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3 unusual facts about Grapevine


Grapevine, California

In 1955, Charlie Ryan wrote and performed a popular song known as "Hot Rod Lincoln", about a teenager who races his souped-up Lincoln against a Cadillac up the Grapevine hill.

Shea Salinas

After attending Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, Salinas played college soccer at Furman University, where he was named to the NSCAA All-America Third Team and the NSCAA All-South Region First Team in 2007, and the NSCAA All-South Region Third Team in 2006, as well as receiving First Team All Southern Conference honors in both 2007 and 2006.

The Grapevine

The Grapevine, a road grade that ascends from California's San Joaquin Valley to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains


Anthony Rose

Rose has contributed to several wine books including Wine Report, The Oxford Companion to Wine, and for five years co-authored the annual consumer guide Grapevine with Tim Atkin.

Antonio López García

The Grapevine (1960) evokes Tiepolo's sunlight, The Quince Tree (1962) Chardin's dusky murk, and other paintings echo Old Masters from Dürer to Degas.

Balfour Beatty Construction

2004: Completion of the two largest contracts to date, the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Black-lyre Leafroller Moth

The species is primarily known as a pest of Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa), but the caterpillars feed on various other trees with fleshy fruit, such as Citrus, hawthorns (Crataegus), persimmons and ebonies (Diospyros), gum trees (Eucalyptus), fuchsias (Fuchsia) and grapevines (Vitis).

Château Lagorce

The Faux family undertook important excavation works and planted Barsac and Sauternes vines.

Fellowship Church

In September 2009, Fellowship Church in Grapevine hosted an ABC debate on adultery between Pastor Ed Young and AshleyMadison.com founder Noel Biderman.

Fresno State–San Diego State football rivalry

"The oil can likely came from a time when Aztec and Bulldog fans traveled to football games between the two schools via the old, twisting, precipitous Grapevine section of Highway 99 over Tejon Pass," said Jacquelyn K. Glasener, executive director of the Fresno State Alumni Association.

Hot Rod Lincoln

His song, however, keeps the same location as "Hot Rod Race", namely Grapevine Hill, which is an old-time local southern California nickname for the long, nearly straight grade up Grapevine Canyon to Tejon Pass, near the town of Gorman, California, between San Pedro, Los Angeles and Bakersfield.

MagiQuest

Additional MagiQuest locations have subsequently opened in East Hanover, New Jersey; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; and those located within Great Wolf Lodge indoor waterpark resorts in Charlotte, - Concord, North Carolina; Grand Mound, Washington; Grapevine, Texas; Kansas City, Kansas; Mason, Ohio; Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania; Traverse City, Michigan; Williamsburg, Virginia;Niagara, Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

Malbec

The grape was first introduced to the region in the mid 19th century when provincial governor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento instructed the French agronomist Miguel Pouget to bring grapevine cuttings from France to Argentina.

Minnesota 78

Minnesota 78 is an old selection of grapevine, developed at the University of Minnesota, United States.

Pine Mountain Club, California

Connections can be made in Frazier Park or Lebec to a scheduled service to Grapevine and Bakersfield and further connection there to Greyhound and Amtrak.

Rastoke

Originally, Lisac and Šušnjar, two autochthonous grapevine sorts were grown in this region too.

The Immediates

In 1997 Frank Dunne executive produced the album 'Now and In Time to Be' (Grapevine), a compilation of W.B. Yeats poems made into songs by artists such as Van Morrison, The Cranberries, World Party, The Waterboys, Christy Moore and Shane McGowan.

The Reykjavík Grapevine

During the Iceland Airwaves music festival, Reykjavík Grapevine becomes a daily publication focusing on music.

Titus Canyon

Although the Grapevine Mountains were uplifted relatively recently, most of the rocks that make up the range are over half a billion years old.

Turkey Flat

At over a 160 years of age, it is still far behind what is believed to be the world's oldest single grapevine, a Žametovka vine growing in Maribor in Slovenia that was planted over 400 years ago.

Vitis International Variety Catalogue

VIVC is administered by the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding (Institut für Rebenzüchtung Geilweilerhof) in Siebeldingen, Germany, and contains information from grapevine collections existing in various institutes of viticulture around the world.

Wingate H. Lucas

Born in Grapevine, Texas, Lucas attended the public schools, the North Texas Teachers College at Denton, the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, and the Texas University at Austin.

Xiphinema americanum

TobRSV is a widespread nepovirus in annual crops in North America that infects tobacco, soybean, blueberry, apple, ash, autumn crocus, blackberry, cherry, dogwood, elderberry, grapevine, spearmint, and in Wisconsin has an economically important impact on cucurbits.


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