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22 unusual facts about Ames


Ames, Colorado

The historic Town of Ames is a Home Rule Municipality located in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Ames was the site of the world's first commercial system to generate and transmit alternating current electricity, the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant.

Ames/ISU Ice Arena

Ames/ISU Ice Arena is an ice arena and recreational sport facility located in Ames, Iowa and owned and operated by Ames Parks & Rec Department and Iowa State University.

Band mapping

"Photoemission study of the rare earth intermetallic compounds: RNi2Ge2 (R = Eu, Gd)." 2004, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Bert German

Bert German was the third head football coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones located in Ames, Iowa and he held that position for five seasons, from 1894 until 1898.

Betty Lou Varnum

An acquaintance of McVay's who attended the University of Wisconsin, Platteville and worked at WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa suggested her as a host for a television show.

David Heymann

Heymann and fellow architects Michael Underhill and Laura Miller won a design citation from Progressive Architecture magazine in 1994 for their design of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, Iowa.

Edgar N. Clinton

Edgar N. Clinton was the sixth head football coachfor the Iowa State University Cyclones located in Ames, Iowa and he held that position for the 1901 season.

Edward M. Walsh

Walsh is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and holds Masters and Doctorate qualifications in nuclear and electrical engineering from Iowa State University where he was an Associate of the US Atomic Energy Commission Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.

James Banning

He later became a demonstration pilot on the west coast, flying a biplane named "Miss Ames" (he had attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa).

Joseph F. Beam

After graduation in 1976, Beam remained in the Midwest, enrolling first in a Master's Degree program in communications and then working as a waiter in Ames, Iowa.

Matthew Leander King

He spent five years as an experimentalist in agricultural engineering with the Agricultrual Experiment Station of Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, during which time he invented the hollow clay tile silo.

Neal Bowers

Neal Bowers and his wife, Nancy, have lived in the same house in Ames, Iowa for thirty years.

Oakes Ames

The city of Ames, Iowa is named for Oakes, as is likely the community of Ames, Nebraska.

Sam Mack

Mack was arrested and charged with armed robbery in Ames, Iowa in March 1989 when he participated in a holdup at a Burger King.

The Magic Window

The Magic Window (also known as The House with the Magic Window) was an American children's television program broadcast on ABC affiliate WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa from 1951 to 1994.

Thomas Harris MacDonald

In 1907, he married Elizabeth Dunham of Ames, Iowa and they had two children before her death in 1935.

Most people of the era saw railroads as the solution, but MacDonald went to Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts at Ames (transferring after a year at Iowa State Teachers College) to learn road building as a student of Anson Marston.

Travis Nichols

He was born in Ames, Iowa, in 1979 and now lives in Washington D.C., where he works for Greenpeace USA.

W. C. Friley

In 1932, he became the dean of the science division at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Wild Bunch

Tulsa Jack Blake — killed April 4, 1895, near Ames, Oklahoma Territory, by Deputy U.S. Marshals Will Banks and Isaac Prater.

Zevs Cosmos

During this time, Cosmos would often be seen teaching his ideas about nudism on street corners in Ames, Iowa City, and Des Moines, Iowa.


Air Ministry Experimental Station

AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight - Ferranti

Alan F. Wilt

He did volunteer work at the Ames Public Library, Reiman Gardens, and Collegiate Methodist Church.

Alvah Augustus Eaton

He went on three field trips to Florida and one to Europe for the Ames Botanical Laboratory in Easton, Massachusetts.

Ames Broadcasting Company

KCCQ-FM, KASI-AM, KIKD-FM were owned by Ames or Lake City Broadcasting Company, but later sold.

Ames Manufacturing Company

Ames Manufacturing Company has its origins in blacksmith and founder, Captain John Ames, who in 1774, made some of the first manufactured shovels in what would emerge as the new, United States of America.

Baker Library

Baker Memorial Library (Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library), the main library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Barbara McDougall

She has worked as a business reporter for the Vancouver Sun, an analyst for Odium Brown and at brokerage firm A.E. Ames, where she became the company's first female vice president.

Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad

The city of Ames was chartered in 1864 for the railroad and was named by CR&M President John Blair for Massachusetts Congressman Oakes Ames.

Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968.

Clarence Syvertson

In 1981, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert was merged with Ames and Syvertson assumed management responsibility for both Ames Moffett and Ames Dryden.

Conrad Coates

He appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Hephaestus, God of Craft and husband to Aphrodite, Unnatural History as Samuel Tolo & a guest appearance in the Fringe episode What Lies Below as Vincent Ames.

Controlled Impact Demonstration

The CID program was conducted at the Dryden Flight Research Facility of NASA Ames Research Center (Ames-Dryden), at Edwards, California, using a remotely controlled Boeing 720 transport, and was completed in late 1984.

Cyrille Thouvenin

2010: Sable noir (TV series) Jimmy by Eric Valette, Xavier Gens and Samuel Le Bihan – Les âmes meurtries (Season 2 episodes 3) : Toussaint

Diana Van der Vlis

Two other roles on soap operas that she played were Sherry Rowan on Ryan's Hope and Susan Ames Carver on The Secret Storm when she was a substitute for Judy Lewis in the role.

Disappearance of Ames Glover

Ames's father Paul Glover reported to police that he had left his son in the back seat of his car in Southall for approximately twenty minutes while he went to a cashpoint followed by a take-away restaurant.

Fairchild T-46

In order to validate the proposed aircraft's design, and to explore its flight handling characteristics, Fairchild Republic contracted with Ames Industries of Bohemia, New York to build a flyable 62% scale version.

Federal Employees' Distributing Company

Fedco predated the giant chains Walmart, Target, Kmart, Ames, and fellow membership chain Costco, but remained a regional chain and eventually was unable to compete with the national chains.

Glenn J. Ames

Ames received many awards including a Fulbright Grant (1984), fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies (1985), the Portuguese Ministry of Education (1986), and the Callous Kentuckian Foundation of Lisbon (2002).

Jack Trice

In 1922, Trice followed five of his teammates, as well as his former high school coach, Sam Willaman, to Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa.

John Edward Ames

In 2004 Ames wrote The Real Deadwood, a mix of history and buff lore about Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

Joseph Alexander Ames

In 1848, Ames traveled to Rome, where he painted a portrait of Pope Pius IX that was featured at the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition in 1850.

Joseph Sweetman Ames

Ames was also an assistant editor of Astrophysical Journal and associate editor of the American Journal of Science; editor-in-chief of the Scientific Memoir Series; and editor of J. von Fraunhofer's memoirs on Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra (1898).

KLTI

KLTI-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States

Mark Ames

Ames has also written for the New York Press, The Nation, Playboy, The San Jose Mercury News, Alternet, Птюч Connection, GQ (Russian edition), and is the author of three books.

Men of the Sky

In this drama, the love affair between an American pilot named Jack Ames (Jack Whiting) and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert (Irene Delroy) is chronicled.

Nathaniel Ames

Besides the astronomical observations, Ames published short articles, extracts from the English poets, such as Milton and Pope, and used the same pithy and witty maxims as made the reputation of Franklin, such as: "All men are created equal, but differ greatly in the sequel."

Oakes Angier Ames

Ames' legacy to North Easton can still be seen in Queset House, his home beside the Queset Brook.

Poirot Investigates

The other members of the party are Dr Tosswell (British Museum), Mr Schneider (Metropolitan Museum), Dr Ames (physician), Harper (American secretary to the party), and Hassan (native servant).

Richard E. Gray

In November 1981 he became a research test pilot at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (as Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, was called from 1981 to 1994).

Ronald Greeley

Through his military service, he was assigned to NASA’s Ames Research Center in 1967 where he worked in a civilian capacity in preparation for the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Train a Comin'

Most of the songs on the album are older material written when Earle was in his late teens and twenties, including "Hometown Blues," "Sometimes She Forgets," Mercenary Song," "Ben McCulloch," "Nothin' Without You," and "Tom Ames' Prayer.

Winthrop Ames

After the war, Ames began to direct most of his Broadway shows, which included The Betrothal (1918), The Green Goddess (1921), The Truth About Blayds (1922), Will Shakespeare (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), Minick (1924), Old English (1924), White Wings (1926), Escape (1927), The Merchant of Venice (1928) and Mrs. Moonlight (1930).