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unusual facts about Fargo-Moorhead Twins


Charlene Pryer

A native of Watsonville, California, Pryer was the daughter of Willard 'Maurice' Pryer, a minor league pitcher who played in the early 1940s for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins of the Northern League.


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.

Amenia, North Dakota

The town is the site of several transmitter towers of Fargo broadcast television and radio stations.

Baxter Taylor

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

Bodies and Minds

Bodies and Minds was released internationally in 2005: on March 15 on weewerk in Canada; on April 4 on Fargo Records in Europe; in October on Speak N Spell in Australia; and on October 11 on Misra in the USA.

Chief Judge Fargo

After armed gangs stormed the White House and were able to avoid jail sentences by intimidating juries, Fargo outlined a New Deal to scrap the principle of due process and create a combined police and judicial force who could fairly dispense instant justice – the Judges.

Dakota Marker

The inscriptions include: N.D., S.D., and 190 M (the distance between Fargo, ND and Brookings, SD along Interstate 29).

Daytona Aircraft D-200

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

Douglas Fargo

In "Family Reunion" Fargo discovers his grandfather was cryonically frozen in 1957 and is thawed out into the present.

At the end of the series, Fargo has decided to leave Eureka and join Holly in a new secret project she was elected to lead for DARPA.

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.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Grove eventually left, in 1911, and went west to a bonanza farm near Fargo, North Dakota, and came to Manitoba in 1912.

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.

First Interstate Bank

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

Francis F. Fargo

Francis F. Fargo served as a member of the 1861-1862 California State Assembly, representing the 4th District.

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.

Hazel Ying Lee

On Thanksgiving morning, the weather cleared and Lee was able to leave Fargo.

Iowa Wild

The Wild is the second AHL team to call Des Moines and the Wells Fargo Arena home; the city previously was home to the Iowa Stars, which had been the Dallas Stars' AHL affiliate from 2005 until 2008 (in the team's final season in 2009, they were known as the Iowa Chops and were affiliated with the Anaheim Ducks).

Isuzu Fargo

Built in Luton, the Midi brought few changes to the Japanese Fargo and replaced the old Bedford CF van.

J. C. Fargo

Mr. Fargo went to Marcellus Flemming Berry and asked him to create a better solution than the traditional letter of credit.

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.

live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and, when Burris learned Ellington would be in Fargo in 1940, he asked the William Morris Agency, Ellington's agent, for permission to record the session.

James Fargo

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

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.

KFGO

KRWK, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve Fargo, which uses the branding KFGO-FM

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

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

KVLY-TV

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

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.

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.

Plains Art Museum

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

Railway Express Agency

The express business flourished in the latter half of the 19th century, and by 1900 there were four principal parcel express companies, all of which included the rapidly advancing railways as one of their means of transport: Adams Express Company, Southern Express Company, American Express Company, and Wells Fargo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Timm Sharp

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

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 1996

All major counties in North Dakota turned out for Dole, including the (relativity) highly populated center of Cass County, which contains the city of Fargo.

Warsaw radio mast

After the collapse, the KVLY-TV mast outside Fargo, North Dakota, USA, regained its title as the world's tallest structure, standing 628.8 m (2,063 ft), until the Burj Khalifa exceeded this height in April 2008.

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.

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.


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