`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is the center of this area.

Another scenic spot in Tennessee is Chattanooga where the Rock City Gardens are not to be missed.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

South of these highlands, occupying a narrow strip on each side of the Tennessee River, is a country of gentle rolling lowlands varying in elevation from.

The Cumberland Plateau region is drained to the west-northwest by the Tennessee River and its tributaries ; all other parts of the state are drained to the southwest.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

* 2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States ; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

The major isotope of berkelium, berkelium-249, is synthesized in minute quantities in dedicated high-flux nuclear reactors, mainly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

In the polity of the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), the international leader is the Presiding Bishop, and the members of the Executive Committee are Executive Bishops.

The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

This story is reported by Dunn ( 1907: 16-17 ) as being told in 1901 by a man who heard this story from a Hoosier family member while traveling in southern Tennessee.

* 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

* 1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

* 1847 – Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.

In 1803, most of Polk's relatives moved to the Duck River area in what is now Maury County, Middle Tennessee ; Polk's family waited until 1806 to follow.

The house where Polk spent his adult life before his presidency, in Columbia, Tennessee, is his only private residence still standing.

Indeed, his home state of Tennessee ratified the Fourteenth Amendment despite the President's opposition, and was the only seceded state to empower a civil government during Reconstruction.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

In 1838, the political situation in Tennessee — where, in 1835, Democrats had lost the governorship for the first time in their party's history — persuaded Polk to return to help the party at home.

Polk lost both his home state, North Carolina, and his state of residence, Tennessee, the most recent successful presidential candidate to do so.

Jacksonville most recently wore white in their 2011 regular season game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and for the 2011 regular season home opener wore all white against the Tennessee Titans.

In the May 16, 2007 edition of TIME magazine, it was reported that " His ( Gore's ) Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home " On October 30, 2010, under the headline A VERY inconvenient truth, the UK Telegraph reported that " Al Gore ' left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture ".

Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee.

It is the home of the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, the Nashville Opera, the Music City Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Nashville Ballet.

For example, fans of Elvis Presley may choose to visit his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.

His wife Claudette began having an affair with the contractor who built their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

However, tragedy struck on June 6, 1966, when Orbison and Claudette were riding home from Bristol, Tennessee.

During a tour of the Midlands in England on September 16, 1968, he received the news that his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, had burned down and his two eldest sons had died.

After having dinner at his mother's home in Tennessee, Orbison died of a heart attack at 52.

On August 11, 2012, the Seahawks wore their Nike home blue jerseys for the first time against the Tennessee Titans, and on August 18, 2012, they wore their Nike white away jerseys for the first time against the Denver Broncos.

The team also wore their white uniforms in home games, as opposed to their time in Houston, when their blue uniforms were worn at home – in the two years as the Tennessee Oilers, the team only wore their colored jerseys twice, for road games against the Miami Dolphins and a Thanksgiving Day game against the Dallas Cowboys.

File: JohnnyCashHouse1969. jpg | Johnny Cash, in front of his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1969

It is also the most recent presidential election where the winner, Polk, lost both his home state ( North Carolina ) and his state of residence ( Tennessee ).

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

The couple divide their time between a home in Scotland and their farm outside Franklin, Tennessee, USA.

Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Patty ( née Shobe ), a homemaker, and William Jennings Shepherd, who managed a home appliance business.

She drives Willy Jack home to Tennessee and then continues to Maine to find Forney at college.

East Tennessee State University First Baseman Paul Hoilman hit 12 home runs in the final round to beat out Fresno State ’ s Jordan Ribera and Georgia Tech ’ s Matt Skole for the title.