America 's most unusually named towns – Part 1 of 5 Have you ever wondered what lies in a town 's name? Then check out these town names and see what they stand for. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Back in the 1950s, the ever-popular quiz show called Truth or Consequences made a promise to telecast from the first town that would rename itself after the show. That city was Hot Springs, New Mexico. For the next 50 years, Ralph Edwards the show 's host would visit the town on the first weekend of May for a celebration that included a beauty contest followed by a parade. The show began its debut on NBC radio and later became a popular television show. The annual event is still celebrated today. +towns +America +unusual-names +memorable +unique …show more content…
In the summer of 2012, Needles broke the all time record for hot rain when the town was bombarded with scorching 115 degree rain. A lightening storm followed setting crops on fire. People thought that Hell had struck their town. +towns +America +unusual-names +memorable +unique Smackover, Arkansas Even though oil is the main driving force behind Smackover 's economy, the residents of this town of less than 2,000 owe its name to the timber industry. Back in the 1800s, French settlers migrated to the area. Making their living by being trappers, they eventually switched to logging and farming. The name Smackover originates from an anglicization of the French sumac couvert, meaning "covered in sumac," or Chemin Couvert, which means "covered way." There are however, several other stories indicating how the town got its unusual name. According to legend, back in the days a form of oil blowing “smack over the derrick,” was popular. Another account tells of a settler jumping “smack over” the creek. The town got an economic boost when oil was discovered in 1922. Today, half of the town’s population is still employed by the oil industry. Each year in June, Smackover holds its annual four-day Oil Town Festival. +towns +America +unusual-names
Jawanna was a bully for example she bullied a young girl named Maria. Jawanna was the biggest and meanest girl in the grade Maria was just a sweet normal and innocent girl. Meanwhile Jawanna took stuff from Maria broke her pencil ate her brownie and made her do her homework anytime she wanted. She always bullied Maria, then one day outside Jawanna walks up to Maria and try’s to scare her into doing her homework, but Maria stands up for herself by telling her no. Jawanna wasn’t used to people standing up to her so she pushes Maria into the wood chips
World renowned bartender, Dil Howlter, was created on September 24th, 2012, to the age of 18. His parents, Dan and Phil, proudly gazed upon their 18 year old bundle of joy when the first brought him to their new house in the town of Willow Creek. There, Dil would spend the rest of her life, obeying every wish that his fathers asked of him.
Before the country of Elysian came to be, there was first the kingdom of Drumphland. Seeking for independence and adventure, 5,000 people sailed from Russia to Alaska in 1736. They sailed on the Mayspeed boat under the command of Edmund Drumph. Although there was already a civilization in Alaska, the passengers of the Mayspeed boat would not have with it and killed those of the Rapid Rock Tribe. The population knew they could not rule without a leader so they all unanimously called in Edmund Drumph to lead them.
Operation Slapshot is an undercover operation conducted by New Jersey state police to take down a gambling ring that took place throughout the United States. The ring involved Janet Jones, Rick Tocchet, James Harney, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Barnett, Jeremy Roenick, and Travis Green. There were also other players, coaches, and other staff members who were implicated in the gambling ring. The gambling ring allegedly had ties to the Bruno-Scarfo crime family, who has their operation in Philadelphia and in southern New Jersey.
How much do you really know about the hammerhead shark? Most people assume a shark is a shark, but there are many different types of sharks all with their own distinct qualities. However, the nine species of hammerhead sharks are easily identified by the unique shape of their head which resembles a hammer and is the origin of their name. Hammerheads are cold-blooded mammals that can grow up to 25 feet in length and weight as much as 1000 lbs.
This forced many businesses to shut down. During the fall, the city went from a depressing nobody to an exciting new boom town. An oil well in east Texas was discovered! Once people heard about the oil well, they rushed into town. Within a few days’ thousands of folks flooded into Kilgore, setting up tents and shacks in every single unfilled vacant area.
Skunk Hollow or, “the mountain,” was a free black community from 1806 to 1905. It was a small community of free blacks that was located in the Palisades area. Two years after New Jersey ratified its Gradual Emancipation Act, newly freed slaves settled in a small community known as Skunk Hollow. There were over sixty households in the community known as Skunk Hollow. The Skunk Hollow settlers were more prosperous than other African-American families in the township because most of the Skunk Hollow residents owned property by 1854.
The exclusive geography of Greater Appalachia and the settlers’ opposition to oppression developed the identity of the region and its inhabitants, which emphasized personal honor and individual liberty. As shown on a resource map of Greater Appalachia, the topography of the region excluded the inhabitants, who were known as Borderlanders, from acquiring necessary resources, such as forests or fish. The Borderlands did not have many resources at hand; items such as timber or oil were more commonly found in the Deep South (Glencoe). Additionally, as mentioned by Colin Woodward in American Nations, “With no roads, trade was almost entirely by barter” (Woodward 104). Because of limited resources and roads, the geography of Greater Appalachia prevented the
APUSH Unit 2 Long Essay In 1603, the English were still a small rising nation, poorer than most, and less powerful than Spain and France. Although the British colonies settled in the Americas late, they quickly became a dominant force in the new world. After they acquired their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, VA in 1607, the British became attracted to greater power and more land, which was the first building block of perhaps the most powerful European nation of the time period. Due to their growth in the Americas, the British were able to be compared to the Spanish colonies of the time period, which boosted the English’s confidence.
The Louisiana Hayride broadcast premiered on April 3, 1948, and continued to air until its final consistent show on August 27, 1960. Based in Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium, the
A situation that was negative during the oil discoveries in the early 20th century was not everyone benefited from the jobs, discovery, ect. Mexican and African Americans were mostly the the ones who did not benefit from the oil drilling because they could not get good jobs. The only jobs that Mexican an African American’s could get were unskilled jobs. Unskilled jobs like house cleaning, clearing land, and carrying baggages. In 1949, Willsie Lee Mckinney, an African American women, moved to the booming Midland because she realized that she could make more money a day their than in other places.
Fracking has changed daily Oklahoman’s lives, from their property to their income. Fracking History In 1907, when the first oil well was drilled, which was before statehood, the abundance of oil seemed to draw everyone to Oklahoma, to make a small fortune in oil. Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was once dubbed the oil capital of the world, has a small structure still dedicated to its oil days, the Golden Driller, pictured below.
By 2013, the practice of Hydraulic Fracking was highly controversial, and nearly everyone American citizens h had taken a stance on the issue. In the movie, each family the salespeople visited had no idea what fracking was, or any idea of the environmental consequences that follow it. Landowners in the middle of the rural fracking boom in the northern tier of the state had been in the midst of the real site of this ongoing crisis since it began in 2009. Global was in no way the first company to have approached people in the region. The movie inaccurately portrayed the people of the region by not giving them the correct amount of background knowledge on Hydraulic
The fire burned for 36 hours and the Macondo Prospect delivered about 4.9 million barrels of oil before being closed and sealed on 15 July almost three months later. The oil spill in the
However, according to the Connecticut Historical Society Ms. Tarbell actually hated the term “mudracker” she considered the term crude and saw herself more as an historian. The impact she had on Standard Oil was