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27 unusual facts about Bloomington


1961 Minnesota Twins season

After 60 seasons in Washington, the Senators franchise moved to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area -- or, more precisely, Bloomington, Minnesota -- in 1961.

1967–68 NHL season

In a game at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, the Oakland Seals were in town to play the North Stars and Bill Masterton led a rush into the Oakland zone.

Allen Pearson

He retired from the National Weather Service in 1981, and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Bloomington Educational Cable Television

Bloomington Educational Cable Television or BEC-TV as it is commonly referred to as is the Educational-access television branch of the City of Bloomington, Minnesota's Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV stations.

Chorale and Shaker Dance

The piece was commissioned by the Jefferson High School Band of Bloomington, Minnesota, in honor of their conductor, Earl Benson.

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin

She taught in anthropology, history, and folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, beginning in the fall of 1943.

Erzsébet Gaál

Erzsébet Gaál is a native of Hungary currently living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is an active professional harpist, Kodály pedagogue and a researcher in the field of physical wellness for musicians.

Evric Gray

Evric Gray (born December 13, 1969 in Bloomington, California) is a retired American professional basketball player.

James Auchmuty

Auchmuty died in Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, survived by his wife, a son and daughter; a younger son had died in infancy.

Lonely Ol' Night

The video for "Lonely Ol' Night" was shot in and around Bloomington, Indiana.

Mall Cops: Mall of America

Mall Cops: Mall of America is an American reality television series that follows the work of the security team at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the second largest mall in North America.The series was originally just a special one hour event, however due to the popularity TLC decided to commission a twelve-part series of half an hour length.

Melissa Halvorson Wiklund

Wiklund was raised in Bloomington, Minnesota and graduated from Kennedy High School.

They have two children (Nathan & Emily) and reside in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Minnesota Muskies

The team colors were blue and gold and games were played in the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Murder of Brian Glick

The Murder of Brian Glick involved homicide victim Brian Glick, who was murdered at the age of 21 on October 25, 1993 by Dennis Tate and Michael Olson in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Nicollet Mall

The Blue Line light rail, opened in 2004, has a Nicollet Mall station, and connects downtown Minneapolis to the airport and the Mall of America in Bloomington.

Normal Community High School

NCHS serves parts of Normal, Bloomington, and Towanda and is home to over 1,900 students (grades 9–12) with 150 faculty and staff.

Parallel terraced scan

It was developed by John Rehling and Douglas Hofstadter at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington

A few miles south of San Bernardino, California, in the small town of Bloomington in 1945, a particular group of veterans and POBOB founder Otto Friedli who was too young to have served in the war, found civilian life to be too slow and set out to get more thrills by riding motorcycles and hot rod cars.

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

Roni Griffith

Roni Griffith is a former 1980s disco musician and model from Bloomington, Indiana.

Sesame Street Live

Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Sesame Street Live "Missing Bird Mystery" playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Spencer Bernard

Spencer is currently a pastor at Evergreen Community Church in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Ulysses F. Doubleday

He was interred in the Bloomington Township Old City Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois.

Viking SF-2A Cygnet

The Cygnet plans were originally marketed by the designer through his company Sisler Aircraft of Bloomington, Minnesota and later by HAPI Engines, a supplier of Volkswagen air-cooled engines.

Whitall Perry

In 1980, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana where he resided for the last 25 years of his life.

Wolcott J. Humphrey

In 1855, he removed to Bloomington, Illinois, and in 1856 chaired the convention which nominated Owen Lovejoy for Congress.


ACSM American Fitness Index

As of 2013, the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area holds the top ranking.

Baynard Rush Hall

After spending a year living with relatives near Gosport and preaching occasionally, he was chosen to become the first teacher at the Indiana State Seminary in Bloomington, which was founded in 1820 but had not yet begun to operate.

Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground

The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House is located on a relatively elevated area of land east of Bloomington, Illinois, near the community of Holder.

Diane Elam

Elam was also professor of English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University in Wales, at Indiana University in Bloomington, and at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Egbert B. Gebstadter

:Having spent the last several years in the Computer Science Department of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, he has recently joined the faculty of the Psychology Department of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he occupies the Walgreen Chair in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.

Eric Knechtges

Eric Knechtges has studied at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Jacobs School of Music (DM), Bowling Green State University (MM) and Michigan State University (BMusEd); he has also taught music (band, chorus, and music appreciation) at Addison Community Schools in Michigan.

Federico Agostini

He currently resides in the United States where from 2002-2012 he taught at Bloomington's Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Franz Kamin

While at IU, Kamin, together with fellow composer James Brody organized FIASCO, an experimental collective which meet weekly in Bloomington from 1966 to 1972.

Fred Householder

Fred Walter Householder, Jr. was an American linguist at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana.

Hans Otto Storm

Storm was born in Bloomington, California to German parents who were refugees fleeing anti-socialist fervor in Germany following the failed Revolutions of 1848.

Hélène van Zuylen

Karla Jay, The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Jerry Slocum

In 2006, Slocum donated over 30,000 puzzles to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, marking the first time a major collection of puzzles was made available in an academic setting.

John M. Hamilton House

The other two are the George H. Miller House on Bloomington's West Market Street, and the Ruben M. Benjamin House in the East Grove Street Historic District.

John Michael Hayden

A two-time Parade Magazine All-American at Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, Hayden matriculated at Indiana University in 2002.

KBMI

Central Illinois Regional Airport, ICAO code KBMI, an airport serving Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, United States

Life Toward Twilight

Festival appearances include Bloomington, Indiana's BodyHammer Festival where he appeared alongside such artists as Enduser, Slave Cylinder and Monstrum Sepsis and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now Movement Festival, on the Eclectic Productions stage, where he appeared alongside such artists as Iszoloscope, Xanopticon, Phallus Über Alles, Chiasm, Cdatakill and many others.

Mary S. B. Shindler

In June 1835, Mary Palmer married Charles E. Dana, and moved with him first to New York City, and in 1837 to Bloomington, Iowa.

Matthew F. Hale

Beginning on July 2, 1999, Smith shot nine Orthodox Jews walking to and from their synagogues in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, killed two people, including former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, in Evanston, Illinois, and a 26-year-old Korean graduate student named Won-Joon Yoon who was shot as he was on his way to church in Bloomington, Indiana.

McLean County Courthouse and Square

During their early years the buildings, including the Dewenters building served as offices for prominent Bloomington doctors and lawyers, including William Ormes and Leonard Swett, who pioneered the insanity defense for accused criminals.

Motion Painting No. 1

William Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004)

MPRI

Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, a proton therapy treatment center in Bloomington, Indiana.

Rick Shiomi

As a stage director, Shiomi has directed at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco, InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, The Bloomington Civic Theatre in Minnesota, St. Paul's SteppingStone Theatre for Youth, and has helmed numerous productions for Mu Performing Arts, including two by David Henry Hwang, the play Yellow Face and Hwang's revisal of Flower Drum Song by Rogers and Hammerstein.

Simeon K. Wolfe

Born near Georgetown, Indiana, Wolfe attended Floyd County schools, and was graduated from the law department of Indiana University in 1850.

State Farm Downtown Building

The building is listed as a contributing property to the National Register of Historic Places listed Bloomington Central Business District, a historic district encompassing much of downtown Bloomington, Illinois.

Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman: Molly’s Secret Diary or the Confessions of a Social Software Convert; in: Willms Buhse/Soeren Stamer: The Art of Letting Go, Bloomington 2008.

The Debt of the Dead

The Debt of the Dead is an album by the Bloomington, Indiana folk punk duo Ghost Mice.

WBLN

WYZZ-TV, a television station (channel 43) licensed to Bloomington, Illinois, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from 1982 to September 1985

Welborn

Amy Welborn (b. July 17, 1960, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American Roman Catholic author, columnist, activist, academic and public speaker.

William Nelson Darnborough

William Nelson Darnborough (1869 – 1958) from Bloomington, Illinois was known for his success in roulette at Monte Carlo from 1904 to 1911.