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unusual facts about Maxwell, Nebraska


KHAQ

Licensed to Maxwell, Nebraska, USA, the station is currently owned by Armada Media - Mccook, Inc and features programing from Waitt Radio Networks.


1888 in the United States

January 12 – "Schoolhouse Blizzard": Blizzards hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.

1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

Anna Maxwell

Maxwell was also the first director of the Presbyterian Hospital's nursing school, founded in 1892, which later became the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Arthur S. Maxwell

In 2006, Maxwell's book Secret of the Cave was turned into a feature film of the same name by students and faculty at Southern Adventist University.

Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

With the birth of record companies like Ora Nelle Records, Delmark Records and Chess Records, Maxwell Street became the epicenter for the blues and numerous Maxwell Street artists wrote songs that were later were taken by major rock & roll acts like Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, which is detailed extensively in the film.

Christian Peter

This inaction led Redmond to file a Title IX suit against Nebraska in 1995; the suit was settled two years later with Nebraska paying $50,000 and the other two agreeing to pay an undisclosed sum of money.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

David Jacques Way

Born in Elk Creek, Nebraska, Way was educated at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in its earliest days, where he gained his lifelong interest in graphic design and typography.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Dwite Pedersen

He has worked with troubled youth for 35 years being a member of the Nebraska and National Associations of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors and a former Boys Town counselor and administrator.

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Emilio Delgado

Some of his New York theatre credits include Floating Home (HExTC), Boxing 2000 (Richard Maxwell NYC Players), Dismiss All the Poets (New York Fringe Festival 2002), Nilo Cruz's adaptation of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Dinosaurios (IATI), Night Over Taos (INTAR) and an adaptation of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Round House Theatre).

Exeter-Milligan Public School

The girls basketball team completed a perfect 28-0 season in the 2003-04 high school season winning the Nebraska Class D1 State High School Championship defeating Elm Creek in the championship game 57-46.

Frances Rafferty

Frances Anne Rafferty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty, Sr. (born c. 1887), and the former DeEtta Cox Rafferty (born c. 1892).

George Joseph Lucas

On June 3, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Lucas the fifth Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska.

Got Live If You Want It

It was recorded live at Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey, on February 17, 2002 and released seven months later on CD and orange vinyl LP by Anton Newcombe's label, The Committee to Keep Music Evil.

Isham Reavis

The new judge left Nebraska in August 1869, taking the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad to California before boarding a ship south to the mouth of the Colorado River.

Jackie Maxwell

After earning an Honours degree in Drama at the University of Manchester, England, Maxwell accompanied her husband, Benedict Campbell, back to his native Canada, where she began to work as a director at the National Arts Centre.

Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

Jagadish Chandra Bose

British physicist Oliver Lodge demonstrated the existence of Maxwell's waves transmitted along wires in 1887–88.

Jocelyn Brando

Jocelyn and Marlon Brando and their sister Frances grew up mostly in the Midwest—in Omaha, Nebraska, Evanston and Libertyville, Illinois, though the family also spent time in California.

KAZO

KAZO-LP, a low-power television station (channel 57) licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States

KBRX

KBRX-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to O'Neill, Nebraska, United States

King's Lynn by-election, 1943

The Conservative candidate was Lord Fermoy, who had been the MP for King's Lynn from 1924 until he stepped down in favour of Maxwell at the 1935 general election.

KLNE

KLNE-FM, a radio station (88.7 FM) licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, United States

KLTQ

KOOO, a radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to serve La Vista, Nebraska, United States, which held the call sign KLTQ from 2002 to 2007

Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben

The organization supports financial need based scholarship programs, administers Nebraska's Pioneer Farm program, Good Neighbor Awards, and Ike Friedman Leadership Awards.

KOGA

KOGA-FM, a radio station (99.7 FM) licensed to Ogallala, Nebraska, United States

Loma, Nebraska

Loma was a filming location and the primary setting of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (as the fictional village of Snydersville, Nebraska).

Max Holden

In 1929 Maxwell retired from the stage and with the help of fellow magician, Lewis Davenport, opened a magic shop in Manhattan with later branches in Philadelphia and Boston.

Maxwell Land Grant

Beginning in 1922, Waite Phillips, an oilman from Tulsa, Oklahoma also assembled a block of land on the Maxwell Land Grant.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Mike Ekeler

After seven years in private business for himself, Ekeler returned to the game when he began volunteer coaching for V. J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Nebraska from 1999 to 2001, and as an assistant coach at Manhattan High School in Manhattan, Kansas in 2002, back in the town where he had played for Kansas State almost a decade before.

Muck and the Mires

The band wrapped up 2009 sharing a New Year's Eve show with Roky Erickson at the famed Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Murder of Alexander Montgomerie

Alexander was engaged to Jean or Jane, a daughter of the Maxwell family of Pollok House in Eastwood parish near Glasgow and had been a regular visitor in the months before his wedding.

Nebraska Outback

The outback is connected with the rest of Nebraska by way of four Nebraska byways: Bridges to Buttes Byway (Highway 20), the Outlaw Trail (Highway 12) and small sections of the Loup Rivers Scenic Byway (Highways 91/11), and the Sandhills Journey (Highway 2) in Blaine County.

Nonsymmetric gravitational theory

The antisymmetric tensor field is found to satisfy the equations of a Maxwell-Proca massive antisymmetric tensor field.

Pantha

It was revealed that Pantha was a vet student at New York University named Rosabelle Mendez who was captured by Maxwell Lord and made into Pantha, then sold to the Wildebeest Society.

Philip Abbott

A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Abbott was a secondary lead in several films of the 1950s and 1960s, including Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).

Phineas Hitchcock

He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Prairie schooner

Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex was written in response to John Maxwell's "Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas" and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism raised Rutherford to merited eminence as a philosophical thinker.

Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown wrote "The Nebraska Song" in honor of Brook Berringer, a Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback who died in a plane crash on April 18, 1996.

Southern Power

Southern Power District: a publicly owned electric utility in south-central Nebraska

United States presidential election in Nebraska, 2008

Democratic Mayor Mike Fahey of Omaha said that he would do whatever it takes to deliver the electoral vote tied to the 2nd Congressional District to Obama, and the Obama Campaign considered Nebraska's 2nd congressional district "in play".

Uranium mining in Wyoming

The uranium will be absorbed onto ion-exchange resin beads at the mine; the beads will be shipped to existing facilities of Power Resources Inc. (Cameco) in Wyoming and Nebraska for recovery of the uranium.

Walter Newall

His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.


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