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unusual facts about Grinnell, Minturn



Autonomous research robot

Grinnell More's Real World Interface, Inc. (RWI) and James Slater's Nomadic Technologies (US), along with Francesco Mondada's K-Team (Switzerland), were other pioneering companies in this field, addressing the need for ready-made robots for use by robotics researchers.

Billund, Denmark

That same year, a railway was built from Vejle to Billund, and the route was later extended to Grinnell in 1914.

Boone and Crockett Club

Hunting on Three Continents, Grinnell, George Bird, Kermit Roosevelt, W. Redmond Cross, and Prentiss N. Gray (editors).

Danai Gurira

Gurira was born in Grinnell, Iowa and was raised there until December 1983, when she moved with her family to Harare, Zimbabwe.

F. Hudson Miller

A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, Miller earned a BA in American Studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Fire sprinkler

Back in the US, Frederick Grinnell, who was manufacturing the Parmelee sprinkler, designed a newer and more effective version which became known as the Grinnell sprinkler.

Frederick Grinnell

In 2001, Grinnell Fire Protection was merged with the Simplex Time Recorder Company to form SimplexGrinnell, which is the largest fire protection company in the world.

Frobisher Bay Air Base

When the station relief and base construction expedition arrived next July, both the Crowell and Roosevelt sites were rejected in favor of a level meadow discovered along the Sylvia Grinnell River on mainland Baffin Island.

George Magoun

George Frederick Magoun (1821–1896), first president of Iowa College, now Grinnell College

Grant O. Gale

The large "Alpha and Omega Sundial" which sits next to the Noyce Science Center on the Grinnell College campus is named in honor of Gale's wife Harriet.

Gale was also the physics instructor for Grinnell music student Herbie Hancock.

Grinnell Peninsula

It was discovered by the First Grinnell Expedition and named "Grinnell Land", after the financier of Arctic explorations Henry Grinnell.

Grinnell Pioneers men's basketball

Grinnell was a member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1919 though 1928 when it split in two.

Grinnell System

The Grinnell System is a fast-tempo style of basketball developed by coach Dave Arseneault at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, USA.

Grinnell, Iowa

Harry Hopkins (1890–1946), one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's advisors and New Deal architect, lived in Grinnell as a teenager before attending Grinnell College.

Kirby Criswell (born 1957), linebacker who played two seasons in the National Football League, was born and raised in Grinnell and attended Grinnell High School.

Henry Wemyss Feilden

On the same voyage he discovered the Miocene Flora of Grinnell's Land, his collection and observations on which from an important contribution to Heer's "Flora Fossilis Arctica."

Home Building Association Bank

It was one of three banks designed by Sullivan in 1914, the other two being in Grinnell, Iowa and in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Jean Zimmerman

Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance is a dual biography of Edith Minturn Stokes and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a nineteenth-century couple known for philanthropy, architecture and documenting New York City history.

Joseph Rosenfield

His friendships with Warren Buffett and Robert Noyce were key factors in the growth of Grinnell College's endowment during his time as a Grinnell College trustee.

Josiah Bushnell Grinnell

Grinnell was the young man to whom Horace Greeley is quoted as having given the famous advice, "Go West, young man." Grinnell was also involved in railway building and was instrumental in the move of Grinnell College, known at the time as Iowa College, from Davenport to the newly established town of Grinnell.

Martha A. Geer

Geer was born in Grinnell, Iowa and spent most of her childhood in Virginia, where her parents were teachers.

Minturn, California

Jonas Minturn was a member of the same family that ran Grinnell, Minturn & Co.

Minturn, Colorado

Minturn is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.

Minturn, Maine

Swan's Island is accessible by the State of Maine ferry service from Bass Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park.

Phoebe Washburn

An earlier work, Heavy Has Debt, (exhibited in 2003 in Grinnell, Iowa), was a "massive, shingled wall of debris," produced largely from mounted cardboard.

Pulmuone

There is a subsidiary in the United States, called Pulmuone Wildwood, Inc., with offices in Fullerton, California, Watsonville, California, San Rafael, California, Grinnell, Iowa, and Tappan, New York.

Saltugilia splendens

Saltugilia splendens (syn. Gilia splendens) is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Grinnell's gilia and splendid gilia.

Samuel Minturn Peck

Samuel Minturn Peck was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on November 4, 1854, the youngest of nine children of Elisha Wolsey Peck and Lucy Lamb Randall.

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre

They tour extensively, including return visits to Great Britain and South Africa and Grinnell, Iowa.

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum

After the Morgans' deaths, the house was rented for several years to Margaret Vanderbilt, then purchased in 1925 by W. Roscoe and Mary Minturn Bonsal who in turn sold the house in 1945, after which it served as a dormitory for Tanglewood music students, a summer hotel, the Michel Fokine Ballet Summer Camp, and community housing for the religious organization The Bible Speaks (now known as Greater Grace World Outreach).

William Morton Grinnell

On December 8, 1898, Grinnell married Elizabeth Lee Ernst, daughter of Oswald Herbert Ernst.


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