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About 4:00 a.m. on August 23, 1987, the crew on board a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific freight train, more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour, en route to Little Rock, Arkansas, spotted two boys lying motionless across the tracks, about 300 feet ahead. [1]
Date Person(s) Age Country of disappearance Circumstances Outcome Time spent missing or unconfirmed 2000 Zebb Quinn: 18 United States Zebb Quinn was an 18-year-old American male who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina.
This list of cemeteries in Arkansas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Tie hackers used a crosssaw and a broadaxe to hand hew railroad ties until they were phased out by sawmills by the early 1940s. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The advent of steam power and then gasoline engines allowed sawmills to operate efficiently and on site as needed making tie hacking obsolete over time.
Taking its name from the first bridge in the area to cross the Arkansas River in 1873, [1] Baring Cross was a small incorporated municipality during the late 19th and early 20th century located west of Pike Avenue in present-day North Little Rock, Arkansas. [2]
Robert Robinson McIntosh (1943 – June 24, 2023), known as Robert "Say" McIntosh, was an American political and civil rights activist from Little Rock, Arkansas. McIntosh was born in Mississippi in 1943. [1] Growing up in a family of 11 children, the family eventually moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.
Crossmark, Inc., stylized as CROSSMARK, is a sales and marketing services company that operates within the consumer goods industry. [2] [3] [4] The company was established in 1905 by Willis Johnson and E. Leslie Hunt in Fort Smith, Arkansas as a provision supply point for groups traveling to the Oklahoma Territory.
A cross necklace is any necklace featuring a Christian cross or crucifix as its pendant. [ 1 ] Crosses are often worn as an indication of commitment to the Christian faith , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and are sometimes received as gifts for rites such as baptism and confirmation .