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Selma

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Selma city (1990 pop. 23,755), seat of Dallas co., S central Ala., on the Alabama River, in a fertile farm area; inc. 1820. Machinery, paper products, construction materials, transportation equipment, furniture, textiles, apparel, dairy products, and lumber are among its manufactures. A Confederate arsenal and supply point, Selma was ravaged in 1865; however, a number of antebellum houses remain—notably Sturdivant Hall (1853). Sen. William Rufus King , who named the town, lived and is buried there. A historical museum and a zoo are in Selma, and it is the seat of Selma Univ. and Concordia College. Nearby is the site of Cahaba, capital of Alabama from 1819 to 1826. In 1965, Selma was the center of a black voter registration drive led by Martin Luther King , Jr.

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Selma

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Selma, Canada, USA USA (Alabama): settled as Moore's Bluff or Landing in 1815, it was renamed Selma in 1820 from the poem by Ossian, the legendary Gaelic bard, recovered as ‘The Song of Selma’ by James Macpherson (1736–96).

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Selma

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Selma ♀ Of uncertain origin, probably a contracted form of Selima. It has also been occasionally used in Germany and Scandinavia, probably because it occurs as the name of Ossian's castle in Macpherson's ballads.

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Selma

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

Selma. Palace of the Fingallians in James Macpherson's Poems of Ossian (1760–3).

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Selma

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Selma •Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, hammer, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer •Padma • magma • drachma •Alma, halma, Palma •Cranmer • asthma • mahatma •miasma, plasma •jackhammer • sledgehammer •yellowhammer • windjammer •flimflammer • programmer •amah, armour (US armor), Atacama, Brahma, Bramah, charmer, cyclorama, dharma, diorama, disarmer, drama, embalmer, farmer, Kama, karma, lama, llama, Matsuyama, panorama, Parma, pranayama, Rama, Samar, Surinamer, Vasco da Gama, Yama, Yokohama •snake-charmer • docudrama •melodrama •contemner, dilemma, Emma, emmer, Jemma, lemma, maremma, stemma, tremor •Elmer, Selma, Thelma, Velma •Mesmer •claimer, defamer, framer, proclaimer, Shema, tamer

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