Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

Even when he is on the way to Memphis you will still have the promise resting inside you like a gift, and it is he inside of you.

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.

Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ) is an ecumenical organization that brings together ten mainline American denominations ( including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches ), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, TN on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

There are also recordings featuring the harmonica in jug bands, of which the Memphis Jug Band is the most famous.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States.

For comparison, note that traditional first-past-the-post would elect Memphis, even though most citizens consider it the worst choice, because 42 % is larger than any other single city.

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

Given that the decree was issued at Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt, rather than Alexandria, the centre of government of the ruling Ptolemies, it is evident that the young king was anxious to gain their active support.

" 100 Miles from Memphis ( released July 20 on A & M Records ), the distance from her hometown to the music mecca, is an ode to her formative memories of music-and one that the label hopes can inspire young music fans to investigate the landscape beyond processed pop and Auto-Tune.

Tennessee is known for its country ham and Memphis, TN is known for several famous barbecue restaurants and a major barbecue cooking competition held in May.

** Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

* c. 3100 BC — According to the legend, Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis.

Dunavant Enterprises, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the leading cotton broker in Africa, with hundreds of purchasing agents.

Memphis barbecue is best known for tomato-and vinegar-based sauces.

In some Memphis establishments and in Kentucky, meat is rubbed with dry seasoning ( dry rubs ) and smoked over hickory wood without sauce ; the finished barbecue is then served with barbecue sauce on the side.

A popular item in North Carolina and Memphis is the pulled pork sandwich served on a bun and often topped with coleslaw.

* The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is held annually in Memphis, Tennessee, during the Memphis in May festival.

Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Robert Johnson as well as Casey Bill Weldon of the Memphis Jug Band.

* 671 BC: Esarhaddon again invades Egypt, capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family.

The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), the 42nd largest in the United States, has a 2010 population of 1, 316, 100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and Crittenden County, Arkansas.

The Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association is the only club from one of the " big four " major sports leagues in the city ; however, the minor leagues are well represented.

" Forrest was well known as a Memphis speculator and Mississippi gambler.

* 671 BC — Esarhaddon again invades Egypt, capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family.

The well known Memphis jug bands were small street groups, performing generally on Beale Street, and had their own blues style, using guitar, harmonica, banjo and a jug to accompany their blues and dance songs.

They finished the 2007 – 08 NBA season with exactly 50 wins as well as finishing the first half of that season 25 – 16 ( 50 – 32 overall record, tied for the third-best all-time Nuggets record since the team officially joined the NBA in 1976 ), following a 120 – 111 home victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in the last game of the season.

In fact, both the control cities on the overhead signs, as well as destination mileage signs, reference Memphis along southbound I-57, even as far north as its northern origin at I-94 in Chicago.

In the holy of holies of his temple in Memphis, as well as in his great sacred boat, he drove in procession to regularly visit the region during major holidays.

A modern bus terminal served by the Greyhound Lines ' Jacksonville-Los Angeles route, as well as connections north to Atlanta, Memphis and New York, featuring waiting rooms, lounge, smoking rooms, restaurant, and loading concourse, opened on the corner of Ferdon and Pearl Streets on Friday 9 May 1941.

The Memphis ZIP code 48041 serves all of Riley Township as well as a portion of Richmond Township.

According to Cliff White, " Recording again in the south, Memphis and Music Shoals, he did a superb job on several well known perennials, including " That Lucky Old Sun ", " What Am I Living For ", and " Please Send Me Someone to Love.

Cybill is a rather eccentric feminist who practices New Age philosophy, as well as a native Southerner from Memphis, Tennessee.

It meant moving his family to Memphis and separation from his close friend John Wesley McKinnie and No. 638 as well, but Jones saw the move as a good one, and had bid for and got the job.

Nonstop FedEx destinations from Memphis include scores of cities across the continental U. S., plus Anchorage and Honolulu, as well as numerous Canadian, Mexican, and Caribbean cities.

Memphis serves as a hub for Delta Air Lines, as well as a hub for Delta Connection carrier Pinnacle Airlines with routes to destinations across the United States as well as a seasonal route to Amsterdam.

The Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Awards was created by the Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival to honor exceptional musicians with Memphis ties as well as those who have dedicated their careers to excellence in music and music education.

Northwest operated service to Memphis as well prior to its merger with Delta.

Her childhood was spent in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as Memphis, Tennessee.

Flutie struggled at times but played well overall until he suffered a broken collarbone against the Memphis Showboats in the season's 15th game and did not play again.

She used an excerpt from her own originally anonymous editorial in the Memphis Free Speech which was in response to the unlawful murders of three of her fellow townsmen, as well as two responses to her editorial from white newspapers: The Daily Commercial and The Evening Scimitar.

* James V Ball, ( class of 1958 ), retired, well known attorney Memphis, TN, Loras College HOF 2002.