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96 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

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.

Acoustix

They have all, at different times, been members of the Dallas-based Vocal Majority chorus.

Adolphus Busch

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

Al Carrell

A Dallas radio station called him and wanted him to start up his own show where listeners would call in to ask for advice.

Amigos Library Services

Amigos began in 1974 in Dallas, Texas, USA, as AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, when 22 libraries united to bring OCLC access to the southwestern United States.

Amy Fadhli

However, she eventually moved to Dallas and started swimsuit modeling and competing in bikini contests in which she won several swimsuit titles and many prizes including money and trips.

AnonymousCulture

AnonymousCulture, is an American rapper and songwriter from Dallas, Texas.

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.

Bachir Gemayel

In 1971, Gemayel also took another law qualification from the American and International Law Academy in Dallas.

Badu Building

After a subsequent career change, he gained some experience at hotel management in Dallas and Austin.

Barrett Brown

He was brought up in the affluent neighborhood of Preston Hollow, living with his mother who saw something special in her only child and took a progressive approach to his rearing.

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.

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.

Century Radio

The station may be remembered for its variety of main stream hits from the 70s and 80s along with slick production and its punchy jingles from JAM Creative Productions in Dallas.

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.

Christian Dozzler

Christian Dozzler (born September 22, 1958, Vienna, Austria) is a blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) area.

Christie Van Hees

Originally from Kelowna, British Columbia, Van Hees currently resides in Dallas, Texas with Huczek and their two daughters, Evelyn and Faith.

CKKY-FM

Both frequencies would have carried nighttime wattage and antenna restrictions, in order to protect Class-A clear-channel stations WCCO AM 830 in Minneapolis and KRLD AM 1080 in Dallas.

Community court

Downtown Austin Community Court (opened in October 1999); South Dallas/Fair Park Community Court (opened in October 2004); West Dallas Community Court (opened November 2008); San Antonio Community Court (opened in May 2006); Seattle Community Court (opened in March 2005).

Dallas Association of Young Lawyers

The Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (DAYL) is a bar organization based in Dallas, Texas (USA) dedicated to community service, such as clothing drives for local shelters, 5K runs for charity, holiday teddy bear drives, mentoring programs for children, programs for homeless citizens, and continuing legal education programs for attorneys.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

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

Dallas Wind Symphony

The Dallas Wind Symphony (DWS) is a professional concert band based in Dallas, Texas (USA).

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

Louis Gerlinger, Sr., incorporated the Salem, Falls City and Western Railway Company late in October 1901 and announced plans to build a railroad from the Willamette River at Salem to the mouth of the Siletz River on the Oregon Coast, a distance of 65 miles.

Dallas/Red Rose, Manitoba

Dallas/Red Rose is situated between the Peguis First Nation and Fisher River Cree Nation about 215 kilometres north of Winnipeg near the western shore of Lake Winnipeg.

David Philipson

Philipson did not intend to go directly into the ministry, but instead chose to spend time in Dallas to aid in the growth of Reform Judaism there.

Dejan Miladinovic

Miladinović has staged more than 160 productions (mostly operas, and then plays, operettas, musical comedies) with professional companies in former Yugoslavia and abroad (USA and Canada especially – New York, Dallas, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Seattle, Baltimore, San Diego, Vancouver etc.).

Derrius Thompson

Derrius Damon Thompson (born July 5, 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Miami Dolphins.

DGSE Companies

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

Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park

The Elaine D. and Charles A. Sammons Park will be a public park in the new AT&T Performing Arts Center, located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA).

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).

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.

Gela Bezhuashvili

In 1997 obtained Master of Law degree, LL.M-International and Comparative Law, Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law, Dallas, United States.

Give Me Your Soul...Please

He stated that cases of parents killing their children and then themselves were a large influence, citing such an incident which occurred in Dallas four days before the interview took place.

Goin' Through the Big D

The song's main protagonist is going through a divorce and says that he is "goin' through the big D and don't mean Dallas".

Government of Dallas

The Jack Evans Police Headquarters building is located in the Cedars, a south Dallas neighborhood adjacent to downtown.

Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex

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

Hubert Sagnières

Hubert Sagnières is a member of the Board of the Essilor Vision Foundation based in Dallas, Texas, which he founded in 2007.

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.

Jeremy Ray

At a very young age, he moved to Dallas, Texas with his parents where he lived for most of his youth.

Jodi Leigh Miller

Miller, a bodybuilder and figure competitor, was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 8, 1972, and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

John Handy

John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933, in Dallas, Texas) is an American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone, although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, oboe, and sings.

Jorge P Newbery

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development started foreclosure on the property and, due to the severity of the problems, installed a hot-line in their Dallas office to field the multitude of tenant complaints during the receivership term.

Julie Hayek

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

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.

Kannada American

There are large Kannada American communities in various cities, including New York City, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco Bay Area, the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas; and in Canada: Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Kevin Windham

The 2000 season was more of a challenge to Windham, as he scored just one supercross victory at Dallas, TX, and lost both the supercross title to Jeremy McGrath and the outdoor title to Ricky Carmichael, who was in his rookie 250cc National season.

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.

Kollel

Other examples of successful community kollelim include kollelim in Dallas; St. Louis, Missouri; Atlanta; Seattle; Pittsburgh; and Phoenix, Arizona.

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.

Lawrence Tenney Stevens

One of his largest commissions was for the Centennial Fairgrounds and Esplanade for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition 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.

Lewis Carhart

Clara, however, did not enjoy the settlement and maintained separate residences in Sherman and Dallas.

Lucy Ewing

She is also briefly mentioned in the 1996 television movie Dallas: J.R. Returns, but appears in neither the last episode nor the reunion film.

Mac Brunson

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

Mike Emanuel

Emanuel has been based in the Fox News bureaus in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington.

PageNet

Based in Dallas, PageNet held the distinction of building and operating the most extensive one-way paging network in the United States, growing to more than 90 offices across the United States.

Pamela Rebecca Barnes

A member of Barnes family, the character originated in two episodes of the original series' season 12, and also appeared in the TV reunion movie Dallas: J.R. Returns (which is not regarded as canon by the 2012 series).

Paraguayan American

Paraguayan Americans also have population importance in Dallas and Atlanta.

Payne Harrison

He lives in Dallas, Texas and formerly worked as a newspaper reporter and business consultant.

Peggy Llewellyn

In 2007, Peggy Llewellyn became the first woman of color to win a professional motorsports event, carrying off the title at the NHRA POWERade Dallas event.

Pregnancy after a loss

Along with working for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Reuters, and Vatican Radio in Italy she received her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas, planning on specializing in public health research.

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.

Rich Phillips

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

Ridgewood Park, Dallas

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

Robyn Miller

Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966, in Dallas, Texas) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller.

Ruth Teitelbaum

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

Ryan Owens

On October 20, 2008, Owens was named as ABC News's Dallas, Texas, correspondent.

S.A Ghafari

He will speak at 2011 MoneyShow traders expo that will be held in Mid June 2011 in Dallas, United States.

Sagi Kalev

Sagi Kalev (born July 30, 1971 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is the former two-time "Mr. Israel" and fitness model, bodybuilding title-holder, and nutritionist and resident of Dallas, Texas who immigrated to the United States in 1993 to pursue bodybuilding and modeling.

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.

SB Sberbank of Russia JSC

The bank was established as a TexakaBank in March 19, 1993 in Dallas, Texas.

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.

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.

Sons of Thunder

This episode introduced the characters of childhood friends Carlos Sandoval, a Dallas PD Detective, and Trent Malloy, an Army sergeant and a protégé of Walker.

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.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1982

The Democrats nominated one-term State Attorney General Mark White of Houston to face the outspoken and controversial Republican incumbent from Dallas for the general election.

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).

Tom Van Sant

These include the international airports of Honolulu, Taipei and Los Angeles, the civic centers of Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Inglewood, and corporate centers in Taiwan, Manila, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Honolulu and San Francisco.

Turtle Creek Boulevard

Turtle Creek Boulevard is a thoroughfare that runs through the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas (USA), generally alongside the actual Turtle Creek.

Ultratech, Inc.

Within the United States, as of 2004, sales and support offices are also leased in Woburn, Massachusetts and Dallas, Texas.

USS Dallas

The first ship was named after Alexander J. Dallas and the second after Dallas, Texas.

Vladimir Gorsky

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

WFAA Communications Center Studios

WFAA Communications Center Studios is the main headquarters studio operations of Belo owned television station WFAA which is an ABC affiliate, located at 606 Young Street in Dallas, Texas.

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.

Yang Yong-eun

He is an active owner of an indoor golf range in the Koreatown section of Dallas.

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

Burt Topper

Topper's 1963 film War Is Hell (which he wrote wrote, produced, directed and played a small role as an army lieutenant) was playing at the Texas Theatre in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Candice Patton

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

Charles Victor Grahmann

During his tenure, the scandal of Rudolph Kos, a pedophile priest of the Dallas Diocese, came up.

Charley Winner

In 1970, St. Louis rolled to an 8-2-1 record at the end of November, including three consecutive shutouts over the Houston Oilers (44-0), Boston Patriots (31-0) and Dallas Cowboys (38-0 on Monday Night Football in Dallas).

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.

Combat Jack

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

Dallas mayoral election, 2011

Rawlings was endorsed by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as well as city council members Tennell Atkins, Vonciel Jones Hill, and Carolyn Davis.

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.

Elmer Chambers

Dallas Elmer Chambers, also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897, Bayonne, New Jersey - ca. 1952, Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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.)

First Interstate Tower

Fountain Place, in Dallas, Texas, formerly named First Interstate Tower

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.

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.

Ian Lewison

In September 2013, Lewison was named mandatory contender for the vacant Southeast Area title he fought Tom Dallas in an explosive bout where he stopped Dallas in the second round by TKO.

Internet America

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

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.

Jorge Alvial

Alvial has been credited for scouting top players as Humberto Suazo, Franco Di Santo, Rogelio Funes Mori and Ramiro Funes Mori, Mark González, Jhon Pírez (Chelsea FC Youth), Brek Shea(F.C. Dallas), Diego Fagundez (N.E.Revolution), Cristian Cuevas(Chelsea FC), Neymar at 14yrs old, Pastore at 16yrs old, Higuain at 17 rys, Falcao at 17yrs old.

Justin F. Kimball

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

Kent Rathbun

Rathbun is currently married to fellow restaurateur Tracy Rathbun, co-owner of Dallas' Shinsei restaurant with Lynne Fearing, who is married to chef Dean Fearing.

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.

Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond received the Woodrow Wilson Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution for Corporate Citizenship during a dinner held in his honor in Dallas, Texas in early 2003.

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.

Oncor Electric Delivery

Predecessor companies include Dallas Power & Light (DP&L), which served the city of Dallas; Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO), which served areas surrounding Fort Worth; and Texas Power and Light (TP&L), which served other areas of northern and west-central Texas.

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.

PrimeCo

When the company was founded, PrimeCo was headquartered in the Solana Office Complex in Westlake, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

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.

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.

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.

The Potter's House Church, Dallas

As of 2010 the church had 30,000 members and four campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth, North Dallas and Denver.

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.

Tommy Brooker

On September 8, 1963, in the Chiefs’ inaugural game since moving from Dallas, Brooker converted eight extra points in a 59-7 victory over the Denver Broncos.

WCOA-FM

On November 5, 2009 at Noon, the station flipped to Top 40 as "i100, Today's Hit Music", mirroring similar (and Cumulus owned) contemporary hit radio stations KLIF-FM in Dallas, Texas and WNFN in Nashville, Tennessee.

Winnipeg Sun

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.