In Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, car dealerships continue to operate under blue-law prohibitions in which an automobile may not be purchased or traded on a Sunday.

Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.

In support of Iowa Department of Natural Resources efforts to re-establish the trumpeter swans in Iowa, university officials avoided bringing breeding pairs of male and female mute swans to Iowa State which means the current Sir Lancelot and Elaine are both female.

In high school basketball, many states have a " continuous clock " rule, similar to American football, which takes effect in the second half after a lead grows to a prescribed point ( e. g., in Iowa, 35 points or more ).

The Amana Colonies were communal settlements in Iowa, started by radical German pietists, which lasted from 1855 to 1932.

Bevan Morris, president of Maharishi University of Management ( then called " Maharishi International University "), was the founding chairman of the party, which was founded April 22, 1992, in Fairfield, Iowa.

Bill to complete their education, which dramatically increased Upper Iowa enrollment between 1947 and 1950.

In August 2001, rains over Cedar Rapids, Iowa led to a 10. 5C ( 18. 9F ) rise in the nearby stream within one hour, which led to a fish kill.

* November 19 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7 babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

Ferguson's sense of what was " right " became the basis for the Beiderbecke Romantic legend, which has traditionally emphasized the musician's Iowa roots, his often careless dress, his difficulty sight reading, the purity of his tone, his drinking, and his early death.

All are named in honor of Patrick Henry, of Virginia, except Henry County, Iowa, which is named for General Henry Dodge.

( A physical connection between Omaha, Nebraska and the statutory Eastern terminus of the Pacific road at Council Bluffs, Iowa located immediately across the Missouri River was also not finally established until the opening of UPRR railroad bridge across the river on March 25, 1873, prior to which transfers were made by ferry operated by the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company.

Alan Peters and Peter Fisher ( Associate Professors, Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa ) have estimated that state and local governments provide $ 40 – 50 billion annually in economic development incentives, which critics characterize as corporate welfare.

* DeWitt, Iowa which is located in Clinton County

* Clinton County, Iowa, the county seat of which is Clinton, Iowa

The state of Iowa was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling Ames College ( now Iowa State University.

Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of other notable individuals in their respective fields.

Iowa State has maintained a horticulture garden since 1914.

Located immediately south of Jack Trice Stadium on the ISU campus, Reiman Gardens is a year-round facility that has become one of the most visited attractions in central Iowa.

As with many sites on the Iowa State University Campus, The Farm House Museum has a few old myths and legends associated with it.

The Engle Award honors an individual who, like Engle, longtime director of the Iowa Writers ' Workshop and co-founder of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts.

Iowa has a unique procedure for appeals.

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

Upper Iowa University has three international education centers located in the Pacific Rim.

Upper Iowa University's " Team Peacock " has raised $ 350, 000 to date riding RAGBRAI for student scholarships

Bourbon also has been made in California, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, and most likely in other U. S. states as well.

Jewel-Osco has 180 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois ; eastern Iowa ; and portions of northwest Indiana.

This suggestion is usually shunned by residents of the other cities, for the simple reason that " Quad-Cities " doesn't sound as good ( as well as the fact that West Richland has a much smaller presence compared to the three major cities ) as well as the fact that there is already a Quad Cities on the Mississippi River with Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, Rock Island and Moline in Illinois.

The University of Northern Iowa has a very active program of allowing students to pursue educational opportunities outside the state of Iowa and also the country,

A five-state section of the road has been designated a National Scenic Byway, running through Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Helminthic therapy using the whipworm Trichuris suis has been shown in a randomized control trial from Iowa to show benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis.

In 1900, the town fathers of Britt, Iowa invited Tourist Union # 63 to bring their annual convention to town, and the National Hobo Convention has been held in August each year ever since.

He was previously arrested for drunk driving in Iowa in 1997 and has since been arrested twice more for driving while intoxicated in 2006 and 2008.

* 82 Mike Furrey ( Ohio State / Northern Iowa )-Like Smart, the receiver has enjoyed a long NFL career.

It is one of the 26 Iowa counties which has a name not borne by any other county in the United States.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, the largest county in Iowa, of which ( or 99. 86 %) is land and ( or 0. 14 %) is water.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Iowa, of which ( or 94. 39 %) is land and ( or 5. 61 %) is water.

This resulted from MU being designated as both a land grant and a research institution, unlike states such as Iowa where separate institutions ( University of Iowa and Iowa State University ) were created.

Cody's early life is difficult to separate from his own stories told later in life, but he was born Samuel Franklin Cowdery in 1867 in Davenport, Iowa, where he attended school until the age of 12.

Between his separate terms as a Senator, he was again the Governor of Iowa from 1876 to 1877.

US 275 and Iowa 2 then bypass Sidney on its east side, and east of Sidney, US 275 and Iowa 2 separate.

Iowa has separate governing associations for boys ' and girls ' sports – the Iowa High School Athletic Association and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

A separate edition of the Register is sold throughout much of Iowa.

As a separate entity that also carries the Oakdale name because of its proximity, the Iowa prison system's Iowa Medical and Classification Center entry, medical and psychiatric units, as well as its maximum security facility, is located immediately across the road from the main Oakdale campus.

In 1989, Knight-Ridder sold all of its broadcasting properties to separate buyers as part of a plan to reduce an accumulated $ 929 million debt, with KTVY going to Palmer Communications, owner of fellow NBC affiliate WHO-TV ( channel 13 ) in Des Moines, Iowa ( and former owner of what is today KWQC-TV ( channel 6 ) in Davenport ) in September of that year.

It overlaps Iowa 3 and goes northwest into Strawberry Point, where they separate.