`` 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.

She has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".

* 1941 – W47NV ( now known as WSM-FM ) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U. S ..

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

After the new Adelphia Coliseum, now known as LP Field, was completed in 1999, the team's name was changed to Tennessee Titans.

For two seasons, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers before changing its name to Titans in 1999.

During the 1997 – 98 period when they were known as the " Tennessee Oilers ", the team had an alternate logo that combined elements of the flag of Tennessee with the derrick logo.

The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48, 894 men and was encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River.

*, known for most of her career as Tennessee ( ACR-10 ), was destroyed by heavy waves three months after she was renamed in 1916

In 1997, Governor Don Sundquist proclaimed that June 23 be known as " Wilma Rudolph Day " in Tennessee.

ORNL is managed by a limited liability partnership between the University of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Institute known as UT-Battelle.

The route over Tennessee Pass was known for steep grades, and it wasn't uncommon to see trains running with midtrain and rear-end helpers.

* LP Field ( formerly known as " Adelphia Coliseum " and " The Coliseum "), Nashville, Tennessee

Cookeville, the largest town in Putnam County, is the home of Tennessee Technological University, which is known for its engineering programs, its school of education, its business school and its center for rural health.

Buchanan graduated from Middle Tennessee State Teachers College, now known as Middle Tennessee State University, in 1940.

The earliest known examples of a fully domesticated sunflower have been found in Tennessee, and date to around 2300 BC.

In April 1829, in part due to the embarrassment of his well known separation, Houston resigned as governor of Tennessee and went west with the Cherokee to exile in Arkansas Territory.

Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman had long known that his fragile supply and communication lines through Tennessee were in serious jeopardy because of depredations by Forrest's cavalry raids.

Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the Gulf South Conference was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State ( now North Alabama ), Jacksonville State, Livingston ( now West Alabama ), Tennessee – Martin and Troy State ( now Troy ).

After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.

In February and October 1976, the Jungle Room was converted into a recording studio, where Presley recorded the bulk of his final two albums, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee and Moody Blue ; these were his final known recordings in a studio setting.