Portal:Iowa/Did you know
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- ...that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th-century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
- ...that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
- ...that the quarterbacks for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of the 19th century included a Brigadier General decorated for valor in World War I, the brother of a famous novelist, one of the founders of General Motors, the physician at a Kimberly-Clark mill, the son of the Governor of Wyoming, a steamboat builder, a Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a sheep rancher from Walla Walla?
- ...that, except in 1987, the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus?
- ...that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality?
- ...that the Blackhawk Hotel (pictured) in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?
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- ...that the Des Moines Register, "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach-colored paper in 1999?
- ...that algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
- ...that students at Iowa State University are traditionally not considered "true Iowa Staters" until after they have been kissed underneath the Campanile (pictured) at the stroke of midnight?
- ...that West Liberty Foods provides Subway restaurant franchises with over one million pounds of meat per week?
- ...that the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?
- ...that the Iowa Cornets made it to the Women's Professional Basketball League championship in both of its seasons in the league, and lost both times?
- ...that the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming's Powder River Basin would be the largest new railroad construction in the United States since the American Civil War?
- ...that the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois, and Iowa City?
- ...that J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?
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