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unusual facts about Troy, Alabama


Pursuit Channel

On cable, it is available on Troy Cablevision in Troy, Alabama and Luverne, Alabama, and on the cable systems that carry its broadcast affiliates.


1948 Democratic National Convention

The thirteen members of the Alabama delegation were led out by Leven H. Ellis.

20 Years After

Filmed principally in north Alabama and southern Tennessee, the low-budget film was initially released under the title Like Moles, Like Rats, a reference to the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth.

2003 Auburn Tigers football team

After consecutive losses to Ole Miss, led by Eli Manning, and Georgia, the Tigers concluded a disappointing regular season by defeating arch rival Alabama, 28–23.

2006 New Orleans Bowl

With 5:12 left in the 1st quarter, Rice got on the board with an 11-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joel Armstrong to wide receiver Mike Falco, making the score 14-7, Troy.

4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment participated in the Third Battle of Chattanooga from November 23–27 1863, then was on garrison duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville in Alabama, until June 1864, having Veteranized during the spring of 1864.

Billy Powell

In 2007, two years before his death, Powell played piano on Kid Rock's summer anthem "All Summer Long" (which samples "Sweet Home Alabama").

Bob Vance

Bob Vance (jurist), American jurist who ran for Alabama Supreme Court against Roy Moore in 2012

Carians

Homer records that Miletus (later an Ionian city), together with the mountain of Phthries, the river Maeander and the crests of Mount Mycale were held by the Carians at the time of the Trojan War and that the Carians, qualified by the poet as being of incomprehensible speech, joined the Trojans against the Achaeans under the leadership of Nastes, brother of Amphimachos ("he who fights both ways") and son of Nomion.

Cavendish Beach Music Festival

In 2012 the festival included major acts Rik Reese & Neon Highway, Dierks Bentley, Alabama, and Rascal Flatts.

Craig McMurtry

Joe Craig McMurtry (born November 5, 1959 in Troy, Texas) was a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves (1983–86), Texas Rangers (1988–90) and Houston Astros (1995).

CSS Baltic

The Baltic was captured at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on 10 May 1865 and sold on 31 December 1865.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Dud Bascomb

He played piano as a child but settled on trumpet, and first played with Hawkins at the Alabama State Teachers' School (now Alabama State University) in 1932, where Hawkins led the Bama State Collegians band.

Eutaw

Eutaw Formation, a geological formation in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi

Greg Canfield

Governor Robert J. Bentley appointed Canfield to the Alabama Development Office in July 2011, succeeding Seth Hammett.

Gyrotoma

They were native to the main channel of the Coosa River in Alabama, where the last suitable habitat was destroyed by the filling of the reservoir Logan Martin Lake in the mid-1960s.

Hootie Ingram

During the 1953 football season, Ingram was moved to the quarterback position on an Alabama team that included Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr.

Isaiah Edward Robinson, Jr.

He lived in Middletown, New York with his adopted sons before he returned to Birmingham, Alabama, where he died on April 14, 2011, following a stroke.

Jan Husarik

Husarick also has an interest in the legendary city of Troy which is the subject of many of his works.

Jefferson Drum

James Griffith, Robert Vaughn, and Anna Karen as Troy Bendick, Shelly Poe, and Bess, respectively" in the episode "Return.

John Newsome

John P. Newsome (1893–1961), politician in the U.S. state of Alabama

Lamar Thomas

He was the victim of "The Strip", George Teague's strip of the football at the 10 yard line in the 1993 Sugar Bowl that continued an Alabama rout of Miami.

Logan Young

During the 2000 season, an assistant football coach at Trezevant High School in Memphis claimed that Young had paid Lynn Lang, the Trezevant head football coach, approximately $150,000 to encourage defensive lineman Albert Means to sign with Alabama.

Loveman's

Loveman's of Alabama, a Birmingham, Alabama-based chain of department stores with locations across Alabama

Minooka High School

The district, is largely composed of the communities of Minooka and Channahon, and also includes portions of Shorewood, Joliet and Troy.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Neal Brown

Before joining Larry Blakeney's staff at Troy to work under Tony Franklin, he spent one-year assistant coaching stints at UMass, Sacred Heart, and Delaware.

Politics of the Southern United States

When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Rebel Love

The picture was shot on locations in Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama during the summer of 1983, with many scenes filmed at the Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park.

Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor

Baylor was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831) from Alabama's 2nd congressional district and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress.

Rush darter

This fish is currently known from three Alabama river drainages: the Clear Creek drainage in Winston County, some springs in Jefferson County, and Little Cove Creek drainage in Etowah County.

Santosh Marray

In September, 2012, Bishop Marray accepted the call to the position of Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, under the Right Reverend John McKee Sloan.

Scott Beason

In 1998, won the primary runoff in Alabama's House District 51 against State Representative Jim Townsend with 53% of the vote.

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

Southfield Town Center

The Town Center is proximate to major malls in the area by freeway including, Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, Somerset Collection in Troy, and Northland Center in Southfield.

Spruce Pine

Spruce Pine, Alabama, a census-designated place in Franklin County, Alabama, United States

Stippled studfish

The Stippled studfish (Fundulus bifax) is a small freshwater fish which is endemic to the Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama, USA; and Sofkahatchee Creek (lower Coosa River system) in Alabama.

Studies in Modern Movement

Troy damages the apartment's electrical outlet, and Pierce (Chevy Chase) offers to help her fix it before her landlord comes.

The Crimson White

Other famous former CW staffers include longtime New York Yankees broadcaster Mel Allen, Crazy in Alabama author Mark Childress, and New Journalism pioneer Gay Talese.

Troy Glasgow

In 2008 Troy originated the role of Tobias Rich in the world premiere of Harper Regan at the National Theatre by British playwright Simon Stephens alongside Lesley Sharp as Harper Regan.

Troy VII

These dates correspond closely to the mythical chronology of Greece as calculated by classical authors, placing the construction of the walls of Troy by Poseidon, Apollo and Aeacus at 1282 BC and the sack of Troy by the Greeks at 1183 BC.

Troy weight

Charles Moore Watson (1844–1916) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures (also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies "troni ponderacionem"—which the Public Record Commissioners translates as "troy weight".

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell was the Democratic candidate for Alabama in the United States Senate election of 2004.

WCNF

Weekend programming includes talk shows hosted by Dennis Prager, Steve Gill, and Hugh Hewitt, plus Outdoors with Alan Warren and Viewpoint Alabama.

William Nichols

William Flynt Nichols (1918–1988), Democratic member of United States House of Representatives for the state of Alabama

WRRS

WYDE-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Cullman, Alabama, United States, which used the call sign WRRS from November 1998 to July 2002

WVOK

WVOK-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to Oxford, Alabama, United States

WVUA

WVUA-FM, a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Zeleia

Zeleia led a force of warriors to aid Troy during the Trojan War, led by Pandarus, son of Lycaon.


see also

WRJM

WIYC, a television station (channel 48/PSIP 67) licensed to serve Troy, Alabama, United States, known as WRJM-TV from 2000 to 2009