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 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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