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• in his clemency application to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons claimed to have learned "to appreciate and respect the right of others"?
• the 122 miles (196 km) Dorcheat Bayou in Arkansas and Louisiana was once navigable for several months a year to access the Red River?
• in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
• in 1976, Arkansas Republicans nominated for governor an unknown plumber, Leon Griffith of Pine Bluff, after a Minnesota Vikings football player declined the party's offer of support?
• from 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons?
• the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
• the Gazette Building in Little Rock, Arkansas served as headquarters for the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign?
• the town of Marche, Arkansas, was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America?
• the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary?
• the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil?
• the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas?
• during World War II, the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship, the Oryoku Maru?
• as early as 1978 the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas, Lynn Lowe accused Bill Clinton of having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War?
• Fay Boozman, as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee, managed the "Healthy Arkansas" initiative, including the fight against obesity?
• Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas is recognized as one of the best preserved Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the United States?
• dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
• Arlie Metheny, as public information officer in 1958 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, handled media inquiries relating to the induction of Elvis Presley into the Army?
• Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
• Historic Washington State Park near Hope includes the Block-Catts House, the oldest still-standing two-story residence in Arkansas?
• as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet, the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee, co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating?
• after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
• Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas?
• Lynn A. Davis stopped illegal gambling in Hot Springs in a 128-day career as head of the Arkansas state police?
• Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren authored a failed bill to require motorcyclists to wear helmets or offer proof of health insurance?