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2 unusual facts about MidWest


David Love

Love played a key role in the start of the uranium-mining industry in Wyoming by discovering uranium in 1951 near Pumpkin Buttes, about 25 miles northeast of Midwest, Wyoming.

Loren Driscoll

Driscoll was born in Midwest, Wyoming and after studies at Syracuse University and Boston University made his professional operatic debut in 1954 as Dr. Cajus in Verdi's Falstaff with Opera of Boston.


1887 Detroit Wolverines season

On March 13, after training in Macon, Georgia‚ the Wolverines began a six-week exhibition tour through the South and Midwest.

AIMMS

Together with Alstom Grid, AIMMS (formerly known as Paragon Decision Technology) was part of the analytics team of Midwest ISO that won the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences of 2011 for successfully applying operations research in the Midwest ISO energy market.

Amtrak California

As the leading agency of a joint purchase agreement with the Midwest Coalition consisted of Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri, Caltrans awarded a 130-car order to Nippon Sharyo on November 6, 2012, to be built at Nippon Sharyo's new factory at Rochelle, Illinois, of which 42 will go to California.

Blakely Bantam

The Blakely Bantam was a kit car produced by Blakely Auto Works (also called Bernardi Auto Works in later years), a manufacturer of kit cars located in a series of US midwest communities in the 1970s and 1980s.

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Bob Allison

During his baseball career, he worked during the off season in sales for Coca-Cola Bottling Midwest Co. in suburban Minneapolis and after retirement, he continued with that business, becoming a plant manager and a sales manager Coca Cola's Twin Cities Marketing Division.

Cap'n Jazz

After a number of name changes and the addition of guitarist Davey von Bohlen the band began to earn a cult following in the Chicago area and the Midwest.

Charles H. DuPont

Nevertheless, he traveled to the Midwest to recruit immigrant labor to Florida, and became seriously ill in Minneapolis.

Charlie Menard

While he was a member of Team Menard, the Menards racing team, Menard captured the 2004 NASCAR Late Model championship at the La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway with a season-high six feature wins, and also claimed the 2004 Dodge NASCAR Weekly Series Midwest Region championship.

Cincinnati metropolitan area

Although widely accepted as part of the Midwest, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area is climatically and geographically located on the northern periphery of the Upland South region of the United States and is within the Bluegrass region of Ohio and Kentucky.

Confessional Lutheranism

both sending missionaies to newly arrived German immigrants in the Midwest and the immigration of groups like the Saxons, who settled in Missouri under Martin Stephan and C.F.W. Walther, the Germans who settled in Indiana under F.C.D. Wyneken, and the Prussians under J.A.A. Grabau in Western New York and southeastern Wisconsin (the Buffalo Synod).

Della Gould Emmons

Later he toured the Midwest in a fleet of white buses with his nine performing children, "Jay Gould's Million Dollar Circus." Documents also show that he gave Lawrence Welk of TV fame one of his first jobs as an accordion player.

Denison, Iowa

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge depicts a changing Denison in the early twenty-first century in his book Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town. This book features photographs by Maharidge's photographic partner and fellow Pulitzer-winner, Michael Williamson.

Desjardins Canal

An added incentive was the fact that the liberalization of the British Navigation Acts in the 1820s meant that certain U.S. products could be exported from Canada as though they had originated there, allowing the U.S. Midwest to share in Colonial preferences and attracting additional trade from this source.

Dignity Health

Sheila Browne, RSM, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community, Burbank, CA

Eric Bransby

Performances were conducted in the Midwest, an annual meeting of the College Art Association, and on the television program Good Morning America.

Finast

The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets, its Buffalo, New York-based unit.

Freddie Bell and the Bellboys

They were one of the first white groups to play the R&B hits of the day, and honed their act in the Midwest before landing a booking at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Great Flood of 1913

As the storm gained strength on Sunday, March 23, high winds, hail, sleet, and tornadoes arrived in the Great Plains, the South, and the Midwest.

James Spione

The film premiered at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and went on to play theatres from the Berkshires to the Midwest.

Jay Kalk

In 1998 they released their second album called "Everyday Ninjas", which the band promoted vigorously touring around the upper Midwest garnering their first Minnesota Music Award .

Jeffrey J. Kroll

In 2002, he was selected by the The National Law Journal as one of the Top 40 Attorneys Under the Age of 40 and was the sole personal injury lawyer from the Midwest selected .

Jerry Portnoy

Portnoy began his professional career in 1970, touring the Midwest with the band of Johnny Young (guitar/mandolin).

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.

Joseph K. Edgerton

Edgerton also served as president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and the Ohio Railroad, which were constructed to connect major cities of the Midwest, especially the booming industrial city of Chicago, through which many natural resources flowed to the East.

Ken Trickey

In 1974 the team received its first bid to the NCAA tournament; ORU was also the host for that year's Midwest Regional, at the Mabee Center in Tulsa.

Madlener House

Former Graham Foundation director Carter Manny described the Madlener House as “an unusually successful amalgamation of tradition and innovation in architecture, a harmonious reflection of its time and place.” This amalgamation refers to the eclectic usages of then-popular architectural styles in the Midwest and abroad, as well as the incorporation of both organic and geometric design elements.

Mateo Moreno

He grew up in the midwest town of Independence, once home of Harry S. Truman and Ginger Rogers, and attended Fort Osage High School and briefly attended Longview College and The University of Missouri Kansas City.

Midwest Kings

Midwest Kings (aka MWK) is a touring band based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose most notable member is David Cook, winner of the seventh season of American Idol.

Midwest League

In 1976 the Midwest League contracted from ten teams to eight when teams in Danville and Dubuque were eliminated.

Midwest Young Artists

Midwest Young Artists students have won top prizes at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Rembrandt Chamber Players High School Chamber Music Competition and have appeared on the radio and television program "From the Top" and on broadcasts on WFMT.

Oglala

Ogallala Aquifer, an aquifer or concentration of groundwater in the U.S. Midwest

Oldenburg, Indiana

In 1851, Mother Theresa Hackelmeier (1827-1860) founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg who would open numerous schools in the Midwest.

Out of the Ozarks

Out of the Ozarks is the title of a 1988 book by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist William Childress, about his life and experiences in the rural American midwest region known as the Ozarks.

Oyster bar

During the early 1800s, express wagons filled with oysters crossed the Allegheny Mountains to reach the American Midwest.

Paseo Boricua

The Humboldt Park Paseo Boricua neighborhood is the flagship of all Puerto Rican enclaves, This neighborhood is the economic political and cultural capital of the Puerto Rican community in the Midwest and some say in the Puerto Rican Diaspora.

People Express Airlines

People Express also bought midwest commuter carrier Britt Airways and Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA), a regional airline serving New England and Florida.

Philip Zimmerman

Zimmerman studied under Rev. Richard Osacky, who was later consecrated bishop and known as Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest, Orthodox Church in America.

Red Lake Falls, Minnesota

The last significant historic event in Red Lake Falls occurred on August 27, 1927, when the famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh and his wife, landed at the nearby airport during a barnstorming trip through the Upper Midwest and were taken on automobile rides to Huot and Crookston.

Rich Nye

Using his abilities in commodity trading to earn the money for starting his own practice, Nye and two other exotic animal veterinarians founded Midwest Bird and Exotic Animal Hospital in Westchester, Illinois in 1985, which was the first exotic-only specialist practice in the United States.

Robert A. Hefner

In May 1941, the chief of engineers of the United States Army named the base the Midwest Air Depot, now called Tinker Air Force Base.

Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Vic Marker - 3 time Midwest Golden Glove Boxer, who beat Archie Moore in the Golden Glove Finals in the late 1930s.

Stefan Anderson

A daughter was Birgit Ridderstedt, who with her family hosted the Anderson couple's stay in the Midwest.

Sunil Gaitonde

In 2000, he co-founded Sarvega (with others he met through TiE- Midwest, USA, a non-profit network of entrepreneurs), in Chicago and served as chairman of its board.

Terror in the Sky

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree.

The Cheap Seats

It is strongly implied that Des Moines is the "middle-sized town" in question, as it does indeed have a AAA minor league team (Iowa Cubs) and is in fact "in the middle of the Midwest".

U.S. Route 270

I-40/US 270 also serve two eastern suburbs of Oklahoma City, Del City and Midwest City and form the northern boundary between Midwest City's civilian areas and Tinker Air Force Base.

Vernon Gholston

As a senior at Cass Technical High School, Gholston emerged as one of the top prospects in the Midwest after registering 75 tackles, including six sacks, as a linebacker and also earning an All-State selection as an offensive guard.

W18BT

It was previously a repeater that broadcasts programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, via satellite; in recent years, due to TBN's financial problems, many of its repeaters were sold to other parties, including W18BT, which was sold to Luken Communications, the parent company of Retro Television Network, under the licensee name "Digital Networks - Midwest".

Wid Matthews

Seven years later, he moved with Redbird GM Branch Rickey to the Brooklyn Dodgers, where he served as the Dodgers' director of Midwest scouting through the 1949 season.


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