Moorhead's mayor until 2000 was Ivan Nielsen.

Regular columnist Ed Raymond withdrew his " The Gadfly " column after the Reader began carrying Allison Moorhead's sex column in late 2004, which had a controversial and short ( two column ) run at North Dakota State University's newspaper The Spectrum.

It also contains a Prairie Village with local landmark homes and other buildings, including a Pony Express station and pioneer church among many others.

The Dewitt Museum, containing pioneer artifacts and memorabilia from the surrounding area, is located in the former Sumpter Valley Railway Depot, Prairie City.

The city is named for pioneer Joseph Gervais who was one of the first settlers on French Prairie.

* A spelling bee features as pioneer family entertainment in Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, in which Pa ' spells down ' the whole town.

In the early pioneer days of Western Canada's Prairie towns, when a good farming spot being settled, many people wanted to make money by building their own grain elevators, this brought in droves of private grain companies.

* Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a series of children's books, known as Little House on the Prairie ( 1932-1943 ), based on her family's pioneer days in Kansas ; it included accounts of the Osage, on whose land they were squatting.

Prairie skirts are so-called after their resemblance to the home-sewn skirts worn by pioneer women in the mid-19th century, which in turn are a simplified version of the flared, ruffled skirts characteristic of high-fashion dresses of the 1820s.

Home of Mormon pioneer Franklin S. Leavitt, c. 1900

( whose chair at the university was actually that of Malting and Brewing and who became a pioneer in enzyme kinetics ) who lived with his family in West Heath House, which was the largest residence in the village but has now been demolished to make way for the Elderly Person's Home, situated at the junction of Alvechurch Road and Cofton Road.

With the Voyager Company, a pioneer new media publisher, he produced fourteen laserdiscs and CD-ROMs with material from his archives, including Ephemeral Films, the Our Secret Century series and Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc on the history of suburbia and suburban planning ( co-produced with architect Keller Easterling ).

The pioneer student enrolment was 1, 559 for the Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Diploma in Home Technology, Diploma in Animal Health and Production, Diploma in Science with Education, and Preliminary Programme.

Image: Frankfort_Cemetery. JPG | Grave site of pioneer Daniel Boone and his wife at Frankfort Cemetery

Perth is home to Canada's oldest pioneer burial ground, St. Paul's United Church Cemetery, formerly The Old Methodist Burying Ground.

Archbishop Blanchet was originally buried in the pioneer cemetery, but his remains were later moved to St. Paul Catholic Cemetery a few blocks away.

Theodore Cemetery: Early pioneer cemetery that functioned from 1906 until January 1914.

The transgender pioneer, actress and Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling is buried in the historic Cherry Valley Cemetery.

The human remains were dubbed the " Talbot Tot " and subsequently were reinterred at Oakland ( pioneer ) Cemetery on Oxford Street West in London.

In 1861 pioneer David Denny donated the land to the city as Seattle Cemetery.

The pioneer community is remembered with several attractions, including the Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Cutler's Park, and the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Bridge.

Almarian William Decker ( b. 1852, Ohio ; d. Aug. 1893, Sierra Madre, California ; interred Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery ) was an American pioneer of electrical engineering involved in the early development of three-phase electrical power.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

A pioneer of aeronautical engineering, he is credited as the first person to separate the forces of lift and drag which are in effect on any flight vehicle,

Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present city limits.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

For instance the Berean Christadelphians focus on the pioneer Christadelphians and the Dawn Christadelphians put a huge importance on the need to follow a consistent set of disciplines regarding divorce and remarriage.

In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles " Doc " Herrold.

Years later, Kraftwerk would become a significant influence on hip-hop artists such as Afrika Bambaataa and house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles.

Kaye starred in two pictures based on biographies, Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies ( 1959 ) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols.

Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his novel Neuromancer.

Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948 – 51, and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project.

* Enterprise ( 1862 ), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River

Peter Greenaway was an early pioneer of the use of computer generated imagery blended with filmed footage and was also one of the first directors to film entirely on high definition video for a cinema release.

MicMac Records, who as one of the pioneer record labels in freestyle brought artists such as Johnny O, Cynthia, Nyasia, Tiana, Soave and Clear Touch to the scene, relaunched in 2004 and released new freestyle music on the successful Then and Now CDs.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

The boys also received help with their bigger engine from outboard motor pioneer Ole Evinrude, who was then building gas engines of his own design for automotive use on Milwaukee's Lake Street.

Shortly after moving to Washington State, Lawrence did a series of five paintings on the westward journey of African American pioneer George Washington Bush.

The LEO project was also a pioneer in outsourcing: in 1956, Lyons started doing the payroll calculations for Ford UK and others on the LEO I machine.

) Utah Mormons often place a greater emphasis on pioneer heritage than international Mormons who generally are not descendants of the Mormon pioneers.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba were jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics ; Davis for his pioneer work on cosmic neutrinos and Koshiba for the first real time observation of supernova neutrinos.

Eulalie Spence ( 1894 – 1981 ), pioneer playwright of the Harlem Renaissance, was born on Nevis on 11 June 1894.

Theaetetus was, like Plato, a disciple of Theodorus's ; he worked on distinguishing different kinds of incommensurables, and was thus arguably a pioneer in the study of number systems.

Her work never ran because Babbage's machine was never completed to a functioning standard in her time ; the first programmer to successfully run a program on a functioning modern electronically based computer was pioneer computer scientist Konrad Zuse, who achieved this feat in 1941.