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10 unusual facts about Bismarck, North Dakota


Brandon Jovanovich

Jovanovich excelled in sports and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Bugles in the Afternoon

When they reach Bismarck in the Dakota territory, Kern is welcomed to join the 7th Cavalry by an old friend, Capt. Myles Moylan, and assigned the rank of sergeant.

Cecilia Parker

Bismarck, North Dakota Tribune, Fifth Hardy Family Picture Delightful, Friday, December 2, 1938, Page 8.

Charles A.R. Dimon

Dimon therefore spent much of 1864 and 1865 in command of Fort Rice near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.

CKND-DT

In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Dave St. Peter

Dave St. Peter (born January 3, 1967 in Bismarck, North Dakota) has served as president of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball since 2002.

Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.

Jackson National Life

The company and its affiliates also have offices in Denver, Colorado; Nashville, Tennessee; Santa Monica, California; Chicago, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; Appleton, Wisconsin; Purchase, New York; and Bismarck, North Dakota.

Martynas Andriuškevičius

On December 21, as a member of the NBA Development League's Dakota Wizards, Andriuškevičius sustained a serious head injury when he was punched by teammate Awvee Storey in an attack during practice in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Veterans Songs

Recorded in Bismarck, North Dakota, Veterans Songs is meant to "honor warriors from the past to the present."


2009 NCAA Division I baseball season

Four schools became Division I independents− Bryant, from the Division II Northeast-10 Conference; North Dakota, from the Division II North Central Conference; SIU Edwardsville, from the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference; and Cal State Bakersfield, in its first season of varsity intercollegiate baseball.

2011 Missouri River Flood

All six major dams along the Missouri River released record amounts of water to prevent overflow which led to flooding threatening several towns and cities along the river from Montana to Missouri; in particular Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as putting countless smaller towns at risk.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Arthur LeSueur

In 1880, Arthur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, North Dakota, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season.

Bismarck Airport

Bismarck Municipal Airport in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States (FAA: BIS)

Bismarck Henning High School

Bismarck Henning High School or BHHS is a high school located in Bismarck, Illinois, and is currently hosting students from Rossville, Alvin, Bismark, Henning, and parts of Danville.

Bismarck, Missouri

Johnny Reagan - Basketball Hall of Fame; Finished season with 691 points, offensive star and noted all around player of several sports.

Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

Fritz Stern reviewed the book for the Political Science Quarterly and said that while there are many other biographies of Bismarck that are more detailed, "as a perceptive psychological sketch of this massively complex being, Mr. Taylor's Bismarck stands unsurpassed".

Bobby Billings

Billings was soon contacted for permission to use the song at a military banquet in North Dakota hosted by Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cat lady

Florence Nightingale had many cats named after famous public figures such as Gladstone and Bismarck.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative (CATC) is a non-profit rural telephone utility cooperative serving the cities of Bismarck and Donaldson and the surrounding rural areas of Hot Spring County, Arkansas.

Christian Wilhelm Allers

Several other books and maps (collections of prints) followed, for the sake of example about Bismarck, so at the beginning of the 1890s he was able to build a villa on Capri.

Donegal Corridor

A notable episode was when a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from No. 209 Squadron RAF based at Lough Erne located the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, leading to the ship's destruction.

Duane Sand

On June 4, 2008, Sand was piloting his personal airplane, a Cessna 172, on a flight from Bismarck, North Dakota to Fargo, North Dakota.

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

Empty Houses Are Lonely

It contains songs recorded from 2001-2003 including songs from North Dakota, Five Song Demo, and Late Night at Largo, as well as previously unreleased songs.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

Ford's Theatre

The restoration of Ford's Theatre was brought about by the two decade-long lobbying efforts of Democratic National Committeeman Melvin D. Hildreth and Republican North Dakota Representative Milton Young.

Herman Beach

Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11,700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota.

House of Bismarck

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto von Bismarck.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

John Clark Salyer II

In 1966, the Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota as the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge to honor his legacy of contributions to the preservation of America's wildlife.

John Korsmo

In 1992, Korsmo ran as a Republican to represent North Dakota in the House of Representatives, but lost the elections to Earl Pomeroy by a 57% to 39% margin.

John N. Hagan

John N. Hagan (August 4, 1873 – June 4, 1952) was a North Dakota Republican/NPL politician who served as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor from 1917 to 1921 and from 1937 to 1938.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Kaiser tower

The construction of these towers was also intended to counter the so-called Bismarck cult which had resulted, for example, in the erection of hundreds of Bismarck towers and columns.

KFYR

KYYY, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, which formerly used the call sign KFYR-FM

La Baule-Escoublac

It not only serviced the German submarine fleet, but was also the only dry dock on the Atlantic capable of housing the German battleship Tirpitz, one of two Bismarck-class ships built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

Longwy

Bismarck later bitterly regretted his decision when it was discovered that the region of Briey and Longwy was rich with iron ore.

Maple Valley Public School District

The Maple Valley Public School District is a public school district in Barnes and Cass counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota, based in Tower City, North Dakota.

Mitchell Campbell King

Bismarck's letters to him are preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress, while some of King's letters are kept by the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg (Germany), which is a commemorative German Government Foundation in memory of the Chancellor of the German Empire (similar to the Presidential libraries in the United States).

Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck

Otto Christian Archibald, Prince von Bismarck (25 September 1897, Schönhausen, Brandenburg – 24 December 1975) was a German politician and diplomat, and the Prince of Bismarck from 1904 to his death.

Pam Gulleson

On September 21, 2011, Gulleson announced her candidacy for the Democratic-NPL Party nomination for North Dakota's At-large congressional district in the 2012 election.

Pierre Bottineau

Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Saint Anthony, North Dakota

The community is near the site of several transmitter towers of Bismarck broadcast television and radio stations.

The Moved-Outers

It describes the internment of herself, her brother Kim, and her mother in Amache, Colorado, while her father is sent to North Dakota.

The Werewolf of Paris

The novel is filled with allusions to notable historical figures including Bismarck, Blanqui, Courbet, Dumas, Haussmann, and Thiers.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Dakota, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of North Dakota in the 114th United States Congress.

Vehicle registration plates of Nevada

Co-recipient with North Dakota.

Vernon Orlando Bailey

Bailey published 244 monographs and articles during his career with the USDA, and is best known for his biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon.

Wannagan Creek site

The Wannagan Creek site is a fossil site found just west of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota, USA.

Westby, Montana

Westby is located on the state border with North Dakota, and near the international boundary with Saskatchewan.

Xu Guangchun

He has been chosen to host high-level foreign delegations, including an August, 2009 visit to Zhengzhou by seven lieutenant governors from Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.