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- ... that Emily Spreeman, the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team, debuted for the team at the age of 15?
- ... that a Wisconsin radio station used to collect rent from the United States Congress?
- ... that Script Ohio has been called "one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence"?
- ... that the Big Stan drill rig is claimed to be the largest vehicle-mounted drilling rig in the United States?
- ... that author Harriet Connor Brown testified to the United States Congress in 1921 and 1922 to eliminate funding for the Chemical Warfare Service?
- ... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
- ... that husband and wife Edward M. and Marie Zimmerman co-wrote the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song"?
- ... that United States Air Force brigadier general E. Daniel Cherry became close friends with the Vietnamese pilot whom he shot down during the Vietnam War?
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Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.
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Located on the western banks of the Red River of the North in an extremely flat region known as the Red River Valley, the city is prone to flooding and was struck by the devastating Red River Flood of 1997. Grand Forks was founded in 1870 by steamboat captain Alexander Griggs and incorporated on February 22, 1881. Its location at the fork of the Red River and the Red Lake River gives the city its name.
Historically dependent on local agriculture, the city's economy now encompasses higher education, defense, health care, manufacturing, food processing, and scientific research. Grand Forks is served by Grand Forks International Airport and Grand Forks Air Force Base, while the city's University of North Dakota is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in the state. The Alerus Center host athletic and other events, while the North Dakota Museum of Art and Chester Fritz Auditorium are the city's largest cultural venues.
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Anniversaries for October 14
- 1894 – E. E. Cummings (pictured), considered a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, was born.
- 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.
- 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
- 1949 – Eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the Federal Government.
- 1962 – An American U-2 reconnaissance plane flying over the island of Cuba takes photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1968 – During the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, Jim Hines becomes the first man to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the, with a time of 9.95 seconds.
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The cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies includes the foods, bread, eating habits, and cooking methods of the Colonial United States. (Full article...)
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- ... that over 400 species of birds (state bird, Brown Thrasher, pictured) have been recorded in the American state of Georgia?
- ... that the book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts?
- ... that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
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