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unusual facts about Colorado Springs, CO



Access Research Network

Access Research Network (ARN), based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, originating from the creationist organization Students for Origins Research (SOR).

Air Academy High School

The schools eligible are Liberty High School, Rampart High School, Discovery Canyon Campus, The Classical Academy, Air Academy High School, and Pine Creek High School.

Air Force Falcons men's basketball

The Air Force Falcons men's basketball team represents the United States Air Force Academy, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in NCAA Division I basketball competition.

Air Force Satellite Control Network

The main operations control center, now at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO, functions as a central command and control node for the remote tracking stations established at several different locations.

Albert E. Carlton

Carlton and his wife, Ethel Frizzell-Carlton, built the Carlton House in Pine Valley, Colorado Springs.

Association of Education Sororities

In November 1947, at a conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the NPC considered and granted associate membership "with reservations" to the six AES sororities.

Betsy Markey

The district includes most of the eastern portion of the state outside the Denver and Colorado Springs metropolitan areas.

Big Dipper Ice Arena

The Fairbanks Gold Kings, a hockey team which began in 1974 as a league team sponsored by the Teamsters Union Local 959, played at the Dipper for many years before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Billy Brennan

Brennan was again selected as a defenceman for the 1962 Pool A tournament in Colorado Springs in the U.S., where he also captained the team.

Buntport Theater

Members of the company began collaborating while attending Colorado College in Colorado Springs, in the late 1990s.

Cadet Ice Arena

The Cadet Ice Arena is a 2,502-seat hockey rink on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Charles B. Stone III

Joining the Air Defense Command in February 1946, General Stone assumed command of the 2nd Air Force at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Dana Cunningham

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1961, Dana eventually moved with her family to Texas where she grew up in Amarillo, Dallas, and Paris, Texas.

Dawn Clark Netsch

Netsch was married to architect Walter Netsch, best known for his design of the Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, for 45 years until his death in 2008.

Edward J. Delaney

Delaney was also a reporter for The Denver Post and a columnist for The Colorado Springs Gazette, and also wrote for The Chicago Tribune.

Edward Nassour

Edward Nassour born April 7, 1911, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA died December 15, 1962, Sherman Oaks, California, USA was an American producer, head of a motion picture studio, and a special effects animator.

Ethel Magafan

Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite, and was a member of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion

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Colorado Springs

Foley's

In 1993, May Department Stores consolidated May D&F into Foley's, which brought Foley's to the Denver-Aurora, Colorado Springs, Boulder and Fort Collins-Loveland markets and re-introduced Foley's to the Albuquerque market.

Francis S. Thayer

Francis Samuel Thayer (September 11, 1822 Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont – November 26, 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Franz Marx

His greatest successes were a gold medal at the Junior World Championship in Colorado Springs and a bronze medal at the Wrestling World Championships 1981 in Oslo.

Holm O. Bursum

Bursum subsequently returned to Socorro and resumed his former business interests until his death in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Irving Dardik

As a result, Dr. George Goodheart was sent to the XIIIth Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, NY and a Volunteer Doctor Program for DC's at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs was begun.

Jamie McNeair

She set her personal best (6374 points) in the heptathlon on 29 July 1995 at a meet in Colorado Springs.

John D. Dingell, Sr.

He had also engaged in the construction of natural gas pipelines, was a wholesale dealer in beef and pork products and an organizer and trustee of Colorado Springs Labor College.

Joseph J. Nazzaro

In August 1944, Nazzaro returned to the United States and was assigned as deputy commander, 316th Bombardment Wing, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Kelly Faris

The 2007 event took place at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

Lawrence Harris

This record was set by Abandoned Ship, 72 by 48 inch oil painting on board sold December 13, 2007, at Best of the West Auctions (Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Lyman K. Bass

After moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1877, Bass was asked to be an associate counsel by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Co.

Michael John Sheridan

Sheridan was named Coadjutor Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on December 4, 2001, later succeeding as Richard Hanifen as the second Bishop of Colorado Springs upon the latter's resignation on January 30, 2003.

Michael Vega

Michael Vega (born September 4, 1969 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actor.

Natalie Burgener

At the age of eighteen, Burgener moved from Kansas to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work and train as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOC), under her head coach Zygmunt Smalcerz, gold medalist for the flyweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, representing Poland.

Nathan B. Scott

Born near Quaker City, Ohio, he attended the common schools and engaged in mining near Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1859 to 1862.

Nellie Walker

In 1902, reclusive Colorado Springs millionaire W. S. Stratton died and someone there realized that Walker was in town and asked her to make a death mask, which she did.

Late in life, following the 1948 destruction of her Chicago studio, Walker moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado where she occasionally modeled pottery for the Van Briggle Pottery company, and she died there in 1973, aged 98.

Nick Lucas

Nick Lucas (August 22, 1897, Newark, New Jersey—July 28, 1982, Colorado Springs, Colorado) born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese was an American singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as "the grandfather of the jazz guitar", whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s.

Nick Sanborn

Nick Sanborn (1935–1999) was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

On Orbit Mission Control

The United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado will operate a backup ground station for PicoSAT satellite to increase the amount of experimental data.

Patrick Harlan

A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado and a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in comparative religion, Harlan first came to Japan on a tour with the Harvard Glee Club in 1993.

T. J. Tarsney

On June 22, 1894, he was staying in the Alamo Hotel in Colorado Springs.

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

In February 2008, the book was removed from school libraries in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Signal Box Inn

It faced opposition for the title of the world's smallest pub by Sam's World's Smallest Bar in Colorado Springs, United States.

Walter Netsch

He may be best known as the lead designer for the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and its famous Cadet Chapel.

William L. Shelton

Following staff college, he was assigned to work for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Air Force Space Command on Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In November 2000 Shelton moved to assume the role of Director of Requirements at the Headquarters of Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

William Lutley Sclater

He then moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which had been founded by Charlotte's brother-in-law, General William Jackson Palmer.


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Chip Vaughn

Vaughn played high school football at Rampart high school in Colorado Springs, CO for a year then moved to Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia.