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unusual facts about Warren, Arkansas



AACF

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families

Adam and the Ants

On 26 January 1980, McLaren convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Aegean Sea Anti-Piracy Operations of the United States

USS Warren chased a ten gun pirate brig on October 25 and it grounded off Argentiere before sinking, the pirates escaped to shore.

Amy J. St. Eve

She was an Associate independent counsel, Whitewater Independent Counsel's Office, Little Rock, Arkansas from 1994 to 1996, where she successfully prosecuted former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Whitewater partners Jim and Susan McDougal for fraud.

Cannizaro Park

The house, originally known as Warren House, was built in the 18th century and was owned by the Grosvenor and Drax families who, for most of its history, let it to a series of wealthy tenants.

Casey Dick

On Friday, November 23, Dick led Arkansas to a 50-48 win over top ranked LSU, in which he made key passes to Peyton Hillis on a fourth-and-10 in the second overtime to extend the game and again for a 12 yard touchdown to tie.

Charles Sawyer

Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician to President Warren G. Harding

Chester, New York

Chestertown, New York, a hamlet in Warren County, New York, United States

Chi Alpha Campus Ministries

Kris Allen, the 2009 American Idol winner, was a member of Chi Alpha when he was a student at University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas.

Claude Fuller

Claude A. Fuller (1876–1968), lawyer, farmer and U.S. Representative from Arkansas

Coffee cabinet

In recent years, it has become more difficult to find an authentic cabinet, but many Rhode Island creameries still serve them, including Delekta's Pharmacy in Warren, and the Original Vanilla Bean in South Kingstown.

Control–feedback–abort loop

In 1986, Mr. LeDoux, with assistance from Mr. Warren Yates, a former engineer from General Dynamics, Inc., found that using a Control and Feedback concept for analyzing group and system dynamics was not providing them with the full picture when systems were going out of control.

Dan Douglas

He is a former president of the Washington County Farm Bureau and a board member of the Illinois River Watershed Partnership though the Illinois River does not reach Arkansas.

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dr. Warren had served on the Manhattan Project while on leave from his post at University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Deep South

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee fared well in the Deep South in 2008 Republican primaries, losing only one state (South Carolina) while running (he had dropped out of the race before the Mississippi primary).

Detroit's Marwil Bookstore

Marwil Bookstore was last located at 4870 Cass Avenue (corner of Cass and Warren avenues) in the Midtown area of Detroit on Wayne State University’s main campus.

Donovan Warren

Warren's godfather, former Pro Bowl defensive back Mark Carrier, is an assistant coach with the Jets.

Dorathy M. Allen

Prior to 1945, the Miss Arkansas Pageant was sponsored by the East Arkansas Young Businessmen's Club.

Eddie Sutton

While at Arkansas, Sutton befriended future President Bill Clinton, then a law professor at the University's law school.

Florence Airport

Dexter B. Florence Memorial Field, a public use airport in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States (FAA: M89)

Goodman, Missouri

It is part of the FayettevilleSpringdaleRogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Guido Verbeck

However, in Arkansas he was deeply moved by the lives of slaves in the southern plantations, and the teachings of H.W. Beecher, a preacher whose sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

James Berry

James Henderson Berry (1841–1913), Governor and U.S. Senator of Arkansas

Jay Warren

Jay Warren was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, Steve Christian, by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his rape convictions.

KWEM

KWEM Radio, an internet radio station modeled on a defunct broadcast station in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States

Larry Nixon

Lawrence "Larry" Nixon (born September 3, 1950 - Bee Branch, Arkansas) is a professional fisherman whose career started at the 1977 Florida Invitational in Welaka, Florida.

Laura Furman

After living in Houston, Galveston, Dallas, and Lockhart she settled in Austin with her husband, Joel Warren Barna, and their son.

Michael W. Vannier

On July 19, 1983, M. Vannier (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh (Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children's Hospital) and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head.

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Onalaska, Washington

Onalaska, Washington, Onalaska, Wisconsin, Onalaska, Arkansas and Onalaska, Texas are all historically connected to one another through the lumber industry.

Pamunkey Indian Tribe Museum

It is mainly the work of Warren Cook, an anthropologist, and Errett Callahan, an experimental archaeologist.

Peter Warren Dease

Peter Warren Dease was born at Michilimackinac (now Mackinac Island) on January 1, 1788, the fourth son of Dr. John Dease, captain and deputy agent of Indian Affairs, and Jane French, Catholic Mohawk from Caughnawaga.

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.

Rhodium Nights

In an interview with Yahoo TV show runner/executive producer Warren Leight noted, "This episode is a real potboiler that involves a lot of politics, and in politics, you never know who to trust."

Rick Warren

Two weeks before the 2008 U.S. general election, Warren issued a statement to his congregation endorsing California Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to say "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," thereby eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Robert Riley

Bob C. Riley (1924–1994), acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975

Settling Accounts: The Grapple

A general advance seems to be made in Arkansas, and U.S. forces are pressing the offensive in Sonora and Chihuahua.

SWAT World Challenge

OLN televised the 2007 event which was held 24–28 April close to Little Rock, Arkansas at Camp Robinson (National Guard Base).

Theodore W. Richards House

The house was built in 1900 by Warren, Smith & Biscoe and was the home of Harvard University chemist and 1914 Nobel Prize winner, Theodore William Richards.

Thomas M. Gunter

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served in the Confederate States Army as colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers.

Treat U Right

# 90's Girl Foote, A/McCann, M/Warren, C/Fields, G/Russell, J – 5:17

Upton Warren

Upton Warren was a Manor, for many years inherited alongside Grafton first in the hands of John de Grafton, then the Staffords, followed by the Talbots and Earls of Shrewsbury.

W. Francis McBeth

In 1962, McBeth conducted the Arkansas All-State Band, with future president Bill Clinton playing in the tenor saxophone section.

Warren Boland

He now presents weekend radio shows called "Weekends with Warren" on ABC Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 ABC Brisbane.

Warren De la Rue

He was born in Guernsey, the son of the founder of the large firm of stationers of that name in London, Thomas de la Rue and Jane (née Warren).

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

WCNF

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

Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren (January 29, 1864 – April 23 1943) was an architect with Charles Delevan Wetmore (1866–1941) at Warren and Wetmore in New York City.

Yeading F.C.

The successful 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham was filmed at The Warren, and the training sessions and matches depicted in the film take place there.

Zachariah Cicott

He left Warren County immediately and went down the river, returning later with the army and passing back through Warren County to reach Tippecanoe County where the Battle of Tippecanoe took place on November 7, 1811.


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