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unusual facts about Eden, Utah



Acarospora janae

It is known only from the type locality, and a modern collection made from Marks Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, although Knudsen suggests that it may occur infrequently from Utah and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico.

Adam Purple

After Purple's "Garden of Eden" was destroyed, his friend, artist George Bliss, painted trails of purple footprints around the Lower East Side leading to the garden's former location.

Annie Taylor

Annie Taylor Hyde (née Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor), Mormon leader and Utah Pioneer

Bingham Canyon Mine

The Kennecott Copper Corporation, established in 1903 to operate mines in Kennecott, Alaska, purchased a financial interest in Utah Copper in 1915 and fully acquired the company in 1936.

Bluff War

It began in March 1914 and was the result of an incident between a Utah shepherd and Tse-ne-gat, the son of the Paiute Chief Polk.

Campus Studios

Its first film, Fire Creek, was released digitally for select theaters in Utah May 8, 2009.

Cheryl B. Preston

She then returned to Utah where she worked for a law firm until being hired as in-house counsel by First Interstate Bank in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she stayed until 1989.

Church of Christ

Latter Day Church of Christ, a Mormon fundamentalist denomination based in Utah

Coyote Springs

Coyote Springs, Utah, a Tule Valley spring system used by local wildlife and feral horses.

Dawn Eden

Eden began writing about rock music under the abbreviated name Dawn Eden in 1985 for fanzines, eventually becoming a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo, Salon, New York Press, and Billboard, among others.

Deep Creek Railroad

Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.

Dependency theory

Matias Vernengo, a University of Utah economist, identifies two main streams in dependency theory: the Latin American Structuralist, typified by the work of Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Anibal Pinto at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC, or, in Spanish, CEPAL); and the American Marxist, developed by Paul A. Baran, Paul Sweezy, and Andre Gunder Frank.

Donald Glaude

Donald Glaude has put out multiple records of his own songs and vanity labels Durty Records and Eden Records targeted to professional DJs while making digital releases on Beatport.

Earl C. Tingey

For periods of time he has also been a member of the University of Utah Alumni Board and the National Advisory Board of the Utah Symphony.

Eden Electronics

These use the same original design and engineering principles but are now produced exclusively for Eden by Eminence.

Eden Prairie Center

A second United Artists movie theater was built, called "Eden Prairie East" and the old theater located beneath the Target walkway was renamed "Eden Prairie West".

Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel

Eden Roc was the hotel where professor Paul Armstrong's (Sean Connery) family stayed in the movie Just Cause.

Eriogonum soredium

It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Beaver County.

Fibernet Corp.

The company sponsors various non-profit organizations, community-oriented programs, and business development projects locally and nationally, including the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Utah County, Habitat for Humanity, and Great Strides, a national fundraising event run by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Indi Script Records

Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.

Israel Technology Transfer Organization

In 2012 ITTN conducted the first annual conference which includes speakers such as; Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, Dotan Peleg, Dr. Yona Geffen, Mooly Eden, President of Intel Israel, Avi Hasson - Israel's Chief Scientist, Vicki Lewise, CEO AUTM, Yossi Smoler, Prof. Odede Shoseyov, David Zigdon, Prof. Ada Yonath and Dr. Hadar Wismunsky.

J. Kirk Richards

Among other locations, Richards work has been shown at the Springville Museum of Art; the Renaissance Center Juried Show in Nashville, Tennessee; the Provo Arts Council Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit; the Bountiful/Davis Art Center; at Southern Virginia University as part of its Annual Shenandoah Invitational Art Show; at the Robert N. & Peggy Sears Dixie State Invitational Art Shows in St. George, Utah; and the Museum of Church History and Art.

Jacob B. Blair

He was a probate judge for Salt Lake County, Utah from 1892 to 1895, and surveyor general of Utah from 1897 to 1901.

Jeffrey Max Jones

He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler in Utah and the Arizona Territory.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Kanosh, Utah

The town of Kanosh dates back to April 28, 1867 when Brigham Young, with the approval of Chief Kanosh, advised the pioneers to move from Petersburg (Hatton), Utah to the area then known as the campground of the Pahvant band of the Ute Tribe.

Karen Ziemba

She will return to Broadway in March 2014 to appear in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.

KJZZ

KJZZ-TV, a television station (channel 14 analog/46 digital) licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

KSVN

KSVN-CD, a television station (channel 49) licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States

KXTA

KTUB, a radio station (1600 AM) licensed to Centerville, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KXTA from September 2005 to November 2007

KZZQ

KZNS-FM, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to serve Coalville, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KZZQ from 2008 to 2011

Margaret Bird

Margaret R. Bird (born 1947) is an economist and school trust lands activist in Utah.

Meadeau View Institute

William H. Doughty, the institute's founder and money manager, accepted over $1 million in donations and loans from backers in an attempt to build a conservative Utopia in Duck Creek and Mammoth Valley, Utah (near Hatch).

Metatron's Cube

The derivation of Metatron's cube from the tree of life, which the Talmud clearly states was excluded from human experience during the exile from Eden, has led some scholars (including Johann Andreas Eisenmenger) to portray Metatron as the means by which humanity was given knowledge of YHVH; presumably implying that study of Metatron's cube would be necessary to understanding the tree of life.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Mormonism and violence

LDS Church leaders taught the concept of blood atonement well into the 20th century within the context of government-sanctioned capital punishment, and it was responsible for laws in the state of Utah allowing for execution by firing squad (Salt Lake Tribune, 11/5/94, p. D1).

Outright Libertarians

Even though the United States Supreme Court has ruled that sodomy laws are unconstitutional (see Lawrence v. Texas), Outright Libertarians seeks to have states repeal the laws from the books, such as the one in Utah.

Phil Riesen

Riesen was for many years a versatile broadcaster, at stations including KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and KALL and KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Presidents and Prophets

Political figures, such as Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (a member of the LDS Church), as well as academics, such as the University of Florida's Kenneth Wald, have praised it.

Rodney Badger

Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, volume 4, "Original Pioneers of Utah"

Rush Radio

WPTI, a radio station licensed to Eden, North Carolina, United States and known as "Rush Radio 94.5"

Samuel Richards

Samuel W. Richards (1824–1909), religious and political leader in Utah

Scott Matheson

Scott Matheson, Jr. (born 1953) son of the above, US Attorney for Utah from 1993–1997, currently a judge on the 10th United States Circuit Court

Spanish Fork River

In 1909, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a tunnel to supplement the Spanish Fork's flow using water from the Strawberry River through the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Central Utah Project.

Taylor-Dallin House

Dallin House, Springville, Utah, NRHP-listed, significant for its association with Dallin

The Folk of the Fringe

Many of the stories take place in, or are connected to, a fictional post-apocalyptic state of Deseret around the former Mormon areas of Utah, which was clearly inspired by the historical State of Deseret.

Tragic Black

Tragic Black is an American deathrock band formed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000 by musicians known as Vision and Vyle.

Tucker, Utah

This rest area, which is designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot and roundhouse, was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.


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