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5 unusual facts about Shelby


Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

Shelby, Alabama

At this time, Shelby was connected to Columbiana by the Shelby Iron Company Railroad, which allowed the iron works to be connected to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad.

Shelby, Mississippi

Erma Franklin, gospel and R&B singer, sister of the legendary gospel and R&B singer Aretha Franklin

Shelby, Nebraska

Curtis Tomasevicz, 2006 and 2010 U.S. Olympic bobsledder, won gold medal in 2010 Winter Olympics

Shelby, Ohio

Dawn Powell, a writer from the 20th century lived in Shelby for a period of time.


1965 24 Hours of Le Mans

On Shelby's initiative, the GT40s were fitted with the same engine as the Cobras — an iron cast 4.7 L V8, and the Colotti gearbox that proved unreliable was replaced by a German-made ZF.

1966 24 Hours of Le Mans

Ford sent no less than eight Mark II to La Sarthe, entered by three teams: Shelby, Holman & Moody and Alan Mann Racing.

A C Wharton

In 1980, then-Shelby County Mayor Bill Morris appointed him as Chief Shelby County Public Defender, where his concern for the mentally ill in the criminal justice system gave birth to a national model program, known today as the Jericho Initiative.

Battle of Westport

Two other Confederate divisions, under Shelby and James Fagan, were poised to assault Blunt along Brush Creek the next day, hoping to defeat him before Pleasanton could arrive on the field in force.

Breakfast with Les and Bess

When it moved to Lamb's Theatre, the cast was as follows: Holland Taylor as Bess, Keith Charles as Les, Kelle Kipp as Shelby, Jeff McCracken as Roger, John Leonard as David, and Daniel Ziskie as Nate/Announcer.

The production at the Hudson Guild featured Holland Taylor as Bess, Keith Charles as Les, Amy Wright as Shelby, Tom Nolan as Roger, John Leonard as David, and Daniel Ziskie as Nate/Announcer.

Cahaba River Wildlife Management Area

The Cahaba River Wildlife Management Area is an Alabama Wildlife Management Area (WMA) operated by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in Bibb and Shelby Counties near West Blocton, Alabama.

Charles Follis

One of Follis' Shelby teammates during the 1902 and 1903 seasons was Branch Rickey.

Charlotte Shelby

Charlotte Shelby (Lily Pearl Miles Reilly) (19 December 1877 - 13 March 1957) was a popular Broadway actress in her youth and was long noted as a suspect in the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.

Cloverdale, Virginia

Cloverdale is the birthplace of Charles Follis, who became the first African-American to play professional football when he signed with the Shelby Blues of Shelby, Ohio in 1902 (note that he was first paid for playing in 1904).

Colin Kelly

The patriotic song There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere by Paul Roberts and Shelby Darnell (recorded by Elton Britt) places Colin Kelly alongside other legendary Americans in the line "I'll see Lincoln, Custer, Washington and Perry, / Nathan Hale and Colin Kelly too".

Craig Pohlman

Memory Systems (presented at South Carolina Branch of the International Dyslexia Association – Fall Conference in Columbia, SC and Mental Health Association of Cleveland County in Shelby, NC)

Egbert B. Brown

Among the high points of his career were two victories over Joseph Shelby, at the Second Battle of Springfield during Marmaduke's first raid, and at Marshall, Missouri, during Shelby's Great Raid of 1863.

FATZ

FATZ Shelby, North Carolina sponsors Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs' Club Hospitality Area during all Home Football and Men’s Basketball games.

Gabrielle Songe

As the law and government reporter her article, “Tie-breaking seat produces protracted selection process,” Nov. 20, 1996, described the choice of Shelby County Commissioner Morris Fair as the replacement for outgoing Commissioner Bill Gibbons, and “Seeking shoes,” Jan. 31, 1997, featured unintended consequences of Tennessee’s welfare reform program, Families First, that required children to attend school on a daily basis.

Helena, Alabama

It is also one of three cities, along with Alabaster and Pelham, that make up the area known as "North Shelby" or "North Shelby County".

I Am Unicorn

Recurring guest stars appearing in the episode include Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), Coach Beiste (Jones), cheerleader Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter), student Sugar Motta (Lengies) and Menzel as Shelby.

Joaquin Independent School District

A portion of the district (connected to the other by a portion of Toledo Bend Reservoir) is located in southeastern Shelby County and includes parts of Huxley.

Joseph O. Shelby

After Robert E. Lee's army surrendered in Virginia, General Edmund Kirby Smith appointed Shelby a major general on May 10, 1865.

Joy Bale Boone

Joy Bale Boone spent most her life in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with her first husband, physician Shelby Garnett Bale.

Leptoxis ampla

The round rocksnail was historically found in the Cahaba River and the Little Cahaba River, Bibb County, Alabama; and the Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama, and tributaries—Big Canoe and Kelly's creeks, St. Clair County, Alabama; Ohatchee Creek, Calhoun County, Alabama; Yellowleaf Creek, Shelby County, Alabama; and Waxahatchee Creek, Shelby/Chilton counties, Alabama.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Meriwether, Louisville

Its boundaries are the CSX railroad tracks to the north, Shelby Street to the east, E Brandeis Ave to the south and I-65 to the west.

Michigan's 18th congressional district

It also included Romeo, Washington Township, Shelby Township and Bruce Township in Macomb County.

Oak Mountain

Oak Mountain, a southern spur of the Appalachian Mountains in Shelby County, Alabama -- a real geological feature and not a manmade one.

Roush Performance

The company also provides custom built engines for cars like the Superformance Shelby Daytona Coupe or Brock Coupe as it's also known.

Shelby Cinca

In 2006, Shelby began releasing solo electronic music under his own name that he created with a Game Boy (Game Boy music) using the Nanoloop software accompanied by various synthesizers and occasional guitars.

Shelby County, Kentucky

One of the earliest families to settle in Shelby County was that of Daniel Ketcham of Washington County, Maryland.

Shelby Farms

In 2007, an agreement was signed between the Shelby County Mayor A.C. Wharton and the SFPA, forming the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy (SFPC), a public and private non-profit partnership established by Shelby County government to help provide day-to-day operations of the park and to develop a planning process for the future of Shelby Farms park.

From 1929 until 1964 Shelby Farms was used as a penal farm, in which the prisoners of the Shelby County Corrections Center were involved in agricultural labor to provide food for inmates and staff, or to sell overproduction for profit on behalf of the state of Tennessee.

Shelby Flint

In an April 1995 interview Joni Mitchell recalled that when she began making the rounds of the folk open mic circuit she wanted to sound just like Shelby Flint.

Shelby Forest

Shelby Forest, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee

Shelby Iron Company Railroad

The Shelby Iron Company Railroad was built to connect the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby, Alabama, to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad at Columbiana, Alabama, a distance of about five miles.

Shelby Place Historic District

Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

Shelby Valley High School

Shelby Valley High School (SVHS) is a public high school located in Pike County, Kentucky and situated on flat land in the rugged mountains of eastern Kentucky.

St. Joseph, Louisville

St. Joseph's boundaries are I-65 to the west, Norfolk Southern Railroad to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south and Shelby Street to the east.

The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man

The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man is an American reality television series that premiered on August 6, 2013 on History as a spin off to the series Ax Men.

The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo

Preslaysa Edwards: Cindy Ornette; Another one of Shelby's best friends.

Eleanor Noble: Angie Burns; Shelby's new friend from Boston who replaces Cindy.

Ty G. Allushuski

Allushuski mainly covered prep sports in Shelby County in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

Virginia City, Nevada

There is an annual hillclimb that runs from Silver City to Virginia City via Highway 341 (a truck route) that is put on jointly between the Ferrari Club of America Pacific Region and the Northern California Shelby Club.

William W. Skiles

Skiles was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until his death in Shelby, Ohio, January 9, 1904.

WSHB

The WSHB signal is planned to serve the Norwalk, Bellevue, Attica, New Washington, New London, Shiloh and Shelby areas not covered by sister stations WFOT and WHRQ, thus making it the sixth Catholic station in the Toledo Diocese.


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