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15 unusual facts about Montezuma


Beals Creek

Local legend believes Montezuma is buried in the creek bed at an unknown location.

Cabinet of curiosities

The fabulous Habsburg Imperial collection, included important Aztec artifacts, including the feather head-dress or crown of Montezuma now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna.

Gray County Wind Farm

Gray County Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas is the largest wind farm in Kansas and the largest in the United States not mandated by a state regulatory commission.

Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns

The book devotes chapters to over fifty different former mining sites, most of them true ghost towns but also including towns such as Montezuma and Gold Hill that have survived to the present day with a diminished population.

Lousewies van der Laan

She obtained the International Baccalaureate at Armand Hammer United World College of the American West (In Montezuma, New Mexico).

Montezuma Township

Montezuma, California, a former hamlet and township in Solano County, California

Montezuma, Colorado

From 2004 until 2009, a small low-powered FM station (KMZM 96.5 then 96.7), which was receivable only near and in the town, operated from one of the houses.

The Town of Montezuma is a Statutory Town located in eastern Summit County, Colorado, United States.

Montezuma, Costa Rica

The nearby Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve draws a large number of visitors to the area.

Montezuma's headdress

It became an object of interest to European researchers such as Ferdinand von Hochstetter and Eduard Seler at the end of the 19th century, and its identification as a quetzalapanecayotl is attributed to US American anthropologist Zelia Nuttall.

Pleasant View, Colorado

The other schools in the district are located in Cortez, and include Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 Pre-School, Kemper Elementary School, Lewis-Arriola Elementary School, Manaugh Elementary School, Mesa Elementary Schools, Cortez Middle School and Montezuma-Cortez High School.

The Alexandra School

Dereck Alleyne was placed into the United World College-USA (Montezuma.

The St. Michael School

Two students went to the United World College Costa Rica (Santa Ana, Costa Rica) and one to the United World College-USA (Montezuma, USA) ".

Thomas Harris MacDonald

(He attended elementary and high school at public schools in Montezuma, Iowa, the county seat.)

Virginia Dwan

Virginia Dwan (born October 18, 1931) is an American art collector, art patron, philanthropist, visionary and founder of the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico.


Barton Brands

Some of its better-known brands and products included 1792 Ridgemont Reserve, Kentucky Tavern, and Very Old Barton Bourbons; Fleischmann's, Skol and Wave Vodkas; the 99 line of schnapps (99 Apples, 99 Bananas, etc.); Calypso and Barton rums; Capitan, El Toro and Montezuma tequilas and Mr. Boston and Fleischmann's Gins.

Emu Bay Railway

(Junction with the North East Dundas Tramway to Montezuma and Williamsford on the southern slopes of Mount Read the first railway in the world to have a working Garratt steam engine - K-1.)

Giuseppe Avezzana

Left in command at Tampico by General Montezuma, who went to stir up the revolutionists elsewhere, he maneuvred so successfully with a small force that they captured three times their number of government troops at Ciudad Victoria, with artillery and supplies.

Halls of Montezuma

"Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma"

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Historian Francis Parkman praised Bancroft's The Native Races in The North American Review, but Lewis H. Morgan was more critical, based on his newly published theory of Indian culture, in an article named Montezuma's Dinner.

Ingham incident

First the captain sailed past Galveston for Matagorda, Texas but heavy seas prevented him from entering so Jones headed for the Brazos River where on June 3 he was informed by a local pilot that "several Acts of Piracy" had been committed by the Montezuma and that there were no slave ships in the area.

Live at Montezuma Hall

Live At Montezuma Hall is the first live album from singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, recorded at Montezuma Hall at San Diego State University in 1973.

Moctezuma de Orizaba

The club was founded in 1932 by workers from the Montezuma brewery in Orizaba Veracruz.

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

The name "Montezuma" was first used in 1806 when Dr. Peter Clark named his hilltop home "Montezuma" after the palace of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma in Mexico City.

Serpentor

He was conceived as the perfect warrior, extracted from the unearthed remains of some of the greatest generals of all time--Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo and Egyptian general Xanuth Amon-Toth.