and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

Settling in Arkansas in 1833, he taught school and wrote a series of articles for the Little Rock Arkansas Advocate under the pen name of " Casca.

He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.

Clinton joined friend Bruce Lindsey's Little Rock law firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings.

He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas was dedicated in 2004.

The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001.

* Sand Rock ( Little Rock City Park ), Alabama

* Little Rock City, Tennessee

He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, for the first time since Reconstruction to enforce federal court orders to desegregate public schools, and signed civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 to protect the right to vote.

They escorted and protected nine black students ' entry to Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school, for the first time since the Reconstruction era.

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing " The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock ".

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

Little is known of the territorial behaviour of caecilians but some frogs and salamanders defend home ranges.

In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

Little is known on their relationship, but Crispus soon died and left his estate to Nero.

Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.

Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.

In act 4, scene 14, “ an un-Romaned Antony ” laments, “ O, thy vile lady !/ She has robb'd me of my sword ,” ( 22-23 )— critic Arthur L. Little Jr. writes that here “ he seems to echo closely the victim of raptus, of bride theft, who has lost the sword she wishes to turn against herself.

Osro Cobb recalls that " a deluge of vile and threatening cards and letters " addressed to Judge Davies arrived at the post office in Little Rock.

Smith further developed the ideas of breaking a scene shot in one place into a series of shots taken from different camera positions over the next couple of years, starting with The Little Doctors of 1901.

More recently, Little penguin viewing facilities have been put in place at Pilots Beach, Otago Peninsula and Dunedin in New Zealand.

Little communication took place between each of them.

In addition to the Gospel readings at Matins and Vespers, there is a reading of all four Gospels which takes place during the Little Hours ( Third Hour, Sixth Hour and Ninth Hour ) on these first three days.

Numerous members of the lower clergy may be ordained at the same service, and their blessing usually takes place during the Little Hours prior to Liturgy, or may take place as a separate service.

Little development took place between the wars, even with the proposal of sanitation plans provided by private companies.

The Northern Cheyenne fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which took place on June 25, 1876.

This division signaled a beginning of polarization of gender roles social constructs “ as class stratification increased .” Joy Kasson wrote that “ Alcott chronicled the coming of age of young girls, their struggles with issues such as selfishness and generosity, the nature of individual integrity, and, above all, the question of their place in the world around them .” Girls were able to relate to the March sisters in Little Women along with following the lead of their heroines by assimilating aspects of the story into their own lives.

Degas's only showing of sculpture during his life took place in 1881 when he exhibited The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, only shown again in 1920 ; the rest of the sculptural works remained private until a posthumous exhibition in 1918.

With the help of Nick and some of the other inmates such as Twitch ( Ricardo " Kurupt " Brown ) and Little Joe ( Michael " Bear " Taliferro ), Sascha sets out to rescue June and bring Donny down, before Alcatraz becomes everyone's final resting place.

This victory was celebrated as Majorian's own, and the magister militum was acclaimed Emperor by the army on April 1, six miles outside Ravenna, in a place called ad Columellas, " at the Little Columns ".

There is little documentary evidence for most of Little Turtle's life, and the exact year and place of his birth are uncertain.

Van is an unincorporated census-designated place in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Pond Fork of the Little Coal River.

: Beginning at the northeast corner of the county of Clermont, running thence west with the line of said county to the Little Miami ; thence up the same with the meanders thereof to the north boundary of the first tier of sections in the second entire range of townships in the Miami Purchase ; thence west to the northeast corner of Section No. 7 in the third township of the aforesaid range ; thence north to the Great Miami ; thence up the same to the middle of the fifth range of townships ; thence east to the County line ; thence with same south to the place of beginning.

* In Sarah Water's 2009 novel " Little Stranger ," ( which takes place shortly after World War II ) the game is mentioned as one of two board games ( the other is draughts ) played by Mrs. Ayres and the servant girl, Betty.

Searcy Landing, on the Little Red River, is the final resting place for some Yankee soldiers.

Vallecito (" Little Valley " in Spanish ; formerly, Murphy's Old Diggings, Valacito, Vallicita, Vallicito ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Calaveras County, California, United States.

West Little River is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

The final scenes of the crime novel Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman take place in a sugarcane plantation near Belle Glade.

The site at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers has served as a trading center and meeting place for nomadic hunting people for at least 11, 000 years.

This area at the time was largely known as Little Farms, a name which well described its pre-urban history ; this was also the place name officially recognized by the Post Office.

Crow Agency is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States and is near the actual location for the Little Bighorn National Monument and re-enactment known as Custer's Last Stand.