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11 unusual facts about Greeley


Clay Puett

He began work on a prototype of his invention in 1931, while working as a starter in Greeley, Colorado.

Colorado-Big Thompson Project

Today, the "C-BT" serves over 33 cities and towns in northeastern Colorado, including Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Estes Park, Boulder, and Sterling, encompassed by 7 counties, providing a secondary source of water for around 830,000 people and an irrigated area of 650,000 acres (2,500 km²).

Dominant Factor Test

Raley started a poker league in Greeley, Colorado, wherein players paid $20 to compete in a tournament.

Gold Dust Trio

Born in Iowa on January 18, 1894, he grew up in Greeley, Colorado, where he learned the art of wrestling through a correspondence course administered by grappling guru Martin "Farmer" Burns, who had been the nation's preeminent professional wrestler during the late nineteenth century.

Greeley, Minnesota

Greeley is an unincorporated community in Royalton Township, Pine County, Minnesota, United States.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

As a founding member of the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance (NCLA), a joint public policy organization developed in conjunction with the Fort Collins & Greeley Chambers of Commerce, and the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC).

Maggie Peterson

Maggie Peterson Mancuso (born 10 January 1941 in Greeley, Colorado) is an American television actress.

Mitch Traphagen

In 1988 he earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and subsequently developed analytical computer models for Target Stores in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball

The Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, United States.

Swift raids

On December 12, federal agents raided Swift plants in Hyrum, Utah; Greeley, Colorado; Marshalltown, Iowa; Grand Island, Nebraska; Cactus, Texas; and Worthington, Minnesota.

U.S. Route 6 in Ohio

The route was not extended into Ohio until 1931, when the highway was expanded to Greeley, Colorado.


Battle of Pleasant Hill

Greeley, Horace. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1861–'65. Vols.

Colorado-Big Thompson Project

Prior to the Dust Bowl era, agriculture in this section of the state had relied upon sources such as Boulder Creek, St. Vrain Creek, Little Thompson River, Big Thompson River and the Cache La Poudre River, all of which are a part of the South Platte River basin and flow into the South Platte River before the South Platte reaches Greeley, Colorado.

Craig Mabbitt

Mabbitt was replaced by Tyler "Telle" Smith, formerly the bassist of Greeley Estates and singer/keyboardist of In Fear and Faith; since then, The Word Alive has released an EP and two albums.

Daniel Cleary

The Newfoundland bluegrass/folk band Greeley's Reel recorded a "hockey anthem" version of their song "Come In" about Cleary after the win.

Frederick Atwood Greeley

Frederick Atwood Greeley (26 November 1896, Pelham, New Hampshire - 19 March 1980, Laguna Hills, California) was an American astronomer who worked on the solar constant program of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), which had been started by Samuel Pierpont Langley.

George Greeley

Greeley coached Tyrone Power for The Eddy Duchin Story and performed the piano parts which Power mimed.

In addition to his film and TV work, Greeley performed as a piano soloist and guest conductor in Australia, Canada, Korea, and Brazil, and also performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Glen Alps

He attended Colorado State College of Education (today University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado, where he received the Bachelor of Arts in 1940.

Go West, young man

Author Ralph Keyes also suggests Soule as the source, offering an account in which the line originated from a bet between Soule and Indiana Congressman Richard W. Thompson over whether or not Soule could trick readers by forging a Greeley article.

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell claimed in his autobiography that Horace Greeley first addressed the advice to him in 1833, before sending him off to Illinois to report on the Illinois Agricultural State Fair.

Grant City, Staten Island

Many of the streets are named after historical figures such as Lincoln Ave (after President Abraham Lincoln), Fremont Ave (after General John C. Fremont who was the first Republican candidate for President, as well as a Staten Island resident, in 1856), Adams Avenue (after President John Adams), Colfax Ave (after Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President)and Greeley Ave (after newspaper editor Horace Greeley).

Greeley Estates

Greeley Estates signed to Tragic Hero Records and Ferret Music in 2009 and released their fourth full-length album No Rain, No Rainbow in 2010, which features an even heavier sound.

KATR

KGRE, a radio station (1450 AM) licensed to Greeley, Colorado, United States, known as KATR from 1986 to 1989

McGrail

Nuala Anne McGrail, a protagonist in the Nuala Anne McGrail series of eleven mystery novels by Father Andrew M. Greeley

Nicole Brewer

Brewer interned at WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and worked as a special assignment reporter for GATV, Public, educational, and government access (PEG) community access cable television station in Greeley, Colorado.

Ronald Greeley

Greeley received a number of awards and honors during his career, including the G. K. Gilbert Award presented by the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America in 1997, and being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2007 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.

After receiving his Ph.D. in Geology in 1966, Greeley worked for Standard Oil Company of California.