The sci-fi sitcom Mork & Mindy also based a 1979 episode around the Denver Broncos cheerleaders with Mork ( Robin Williams ) trying out for the squad.

Sholes, A & R director of country music at RCA, tracked Atkins down to Denver.

* 1988 – Ilan Rubin, American singer and musician ( Angels & Airwaves, Nine Inch Nails, Lostprophets, Denver Harbor, and Fenix TX )

The Chargers beat Denver to end the season with a 9 – 7 record & out of the playoffs for the first time since 2005.

* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.

Missouri's advantages included that it had the only railroad to actually reach the Missouri River on its western border ( H & SJ ), was more centrally located for lines coming up from Texas and could offer a route servicing Denver, Colorado, the biggest city in the Great American Desert.

No guest star ever appeared twice on The Muppet Show, although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ( John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together and John Denver & the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday ).

North La Veta Pass, through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used by US Highway 160 and by the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad ( formerly a branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western ) tracks.

* Richard Stucky — Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Baldwin Locomotive Works | Baldwin's Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.

The Denver and Rio Grande Railway ( D & RG ) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General William Jackson Palmer and a board of four directors.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad open observation car 1917. JPG | Unlike other lines with open observation cars for non first class passengers, the D & RGW operated theirs for an additional 25 cent charge.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Royal Gorge train. JPG | D & RGW's Royal Gorge at the bottom of the gorge with the suspension bridge above.

Elevation rises as you go north in the valley to Poncha Pass, used now by US Highway 285 and historically by the narrow gauge tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

The pass is traversed by State Highway 17 and the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad ( originally built as the San Juan Extension of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad that ran to Durango, Colorado ).

It was originally announced that the new gauge railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the San Luis Valley of Colorado toward the Rio Grande River.

By late 1880 William Bell had begun to organize railway construction in Utah that would become the Palmer controlled Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway in mid 1881.

Eventual foreclosure and sale of the original Denver and Rio Grande Railway resulted within two years and the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad took formal control of the property and holdings on July 14, 1886 with Jackson appointed as president.

File: The Royal Gorge Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. JPG | The train in the shadow of Colorado's highest mountain, Mount Elbert.

The original Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway built a narrow gauge line from Ogden, Utah via Soldier Summit, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado.

In 1901, the Denver and Rio Grande merged with the Rio Grande Western, consolidating in 1908.

While working with a Western band in Denver, Colorado, Atkins came to the attention of RCA Victor.

Western cities such as Denver and Sacramento originated as mining towns.

* Denver sandwich or Western sandwich

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ( D & RGW or DRGW ) was incorporated in 1920, and formally emerged as the new re-organization of the old Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on July 31, 1921.

In 1931, the D & RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad ( a company in name only ), a subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad ( D & SL ) which had acquired the rights to build a connection between the two railroads.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

The line from San Francisco, California, to Toledo, Ohio, was completed in 1909, consisting of the Western Pacific Railway, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Wabash Railroad.

** Santa Fe Branch ( Chili Line ), a narrow-gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

In the early 1880s, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad began investigating rail routes through the Emery County region.

Denver clinched the 8th seed in the Western Conference playoffs, playing the first place Seattle SuperSonics.

Denver ended up as the 8th seed in the Western Conference of the 2008 NBA Playoffs, and their 50 wins marked the highest win total for an 8th seed in NBA history.

They finished the season as the top seed in the Western Conference with a record of 58 – 24, and beat the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings in the first two rounds of the NBA playoffs.

In a tight Western Conference, the Jazz finished 53 – 29 and lost the division in a tiebreaker with the Denver Nuggets, ending with the No. 5 seed, matched up with the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs.

In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000, and the Burlington Route its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes.

Because Denver's father was in the military, the family moved often, making it difficult for Denver to make friends and fit in with people of his own age.

The center of the metropolitan area sits in a valley, the Denver Basin, and suffers from air pollution known colloquially as the brown cloud, building up if the air is stagnant as it often is in the winter.

Denver International Airport, often referred to as DIA, is an airport in Denver, Colorado.

Powerful opinion-makers of the American labor movement such as the Philadelphia Tocsin, Haverhill Labor, the Brooklyn Labor Press, and the Denver Labor Enquirer granted Gompers space in their pages, in which he made the case for the unions against the attacks of employers, " all too often aided by the K of L ."

Gastroliths have sometimes been called Morrison stones because they are often found in the Morrison Formation ( named after the town of Morrison, west of Denver, Colorado ), a late Jurassic formation roughly 150 million years old.

Cable systems can also air satellite-relayed over-the-air stations originating from other areas of the United States, known as superstations ( of which there are currently only six around the country, the most prominent being WGN America, which airs some programming carried by WGN-TV in Chicago ), which for the most part are often aired in rural areas and if carried nationally, may have a separate feed carrying different programming than that of the local area feed that is SyndEx-proof ( i. e., syndicated programming that the superstation has obtained full signal rights to ) and may omit network programming from that station's network affiliation ; all superstations, except for WSBK-TV in Boston, are currently affiliated with a broadcast television network as WGN-TV, WPIX in New York City, KWGN in Denver and KTLA in Los Angeles all being affiliated with The CW and WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey affiliated with MyNetworkTV.

In the early days of Colorado tourism, Mount Evans and Denver were often in competition with Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs.

Since the 1970s, the Baltimore Orioles have often played the raucous John Denver song " Thank God I'm a Country Boy " at the conclusion of " Take Me Out to the Ball Game ".

Denver remained largely a farming community with cotton as the primary cash crop supplemented by " truck farming " vegetables to area towns ( with tomatoes and strawberries being among the most often marketed vegetable crops ).

The Madchester style to which their music is often associated was not yet popular in the United States, and as fervent followers, the Numbskulls ushered the era of ecstasy laden rave culture of the late eighties in the Boulder and Denver area of Colorado.

Salt Lake City provides a generic Western urban landscape, often playing the substitute for Los Angeles, Denver, or unnamed cities.

The practical season for the entire Colorado Trail is roughly July, August and September, though low elevation portions near Denver are often accessible April through June.

Because of the haunting —- which often involves objects being thrown around the room —- Sethe's youngest daughter, Denver, is shy, friendless, and housebound, and her sons, Howard and Buglar, have run away from home by the time they are thirteen years old.

Plaschke is often referred to by Denver Post columnist and author Woody Paige as " Reverend Bill.

Most often quoted is that the train is said to become a runaway when it is still 300 miles west of Denver with a continuous decline ahead.

At the school district level, contradictory reform policies were often especially apparent, though there is little evidence of confusion among progressive school leaders in Seattle, Oakland, and Denver.

Alamo Placita Park ( Little Place of the Cottonwoods ) has often been called Denver ’ s most ideal and most beautiful park.

Barnes was often fined by Denver Coach Jack Faulkner when caught sketching during team meetings.

Now, many cities around the United States and around the world host annual lindy exchanges, including Atlanta ( ATLX-Atlanta Lindy Exchange ); Austin ( ALX-Austin Lindy Exchange ); Boston ( dirtywater-Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange ); Chicago ( WCLX-Windy City Lindy Exchange ); West Lafayette, IN ( LAFLX ); Knoxville ( KLX-Knoxville Lindy Exhange ); Orlando ( ORLX-Orlando Lindy Exchange ); Memphis ( RHLX-Red Hot Lindy Exchange ); Ann Arbor ( KissME-Keep it Simple and Swing Michigan Exchange ); Sacramento ; Washington D. C. ( DCLX-D. C. Lindy Exchange ); ( DetLX-Detroit Lindy Exchange ); Portland ( PDXLX-Portland is often referred to by its airport code, PDX ); Utah ; Charleston ( CHEX-Charleston Exchange ); Phoenix ( PHXLX-Phoenix Lindy Exchange ); Denver ( DLX-Denver Lindy Exchange ); New Orleans ( Fleur de Lindy ); Pittsburgh ( Pittstop Lindy Hop ); Orlando ( ORLX-Orlando Lindy Exchange ); New Haven ( CTLX ); San Luis Obispo ( sloX-SLO Exchange )- and many other cities.

Contemporary artists who recorded adult-appeal music, such as The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, Anne Murray, Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Art Garfunkel and John Denver began to be played more often on Top 40 radio.

* Muache Band of Utes ( Mouache, Mahgruhch, Mahgrahch, Muwac ) lived along the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains from Denver, Colorado in the north to Las Vegas, New Mexico in the south, traded with northern Puebloan peoples, especially with Taos Pueblo, therefore often called Taos-Ute, ranged after adoption of the horse with their allies, the Llanero band of the Jicarilla Apache, southeastward as far as the Texas Panhandle.