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Selmer, TN -- U.S. town in Tennessee
Population (2000): 4541
Housing Units (2000): 2173
Land area (2000): 9.775081 sq. miles (25.317342 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.018460 sq. miles (0.047810 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.793541 sq. miles (25.365152 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66940
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.172333 N, 88.592964 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38375
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Selmer

Selmer may refer to:

  • Selmer (surname)
  • Selmer, Tennessee
Selmer (surname)

Selmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Christian August Selmer, Norwegian lawyer and statesman
  • Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer, Norwegian judge and politician
  • Ernst S. Selmer, Norwegian mathematician
  • Ernst W. Selmer, Norwegian phoneticist

Usage examples of "selmer".

Anton Selmer was a short, gingery-haired man with a broad nose and plentiful freckles.

She gave him transparent latex gloves, and he pulled them on to his hands as he followed Selmer into the glare of the surgical lamps.

Petrie kept Adelaide and Prickles well away while he checked over the barricade and its twenty corpses, and he wound a scarf around his own nose and mouth in case he wasn't as resistant to plague as Anton Selmer had suggested.

I was trying to think why Anton Selmer and I should both escape the plague, even though we were heavily exposed to it.

I ran out on Anton Selmer, and left him to cope with the plague alone.

Tesra fell asleep, utterly exhausted, while the conversation continued, but Selmer lasted several hours before his eyelids, too, drooped.

He remembered Tesra and Selmer, who had insisted on calling him Valder of the Magic Sword, and wondered if they had anything to do with it.

The talkative Selmer, and the various guests who had overheard his conversation with Sadra or with others who had tried to coax him away, spread his fame far and wide.

I was heartsick about losing it because Daddy had given it to me, and because, just a year earlier, the only other valuable thing I owned, the Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone Mother and Daddy had given me in 1963, had been stolen out of my car in Washington.

Eventually I replaced the sax with a 1935 Selmer “cigar cutter” model, but the sword proved irreplaceable.

When she had married Note Mokoti, she had yearned for all the glamour that went with being the wife of a well-known musician, a man who turned the heads of all when he entered a room, a man whose very voice seemed redolent of the thrilling notes of jazz that he coaxed out of his shining Selmer trumpet.

Belgium was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the death of my favorite Belgian, Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, and the mayor of Dinant, Sax’s hometown, presented me with a beautiful new Selmer tenor sax made in Paris.