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1. Shawn Johnson Pictures Gallery - Famous Female Gymnast | Olympic Gymnast Biography Gymnast Shawn Johnson is the current American women's artistic gymnastic world all-around champion and the best American female gymnast. Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson won one gold medal and tree silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. image sour...
2. ITT Tech - Des Moines Iowa Campus Info The New ITT Tech Campus that opened in Des Moines / Clive , Iowa recently was the 99th ITT campus opened. Here is some information about that campus including courses, degree programs, pictures, maps, reviews, demographics and more.
3. DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier in Iowa Welcome to my Iowa DOVE Chocolate Discoveries headquarters. My name is Marie Richman. I live in Durant, Iowa, which can be a very snowy place in December! In fact, there is 8 inches of snow on the ground right now and the winds are really whipping th...
4. Jaarsma Bakery- Delicious Dutch Letters and Much More! When I went to Central College in Pella, Iowa back in the 1980's, one of my favorite destinations was Jaarsma's Bakery. It was a wonderland of pastries and other goodies. My friend Mary and I used to try to get to Pamida and back without being seduc...
5. Unique Light Switch Covers for Your Home Light switch covers (or as some people might call them - switchplates) are one of those necessary things in our home. But did you realize that you don't have to settle for plain, boring white/tan covers. There is something out there for everyone and...
6. The Orphan Trains In 1854 the Orphan Trains began carrying orphaned, neglected and homeless children from the streets of New York City to new homes throughout the country. There has been some assertion that this "placing out" of the children of poor Jewish and Catholi...
7. How to Become President of the United States To be President you have to be 35 years old, a natural born citizen of the U.S. (boo!), and a resident of the U.S. for 14 years. Are you qualified? Then why not give it a shot? And if you're too young, or too foreign-born, then maybe you have a frien...
8. New Independent Demonstrator I am so excited about my new career with Gold Canyon Candles, I had to share it with you. First of all, I have the opportunity to earn my demonstrator kit for free. It's valued at almost $400.00. My Senior Demonstrator assures me, I will reach my go...
9. Iowa T-Shirts If there were ever a time to don your black and gold, this is it. Here's a collection of our favorite Iowa tees from around the internet. We're always on the lookout for other great designs. If you find some online, or tailgating, link them...
10. My Mother's Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake The day may have been dark and gloomy; the cold, wet snow could be piled up to the windows, we couldn't go out, there were only 3 TV channels then. Ugh! But then Mom would decide it was time to make a chocolate mayonnaise cake and the whole day was...
11. Family Vacations Ideas I decided to come up with a list of vacation spots I would like our family to take. After you look over the list you may think I'm crazy (from a state fair to Hawaii!). These are places that I want to show/experience with my children. My husband & I...
12. The Historic Flood of 2008 This lens is all about the 2008 Midwest flooding. This flood has grown to historic proportions that haven't been seen in modern times. All up and down the Mississippi River, people have been affected by this disaster and it is not over. Bookmark us t...
13. Zach Johnson US Golf Pro, Zach Johnson turned pro as recently as 1998. He was born in Iowa City, IA on February 24,1 1976.   Raised in Cedar Rapids, IA  - Zach developed his golf skills at Elmcrest Country Club and also as a member of the Cedar Rapids R...
14. You are Cordially Invited to Share Your Family Legends Years ago a guy I was dating told me the story of his uncle who had a shrunken head of a Nazi soldier that he brought back from WWII. He was very proud of his uncle, so I was gentle when I told him that that couldn't be true. In the first place even...
15. Bob "Rapid Robert" Feller Bob Feller is one of the greatest pitchers of all time. He is a Hall of Famer, and the Cleveland Indians career leader in victories, strikeouts and complete games. A statue of him stands outside of Progressive Field, and he even has his own museum. A...
16. Bill Bryson - Travel, Language, Humor, Nearly Everything Bill Bryson is an American author who has written several books on travel in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has also written several books on the English language, as well as a book on the history of science, a memoir, and a boo...
17. John Atanasov John Atanasov, after long, hard examinations in 1937 and with the help of his assistant, Clifford Berry, and 650 dollars from Iowa State University, made the first prototype of the electrical computing machine.
18. Home, A Novel With Heart In the novel, Home, by Marilynne Robinson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2005, Glory Boughton, a 38-year-old high-school teacher, has come home to care for her failing, elderly father. At least that's what she tries to tell herself whi...
19. Arrowsmith Printing: Entreprenuership in Small Town Iowa in Mid /Century In 1948 Fritz and Marjorie Arrowsmith took their 2 children Micheal 7 years and Margo 6 months and moved half way across Iowa with no car, $100 in the bank and $6500 in debt. The printer and former high school journalism student took on the job of re...
20. Dan Gable Olympic wrestling champion Iowa During his prep and college careers, Gable compiled an unbelievable record of 182-1. He was undefeated in 64 prep matches, and was 118-1 at Iowa State. His only defeat came in the NCAA finals his senior year. Gable was a three-time all-American and t...