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91 unusual facts about Dallas


2006–07 Montreal Canadiens season

On January 9, 2007, the NHL announced that Sheldon Souray had been voted by the fans to start at defence in the 2007 All-Star Game in Dallas.

2006–07 Vancouver Canucks season

On January 9, 2007, the NHL announced that Roberto Luongo had been voted by the fans to start in goal in the 2007 All-Star Game in Dallas.

Lukas Krajicek played in his 100th career NHL game on October 23, 2006, at Dallas.

Was voted in by the fans to represent the Western Conference at the 2007 All-Star Game in Dallas, as the starting goaltender on January 9, 2007.

Achernar

Achernar is in the deep southern sky and never rises above the horizon beyond 33°N, roughly the latitude of Dallas, Texas.

Acoustix

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Acoustix have remained an extremely popular quartet for the last fifteen years and have recorded several CDs in various genres.

Adolphus Busch

Adolphus Busch also built a series of buildings in downtown Dallas.

Ahmed Bukhatir

Bukhatir's first concerts on US soil took place in April 2012, when he appeared at events sponsored by the Al-Furqaan Foundation's Furqaan Academy that were held in Dallas, Houston, and Chicago.

Arkansas Best Corp. v. Commissioner

Arkansas Best, a diversified holding company acquired a large percentage of the stock of the National Bank of Commerce in Dallas, Texas.

AutoBidsOnline

AutoBidsOnline is a research portal and online car buying site based in Dallas, Texas.

Benjie Bollox

He was also a model for a Dallas Texas based clothing and record shop, Last Beat Records, which also was an indie record label and released albums from such bands as Baboon and Fireworks.

BetonSports

The indictment was unsealed later that month when CEO David Carruthers was arrested in Dallas while returning to Costa Rica after attending the company's

Bob Dotson

In 1975 he moved to NBC News, working with Cleveland-based WKYC-TV, before leaving after two years to open a new NBC News bureau in Dallas.

Bobby Bradford

Bobby Lee Bradford's life begins in Mississippi, he and his family then moved to Dallas, Texas in 1946.

Bruce Boudreau

Spending most of the early part of his professional career with Maple Leaf farm teams in Dallas, New Brunswick and St. Catharines, Boudreau also spent significant time playing for the Springfield Indians (for whom he won his only scoring championship in 1988), the Fort Wayne Komets and the Nova Scotia Oilers.

Carlos Falchi

Falchi has been married 25 years to his wife, Missy, whom he met while she was working for the special events office in a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

Caswell, Northamptonshire

The GaAs Field effect transistor and the GaAs monolithic ic were invented and developed at Caswell, but what is probably less well known is that scientists on the site were working on silicon integrated circuit(ic) technology almost 18 months before Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working ic at Texas Instruments in Dallas.

Charles Aberg

Aberg relocated to Dallas soon afterward, becoming a skilled painter until his death in 1982.

Chase Coleman

Coleman was invited to Dallas to compete at the Mike Beaty Model and Talent Expo.

Chris Gailus

After marrying fellow anchor Jane Carrigan, Gailus took a post anchoring the morning news on WFAA-TV in Dallas in 2000.

Christians for Biblical Equality

Beginning in 1989, CBE has presented international conferences—three-day events consisting of plenary sessions and workshops in such U.S. cities such as St. Paul, Minnesota, Winter Park, Colorado, Wheaton, Illinois, San Diego, California, Orlando, Florida, Dallas, Texas Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado, Toronto, Canada, and St. Louis, Missouri.

Chuck Dunaway

In the early nineteen-sixties, Dunaway was asked to take over the programming duties at KBOX in Dallas, but soon after the station's number one competitor, KLIF-AM, enticed him to work for the legendary Gordon McLendon at KLIF-AM doing afternoon drive.

Dunaway occupied the afternoon drive slot at every radio station he worked at during his 35 year career, including radio KILT-AM Houston, KLIF-AM Dallas, WKY Oklahoma City, WABC (AM) New York City and WIXY Cleveland.

Dallas Protocol

Dallas Protocol is a public-private partnership between the City of Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, established in March 2003.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States.

Dallas, Kamloops

Here for the article about the city in Texas.

Dallas, Moray

George Mifflin Dallas, whose family originally came from here, became the Vice President of the US, and Dallas, Texas may have been named after him.

Dallas, Oregon

Irene Hazard Gerlinger - first female Regent of the University of Oregon

Dari Alexander

Prior to joining FNC, Alexander served as a weekend anchor/reporter for WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

DotComGuy

Maddox now works in Dallas, Texas for Riverstone Residential Group as the Director of Systems Integration.

First Presbyterian Church of Dallas

First Presbyterian Church of Dallas is a historic congregation at 408 Park Avenue in the Farmers Market District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA).

Food and Nutrition Service

It administers the programs through its headquarters (HQ) in Alexandria, VA; regional offices (ROs) in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US.

Frédéric Fekkai

Fekkai currently operates seven salons in the United States in key markets—three in New York City, in SoHo, the Upper East Side and Fifth Avenue as well as Los Angeles, Dallas, Greenwich, and Palm Beach—and services approximately 1,500 clients per day.

Government of Dallas

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which exercises original jurisdiction over 100 counties in North and West Texas, convenes in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in the Government District of downtown.

Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex

Vought Aircraft Industries operates a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) plant adjacent to NAS Dallas.

Herschel Forester

Herschel Vincent Forester (born April 14, 1931 in Dallas, Texas) is a former professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League.

Hilton Dallas Park Cities Hotel

The Hilton Dallas Park Cities Hotel is a AAA four-diamond hotel located in Dallas, Texas between Highland Park and Preston Hollow neighborhoods, just north of downtown Dallas.

James Cronin

After his father had obtained his doctorate the family first moved to Alabama, and later in 1939 to Dallas, Texas, where his father became a professor of Latin and Greek at Southern Methodist University.

Jim McMullan

Jim McMullan (born October 13, 1936) is an American actor from Long Island, New York best known for his role as Dr. Terry McDaniel on the 1960s series Ben Casey and as Senator Andrew Dowling on the CBS Primetime Soap Opera Dallas.

John Jannarone

Prior to that Jannarone worked as a deputy bureau chief at Dow Jones, as an analyst at The Hartnett Group in Dallas and at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Joseph Lstiburek

In 1994, the Energy & Environmental Building Association (EEBA) awarded Lstiburek a Design Award for his joint design effort with architect Betsy Pettit in creating a twelve-house development project in Dallas, TX named Esperanza del Sol that featured affordable three-bedroom 1,270 sq.

Julie Hayek

Hayek is now a trained actress and has starred in successful shows such as Dallas, Twin Peaks and As the World Turns.

KACV-TV

Amarillo was one of the last major cities to get its own PBS station; prior to then, viewers in the Texas Panhandle watched PBS either on Amarillo's commercial stations (on a per-program basis), or via cable on Dallas' KERA-TV, OETA from Oklahoma, or New Mexico's KENW.

Keyuo Craver

Keyuo Boderek Craver (born August 22, 1980 in Dallas, Texas) is an American football defensive back currently playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, who signed Craver as a free agent on March 5, 2009.

Knox–Henderson Station

DART's original system plan featured a tunnel underneath North Central Expressway, connecting Pearl Station and Mockingbird Station, with underground stations serving the Knox-Henderson and Cityplace neighborhoods.

KOLD-TV

On November 15, 2011, Dallas-based broadcasting company Belo Corporation, owners of local Fox affiliate KMSB and MyNetworkTV affiliate KTTU, announced that it will enter into a shared services agreement with Raycom Media beginning in February 2012, resulting in KOLD taking over the two stations' operations and moving their advertising sales department to the KOLD studios.

KTMD

Telemundo's parent company NBCUniversal replaced the locally produced newscast, with a regional newscast based out of the network's new production center in Dallas in 2006.

KVDA

In 2007, budget cuts announced by NBC Universal resulted in the cancellation of Noticiero 60 and its replacement with a regional newscast based out of a new production center at KXTX-TV in Dallas.

Le'Shai Maston

Le'Shai Edwoin Maston (born October 7, 1970) is a former American football running back in the National Football League and current head football coach at Providence Christian School of Dallas, Texas.

Maston graduated from David W. Carter High School of Dallas in 1989 and was a member of the Carter 1988 Texas state championship football team.

Lillian Berlin

In 2004, Berlin was involved in a similar incident when after a show at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas he was shot at, and pistol whipped because of his on-stage talk disparaging the Republican Party.

Linda St. Clair

In 1985, short of money, the couple moved to Dallas, Texas where St. Clair began working in marketing, selling artists’ services to ad agencies.

Mac Brunson

In 1999 Brunson was appointed senior pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.

Martha Blackman

Martha Elizabeth Blackman (born 1 January 1927, Dallas) is an American viola da gamba player and lutenist, and the first American to perform on and teach the viol.

Martin W. Littleton

Born near Kingston in Roane County, Tennessee, he moved to Texas in 1881 with his parents, who settled in Dallas.

McKinney Avenue Transit Authority

The federal government has given MATA $3.5 million for its mile expansion into downtown's Arts District.

Michael Ryan Johnson

Off-track Johnson attended and graduated Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas as well as completing a marketing degree from the University of North Texas College of Business.

Mike Current

On Monday January 16, 2012, Current died after committing suicide by shooting himself in the head with a 20 gauge shotgun at the scenic outlook at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas, Oregon.

Mike Rawlings

Mike Rawlings is the Mayor of Dallas after winning the 2011 Dallas mayoral election defeating former Dallas Police Chief, David Kunkle.

Moises Hernandez

Moises Hernandez (born March 5, 1992) is an American soccer player who currently plays for FC Dallas in Major League Soccer.

Nadine Haobsh

She was born in New York City in 1980 and spent her childhood in San Diego, Dallas and Atlanta.

NQ Mobile Inc.

(NYSE: NQ; formerly NetQin Mobile Inc.) is a global mobile security privacy and productivity software company co-headquartered in Beijing, China and Dallas, Texas, USA.

Paraguayan American

Paraguayan Americans also have population importance in Dallas and Atlanta.

Pregnancy after a loss

Carol Lanham now lives in Dallas, Texas with her two sons, Andrew and Michael, now 16 and 14.

Radio Nord

The transmitters had been flown in from the factory at Dallas, Texas in six thousand parts.

Ramsey, Illinois

H. L. Hunt, oil tycoon, inspired the 1980s television series Dallas; born near Ramsey

Ray Krebbs

In 1998 Ray makes a shock return (with dyed brown hair) in War of the Ewings when, out of nowhere, he helps Bobby and Sue Ellen in a barroom brawl.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 1984

Incumbent President Ronald Reagan was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1984 Republican National Convention held from August 20 to August 23, 1984 in Dallas, Texas.

Rich Phillips

Rich Phillips is a radio personality based out of Dallas, Texas.

Robert Pierpoint

On November 22, 1963 he was riding in press bus #1 in the Dallas motorcade for President Kennedy when the president was assassinated.

Robert Yarber

Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Distinguished Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University.

Rogers Cadenhead

Rogers Cadenhead (b. April 13, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is a computer book author and web publisher who is currently chairman of the RSS Advisory Board, a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification.

Ruth Teitelbaum

Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman) (1924 – 1986, Dallas) was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

Sathyananda Saraswathi

Saraswathi established centres of Sree Rama Dasa Mission in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and San Jose in the USA.

Scott Eder

Now a longtime resident of Dallas, Scott was an accomplished collegiate baseball player at Austin College.

Scott Michael Foster

He later moved to Highland Village, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where he became interested in acting as early as elementary school.

ShaChelle Devlin Manning

From 1995 to 1998 she served in leadership positions at Dallas Public Schools, where she introduced and launched new technologies for over 17,000 teachers and 120,000 students.

Sheldon Zimmerman

Previously, Zimmerman had previously been the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas.

Shlomo Weber

--NO link to 'Affiliating university' or to some pop group--> with the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, U.S. and has the status of a U.S. Permanent Resident with a Canadian nationality.

Super Dodge Ball

In the single player game, the player will control Dallas, while the computer controls Chicago.

Texas Ballet Theater

In 1988, after the demise of Dallas Ballet, the company began adding performances of The Nutcracker in Dallas in a business partnership with The Dallas Opera, producing Nutcracker performances in The Music Hall and using The Dallas Opera Orchestra.

Tom Hendricks

Tom Hendricks is an American eccentric Dallas-based musician, painter, writer, and creator of a zine called Musea.

Trinity Strand Trail

This portion of Turtle Creek is a small tributary of the Trinity River, with its headwaters located in University Park.

V. Trygve Jordahl

In 1925, he accepted a call to be pastor of Central Lutheran Church in Dallas, Texas.

Vic Thomas

Prior to KPMZ, Thomas worked for the ABC Radio Networks in Dallas as a show host for the nationwide satellite format called Timeless.

Vladimir Gorsky

The "Tapestry" is currently on display at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas.

Wojtek Wolski

In his first full professional season, Wolski played in the NHL YoungStars Game on January 23, 2007, a part of the 55th National Hockey League All-Star Game festivities held in Dallas.

Woodill Wildfire

The stars of the show, Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, Texas, did light restoration and modification to the vehicle for resale.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.

Yves Thuriès

He founded pastry shops especially in the United States where he created the teams (Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco).


1960 Dallas Texans season

The Texans set up offices in the Mercantile National Bank Building, while Jerry Foss headquartered the AFL offices out of Dallas, as well.

Adlène

Adlene Harrison (born 1923), acting mayor of Dallas in 1976, and its first female mayor

Bill Keffer

In 2012, after a six-year absence from the legislature, Keffer tried to win the District 114 seat vacated in north Dallas by the retiring Republican Will Ford Hartnett, another Dallas lawyer.

Bob Kudelski

Traded to Florida by Ottawa for Evgeny Davydov, Scott Levins, Florida's 6th-round choice (Mike Gaffney) in 1994 Entry Draft, and Dallas' 4th-round choice (previously acquired, Ottawa selected Kevin Bolibruck) in 1995 Entry Draft, January 6, 1994.

Candice Patton

She was born in Jackson, Mississippi but raised in Plano, Texas, she attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Caroline Rose Hunt

She is also a donor to the Junior League of Dallas, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Tiffany Circle of the American Red Cross, the conservative Heritage Foundation, the Crystal Charity Ball, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Downtown Dallas, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Symphony, and the Dallas Woman's Club.

Combat Jack

Combat Jack's co-hosts include Dallas Penn, Premium Pete, DJ Benhameen, AKing, and Just Blaze.

Dallas Sportatorium

However, it did gain one last bit of notoriety when Dallas-based Southwest Airlines held an arm-wrestling match between chairman Herb Kelleher and Kurt Herwald, chairman of Stevens Aviation, resulting from controversy over Southwest's use of the slogan "Just Plane Smart" (Stevens claimed that it infringed on its own "Plane Smart" slogan).

Electronic News

The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.

Ellen Geer

The remainder of her television credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue and Cold Case.

Empery

Nelson Bunker Hunt was not in attendance for the race, the most valuable ever run in Britain, as he was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary at home in Dallas.

First Franklin Financial Corp.

(One of the co-founders of the company was Bill Dallas, who served as its Chairman, CEO and Chairman Emeritus until 2003, and who subsequently bought OwnIt Mortgage Solutions, which was 20% owned by Merrill Lynch. OwnIt filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2006.)

George Rickey

In 2010, his sculpture "Two Open Rectangles, Horizontal" that was located in situ west of the SBC (now ATT) office building in downtown Dallas was moved to a site just outside the Bob Hope Peristyle Courtyard of the Owen Art Center, which houses SMU's Meadows School of the Arts.

If I Could See Dallas

If I Could See Dallas is the first album by the indie rock band Japancakes.

Internet America

Internet America was headquartered in One Dallas Centre in Downtown Dallas.

Jerry Birdwell

Jerry R. Birdwell was the former mayor of South Lake Tahoe, California and judge of Dallas County's 195th Judicial District Court.

Jim Kubiak

In 2005 he signed with the Georgia Force, on the first day of the AFL's free agency signing period, where he rejoined former teammates and coaches from Dallas, Offensive coordinator Steve Thonn, WR/LB Dialleo Burks and WR/DB Luke Leverson.

Justin F. Kimball

Justin F. Kimball High School - a school in Dallas, Texas, administered by the Dallas Independent School District

K25FW

K25FW is a Home Shopping Network affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Corsicana, Texas, owned and operated by Ventana Television, the holding company for HSN's low-power television stations.

KGAB

The Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio takes place at a fictional radio station called KGAB, located in Dallas, Texas.

KVIL

The initial attempt in April 1967 was bold, offering good personalities and some interesting programming including the first Dallas broadcast of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, played in its entirety on the evening of its release.

LaMarcus Tinker

He is best known for his roles as teenage football star Dallas Tinker on the NBC and Direct TV television drama Friday Night Lights, and as Kevin on the ABC comedy Cougar Town.

Laura Furman

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

Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'

The video features former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Troy Aikman, who plays Cowboy Joe, the new gentleman friend of the woman playing the wife of Shenandoah lead singer, Marty Raybon, in a takeoff on a 1940-vintage divorce trial.

Lee Montgomery

In the 1980s, he made more cameo appearances such as CHiPs, Family Ties and Dallas, and he made a transition to adult roles in films such as Split Image (1982) with Peter Fonda, Night Shadows (1984) with Wings Hauser, and Into the Fire (1988) co-starring Susan Anspach.

Lyda Hill

Additionally, she was named Outstanding Business Leader by Northwood University in 1999, received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Colorado in 2002, and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Leadership Dallas in 2004.

Marcelo Grassmann

His works figure, among others, in the collections of the MoMA in New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas and the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo.

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.

Paul Quinn

Paul Quinn College, private, historically black college (HBCU) located in Dallas, Texas

Probe 7, Over and Out

Hours before "Night Call" was to air though, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Ray Roberts

On November 22, 1963, Congressman Roberts was in the Dallas motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Rick Squillante

Designed by Philippe Starck and financed by Dallas businessman Blake Woodall, the club's investors included music star Stevie Nicks, who performed on opening night along with Grace Jones on Memorial Day weekend of 1984.

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

Ridgewood Park is a neighborhood in east Dallas Texas (USA).

Ronnie Claire Edwards

Edwards also briefly appeared on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow (2008) from Dallas, Texas, when she brought in for appraisal a chair formerly owned by P. T. Barnum.

Ruthe B. Cowl

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Stream Energy

Stream Energy is an American retail electricity and natural gas firm active in the Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia and New York deregulated energy markets and headquartered within the Infomart building in Dallas.

Texas State Highway 180

Passing through the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, it forms the northern border of the Bishop Arts District.

The Hourly Radio

The Hourly Radio was a Dallas based band consisting of Aaron Closson (vocals and guitar), Ryan Short (guitar), Adam Vanderkolk (drums) and Tim Jansen (bass).

The Price of Power

Even in the assassination scene, Cuadra seems to emulate many of the same actions from Jackie Kennedy's last moments with John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.

Thomas D. Westfall

Westfall then joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation and worked as an agent over the next 25 years in Dallas, Columbus, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Savannah, Georgia, and finally in El Paso, Texas, as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso office of the FBI.