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unusual facts about southeastern United States


Joseph M. Still Burn Center

Located in Augusta, Georgia (United States), it is part of the Doctors Hospital campus, and serves as a primary burn care center for the Southeastern United States.


9th Operational Weather Squadron

The 9th Operational Weather Squadron was responsible for producing and disseminating mission planning and execution weather analyses, forecasts, and briefings for Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Guard, Reserve, USSTRATCOM, and USNORTHCOM forces operating at 40 installations/sites in a 4 state region of the Southeastern United States.

Josiah Leming

Leming played in clubs and coffeehouses throughout the Southeast while working at restaurants and temp agencies to pay for food and gas.

Lower Seaboard Theater of the American Civil War

The Lower Seaboard Theater of the American Civil War encompassed major military and naval operations that occurred near the coastal areas of the Southeastern United States (in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas) as well as southern part of the Mississippi River (Port Hudson and south).

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Rural ghetto

The term rural ghetto was coined by Osha Gray Davidson in the book Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto and is used to describe the influx of poverty and neglect in the small towns of Midwestern and Southeastern United States that occurs.

Singing with the Red Wolves

The title song refers to attempts by biologists to reintroduce red wolves into areas in the Southeastern United States where they had become locally extinct.

Tamaulipas Crow

The Sinaloan Crow (Corvus sinaloae) appears to be genetically extremely close to this bird and can be considered the western form of it though the voice is quite different, indeed a third species, the Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) of the southeastern United States appears to be very closely related to them also and the three may be considered a superspecies.


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Alex Sanz

Alex Sanz is a journalist who covers the southeastern United States for The Associated Press.

Anthonomus tenebrosus

tenebrosus is being investigated for use a potential biocontrol agent for Tropical Soda Apple Solanum viarum Dunal, mainly in the Southeastern United States.

Arundinaria

Preliminary phylogenetic studies in 2006 using molecular and morphological evidence have suggested that the genus forms three natural species confined to the southeastern United States.

Bevo Howard

In addition to the Spence Air Base school in Moultrie, Hawthorne operated a number of both Air Force and Army contract schools across the Southeastern United States, notably at Fort Rucker, Alabama and Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Black needlerush

Juncus roemerianus, native to the southeastern United States and the Caribbean

Brandon, Florida

Brandon is the birthplace of Beef O'Brady's, a family-oriented bar and grill chain restaurant prevalent throughout the Southeastern United States.

Cheraw

Cheraw people (variously called Saraw, Suali, or Xuala), a tribe of Siouan-speaking Amerindians who historically lived in Virginia and North Carolina, in the future southeastern United States

Cherry laurel

Prunus caroliniana, native to the Southeastern United States and widely cultivated

Donald W. Tinkle

Tinkle was a student of the renowned herpetologist Fred Cagle, receiving a PhD at Tulane University after conducting studies of freshwater turtles in the southeastern United States with future herpetologist and author J. Whitfield Gibbons as his undergraduate assistant.

Jack C. Stultz

In October 2004, Stultz was promoted to the rank of Major General and assumed command of the 143d Transportation Command in Orlando, Florida, which provided command and control to twelve units in the southeastern United States.

Ker's WingHouse

Ker's WingHouse is a restaurant franchise based primarily in the Southeastern United States, founded by former National Football League player Crawford Ker.

Koshkonong Mounds, Wisconsin

Archeological artifacts found in the settlements show widespread trading from settlements in the Great Lakes to present-day Illinois and the center of Cahokia, to other settlements in the present-day southeastern United States.

Latanier palm

Certain Fan palms native to the southeastern United States and the Caribbean

Martha Shaw

Founded in 1968, the Chorale is considered one of the finest collegiate choral ensembles in the southeastern United States and has performed at Carnegie Hall.

Northern long-eared myotis

This species is found primarily in coniferous forest from Newfoundland to the Yukon, and in the southeastern United States through to Florida.

ODAC

Old Dominion Athletic Conference, a collegiate athletics conference in the southeastern United States

P. mexicana

Prunus mexicana, the Mexican plum, a tree species found in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States as well as Northern Mexico

Phellinus pini

In the southeastern United States, this fungus is important for the nesting of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker.

Raceway

A brand of gasoline stations operated by RaceTrac contractors in the Southeastern United States

Rosa laevigata

The flower is commonly associated with the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of Native Americans in the southeastern United States.

Saltmarsh rush

Juncus roemerianus, native to the Southeastern United States and Caribbean

Sea Island

Sea Islands, a chain of islands in the Southeastern United States

WIMZ-FM

Currently, the morning time slot carries the John Boy and Billy show (John Boy having been a popular local radio personality in the late 1970s on WRJZ), a syndicated show which is on many stations throughout the southeastern United States.

Yadkin Valley AVA

The native grapes of this region of the southeastern United States are the Muscadine and the Scuppernong.