV movie Selma, Lord, Selma, a docudrama based on a book written by two young participants in Bloody Sunday, falsely depicted her as a stereotypical "black Mammy" whose key role was to "make religious utterances and to participate in singing spirituals and protest songs."

James Porteous

His ideas, combined with those of fellow-inventors William Deidrick, Frank Dusy, and Abijah McCall, all of Selma, California led to the Fresno Scraper (1883).

Janice Bowling

Born on April 1, 1947 in Selma, Alabama, she was a teacher in the public school system before marrying her husband, who was then in the U.S. Air Force.

John Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh had many more overseas assignments, including the revolt in Lebanon in June 1958 to overthrow Camille Chamoun, the two wars between India and Pakistan in 1962 and 1965, a three month assignment in Vietnam in 1965 and the USA, where he covered the whole of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King.

Joseph F. Johnston

He practiced law in Selma, Alabama, eventually moving to Birmingham to become president of the Alabama National Bank.

McCandless Crossing

The project is being developed by AdVenture Development, a development firm based in Selma, North Carolina.

Mount Ida Plantation

In 1849 he was elected to the legislature on the Whig ticket, and during his service there, he succeeded in securing the passing of a charter giving to the county a railroad running through its entire length, then known as Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and afterwards as the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

On his return trip from Texas, he was offered the position of president of Masonic College in Selma, Alabama, which he accepted and held from January to October 1852.

Selma, North Carolina

Lunsford Richardson, founder of the Vick Chemical Company, maker of cold remedies such as Vick's Cough Drops

Wayne Jacobsen

Wayne, born March 21, 1953, is a native Californian, having grown up in a grape vineyard outside of Selma, California.

Zan Wesley Holmes Jr

In 2001, he was recognized as one of the Civil Rights Movement’s “Invisible Giants” in the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Alabama.


Audrey Atterbury

Audrey Selma Atterbury (19 April 1921 – 8 April 1997) was a British puppeter best known for her work on the 1950s pioneering BBC's children's series Andy Pandy.

Bobby W. Miller

Miller, who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama in 1965, was credited later with ending segregated locker rooms at the Ford Motor Company Die Cast Plant in Sheffield, Alabama, where he was employed from 1962–1974

Butterflies and Elvis

"Is It True?" is the first single taken from the album.The song was the Icelandic entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009,it achieved 174 points in the first semifinal and placed 1st.In the final the song received 218 points and placed 2nd making it the best Icelandic entry since Selma's "All Out Of Luck" in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999.

Dallas County, Alabama

Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.

Dorothy Langley

Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904 at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the US Army.

Dorothy Tillman

Tillman marched with King and was among the SCLC Field Staff to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in the Selma to Montgomery marches on 7 March 1965.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

Eileen Egan

She marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma, Alabama, had a major, behind-the-scenes hand in framing the "peace" statements of Vatican II, and promoted the work of Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr, crucial to the peaceful ouster of Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines.

Garaidh

For example it is found in the ballad Song of Selma - the reference here is to a musician interview by BBC Scotland discussing the 15th century song wherein a character named Garaidh is featured:.

Hani Shennib

Dr. Shennib has four children: Sarah Besan Shennib (born 1978), Faisal Shennib (born 1983), Selma Shennib (born 1988) and Lara Shennib (born 2007).

Jeff Mercel

One can also hear his work in commercials for BMW, and the recent “Got Milk?” ad campaign featuring Selma Hayek.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

The episode ends with the Simpsons, Lenny, Carl, Patty, Selma, Richard Dean Anderson, and Smithers joining in a Bollywood style dance at the plant.

Meanwhile, Selma and Patty meet their Hollywood heartthrob, Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver, who stops by to ask for directions to a convention about his newest show Stargate SG-1, only to find that he is totally uninterested in MacGyver and only did it for the pay.

Kurt Hirschfeld

Kurt Hirschfeld was born on March 10, 1902 in Lehrte, Lower Saxony, Germany to the Jewish merchant Hermann Hirschfeld (1871–1941) and his wife Selma Zierl (1877–1926), the daughter of a rabbi.

Maplesville, Alabama

In 1865, the train depot was destroyed in a raid by Union general James H. Wilson, as Wilson’s Raiders marched on to Selma.

The Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad completed their line in 1850, and the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway followed in 1853.

Pettus

:* The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, notable in civil rights history

Ralph Jordan

Born in Selma, Alabama, Jordan was nicknamed "Shug" as a child because of his love for sorghum sugar cane.

Selma Bajrami

Selma met her second husband, a Bosnian man named Mujo Musić in July 2011, during a performance of hers on a boat on the Modrac Lake in her birth city of Tuzla.

The songwriters of her fifth album, Kakvo tijelo Selma ima (What a Body Selma Has, 2004), included Dragan Brajović Braja, Dragiša Baša and Nanin from Tuzla.

Selma Cloverleafs

The season would officially begin on May 31, 2002, against the Americus Arrows on opening night, with Selma mayor James Perkins, Jr. throwing out the opening pitch.

Selma Diamond

Bob Schiller, who had also written for Duffy's Tavern and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, told author Jordan R. Young (for The Laugh Crafters), "The jury is still out on whether Selma was a comedy writer. She was really a very interesting character---salty, and she was---exactly what you saw on camera is what she was."

SS Selma

SS Selma (1871) was a 1,172 ton cargo ship launched as the Elf on 19 August 1871, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England.

SS Selma (1921) was a 1,746 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany.

Tuzla Canton

Music artist guitarist Emir Hot, pianist Bešlić, accordionist Emir Vildić and violinist Selma Dizdarević are also from Tuzla.

WGU-20

Besides the Maryland site, candidate sites for distribution stations were Maynard, Massachusetts; Mount Joy, Pennsylvania; Gray, Maine; Morristown, Tennessee; Starke, Florida or Chiefland, Florida; Mazomanie, Wisconsin; Carthage, Texas, Marshal, Texas or Seagoville, Texas; Alcova, Wyoming or Riverton, Wyoming; Mendota, California or Selma, California; Winslow, Arizona; Hermiston, Oregon; and Wallula, Washington.

Wurzbach Parkway

The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (RMA) is currently conducting a supplemental environmental assessment on the entire corridor from Lockhill-Selma Road to I-35, emphasizing the segment that has not been constructed.