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unusual facts about Colorado, United States



174th Brigade

174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States), a major subordinate command of the Ohio Army National Guard located in Columbus, Ohio.

Adelaide Ristori

In 1857 she visited Madrid, playing in Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the United States, where she won much applause, particularly in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabeth, an Italian study of the English sovereign.

Byrne Piven

Byrne Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an influential American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City.

Clifton James

George Clifton James (born May 29, 1921) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and as the prison guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Courtnie Bull

Courtnie Bull (born November 8, 1990) is an American actress who appeared as a supporting actress in roles such as Murder at 75 Birch, Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder portraying Grace Ingalls, and a small role in the film Friends & Lovers.

Daniel Siebert

In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) which sought to place Salvia divinorum in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

David Francey

His 2004 album, The Waking Hour, is a collaboration with traditional country artists Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin, and includes some of his darker material, including "Wishing Well" about the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and "Fourth of July", a political commentary on the post-September 11 United States.

DZRJ-FM

On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.

East Rochester, Ohio

East Rochester is a census-designated place in southern West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

Edward W. Goss

Goss was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Glynn and at the same time was elected to the Seventy-second Congress.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Emporia State University

In March 2010, the Lady Hornets basketball team won the NCAA Division II National Championship, defeating the Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Skyhawks.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

George H. Utter

Utter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death from liver cancer in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 3, 1912.

George K. Brady

He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Harry and Walter Go to New York is a 1976 American period comedy film written by John Byrum and Robert Kaufman, directed by Mark Rydell, and starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning and Lesley Ann Warren.

Heritage Park Aquatic Center

Heritage Park Aquatic Center is an aquatics venue located in Irvine, California, United States.

Jeff Groscost

In 2000, Groscost was defeated by Democrat Jay Blanchard in the historically Republican District 30 of Mesa.

Jimmy Cox

Jimmy Cox (July 28, 1882 – March 1925) was an American songwriter famous for his Depression-era hit "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".

Joe Dial

Joe Dial (born 26 October 1962 in Marlow, Oklahoma) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Rugee

He was also a Presidential Elector for the 1884 United States Presidential Election.

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Jonathan Winter

Jonathan Winter (born August 18, 1971 in Masterton) is a member of the Ngai Tahu Maori tribe and a former backstroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for his native country.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Margaret Vanderhye

She was the Democratic nominee in the 2007 Virginia general election to fill the seat held by retiring incumbent Republican Vince Callahan, defeating Republican businessman Dave Hunt in the general election on November 6, 2007.

Matt Joseph

He was also capped twice for Barbados in 2000, both caps at home against Guatamal and the United States.

Maureen Kaila Vergara

Maureen Kaila Vergara (born December 17, 1964 in San Francisco, United States) is a retired Salvadoran cycle racer who used to ride for the 800.com team.

Menow

As a two-year-old, Menow won the 1937 Champagne Stakes in September, although most attention was given to the fatal injury sustained by the favorite Skylarking.

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ

Metro Maryland Youth For Christ is a religious organization for young people in Maryland, United States.

Moné

She scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "We Can Make It" (#1, 1995), "Movin'" (#2, 1996) and "Partay Feeling" (As B-Crew featuring Barbara Tucker, Dajae, Ultra Nate and Moné) (#22, 1997).

Nancy J. Lescavage

She is the recipient of the Legion of Merit (four awards), the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal, several unit commendations and the General George Joulwan Achievement Award.

Nat Hickey

A 5'11" guard/forward, Hickey played during the 1920s through 1940s as a member of multiple professional teams, including the Cleveland Rosenblums of the American Basketball League and the Pittsburgh Raiders, Indianapolis Kautskys, and Tri-Cities Blackhawks of the National Basketball League.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Over Here!

The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).

Pierce M. B. Young

Returning home in early 1861, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 1st Georgia Infantry regiment, but declined that commission for the same rank in the artillery.

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

Rick Hurst

Richard Douglas "Rick" Hurst (born January 1, 1946) an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard and most recent The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion in 1997 and Hazzard in Hollywood in 2000.

Rogatchover Gaon

The remainder of his surviving writings appeared in the United States and Israel many years after his death; all are titled Tzofnath Paneach "decipherer of secrets", (a title given to the Biblical Joseph by Pharaoh (Genesis 41:45)).

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Samuel William Smith

He was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 6th congressional district to the 56th United States Congress and to the eight succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1915.

Sarah Palin email hack

The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident and on September 20, it was revealed that they were questioning David Kernell, a 20-year-old economics student at the University of Tennessee and the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell from Memphis.

Thomas Patrick Moore

Moore was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1829).

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell was the Democratic candidate for Alabama in the United States Senate election of 2004.

William H. Brawley

He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, and served from March 4, 1891, until February 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a position on the bench.

Yorkville High School

Yorkville High School, or YHS, is a public four-year high school located in Yorkville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

Youth ministry

There are organizations within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (the primary organization of Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States), as well as within the Canadian Unitarian Council (the national body for Unitarian Universalists in Canada), which minister to and with youth, of which Young Religious Unitarian Universalists (YRUU) is the largest and most apparent.


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Cat gap

The La Garita Caldera is a large volcanic caldera located in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, United States, and is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada during the Oligocene Epoch.

Denver Pioneers men's basketball

The Denver Pioneers men's basketball team represents the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, United States.

Frank Hayes

Frank L. Hays (1922–2003), 35th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States

Fraser, Colorado

Fraser is a Statutory Town in Grand County, Colorado, United States.

Ignacio, Colorado

The Town of Ignacio is a Statutory Town in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.

Jefferson County Airport

Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, formerly Jefferson County Airport, in Colorado, United States (FAA: BJC)

Jonah David Jang

He attended a course on Supply Operations Training (Logistics) in Denver, Colorado, United States and was promoted to Captain in 1972, Major in 1975 and Wing Commander in 1978, serving in most of the Nigerian air formations during this period.

KATC

KATC-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

KATR

KATR-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to Otis, Colorado, United States, known as KATR-FM since 1989

KGRE, a radio station (1450 AM) licensed to Greeley, Colorado, United States, known as KATR from 1986 to 1989

KBCR

KBCR-FM, a radio station (96.9 FM) licensed to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States

KBDL

KBDL-LP, a low-power radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Carbondale, Colorado, United States

KCQX

KCQX-LP, a defunct low-power radio station (106.9 FM) formerly licensed to Cuchara, Colorado, United States

KDEN

KDEN-TV, a television station (channel 29) licensed to serve Longmont, Colorado, United States

KDTA

KJYE, a radio station (1400 AM) licensed to serve Delta, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KDTA until 1986 and from 1988 to 2012

KDZA

KDZA-FM, a radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to serve Pueblo, Colorado, United States

KENG

KDBN, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to serve Parachute, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KENG from 2008 to 2009

KFVR

KFVR-FM, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to La Junta, Colorado, United States

KJCD

KKFN, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to serve Longmont, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KJCD from 2000 to 2008

KKHI

KXWA, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Centennial, Colorado, United States, which held the call letters from 2008-2011.

KKKK

KREL, a radio station (1580 AM) licensed to Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KKKK from 2005 to 2010

KLMR

KLMR-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to Lamar, Colorado, United States

KLPD

KLPD-LD, a low-power digital television station (channel 28) licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States

KMAP

KSIK, a radio station (100.1 FM) licensed to serve Fleming, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KMAP from 2008 to 2012

KMAX

KMAX-FM, a radio station (94.3 FM) licensed to Wellington, Colorado, United States

KMOZ

KKVT, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KMOZ-FM from 2001 to 2013

KNAB

KNAB-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Burlington, Colorado, United States

KRDO

KRDO-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Security, Colorado, United States

KRKY

KRKY-FM, a radio station (102.1 FM) licensed to Estes Park, Colorado, United States

KSIP

KWRP, a radio station (690 AM) licensed to serve Pueblo, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSIP in 2009

KSJC

KSJC-LP, a low-power radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to Silverton, Colorado, United States

KSLV

KYDN, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Monte Vista, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSLV-FM from June 1984 to September 2008

KSLV-FM, a radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Del Norte, Colorado, United States

KSPK

KSPK-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Walsenburg, Colorado, United States

KSXT

KPIO, a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Loveland, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSXT from 2002 to 2008

KSYY

KDHT-FM, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Bennett, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSYY-FM from March 2006 to February 2008

KVRH

KVRH-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Salida, Colorado, United States

KWHD

KETD, a television station (channel 46/PSIP 53) licensed to Castle Rock, Colorado, United States, which used the call sign KWHD from 1990 until 2010

KWUF

KWUF-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States

Middle Lake

Middle Lake Trail, a hiking trail in Eagle County, Colorado, United States

Mountain Village

Mountain Village, Colorado, Home Rule Municipality in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States

Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball

The Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, United States.

Osgood Gamekeeper's Lodge

The Osgood Gamekeeper's Lodge is located along State Highway 133 near Redstone, Colorado, United States.

PGO

Stevens Field, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States by IATA code

Red Cliff, Colorado

Red Cliff (sometimes spelled Redcliff) is a Statutory Town in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

Redstone Coke Oven Historic District

The Redstone Coke Oven Historic District is located at the intersection of State Highway 133 and Chair Mountain Stables Road outside Redstone, Colorado, United States.

Redstone Inn

The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States.

Robert Speer

Robert W. Speer (1855-1918), Mayor of Denver, Colorado, United States

Rodeo Hall of Fame

ProRodeo Hall of Fame, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Thede

Thede Farmhouse, farmhouse in Northglenn, Colorado, United States