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 Ronald Gene Simmons was Arkansas's deadliest mass killer. He slaughtered his entire family of 14, including his 20-month-old grandson, before shooting two more.[([[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/ronald-gene-simmons-3731/|encyclopediaofarkansas]])]
+===== WalMart =====
+In Rogers, Arkansas, Sam Walton established the first WalMart.[([[https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history|walmart]])]
+===== Name Meaning =====
+The word "Arkansas" implies "downstream people".[([[https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/education/arkansas-history/how-did-arkansas-get-its-name|arkansas]])]
+===== Phoenix =====
+Phoenix, Arkansas, was called after the mythological bird because it was established on the site of an old Hohokam village.[([[https://www.quora.com/Was-the-city-of-Phoenix-AZ-named-for-the-mythical-Egyptian-Phoenix-bird-which-burst-into-flame-and-was-reborn-from-its-ashes-because-the-town-sprouted-from-the-ruins-of-a-former-civilization|quora]])]
+===== Spinach Capital =====
+Alma, Arkansas, bills itself as the world's spinach capital because its spinach canning facility formerly processed more than half of all canned spinach in the United States. To honor its lush heritage, the town even boasts a massive Popeye statue.[([[http://arkansasroadstories.com/alma.html|arkansasroadstories]])]
+===== State Capitol =====
+The old Arkansas State Penitentiary served as the site for the Arkansas State Capitol. Long-forgotten wooden coffins were discovered during foundation excavation in 1899.[([[https://www.arkansas.com/articles/arkansas-urban-legends|arkansas]])]
+===== Iva Gurley =====
+Representative Iva Gurley was killed by the elevator at the state capital building in 1932.[([[https://www.arkansas.com/articles/arkansas-urban-legends|arkansas]])]
+===== Cheese Dip =====
+Arkansas invented the first cheese dip.[([[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/cheese-dip-7990/|encyclopediaofarkansas]])]
+===== Napoleon Bonaparte =====
+As part of the Louisiana Purchase, former French leader Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered Arkansas to the United States.[([[https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/the-louisiana-purchase/|monticello]])]
+===== Little Rock =====
+Little Rock is named after a tiny rock feature on the Arkansas River's southern bank known in French as la Petite Roche.[([[https://www.littlerocksoiree.com/post/139348/rock-and-role-300-years-of-la-petite-roche|littlerocksoiree]])]
+===== Carry A. Nation =====
+Carry A. Nation, an Arkansas native, was so opposed to alcohol that she would destroy it with her hatchets, which she called Faith, Hope, and Charity.[([[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/carrie-amelia-moore-nation-2514/|encyclopediaofarkansas]])]
+===== Old Mike =====
+Old Mike was a traveling salesman who died and was embalmed in Arkansas in 1911. For nearly 60 years, he was mysteriously placed in public outside a funeral home. He was ultimately laid to rest in 1975.[([[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/old-mike-4924/|encyclopediaofarkansas]])]
+===== Blackbirds =====
+Over 1,000 blackbirds inexplicably dropped from the sky near Beebe, Arkansas, in 2011. Nobody understands why to this day.[([[https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-blackbirds-fall-sky-beebe-arkansas-years-eve/story?id=15269793|abcnews]])]
+===== Deaf Leopard =====
+Deaf Leopard is the mascot of the Arkansas School for the Deaf. The pupils met their mascot's renowned namesake, Def Leppard, in 2016.[([[https://www.edweek.org/education/deaf-leopards-of-the-arkansas-school-for-the-deaf-meet-def-leppard/2016/05|edweek]])]
+===== Storm And 100 Ducks =====
+A violent storm sprang up and dumped down on over 100 ducks in Arkansas in 1973.[([[https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v088n04/p0654-p0656.pdf|unm]])]

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