• garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia, tolerates the climates of both its parents?

Facts on topics related to Humid subtropical climate

Atlanta

• comedian Nipsey Russell got his start as a car hop at the Atlanta drive-in restaurant The Varsity?
• Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
• Jeff Swanagan, the Georgia Aquarium's first employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks (pictured) from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition?
• chef Austin Leslie (pictured), known as the Godfather of Fried Chicken, died in Atlanta after being evacuated from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

Austin, Texas

• Jesse Sublett was a pioneer of the Austin, Texas, punk rock scene, authored a series of mystery novels, and wrote a history of the Texas Turnpike Authority?
• as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
• the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
• when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America, the largest building in Austin, Texas, and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin?

Oklahoma City

• Kevin O'Brien, an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City?

Nashville, Tennessee

• Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally-syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey?
• Humphrey Bate was the first to play old-time music on Nashville radio, and his "Possum Hunters" records are considered some of the most complex string band compositions in the genre?
• Orval Prophet was among the earliest Canadian country music artists who recorded in a Nashville, Tennessee, studio?
• blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville, Tennessee?
• the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?

Raleigh, North Carolina

• Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
• Lunsford Lane (pictured) was a slave from North Carolina who bought his freedom, but was tarred and feathered when he returned to his hometown of Raleigh?
• in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?
• the Long View Center (pictured) in Raleigh, North Carolina is used as a church, concert venue, office building, and art gallery?
• the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?

Louisiana

• conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
• Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
• Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
• Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
• Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
• Louisiana District Judge Stephen J. Windhorst is a former reserve police officer who also served eight years in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an anti-crime advocate?
• Louisiana in 2008 became the fiftieth state to ban cockfighting, nearly two decades after former State Representative Garey Forster led the initial effort to halt the practice?