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33 unusual facts about WACO


Ada Vélez

On June 21, 2002, Melissa Del Valle decisioned Vélez in Waco, Texas in the featured bout on an all-women's card featuring world champions Anne Wolfe, Sumya Anani, Delia Gonzalez and Kelsey Jeffries.

Ahmad Dixon

Dixon attended Midway High School in Waco, Texas, where he registered more than 300 tackles in his prep career.

Andy Hawkins

Melton Andrew "Andy" Hawkins (born January 21, 1960, in Waco, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Anthony DeGrate

DeGrate was born in Waco, Texas and played college football for Stephen F. Austin.

Baylor Bears basketball

The Baylor Bears basketball team represents Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition.

Camp MacArthur

Camp MacArthur (or Camp McArthur) was an American military training base in Waco, Texas during World War I.

Clarence Hutchenrider

Clarence Hutchenrider (13 June, 1908 - 18 August, 1991) was an American jazz clarinetist born in Waco, Texas.

College Station High School

2012 - Division I Rating at UIL Region 8 Marching Contest in Waco, Texas.

Derry Area School District

Additionally, Sturdisteel Company of Waco, Texas, was awarded a $204,500 contract to replace the stadium press box with a new prefabricated steel structure.

Education in Dallas

Originally located in Waco, Texas, it moved to Dallas in 1993 and is housed on the campus of the former Bishop College, another private, historically Black college.

Flatonia, Texas

The north-south line of the Waco branch of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway opened in the mid-1880s, leading to new settlements of Muldoon and Moulton.

Gabriel P. Disosway

He next was named commander of Air Training Command's Flying Training Air Force in September 1952, with headquarters at Waco, Texas.

Gustine, Texas

Other nearby stations that provide coverage for the Gustine and Comanche County area include: KCEN-TV, KWTX-TV, and KAKW-DT from the Waco/Temple/Killeen DMA.

Hal Forrest

At Kelly Field, he drew cartoons for the camp newspaper, the Kelly Field Eagle, and also was art editor of The Set-up, a camp newspaper in Waco, Texas.

Jerry Cain

He earned a master's degree in historical ethics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Jordan Malone

She also spent years driving Jordan to practices and meets, including a two-hour trip to Waco, Texas every weekend.

Ken Grandberry

Kenneth James Grandberry (born January 25, 1952 in Waco, Texas) is a former American football running back in the National Football League.

Nick Riewoldt

The pair married in October 2012 at her parent's property in Waco, Texas.

Perrish Cox

Cox attended University High School in Waco, Texas, where he was a standout on both sides of the football.

Princess Winona

Other locations with a similar legend include Winona Falls in Pennsylvania, Camden County, Missouri and Cameron Park in Waco, Texas.

Prosper, Texas

In 2008, Prosper took down Waco's La Vega High School 17 to 10 to win the 3A Championship.

Rodrigo Barnes

Rodrigo DeTriana Barnes (born February 10, 1950 in Waco, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

Texas Christian Academy

Texas Christian Academy is a private college preparatory school in Waco, Texas.

The Restless Gun

In the episode, Bonner speaks of taking a job near Waco.

Thomas L. Callaway

Thomas L. Callaway is a director/cinematographer from Waco in the U.S. state of Texas.

Vanguard College Preparatory School

Vanguard College Preparatory School, founded in 1973, is a private, independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school located in Waco, Texas, United States, for students in grades 7-12.

Waco, Texas

The press center provided briefing and office facilities for the press corps whenever Bush visited his "Western White House" near Crawford.

This multi-use walking and jogging, lighted trail passes underneath the Waco Suspension Bridge and captures the peaceful charm of the Brazos River.

The airfield is still in operation and was used by Air Force One when former US President George W. Bush visited his Prairie Chapel Ranch, also known as the Western White House, in Crawford, Texas.

Waco: A New Revelation

Another analysis is made of images allegedly showing an FBI helicopter killing a Branch Davidian in the Mt. Carmel courtyard.

It is based on further research by the roll behind Waco: The Rules of Engagement.

William Preston Phelps

In 1901, tragedy struck, when his son Edward, now 27, an artist and lecturer himself, was traveling in Waco, Texas, and rescued a child from the tracks of an oncoming train.


Baptist General Convention of Texas

B. H. Carroll, pastor of First Baptist in Waco, was instrumental in getting the General Association, during its 1883 meeting, to propose that five conventions in Texas consider the expediency of uniting as one body.

Beasley Reece

Beasley also attended La Vega High School in Waco, Texas and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Brazos River

There is also a small municipal dam (Lake Brazos Dam) near the downstream city limit of Waco at the end of the Baylor campus, which raises the level of the river through the city to form a town lake.

Cranfills Gap, Texas

On December 3, 2008, KXXV-TV in nearby Waco reported on its website that Cranfills Gap had been selected for participation in an advertising campaign for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Dale Milford

From 1953-58, Milford was a staff meteorologist for KWTX-TV in Waco, then moved into the major markets in the same capacity at WFAA-TV from 1958-71.

From Wimbledon to Waco

The Williamses do not live in Wimbledon, nor do they reach Waco, but as Nigel Williams explains in the last chapter of the book "I like the title..."

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

Katrina Price

In her senior year she led La Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game.

KWBU

KWBU-FM, a radio station (103.3 FM) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States

KDYW, a defunct television station (channel 34 analog/20 digital) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States that broadcast under the "KWBU-TV" callsign

KWTX

KWTX-TV, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States

KWTX-FM, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to Waco, Texas, United States

Kyle Lake

Kyle Lake (June 12, 1972 – October 30, 2005) was pastor of University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, USA and an author and leader in the Emerging Church movement.

L. Neil Smith

His father was an Air Force officer, and his childhood was spent in various places including Waco, McQueenie, and La Porte, Texas; Salina, Kansas; Sacramento, California; and Gifford, Illinois (all before he completed fifth grade) and then St. John's, Newfoundland and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida where he graduated from high school.

MacGregor Arctic Expedition

The MacGregor expedition took with them a 1933 model Waco biplane for surveying and exploration.

Miklos Bencze

While continuing his operatic career in major opera houses in roles such as Sparafucile, Leporello, Don Basilio and Mephisto, he took a position as a voice teacher and artist in residence at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Murder of Patrick Dennehy

An affidavit filed on June 23, which was unsealed on June 30, seeking a search warrant for Dennehy's computer says that an informant in Delaware told police that Dotson, who by now was at home in Hurlock, Maryland, told a cousin that he had shot and killed Dennehy during an argument while firing guns in the Waco area.

Oncor Electric Delivery

It supplies electricity to approximately 7.5 million consumers in a service area of over 400 communities in east, west and north-central Texas, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Midland, Odessa, Killeen, Waco, Wichita Falls and Tyler.

Parker University

18 months later, Dr. Parker served as many as 300 patients a day at affiliate clinics in Dallas, Waco, Texas, and Meridian, Texas.

Shaw Island

Shaw Island was featured during the fifth season episode "Access" of the political drama The West Wing as the site of a standoff between terrorist suspects and the US government, similar to the Waco, Texas Branch Davidian standoff.

The Biscuit Brothers

The show is presented by KLRU, a PBS member station in Austin, and in addition to airing there (as of January 2006) the program is airing on Texas PBS stations in Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Waco, Temple, Lubbock, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie

At this General Conference, she was reappointed to serve as the presiding prelate of the 10th Episcopal District, serving major cities such as Fort Worth, Waco, Dallas, Tyler, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston, Texas; in the Northwest, North, Southwest, and Texas Annual Conferences.

Vic Feazell

Vic Feazell was a District Attorney in Waco, Texas from 1983 until 1988, during which time he was involved in the investigation and prosecution of several famous cases, including the 1982 Lake Waco murders and several crimes to which Henry Lee Lucas had been linked.

Waco Mammoth Site

The Waco Mammoth Site is an paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where paleontologists uncovered fossils of twenty-two Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch.

WACO Primary Glider

Experimental Aircraft Association founder Paul Poberezny founder first learned to fly in a rebuilt WACO Primary glider.

Waco Turner Open

The Waco Turner Open was a PGA Tour event that was played in Burneyville, Oklahoma in the early 1960s.