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  Iowa - Search View - MSN Encarta
Iowa, with its fertile prairie lands and heavily agricultural economy devoted to raising grain and livestock, is often considered the typical Midwestern state.
Dubuque, on the Mississippi, was one of the earliest settlements in Iowa.
Iowa Wesleyan College, which was chartered in 1842 as the Mount Pleasant Literary Institute, is regarded as the oldest college in the state.
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 Avian Collision and Electrocution: An Annotated Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mortality at the 366-meter Omega tower in North Dakota in 1972 and 1973 is examined relative to nightly cloud and wind conditions.
A TV tower near Charleston, West Virginia, "produced a steady number of dead birds." On the foggy night of 24 September, "over a truckload" were killed at a microwave relay tower and a gasoline compressor station atop a mountain near Buckhannon, West Virginia.
TV tower casualties at Nashville in autumn 1968.
www.energy.ca.gov /reports/avian_bibliography.html   (18071 words)

  
 Welcome to St. Ansgar, Iowa
Iowa Telecom and Omnitel are the areas telephone exchange with 100% digital switch.
Upon her death on December 13, 1988, she was preserved, mounted in a glassed-in case and is on display at White Deer Park in down town St. Ansgar.
KIMT TV Channel 3 of Mason City, Iowa chose St. Ansgar as the site for its transmitting tower because it is geographically centered in a prime area.
www.stansgar.org /geninfo.htm   (1722 words)

  
 List of masts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tower is a self-supporting or cantilevered structure, while a mast is held up by stays or guys.
Both towers and masts have limited floor space and are non-building structures, as opposed to regular buildings which have greater floor space for occupancy.
The Petronius Compliant Tower is an oil platform standing 2100 ft or 640 m (to the top of the spire) and is the tallest non-guyed structure in existence but is mostly underwater.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_masts   (438 words)

  
 WAIS - World Affairs Report - C-Span Program on President Herbert Hoover
The dominating feature of the campus is the Hoover Tower (whose dedication in 1941 I remember) in which he had a top-floor office, where I visited him.
Hoover was embittered by the harsh public criticism of him, especially by that which came from the faculty of his home institution.
Clearly Hoover, the first President born west of the Mississippi, felt in his last years that the true America was not in ungrateful Stanford, nasty Washington or the supercilious East, but in Iowa.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_cspan.html   (1167 words)

  
 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference 2006
The Old Capitol, at the center of the “Pentacrest,” was the original state capitol of Iowa, 1842-46, and the first building of the University.
The Amana Colonies, 25 miles norwest of Iowa City (8 miles north of I-80), are a series of seven villages and hundreds of historic sites and buildings.
The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library happens to be in Cedar Rapids, 20 miles north of Iowa City on I-380.
www.uiowa.edu /~nasa2006/fun.html   (1050 words)

  
 Storm data and unusual weather phenomena Storm Data - Find Articles
GEORGIA, North and Central White County Helen 04 1735EST The public reported that thunderstorm winds blew several large limbs off a large oak tree blocking a portion of Georgia Highway 75 Some of the limbs were over 18 inches in diameter.
Hall County Flowery Branch 20 1900EST Local news media reported that a dock on Lake Lanier at Aqualand was damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
A tree was reported on a house in the 500 block of West Seventh Street and a tree was reported on fire from downed power lines near the intersection of South Perine Avenue and Magnolia Drive.
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 ***Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 10 JUL 03/Day 112***   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Although officers have complained of the lack of availability of spare parts for their tanks, the donkey patrols are primarily for public relations with local Iraqis.
Although soldiers have complained of the lack of spare parts for their tanks, the donkey patrols are primarily for public relations with local Iraqis.
West African countries have pledged 3,000 troops to keep a cease-fire and want U.S. forces to help bring that up to 6,000 and end 14 years of almost non-stop violence in a country founded more than 150 years ago by freed American slaves.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/942690/posts   (17534 words)

  
 Iowa Hotels and Motels - Find Hotels in Iowa
Whether you're planning a weekend getaway or a week-long vacation, iowa.com is your online connection for Iowa hotel reservations.
Iowa and Surrounding States : Illinois : Chicago : Club Quarters Wacker At Michigan
Situated on the Chicago River, this landmark tower has been fully restored to its historic grandeur.
www.iowa.com /hotels/hotel.aspx?hotelinfo=49507   (464 words)

  
 Nicholas Johnson, Conversations: About the Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Access to public libraries was essential so they could get the information, and so that the poorest Americans would have access to the resources of kings.
Of course, the total commercialization of public broadcasting, K-12 and university education is an outrage.
NJ: When the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established by Congress, and signed by President Lyndon Johnson, Frank Stanton was president of CBS and contributed a million dollars to get it going.
www.nicholasjohnson.org /writing/masmedia/co031019.html   (7149 words)

  
 The University of Iowa News Releases - University News Services - The University of Iowa
Iowa City is the sixth healthiest, safest and sexiest place to live in America, according to the May issue of Men's Journal.
The senior instructor for the University of Iowa Reserve Officer Training Corps says that because of heightened emotions about the war in Iraq, she is allowing students to skip wearing their uniforms for some classes to help lower their profile.
He eventually left Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, however, for the less-competitive University of Iowa in Iowa City, feeling that the sense of kindness and human values at the state school were closer to those imparted to him by his African-American family.
www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2003/march/hitsmarch03.html   (13562 words)

  
 Iowa Public TV Tower West Branch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 The New Yorker : fact : content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Cooking a pot of dog gumbo.” Another, next to a branch of the Whitney National Bank, read, “I am sleeping inside with a big dog, an ugly woman, two shotguns and a claw hammer.” By the time Hurricane Rita had reflooded parts of the city, there was almost no one left in town.
Within a day of the bowl of the city filling, TV commentators had instructed viewers that the people fleeing town were under no circumstances to be called refugees: “These are Americans!” Not Bosnians, not Kosovars, not Bangladeshis—Americans.
And yet, of all the New Orleanians I met—in the city, or in the Cajundome, in Lafayette, in downtown Baton Rouge, in the churches and parks of New Iberia, at the Astrodome in Houston—none gave a damn for the terminology.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/051003fa_fact   (6012 words)

  
 Berkeley Lab Currents -- May 2, 1997
Hoffman was born in Terril, Iowa, and attended Iowa State University, where she received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1951.
Following publication of his findings and the associated publicity, Congress set up its first major program of stratospheric research.
Photo: This brown and distorted tip of a Monterey pine branch shows the effects of an attack of the pine pitch canker fungus.
www.lbl.gov /Publications/Currents/Archive/May-2-1997.html   (8681 words)

  
 Life in Gilmore City
In about an hour, you can be on your choice of four-lane roads, Interstate 90 to the north, Interstate 35 to the East, or US Highway 20 to the south.
Gilmore City straddles Iowa Highway 3, a major two-lane highway that crosses the state from just north of Sioux City, all the way to Dubuque.
We are also on a branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.
www.gilmorecityiowa.com /community_life.htm   (1039 words)

  
 Barry Cushman's Photo Listings Page
Awards: Iowa Division of the International Association for Identification
Affiliations: Kalamazoo Michigan Department of Public Safety Police Officer.
(Retired) Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation, Criminalist.
www.photosource.com /1488   (186 words)

  
 Goals, Priorites and Vision
Dubuque city government is financially sound and providing services with citizens getting value for their tax dollars.
These issues represent short-term projects for the City Manager and City of Dubuque staff.
City Hall, 50 West 13th Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001
www.cityofdubuque.org /index.cfm?pageid=422   (188 words)

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