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3 unusual facts about Palo


Palo, Iowa

Palo is located near the Duane Arnold Energy Center, the only nuclear power plant in Iowa, and the Pleasant Creek State Recreation Park.

Palo, Minnesota

Palo is an unincorporated community in White Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palo

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palo is a large administrative diocese of the Catholic Church in the town of Palo in Leyte province, Philippines.


Aires Bucaneros

It also features the song "Caballo de palo", which is based on a poem by nationalist Clemente Soto Vélez.

Anne Balsamo

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) argues that Balsamo "portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us...Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time."

Automsoft

2009 Automsoft showcase their green innovations in clean-tech in Palo Alto California and also achieve OPC Unified Architecture compliance.

B. graveolens

Bursera graveolens, the palo santo, a tree species native to Central America and South America

Carlmont High School

With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time.

Carnival of Conache

Palo Cilulo, the people dance around a tree decorated with presents and other carnival things, this tree is also called "unsha", "Yunza", "Corta monte", or "Umisha", and while the people dance around someone turns to cut the tree little by little with an Axe for a little while then more people makes the same until it falls down.

Cubberley

Ellwood P. Cubberley High School, one of three public high schools in Palo Alto California

Cyclo-cross

The first United States Cyclo-cross National Championships took place on October 20, 1963 in Palo Park, IL, near Chicago.

Danza de los Voladores

In Guatemala the flying pole dance, called Palo volador, is still celebrated in Joyabaj (15 August), Chichicastenango (17–23 January) and Cubulco (26 July).

Digital DNA

Former Palo Alto mayor Leland Levy and real estate developer Roxy Rapp proposed a $500,000 revitalization of Lytton plaza.

East Bay Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of the paper's previous owner Knight Ridder in early 2006, the Palo Alto Daily News group, including the East Bay Daily News, was bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

East Palo Alto, California

Significant gentrification occurred in East Palo Alto from around 2000, with the construction of a large shopping center named Ravenswood 101 (including a Home Depot, a Best Buy, and an IKEA store) and several upscale housing communities (intended for high-earning Silicon Valley workers).

Between 1958 and 1976 East Palo Alto had its own high school (Ravenswood High School).

EFTP

John Shoch, EFTP: A PUP-based Ether File Transfer Protocol (Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, June 1976)

Emma Willits

Willits' house in Palo Alto, constructed in 1926-27, was designed by architect Lionel H. Pries.

Enamorado Por Primera Vez

The song was the second to debut at number 1 in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart, the first being "El Palo" by Juan Gabriel in 1995.

Inmac

From its initial Palo Alto, California location, Inmac expanded internationally to England (1980), Germany (1981), Sweden (1982), France (1982)the Netherlands (1984), Canada (1985), Italy (1988), and Japan (1990).

Jamaica Estates, Queens

Lennie Tristano, the blind bebop pianist and teacher, lived at 86-67 Palo Alto Street, Holliswood.

Jennifer Mnookin

She grew up in Berkeley and Palo Alto, California, and attended Harvard College, where she was an editor for The Harvard Crimson.

Joaquin Jackson

Jackson also played the fictional Sheriff Jackson in the 2008 movie Palo Pinto Gold, starring singer Trent Willmon, and appears as Archie in the motion picture Poodle Dog Lounge, released in late 2008.

Jocotenango

Flora includes species of oak, cypress, and palo de jiote (Bursera simaruba).

Loren Acton

Loren Wilber Acton (born March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.

Marjorie Eaton

In 1925, Eaton's stepmother, Edith Cox Eaton purchased the historic Palo Alto house of Juana Briones de Miranda and ran it as an art colony of sorts: artist Lucretia Van Horn and sculptor Louise Nevelson spent significant periods of time there, as did Marjorie.

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Olga Volchkova

She became artistic director for Workspot, a now defunct start-up and contracting house near University Avenue in Palo Alto.

Ortica

Enzo Jannacci, the famous Milanese singer-songwriter, mentions Ortica in his song Faceva il palo ("he was the lookout"), dedicated to some "Gang of the Ortica" ("banda dell'Ortica").

Paleta

The name comes from palo, or "stick," and the diminutive ending -eta, referencing the little flat stick frozen into each item; the stores, carts, and kiosks where they are sold are known as paleterías, and the sellers are called Paleteros.

Palo Alto University

Palo Alto University's Ph.D. program has been accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1988.

Palo Cortado

Jerez Cortado is a variety of palo cortado made not in Jerez, but in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, the most westerly of the three points of the 'Sherry Triangle', properly known as the denominación de Jerez.

Palo Duro Records

Palo Duro Records is an independent record label established in 2001 to focus primarily on Texas-based singer/songwriters and bands.

Palo Macho

From 1994 to 1998 Palo Macho taught at The Secondary School of Fine Arts in Lednické Rovne.

Palo Macho (born 22 September 1965, Streženice) is a Slovak painter specializing in the work with glass - creating glass panes, glass graphics, glass reliefs and other glass objects.

Palo Pinto

Palo Pinto, Texas - county seat of and city in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

Palo Pinto Independent School District - public school district for the Palo Pinto area.

Peninsula Women's Chorus

In 1966, after a decade of involvement with local musical ensembles, Marjorie Rawlins of Palo Alto founded the American Association of University Women Midpeninsula Chorus, with 17 members.

Peter Burwell Starke

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

Ralph Rambo

He was born in San Jose, California on May 16, 1894 and died in Palo Alto, California on May 19, 1990.

Rebecca Dines

She has performed numerous times for Palo Alto-based Theatreworks, as well as Kansas City, Berkeley, San Jose, and South Coast Repertory theatres, Magic and B Street theatres, and the Laguna Playhouse, among others.

Ronald Township, Michigan

The name "Palo" pronounced Pay-Low, locally was suggested by John in honor of the victory by General Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Palo Alto, the first major battle of the Mexican–American War fought on May 8, 1846.

Saffron Technology

Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, former executive at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.

SCORE! Educational Centers

Educational Center in Palo Alto, California, in November 1992, and hired the company's first two Directors, Kai Drekmeier and Ingrid Stabb, who helped Tripp further develop the SCORE! concept and company culture throughout the startup years.

Tikander Lake, Minnesota

Nearby places include Fayal Township, Biwabik Township, White Township, Palo, and Makinen.

Universal Time-Sharing System

CP-6 was a command line oriented system, no GUI interface (as GUIs had only just been invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)).


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