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unusual facts about Empire, Colorado



Acacians

After a number of preliminary conferences accompanying an inevitable campaign of pamphleteering in which Hilary of Poitiers took part, the bishops of the Western portion of the Empire met at Ariminum towards the end of May, and those of the East at Seleucia Isauria in the month of September, 359.

Al-Qadim

Thematically, the land of Zakhara is a blend of the historical Arabian Empire, the stories of legend, and a wealth of Hollywood cinematic history.

Animas River

The Animas River rises high in San Juan Mountains of Colorado at the confluence of the West and North forks at the ghost town of Animas Forks and flows south past the ghost towns of Eureka and Howardsville.

Apollo D-2

Seeking professional recognition for their design work on the GE proposal, George Arthur and Jacob Abel publicly presented their papers documenting the GE D-2 design in December 1961 at a special symposium of the American Astronautical Society in Denver, Colorado.

Canada–France relations

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Compleat Angler Hotel

In addition to Ernest Hemingway, additional notable visitors have included Lucille Ball, singer and writer Jimmy Buffett, and Colorado senator Gary Hart, whose presidential aspirations were sunken in 1987 when compromising photographs were released of him at the lodge with a woman who was not his wife.

Conway Publishing

Conway produced the books to accompany James May's Toy Stories and the Dan Snow presented 'Empire of the Seas', both aired on the BBC.

Drukhsh

Thereafter the empire was restored by a new king, Jayavarman VII, who established a new capital and state temple (Angkor Thom and the Bayon respectively) a few kilometres to the north.

Edwards, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area

The Edwards Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Office of Management and Budget defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Edwards area of the State of Colorado.

Ekostrovsky

Ekostrovskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

El Moro Canyon virus

EMCV was isolated from western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis), in El Moro Canyon in southeastern Colorado in 1995.

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.

Estella Leopold

By studying the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Idaho, and Wyoming, Leopold helped recreate the paleoenvironment of the Paleogene and Neogene periods.

Freedom Party

Freedom Party (Harry Turtledove), in the American Empire and Settling Accounts series of novels, a fictional analog of the Nazis in the Confederate States of America.

George Hypolite

While playing for Colorado, He was given the nickname "The Rabid Goldfish" because Colorado alumnus Trey Parker (as Cartman) was announcing the starting lineup names, and called Hypolite "The Rabid Goldfish."

Gœrlingen

In 1314 Gœrlingen was listed among the assets of the Abbey of Lixheim, but by 1542, when fears of a further Turkish attack on Vienna prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen had disappeared from the Lixheim records.

Golden Bull of 1356

Secondly, the Bull prescribed that four votes would always suffice to elect a new King; as a result, three Electors could no longer block the election, and the principle of majority voting was explicitly stated for the first time in the Empire.

Henry I, Margrave of Austria

After taking the marches of Lusatia and Sorbian Meissen, and the cities of Budziszyn and Meissen in 1002, Bolesław I Chrobry refused to pay tribute to the Empire from the conquered territories.

Jean-Pierre Gibrat

In 1985, on Saval's texts, Gibrat drew, in Télé Poche, l'Empire sous la mer, an adventure starring the canine character Zaza, created by Dany Saval and Michel Drucker.

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Both these pueblos and missions were on the California side of the Colorado River near the mouth of the Gila River but were administered by the Arizona authorities.

Julie Rosen

Originally from Colorado, Rosen graduated from high school in Denver, and later graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Agronomy from Colorado State University.

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

KLMR

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

Lampsilis bracteata

Historically the Texas fatmucket had populations in at least 18 rivers in the upper Colorado, Guadalupe, and San Antonio River systems in central Texas.

Medicine in the American Civil War

Colonel Eli Lilly had been a pharmacist; he built a pharmaceutical empire after the war.

Middle Eastern Empires

In 116 AD, the Roman emperor Trajan invaded the Parthian empire and conquered all the way to Babylon.

Mirza Jawan Bakht

The new Mughal Army carried the standard of Mirza Jawan Bakht, and soon controlled a vast territory that stretched from the Satluj Valley in the west to the territories around Allahabad in the east, from Srinagar in the north to Gwalior in the south, however times were troubled and the Mughal Empire was surrounded by enemies on every side.

Modular Airborne FireFighting System

The training is coordinated with the Air Force Reserve's 302d Airlift Wing at Colorado's Peterson Air Force Base, the Air National Guard's 153d Airlift Wing from Cheyenne, Wyoming, the 146th Airlift Wing from Port Hueneme, California, and the 145th Airlift Wing from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mountain Village, Colorado

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

Mursili

Mursili II, (also spelled Mursilis II) was a king of the Hittite Empire (New kingdom) ca.

Norris Division

The Winnipeg Jets return to the Smythe Division when the Colorado Rockies move to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to become the New Jersey Devils; the Devils are moved from the Smythe Division to the Patrick Division.

Olivet Discourse

Until then—if one excepts Sejanus' heyday 19–31 AD and the trouble caused by the census after Archelaus' banishment 6 AD—there was usually an atmosphere of understanding between the Jews and the empire….

Peanuts Hucko

From 1966, he was featured regularly at Dick Gibson's Colorado jazz parties where he appeared with the Ten Greats of Jazz, later the World's Greatest Jazz Band.

Pechengsky

Pechengskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Poundstone

Freda Poundstone, Colorado politician and lobbyist, and drafter of the Poundstone Amendment

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

However, since he still claimed to be the legitimate King of Hanover as well, the German Reichsrat declared that he would disturb the peace of the empire if he ascended the ducal throne.

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

Siege of Magdeburg

Siege of Magdeburg (1813–1814), a siege of the German city by forces of the First French Empire during the War of the Sixth Coalition, which ended with Napoleon's abdication

Tectoy

They also modified some games to replace characters with local licenses; that way, Teddy Boy became Geraldinho of Glauco, certain Wonder Boy titles became Monica's Gang games and Ghost House also starred El Chapulín Colorado ("Chapolim Colorado"), a Mexican character very popular in Brazil.

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Teutoburg

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest fought there in AD 9 between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire.

The Black Sea was storming

The eastern part of the Ottoman Empire was occupied by the Russian Army and the population of Kars and Erzurum was killed by Russians and Armenians.

The Hour of the Dragon

To accomplish this they resort to necromancy, resurrecting Xaltotun, an ancient sorcerer from the pre-Hyborian empire of Acheron.

Uttara Kuru Kingdom

At some point during the reign of Pururavas-Aila (the first king mentioned in the line of lunar dynasty of Indian kings) Uttara Kuru and the Kurus of India could have belonged to the same Kuru Empire.

Wee Boon Teck

#Opium and empire: Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 By Carl A. Trocki

Weilüe

Yu Huan also includes a brief description of "Zesan" which probably refers to the East African coast which was known to Greek and Roman authors as Azania, and what appears to be awareness of a route around Africa to the Roman Empire - "You can (also) travel (from Zesan) southwest to the capital of Da Qin (Rome), but the number of li is not known".

Windsong Records

Windstar Records – originally known as Windsong Records, Colorado based record label responsible for releasing John Denver recordings.


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