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9 unusual facts about Cascade


Cascade, Colorado

Grouse, squirrels, birds and some wild animals are native to the canon.

Cascade, New Hampshire

The mill is now Gorham Paper and Tissue, which is managed by Patriarch Partners.

Eastholme

The Eastholme, also known as Eastholme of the Rockies, is a historic building in Cascade, near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Edward D. Cooke

Born in Cascade, Iowa, Cooke attended the common schools, the local academy, and the high school at Dubuque.

Frank Chopp

After graduating at UW, Chopp became the Director, Cascade Community Center.

J. Robert Atkinson

In 1967, the town of Cascade, Montana named a park for Atkinson, also unveiling a statue of him.

Seattle process

As an example, during the massive redevelopment of the Cascade and South Lake Union neighborhoods in the early 21st century it was criticized by Vulcan Inc. and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that an in-depth discussion of all of the ideas would wear out the patience of other groups providing financial capital.

Tanytrachelos

It contains a single species, Tanytrachelos ahynis, which is known from several hundred fossil specimens preserved in the Solite Quarry in Cascade, Virginia.

Wojciech Rychlik

Currently, he is a president of Molecular Biology Insights, Inc. located in Cascade, Colorado.


Aniridia

The AN2 region of the short arm of chromosome 11 (11p13) includes the PAX6 gene (named for its PAired boX status), whose gene product helps regulate a cascade of other genetic processes involved in the development of the eye (as well as other nonocular structures).

Artigas Gardens

He also built an artificial grotto, a typical Gaudí hallmark, like the one he had designed for the cascade of the Parc de la Ciutadella.

Blue huckleberry

Vaccinium deliciosum (also called Cascade bilberry or Cascade huckleberry), Western United States and British Columbia, Canada - a bilberry

C11orf73

CRHBP is a corticotrophin releasing hormone binding protein which could possibly play a role in a signal cascade that involves or activates C11orf73.

Cascade Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Many of the early settlers in Cascade Township were Irish Catholic.

Charles Boyce

While serving as a lithographer stationed in the print shop on the USS Cascade AD-16, an attendant destroyer that patrolled the Mediterranean Sea during the Vietnam War, he created his first comic strip, Pudgy and JB, for the USS Cascader, the ship's newspaper.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Session guitarist/keyboard player Mike McEvoy (Michael J McEvoy) co-wrote the songs on their Getahead album and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro played on three tracks ("Cascade", "Can't Grow Trees on Money" and "Who Are You").

Dams in Burma

Since the 1990s, YMEC has been involved in more than 25 projects of varying size, including the Ching Hkran, Chinshwehaw, Dattawgyaing, Hopin, Kunhein, Kunlon, Kyaing Ton, Kyaukme, Laiva, Mepan, Nam Hkam Hka, Nam Myaw, Nam Wop, Nancho, Paunglaung, Upper Paunglaung, Shweli I, II, III Cascade, Watwon, Zaungtu, Zawgyi I and II, Zichaung, and N’Mai Hka River hydropower projects, as well as the Rangoon Dagon Substation.

Dave Page

Page has made many historic mountain climbing ascents among contemporaries Fred Beckey and other notable cascade climbers of the 20th century; these included ascents in the Himalayas.

David Horsey

He began perfecting his craft as a cartoonist in the Cascade, the school newspaper at Ingraham High School.

DEC Prism

The same year Dave Cutler started the CASCADE project at DECwest in Bellevue, Washington.

Discovery and development of direct thrombin inhibitors

As the name indicates the cascade is a multi-step procedure where the main product thrombin is made by activating various proenzymes (mainly serine proteases) in each step of the cascade.

Dniester Hydroelectric Station

Both Dniester Hydroelectric Station and Dniester Pumped Storage Power Station are administered by the Ukrainian Hydro-Energy Administration and compose the Dniester Cascade of power stations.

East End Brewing Company

In 2007, after mistakenly ordering a quadruple batch of New York-grown cascade and centennial hops for his Big Hop Harvest beer, Smith shared his hops with local breweries for a "Wet-Hopped Beer Festival" at an East Liberty bar.

Fort Ritchie

Fort Ritchie at Cascade, Maryland was a military installation southwest of Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania and southeast of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in the area of South Mountain.

Fountain of Samson, Kiev

The sculpture was likely modeled upon Mikhail Kozlovsky's famous statue, a centerpiece of the Peterhof Palace Grand Cascade, with St. Samson symbolising the Russian victory over Sweden at Poltava: the lion is an element of Sweden's coat of arms and the battle was won on St. Samson Day.

Fraser Valley Mariners

2008 was the year of 'boom or bust' for Abbotsford, where almost every game was either a resounding victory or a humiliating defeat: they beat Cascade Surge 5-0 in a game which featured a hat trick from Adrian Kekec, beat Spokane Spiders 4-0 at home, and put another four past Cascade at the beginning of July.

However, following their come-from-behind 3-2 win against Yakima Reds at the end of June, something clicked into place for Abbotsford: from that point on they began to utterly demolish their opponents, thrashing Cascade Surge 4-0, topping Yakima Reds 3-0, beating Tacoma Tide 4-1, and finishing the year with an absolutely astonishing 11-0 win over Spokane Spiders which included a double hat-trick SIX goals from striker James Severn.

Glacier, Washington

Glacier is the community closest to Mt. Baker (northernmost of the Cascade volcanoes), is within 10 air miles of Mt. Baker's summit and a 20 mile drive to the Mt. Baker Ski Area with awe-inspiring views of Mount Shuksan, one of the most photographed mountains in the world.

Issaquah Alps Trails Club

The Issaquah Alps Trails Club offers guided hikes, public land advocacy, and performs trail maintenance in the modest range of Cascade foothills known as the Issaquah Alps near Seattle, Washington, in the United States.

J. B. Selkirk

They lived at 'Cascade', a house overlooking the Tweed midway between Selkirk and Galashiels before moving to Thornfield, Selkirk which was built by himself in 1870.

Kermit Sheets

During World War II, Sheets served as a conscientious objector for four years, first in Civilian Public Service Camp no. 21 at Cascade Locks, and then in Camp Angel near Waldport, Oregon, where he became part of a gifted group of artists, writers, and performers.

Moss Force

The middle cascade falls into a larger pool which has scattered Juniper around it.

Mount Cayley

These volcanoes are commonly referred to as Cascade volcanoes because they were formed by Cascadia subduction.

Newberry Volcano

This is the highest temperature ever recorded at a dormant Cascade volcano, hotter than even The Geysers of California, the world's largest producer of geothermal power.

Olympian Hiawatha

While the Milwaukee Road promoted the Olympian Hiawatha and its scenic route through Idaho and Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the Cascade range in Washington, the railroad competed with the Great Northern Railway's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific Railway's North Coast Limited and the growing airlines.

Pacific Ranges

A high rate of sedimentation from the outflow of the three major rivers (Fraser River, Columbia River, and Klamath River) which cross the Cascade Range contributes to further obscuring the presence of a trench.

Pattathippara Falls

Pattathippara Falls is a cascade waterfall located in Pananchery Grama Panchayat in Thrissur district of Kerala, India.

Pine pitch canker

Scientists fear that the disease will spread to the Sierra Nevada, Coast, and Cascade mountain ranges.

Quantum cascade laser

The upcoming video game Star Citizen imagines external-cavity quantum cascade lasers as high-power weapons.

Rose Garrard

and the Cascade Gates 2007, in welded steel at the Clock Tower Well Room in North Malvern.

Run of River Power

This project, proposed by Run of River’s subsidiary Northwest Cascade Power Ltd., included seven generation facilities and a 42 km transmission line that would have passed through Pinecone Burke Provincial Park.

Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

Sound amplification according to the experiment taken in the University of Nottingham could be based on an induced cascade of electrons in semiconductor superlattices.

Tehama

Mount Tehama, a now-destroyed volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California

Traveston Crossing Dam

There was strong opposition to the dam from the wider and international community based on environmental concerns related to the endangered Mary River Cod, Mary River Turtle, Giant Barred Frog, Cascade Tree Frog, Coxen's Fig Parrot, the vulnerable Queensland lungfish, Tusked Frog, Honey Blue-eyed Fish, the Richmond Birdwing butterfly and the Illidge's Ant-blue Butterfly.

Vigor Industrial

In 1995, Vigor Industrial owner, Frank Foti founded Cascade General operating on leased space from the Port of Portland shipyard.

Whinnimic Falls

The name "Whinnimic Falls" was mentioned in the red Cascade Alpine Guide by Fred Beckey.

Willamette National Forest

In 1911, the Santiam National Forest was created from parts of the Oregon NF and the Cascade NF.

In 1908, the Cascade Forest Reserve was divided into the Oregon National Forest, the Cascade National Forest, the Umpqua National Forest and the Crater National Forest.


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