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8 unusual facts about Fargo, North Dakota


Daytona Aircraft D-200

It was the first demonstrated in a line of aircraft intended to be built in Fargo, North Dakota.

Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland

In 1929 he moved to Fargo, North Dakota where he operated a shop in a few neighbouring buildings until he established the Helland Music Company on the third floor of a building on Broadway.

Jack Towers

His first notable work was when, as young extension service employee, he and fellow jazz aficionado Richard Burris made an amateur live recording of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra at a concert in Fargo, North Dakota in 1940.

More Than I Can Say

After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in February 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota.

Richard K. Sorenson

He was transferred from Chicago to the Midwestern Recruiting Division in St. Louis, Missouri in September 1945, and while attached to that division, served at the Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Fargo, North Dakota.

Summer of ’98

Maris, a native of Minnesota spent much of his youth in Fargo, North Dakota and Lupica writes about Maris, who died in 13 years earlier in 1985, his hometown and his boyhood friends.

Timm Sharp

Sharp is a native of Fargo, North Dakota, and throughout high school, he attended Trollwood Performing Arts School in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota.

Whispering Grass

A live instrumental version was played and recorded by Johnny Hodges with Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the Cristal Ballroom, Fargo, North Dakota, also 1940.


2009 NCAA Division I baseball season

Four schools became Division I independents− Bryant, from the Division II Northeast-10 Conference; North Dakota, from the Division II North Central Conference; SIU Edwardsville, from the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference; and Cal State Bakersfield, in its first season of varsity intercollegiate baseball.

24Hours

Also between these years, Kevin Evans was the interviewer for 24Hours, until the local Videon cable system replaced KTHI Fargo with WDIV Detroit; the latter featured Mort Crim and his style of news and interviewing.

All About a Feeling

Greg Adams of Allmusic called the album's ninth track "Rotten Little Song" to evoke the vocal performance of Shirley Temple because of its "la la" chorus". Adams reviewed All About a Feeling and gave it three out of five stars, stating, "Fargo's brand of upbeat and accessible country is the sort of music that brought the genre such tremendous mainstream success from the '70s onward.

Arthur LeSueur

In 1880, Arthur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, North Dakota, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season.

Baxter Taylor

Baxter Taylor grew up in Dallas, Texas and spent summers on the family farm in Fargo, Oklahoma.

Bobby Billings

Billings was soon contacted for permission to use the song at a military banquet in North Dakota hosted by Tweed Roosevelt, great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Cavendish Farms

In 2001 the company purchased a french fry processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

Donna Fargo

Additionally, almost everything Fargo recorded for years was self-penned, although by the latter half of the 1970s she was also recording covers of songs from writers as diverse as Stonewall Jackson, Vaughn Horton, Bill Enis and Lawton Williams, Paul Anka, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; those covers also became successful hits for Fargo.

Duane Sand

On June 4, 2008, Sand was piloting his personal airplane, a Cessna 172, on a flight from Bismarck, North Dakota to Fargo, North Dakota.

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

Empty Houses Are Lonely

It contains songs recorded from 2001-2003 including songs from North Dakota, Five Song Demo, and Late Night at Largo, as well as previously unreleased songs.

Fargo Rock City

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2001.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

First Interstate Bank

First Interstate Bancorp of Los Angeles, California, which merged with Wells Fargo in 1996

Ford's Theatre

The restoration of Ford's Theatre was brought about by the two decade-long lobbying efforts of Democratic National Committeeman Melvin D. Hildreth and Republican North Dakota Representative Milton Young.

Herman Beach

Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11,700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota.

James Fargo

Fargo has also directed television shows, such as The A-Team, Hunter, Scarecrow and Mrs. King and Beverly Hills 90210.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

John Clark Salyer II

In 1966, the Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota as the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge to honor his legacy of contributions to the preservation of America's wildlife.

John J. Valentine, Sr.

Upon the resignation of Charles F. Crocker in August 1882, Valentine was elected vice president and a director of Wells Fargo.

John Korsmo

In 1992, Korsmo ran as a Republican to represent North Dakota in the House of Representatives, but lost the elections to Earl Pomeroy by a 57% to 39% margin.

John N. Hagan

John N. Hagan (August 4, 1873 – June 4, 1952) was a North Dakota Republican/NPL politician who served as the North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor from 1917 to 1921 and from 1937 to 1938.

KFNW

KFNW-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Korn Digital EP 2

The EP contains three tracks, including a demo of "Holding All These Lies" by Jonathan Davis, a live recording of "System" from the Queen of the Damned soundtrack recorded in Fargo, North Dakota on May 18, 2010, and an exclusive in-studio music video of "People Pleaser" not included in the Korn III: Remember Who You Are deluxe edition package.

KPXM-TV

In the late 1980s, KXLI attempted to create the Minnesota Independent Network (MIN) along with Twin Cities station KTMA (now WUCW), KVNJ-TV (now KVRR) in Fargo, North Dakota and KXLT-TV in Rochester.

KTVE

However, J. B. Fuqua, who owned KTVE at the time, wanted to get that station in line with WTVW in Evansville, Indiana and KTHI (now KVLY-TV) in Fargo, North Dakota, both of which were ABC affiliates he had just purchased.

KVLY-TV

Ed Schultz - sports anchor (1982; now Fargo-based syndicated radio host)

Loaf 'N Jug

As of 2008, there were 175 Loaf 'N Jug stores, primarily in Colorado and Wyoming with additional stores in Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

London Screenwriters' Festival

Tim Bevan - Bevan is an English film producer, producing such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral,The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Shaun of the Dead, and Love Actually.

Maple Valley Public School District

The Maple Valley Public School District is a public school district in Barnes and Cass counties in the U.S. state of North Dakota, based in Tower City, North Dakota.

North Dakota Highway 22

The highway enters the Badlands 12 miles north of Killdeer and crosses the Little Missouri River switching from Mountain Time to Central Time.

Pam Gulleson

On September 21, 2011, Gulleson announced her candidacy for the Democratic-NPL Party nomination for North Dakota's At-large congressional district in the 2012 election.

Pierre Bottineau

Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota.

Plains Art Museum

In October 1997, the Museum relocated to a renovated turn-of-the-century International Harvester warehouse in downtown Fargo, North Dakota.

Rick Weiland

In 1997, as Weiland was being installed as regional director of FEMA, the Red River swamped its banks, causing unprecedented flooding to North Dakota and Minnesota, inundating all of downtown Fargo and causing the evacuation of Grand Forks, North Dakota in an event known as the Red River Flood.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

The Moved-Outers

It describes the internment of herself, her brother Kim, and her mother in Amache, Colorado, while her father is sent to North Dakota.

The Waylors

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

Thomas B. Fargo

Scott Glenn's performance as Captain Mancuso in the 1990 movie, The Hunt for Red October, was a virtual mirror of his impression of Fargo.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Dakota, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of North Dakota in the 114th United States Congress.

Vehicle registration plates of Nevada

Co-recipient with North Dakota.

Vernon Orlando Bailey

Bailey published 244 monographs and articles during his career with the USDA, and is best known for his biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon.

Wannagan Creek site

The Wannagan Creek site is a fossil site found just west of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota, USA.

WDAZ-TV

Owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, which also owns the Grand Forks Herald, WDAZ has facilities on South Washington Street in Grand Forks near Kmart and a news bureau and sales office on U.S. Highway 2 in Devils Lake.

Westby, Montana

Westby is located on the state border with North Dakota, and near the international boundary with Saskatchewan.

Xu Guangchun

He has been chosen to host high-level foreign delegations, including an August, 2009 visit to Zhengzhou by seven lieutenant governors from Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Puerto Rico.


see also

KVLY

KVLY-TV, a television station (digital channel 44) licensed to Fargo, North Dakota, United States

WBFG

WDAY-TV, a television station (channel 6 analog/21 digital) licensed to Fargo, North Dakota, United States, which operated a cable-only station they referred to as WBFG