At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

Apries was either taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Memphis before being eventually strangled and buried in his ancestral tomb at Sais, or fled to the Babylonians and was killed mounting an invasion of his native homeland in 567 B. C. E.

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

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.

The knife was not received at the West Memphis Police Department until January 8, 1994.

The center of his cult was Memphis.

That same year, Davis was hired as president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee.

announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore and Memphis.

The classic Kansas City-style barbecue was an inner-city phenomenon that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry from the Memphis, Tennessee, area in the early 20th century and blossomed in the 18th and Vine neighborhood.

On 14 October 1986, Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

It was enjoyed mostly by rural blacks, with notable exposure in Memphis, Tennessee due to the all African American programming of WDIA.

* The 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee ( a city named after the ancient Egyptian capital whose name itself was derived from the name of one of its pyramids ).

Built in 1991, it was the home court for the University of Memphis men's basketball program, and the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies until 2004.

Note that while Nashville received only 26 % of the votes and was significantly behind Memphis in the first round, it won the election by winning the second round.

The decree was issued by a congress of priests who gathered at Memphis.

Tlepolemus, in turn, was replaced as guardian in 201 BC by Aristomenes of Alyzia, who was chief minister at the time of the Memphis decree.

Both the war and the internal revolt were still ongoing when the young Ptolemy V was officially crowned at Memphis at the age of 12 ( seven years after the start of his reign ), and the Memphis decree issued.

And Gratt Shafer would be in Memphis today for the wedding rehearsal and then tomorrow he would marry just like everybody knew he would, just like everybody knew all along.

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.

He then ran away to Memphis where he lived rough for a few days before returning to his mother.

The album remained No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart for 14 consecutive weeks ; Memphis Blues fell to No. 2 on October 16, 2010 and then to No. 3 on October 23, 2010.

Over the next three seasons, he advanced through the Astros ' farm system, playing with the single-A Dubuque Packers in, then splitting the season between the double-A Columbus Astros and the triple-A Memphis Blues in, and finally with the triple-A Charleston Charlies in.

Elvis Presley, who recorded his version of Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup's " That's All Right " at Phillips's studio, met that goal, and became highly successful, first in Memphis, then throughout the southern United States.

The route leaves Gratiot and goes northwest through Richmond and then north through Memphis.

Once these two lines converge, the trackage then goes to Memphis.

In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.

They would then devote three years to what would be renamed Booker T. Jones & the Memphis Group.

He then went to work with W. C. Handy's publishing company, supplying new arrangements and lyrics for popular editions of tunes like " The Memphis Blues " in the 1920s.

It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).

However, the album was then re-recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, the same studio at which the band had recorded all of their previous albums, along with other notable groups such as Big Star and The Replacements.

The Rainiers then dropped 2 straight games at SAFECO field, before winning Game 5 to advance to the PCL Championship Series against the Memphis Redbirds.

A month later in Memphis he posted his first win over a top-10 ranked opponent, Tommy Haas, who was then ranked no.

Finding that he no longer desired the Georgia plantation life of his youth, he taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and then served in executive positions with the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad ( executive superintendent ), the Savannah and Memphis Railroad ( president ), and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( president ).

Southern merged with North Central Airlines to form Republic Airlines which continued to serve Mobile before this air carrier was acquired by Northwest Airlines which in turn then operated DC-9 jet service between Mobile and its hub in Memphis.

He then married Eliza Buck Hart of Memphis, Tennessee in 1839, but she died in 1842, with no offspring.

He was more into R & B, and the Memphis sound, and by then I'd become more interested in jazz and swing ..."

One of the most extreme examples of a single flight number, same aircraft, with multiple stops, was the routing flown by a DC9-14 originating in Miami, then on to Orlando, Tallahassee, Panama City, Eglin AFB, Mobile, Gulfport, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, Huntsville, Memphis, St Louis and terminating in Chicago ( Midway Airport ), a total flight time start to finish of 14hr 32min.

The Memphis franchise of the former American Basketball Association had intended to move to Baltimore for what turned out to be that league's final season, 1975 – 76, but then folded without ever actually playing a game in Baltimore.

The pharaoh Psamtik III had to face the might of Persia at Pelusium ; he was defeated and briefly escaped to Memphis, but ultimately was captured and then executed.

Piye then marched north and achieved complete victory at Herakleopolis, conquering the cities of Hermopolis and Memphis among others, and received the submission of the kings of the Nile Delta including Iuput II of Leontopolis, Osorkon IV of Tanis and his former ally Nimlot at Hermopolis.