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unusual facts about McCormick's Creek State Park


Richard Lieber

With his twenty-man committee, he started acquiring parks, succeeding with McCormick's Creek and Turkey Run both opening on December 11, 1916, without any state funds (The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was a major private donor).


157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

The 119th Field Artillery, composed largely of Michigan artillery and cavalry troops, was commanded by Major Chester B. McCormick, later promoted to the rank of Colonel.

Abraham Lincoln's patent

His second largest professional fee came from successful participation in the "Reaper Case", McCormick v. Manny.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, McCormick obtained interviews with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, German leader Adolf Hitler, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Popes Pius XI and XII, and other world leaders.

The Times accepted, and McCormick provided the first in-depth reports of the rise of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist movement in Italy.

Cami McCormick

McCormick worked in the 1980s and early 1990s as a morning news broadcaster on WEZB (B-97FM) in New Orleans with "Cajun" Ken Cooper, then later with Walton and Johnson in the mornings.

Cantigny, Somme

About 10 years later, Colonel Robert R. McCormick named his estate in Illinois after the town.

Chauncey McCormick

His father was William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), whose father William Sanderson McCormick (1815–1865) was one of the founders of McCormick Harvester, which merged in 1902 with the Deering Harvester Company founded by William Deering and others to form International Harvester Corporation.

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

The proposed system was dubbed the "Central Area Circulator Project", an eight-mile (13 km) light-rail transit network linking the North Western, Union and Randolph Metra suburban railroad stations to North Michigan Avenue, Streeterville, Navy Pier, the museums, and McCormick Place.

Franquelin, Quebec

The Ontario Paper Company, owned by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, which later became the Quebec North Shore Paper Co., needed paper to supply the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, which were also owned by McCormick.

Gayle McCormick

McCormick attended Pattonville High School in Maryland Heights, Missouri near St. Louis and sang high soprano with the Suburb Choir, a 150-voice unit that performed annually with the St. Louis Symphony.

Genevieve R. Cline

Ganna Walska was a Polish-born soprano who was married to Harold McCormick of Chicago.

Harold Fowler McCormick

Orson Welles claimed that McCormick's lavish promotion of his second wife's opera career—despite her renown as a terrible singer—was a direct influence on the screenplay for Citizen Kane, wherein the titular character does much the same for his second wife.

Heath McCormick

In 2010, McCormick returned to the United States after he was recruited by Bill Stopera, Martin Sather, and Dean Gemmell to replace Matt Hames, who was retiring, as skip.

Heidi Miller

Miller is currently on the board of the American Heart Association, the Children's Bureau Foundation, and Pat McCormick's Educational Foundation.

Jean Swain

In 1946 she and her sister, Nancy Swain Overton, founded a vocal quartet The Heathertones with Bix Brent and Pauli Skindlov (later replaced by Marianne McCormick).

Jennifer Hedger

Hedger dated the former captain of the Canadian national soccer team, Jason de Vos, and she is now married to rival Rogers Sportsnet anchor Sean McCormick.

John D. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with John P. McCormick, a deputy editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune whom Blagojevich allegedly pressured the Tribune to fire in November and December 2008.

John P. McCormick

McCormick is not to be confused with another Chicago Tribune editorial employee, reporter John D. McCormick, who covered the campaign of Barack Obama.

Lawrence Jegen

In 2006 the Lawrence A. Jegen III Professorship was created and funded at Indiana University Foundation by Michael D. McCormick, which professorship is to be awarded to an active scholar and teacher at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.

Lewis Steward

In 1902, the company merged with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company to form International Harvester.

Love to Love You Bradys

The book features previously unpublished photographs, and interviews, including those with Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Geri Reischl ("Fake Jan"), Mike Lookinland, Ann B. Davis, Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz, Sid and Marty Krofft, Rip Taylor, Bruce Vilanch, and Paul Shaffer.

Margaret Hart Ferraro

Hart, Brawner, McCormick, and three other chorus girls were arraigned in West Side Court but were freed by Magistrate Guy Van Amringe, who presided in Commercial Frauds Court, on May 7, 1935.

Mashkan-shapir

Tell Abu Duwari was first noted, as site 639, in the Nippur survey of Robert McCormick Adams of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.

Matt McCormick

A collection of McCormick’s music and sound recordings titled Very Stereo was released in 2007 by Marriage Records, and his photography and installation work is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery.

McCormick Observatory

In Chicago Cyrus, Leander and their brother William founded what became the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and eventually International Harvester.

In 1877 while the McCormick Refractor was still in Cambridgeport, Alvan Clark used it to verify the discovery of the moons of Mars the night after the discovery observations were made by Asaph Hall with the Naval Observatory refractor.

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park

Charro Carrousel: This merry-go-round was built in 1950 by The Allan Herschell Company and was purchased and restored by the Scottsdale Railroad & Mechanical Society.

The park's original name was McCormick Railroad Park, but in 1996 the park was renamed McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in recognition of its founder, Guy Stillman.

Mel Blyth

The contrasting styles of Blyth and McCormick made for a good mix, and the two of them stayed together until McCormick's retirement, near the end of Bert Head's time in charge.

Moose McCormick

After the season, the Pirates traded McCormick to the Philadelphia Phillies with Kitty Bransfield and Otto Krueger for Del Howard.

Peter Dodds McCormick

McCormick died in 1916 at his home in the Sydney suburb of Waverley and he was buried at Rookwood Cemetery.

Prayers for Bobby

In addition to "I Need You to Listen," arranged by Marty Haugen, and "Bullseye," by Megan McCormick.

ReServe Interactive

The software is currently being used by Wolfgang Puck Catering, McCormick & Schmick's, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and the Georgia Aquarium.

Ricky McCormick

:For the Ricky McCormick murdered in Missouri in 1999, see Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes

Robert J. McCormick

McCormick graduated from St. Johns University with a degree in Spanish Literature, Italian, and French.

Sleepy Lagoon murder

Some SLDC members included: Alice McGrath, Josefina Fierro de Bright, Josefa Fierro, Maria Alvez, Luisa Moreno, Dorothy Healey, LaRue McCormick, Lupe Leyvas, Henry Leyvas, Doc Johnson, Frank Lopez, Bert Corona, and Gray Bemis.

Tellme Networks

In April 1999, the Tellme founding team, consisting of Mike McCue, Angus Davis, Rod Brathwaite, Jim Fanning, Kyle Sims, Brad Porter, Michael Plitkins, Hadi Partovi, John Giannandrea, Andrew Volkmann, Anthony Accardi, Patrick McCormick, Danny Howard, Vicki Penrose, and Emil Michael assembled in Mountain View, California.

The Empire Lights

The Empire Lights were formed by founding members Sarah Starr (Reeve) and Ronan McCormick in 2009 in Sydney, Australia, before moving to Cork, Ireland in 2010.

Washington J. McCormick

Mccormick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 - March 4, 1923), but was unsuccessful in his reelection bid in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.

What Price Hollywood?

Adela Rogers St. Johns loosely based her plot on the experiences of actress Colleen Moore and her husband, alcoholic producer John McCormick (1893-1961), and the life and death of director Tom Forman, who committed suicide following a nervous breakdown.

Willem McCormick

Willem McCormick played locally on the New Orleans scene at such popular venues as Muddy Waters, Tipitina's and Jimmy's while earnestly self promoting the band both independently and with the help of co-promoter Bowen.

Yıldız Holding

;2010: Yıldız Holding goes into a joint venture with McCormick, USA to expand into spices and cooking aids market.

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.


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