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Rapids!

The band released their double A side single 'Comets' and 'House Of Sand And Fog on 11 July 2011 taken from their second release Fragments EP (released on 15 August 2011 via Heist Or Hit Records).


1920 Michigan Wolverines football team

Paul G. Goebel, Grand Rapids, Michigan - started 7 games at right end

Abava Valley

In its vicinity there are 16 protected nature monuments, such as Devil's Stone, Devil's Cave and Chambers of Mara, five rocks, seven rapids and three historical estate parks.

Anna May Hutchison

Backed by the fine pitching of Mildred Earp, Grand Rapids won Game 4 by a 3–0 margin, and needed only one more victory for the championship.

Arnold Scaasi

Other museums with holdings of Arnold Scaasi designs in their collection are the Historical Society of Palm Beach County located in West Palm Beach, FL; Grand Rapids Public Museum, Michigan and at the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, FL, as well as FIT.

Atuel River

The rapids are employed for rafting and canoeing; they are classified between class II (novice) and IV (advanced) in the International Scale of River Difficulty.

Beni River

30 km before joining the Mamoré River at the Bolivia-Brazil border, the rapids of Cachuela Esperanza interrupt the upstream navigability of the river.

Bolivian river dolphin

In 1973, however, a fresh study concluded that the specimens from Bolivia had more teeth than the specimens from elsewhere and that the rapids and water falls of the Madeira River acted as a barrier, effectively isolating the Bolivian population.

Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad

The Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad was a railroad chartered to run from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Council Bluffs, Iowa on the Missouri River.

The railroad was organized on January 16, 1860, and composed largely of stockholders in the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad Company, already in operation from Clinton to Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival has frequently screened works from mystery writer and director Max Allan Collins.

Christian views on the Old Covenant

Apparently republished as: Five Views on Law and Gospel, by Greg L. Bahnsen, with five contributors: Stanley N. Gundry, Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Wayne G. Strickland, Douglas J. Moo, Willem A. VanGemeren; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Comstock Park, Michigan

Becomes a major transportation hub, serving both the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, and sets the tone for becoming the northern Grand Rapids-area crossroads it is today.

Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa

Stories include encounters with mountain gorillas, a breakdown in the Sahara, hunting with Pygmies, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, exploring the Serengeti, the frustration of border extortion, hopping a “gun-run” thru Mozambique's civil war, rafting the Zambezi rapids and arriving in South Africa as Soweto (circa 1990) erupts into violence.

Dolores River

The section from Slickrock to Bedrock, Colorado goes through the goosenecks of a sandstone canyon with several mostly class II rapids.

Ethel Hall

Ethel Hall (1898 - 1927) was an American silent film actress who died at the age of 29 on June 29, 1927 when her boat capsized in the rapids of the Merced River near the town of Merced in the San Joaquin Valley.

Grand Rapids Community Foundation

Grand Rapids Community Foundation, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan serves all of Kent County and is Michigan's oldest community foundation.

History of Kinshasa

At first, all goods arriving by sea or being sent by sea had to be carried by porters between Léopoldville and Matadi, the port below the rapids and 150 km from the coast.

Itasca Community Television, Inc.

Communities that support the Grand Rapids Area Cable Commission with franchise and PEG fees which, in turn, supports ICTV include Grand Rapids, Cohasset, La Prairie and the townships of Harris and Grand Rapids.

Jacques de Chambly

He immediately was in charge of the construction of Fort Saint-Louis (now known as Fort Chambly) on the Richelieu Rapids.

KCRG

KCRG-TV, a television station (Channel 9 digital/virtual) licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

KLQ

KLQ.com, an internet radio station formerly on 107.3 FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan

KSQB

KQSF, a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to serve Dell Rapids, South Dakota, United States, which held the call sign KSWB-FM from 2001 to 2013

KULT

KULT-LP, a low-power radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Leo Greco

Leo Greco was a radio personality at WMT AM and WMT-FM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Lyman Parks

Parks' granddaughter Lauri credits him with quietly persuading Amway founders Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel to purchase and renovate the Pantlind Hotel, the first of many investments to revitalize downtown Grand Rapids.

Madeira-Mamoré Railroad

During the 1870s, the American George Earl Church made two attempts to overcome the Madeira river rapids in order to gain access to Bolivian rubber markets.

Maelstrom

Skookumchuck Narrows is a tidal rapids that develops whirlpools, on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Canada.

Mamoré River

Above the rapids the river is navigable to Chimore, at the foot of the sierra, and most of its tributaries are navigable for long distances.

Mazaruni River

Next, the Mazaruni River flows past Oranapai Rapids, Kamakusa Landing, the mouth of Merume River, Banana Landing, Tiboku Rapids, the mouth of Equeribisi River, Issano Landing, the mouth of the Puruni River, Kaburi rapids, Marshal Falls, the last set of rapids, Itabali Landing, the mouth of the Cuyuni River, then, near the village of Bartica, finishes into the Essequibo River, the largest river of Guyana.

Michelle McKormick

She returned to Grand Rapids in 1997 to work at WVTI-FM, now WMAX.

Minnesota State Highway 108

Maplewood State Park is located 7 miles east of Pelican Rapids on Highway 108 near Lake Lida.

Mohaka River

Conglomerate, sandstone and limestone begin to dominate the banks and large boulders create the rapids down through the grade III section.

Patricia Courtney

She spent one month with Grand Rapids, and was transferred to the Chicago Colleens for more training.

Plantinga

Cornelius Plantinga, president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 2002 through 2011

Rick Beckett

He began his radio career while still in high school at Union High School in Grand Rapids at WZZM-FM in 1970, where he worked part-time on weekends.

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

Crystal Lee Sutton (Jenkins), was a worker and union organizer for the J.P. Stevens & Co. mill in Roanoke Rapids, upon whose union activities the movie Norma Rae was based.

Robert C. Murdoch

Marshall P. & Murdoch R. C. (1921) "Fossils from the Paparoa Rapids, on the Wanganui River".

Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids

Emblazoned over the watery background of the Coat of Arms of the Diocese of Grand Rapids is a red (Gules) Cross moline.

Sauk Rapids-Rice High School

Sauk Rapids-Rice High School (Often abbreviated SRRHS) is a high school located in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Whereas the modern saut means simply "(a) jump", sault was also applied to cataracts, waterfalls and rapids in the 17th century, hence the placenames Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New/Nouveau Brunswick and Sault-au-Récollet on the Island of Montreal in Canada; and Sault-Saint-Remy and Sault-Brénaz, in France.

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

In August 1867 the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River opened a branch from Missouri Valley Junction west to California Junction (sold to the Sioux City and Pacific in July 1871), where the Sioux City and Pacific, funded by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River, began constructing its line north through the Missouri River Valley, reaching Sioux City in February 1868.

Steven Waterhouse

He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Dallas Theological Seminary, a Master of Theology in Hebrew and Greek from Capital Bible Seminary near Washington, D.C., and undergraduate degrees in social sciences from Spring Arbor University and Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Call of the Entrepreneur

After the premiere in Grand Rapids, during the rest of 2007, The Call of the Entrepreneur premiered in Honolulu, London, Nairobi, New York City, Atlanta, Eldoret, Hong Kong, Kansas City, and Rome.

Tim Dwight

In 2007, The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette sports staff voted Dwight the all-time greatest athlete from that newspaper's circulation area, topping other notables like NFL quarterback Kurt Warner and 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson

WBBL

WJRW, a radio station (1340 AM) licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States which formerly used the call letters WBBL.

WFUR

WFUR-FM, a radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

WMKG-CA

The station has had several minor network affiliations throughout its history, and currently affiliates with My Family TV; this is a duplicative affiliation within the Grand Rapids market, as WLLA (Channel 64) also carries that network over their 64.1 subchannel.


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