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15 unusual facts about Vail


A Push and a Shove

While on holiday in Vail, Colorado, he takes an HIV test - by the end of the novel, he learns he doesn't have AIDS.

Alison Sydor

She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals (1994 in Vail, Colorado; 1995 in Kirchzarten, Germany; 1996 in Cairns, Australia; and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun, Austria.)

Ben Cerullo

At the age of 18, Ben's love of action sports took him to Vail, Colorado to pursue his dream of becoming a professional snowboarder.

Buddy Lazier

Robert Buddy Lazier (born October 31, 1967 in Vail, Colorado) is an American Indycar driver.

Corrado Hérin

Hérin was involved with mountain biking during his career in luge during the 1990s, winning a bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1994 World Mountain Biking Championships in Vail, Colorado.

Dr. Stan's Prescription, Volume 1

Stan's Prescription, Volume 1 is a live album recorded on March 4, 2004, onboard Moe's Caribbean cruise with filler material recorded on March 17, 1995, in Vail, Colorado.

Dry-tooling

Dry-tooling is practiced in areas such as Vail, Colorado which is also the birthplace of modern mixed ice climbing.

Jessica Gallagher

Gallagher is also a snowboarder, having taken up the sport while on a working holiday in Vail, Colorado before she found out about the Winter Paralympic Games.

John-Michael Liles

Liles married his fiancée, Erin Johnson, on July 20, 2013, in Vail, Colorado.

KRYD

KRYD-LP, a low-power television station (channel 10) licensed to Vail, Colorado, United States

Liisa Savijarvi

Her career officially ended in 1988, following serious injuries sustained during a FIS World Cup training run on 17 March 1987 in Vail, Colorado.

Saab 9-5

The town of Vail, Colorado, had been using Saabs since 1980, but in 2005, the black 9-5 patrol cars were replaced by Ford Explorers, due to budget reasons.

Short list of New York City Ballet repertory

This is the list of ballets for the 2011 Summer tour, beginning at the Vail International Dance Festival, Vail, Colorado, Sunday, July 1st, and finishing at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts Sunday, August 7th.

Toller Cranston

However, in the fall of 1994, he broke his leg while practicing for a holiday show in Vail, Colorado.

Victoria Osteen

Sharon Brown, a Continental Airlines flight attendant, accused Victoria Osteen of assault before a December 19, 2005 flight from Houston, Texas to Vail, Colorado.


1919–20 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup included captain K.L. Wilson, J.B. Felmley, Julian Mee and P.C. Taylor rotating at the forward positions, All-American Chuck Carney at center, and Charles Vail, Burt Ingwersen, and Lawrence Walquist as guards.

1920–21 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup included All-American Chuck Carney, Lawrence Walquist, and Norton Hellstrom at forward, Henry Reitsch at center, and Charles Vail, John Sabo and Walter Collins as guards.

AEI World Forum

Held every summer in Beaver Creek, Colorado, it is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Vail Valley Foundation, and it features a number of AEI scholars and fellows.

American Morse code

American Morse Code was first used on the Baltimore-Washington telegraph line, a telegraph line constructed between Baltimore, Maryland, and the old Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The first public message "What hath God wrought" was sent on May 24, 1844, by Morse in Washington to Alfred Vail at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) "outer depot" (now the B&O Railroad Museum) in Baltimore.

Charles H. Vail

Vail is best remembered as the first National Organizer of the Socialist Party of America and as a candidate of that party for Governor of New Jersey.

Deas Vail

After a couple of years of touring, Deas Vail signed to Brave New World Records (founded by producer Mark Lee Townsend) in 2005.

Erich Windisch

Windisch also studied architecture and built three houses - one in Vail and two in Dillon, Colorado.

George Vail

George Vail was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress.

George Vail and his brother George Vail's cousin was Theodore Newton Vail, who became the first president of American Telephone & Telegraph

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt

She became a mistress of Edward, Prince of Wales and married James Vail Converse and Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness.

Gypsum, Colorado

Gypsum is the location of the Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), a popular regional airport used in the winter to transport skiers to nearby Vail.

Jack Bacheler

Three months prior to the 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials, Jack, along with Florida Track Club teammates Frank Shorter and Jeff Galloway, moved to Vail, Colorado to train at altitude.

Judith Tarr

She breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona.

KSKE

KKVM, a radio station (104.7 FM) licensed to Vail, Colorado, which held the call sign KSKE-FM from January 1990 to September 2009

Myrtle Vail

After the show ended, Vail became a low-keyed supporting actress in films, best known for roles in the low-budget cult films A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), written by her grandson Charles B. Griffith, and directed by Roger Corman, for whom Griffith has written and/or directed several films.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Despite a short career, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited her work in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Murano, Palm Beach, Vincenzo, Stockholm, Toronto, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, daughter of the famous art collector Peggy Guggenheim and the writer Laurence Vail, was an American painter, born in Ouchy, in Switzerland, on August 18, 1925, and deceased in Paris, on March 1, 1967.

Peter Feller

His father got him a job with Vail Scenic where he worked on Jimmy Durante's show "Jumbo" at the Hippodrome.

Stephen Vail

Stephen Vail (1780–1864) was a founding partner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and the creator of the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey.

Theodore Newton Vail

Sobel, Robert, The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition (Weybright & Talley 1974), chapter 6, Theodore Vail: The Subtle Serendipidist ISBN 0-679-40064-8.

Thomas Hubbard Vail

Two years later, Vail moved to Essex, Connecticut to become rector of St. John's Church in that town.

Vail Bloom

Vail played the role of assistant district attorney for Genoa City Heather Stevens on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2007 to 2010, a role that she received a Daytime Emmy nomination for in 2008.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.

William Stearns Davis

His father was Congregational minister William Vail Wilson Davis; his mother Francis Stearns.

Zoar, New York

On the Vail Road section of Zoar, an excavation site operated by the Gernatt Family of Companies is present.