little rock

     

The 40-story TCBY Towers office building in this city is Arkansas' tallest building

Trivia about little rock

  • A favorite spot for hikers, Pinnacle Mountain is 20 minutes from this Arkansas' capital's downtown area
  • MacArthur Park in this Arkansas capital honors General Douglas MacArthur, not Richard Harris
  • This Arkansas capital is nicknamed "The City of Roses" for its many gardens
  • The University of Arkansas has a campus in this state capital
  • In 1722 French explorer Bernard de la Harpe called the site of this city "La Petite Roche"
  • A man called the home he just robbed in this Arkansas capital to say he dropped his wallet there & wanted it back
  • On September 10, 1863 Union troops captured this capital
  • With about 185,000 people, it's the largest city in the state
  • The French called a land formation La Petite Roche, thus giving this capital its name
  • National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959
  • Socks the cat, once America's First Feline, was born in this city
  • It began as a trading post called La Petite Roche to distinguish it from a high bluff farther upstream
  • (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire.) One of my first jobs in journalism was as a staff writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in this state capital
  • Daisy Bates won the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1958 for her fight for desegregation in this Arkansas city
  • In 1957 Ike used "the full power of the United States" to enforce integration at Central High in this city
  • A silver dollar commemorating desegregation in education showed Central High in this city on the reverse