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unusual facts about Mid West



Kutkabubba Community

Kutkabubba is a small Aboriginal community, located 40 km north of Wiluna, Western Australia in the Mid West, within the Shire of Wiluna.


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BattleTech Centers

Gaming, sci-fi and anime conventions (including Comicpalooza, Oni-Con, MechaCon and Dragon Con) in the south-central U.S. were introduced to MechCorps' Mobile Armor Division while Virtual World Entertainment in association with MechJock LLC made appearances in the Mid-West at events including Gencon, Origins, ACEN and Youmacon.

Bondini community

Bondini is a small Aboriginal community, located 10 km east of Wiluna in the Mid-West Region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Wiluna.

Darrell Winfield

This move was inspired by the "Okie migration" that was prominent in the 1930s where many mid-west farmers, devastated by the Great Depression, headed west to California to start over.

David Kinsela

Kinsela was born in Sans Souci, a suburb in Sydney, on 3 June 1941 and raised and schooled at Young in mid-west New South Wales.

Matt Frei

In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama's story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.

Mid West Business Institute

The Mid West Business Institute was a member of the Higher Education Colleges Association of Ireland.

Mount Gibson

Mount Gibson, Western Australia, located in the mid-west region of Western Australia

Quickflight

Quickflight toured through the Mid-West and West Coast of the U.S. and parts of Canada, at several outdoor festivals, playing with a variety of Christian artists who included Steve Taylor, Rez Band, Kerry Livgren, Sheila Walsh, Undercover and Larry Norman.

Reşit Galip

Although he briefly served as an assistant in the faculty, he later on moved to Tavşanlı (a town in mid-west Anatolia) to participate in the Turkish War of Independence.

Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame

This Night Club was one of the premiere Clubs in the mid-west for R&B artist and minority comedians like Red Fox, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor and Moms Mabley.

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

A 12 foot high piece of the Berlin Wall is exhibited in the expansive foreign affairs gallery, which also includes a replica of a modest Mid-west home from where American soldiers originated, statues of Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and pages of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I signed by Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.

Solar updraft tower

In December 2011, Hyperion Energy, controlled by Western Australians Tony Sage and Dallas Dempster, was reported to be planning to build a 1-km-tall solar updraft tower near Meekatharra to supply power to Mid-West mining projects.

Spillover II

Jaume Plensa is best known in the Mid-West for his Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park.

Sue Green

Also in the 1970s, Green toured with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (later the World Wrestling Federation) and Leroy McGuirk's Mid-West territories.

The Ragbirds

They have been featured at some of the Mid-West’s largest music festivals including Rothbury Music Festival and 10,000 Lakes and have shared the stage with Railroad Earth, Steve Kimmock, Cornmeal, Toubab Krewe, Hot Buttered Rum, Donna The Buffalo, Big Leg Emma, Jeff Daniels, Tea Leaf Green, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Mamadou Diabate, The Duhks, Wookiefoot, ekoostik hookah, and many more.

William Laken

Remaining elements of the Laken family can be found on the East Coast and in the Mid-west of the United States.

Wiluna

Shire of Wiluna, a local government area in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

World Trade Center Institute

WTCI joined three other organizations in the United States with the World Bank accreditation, including the Chicago Global Mid-West Alliance, the Greater Houston Partnership and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle.