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Paula Mary Turnbull
Sister Paula Mary Turnbull (May 26, 1921 – July 20, 2018) was an American sculptor and educator. Known as the "welding nun", she created liturgical and whimsical metal sculptures. Her most famous work is Garbage Goat, a steel sculpture in Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington), Riverfront Park in Spokane, Washington, that incorporates a vacuum apparatus allowing the goat to "eat" trash. During her career, Turnbull created dozens of public artworks in Spokane and helped organize the installation of public art at the Expo '74 world's fair. Turnbull lived at the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary where she had an art studio. She taught sculpture and art history at Fort Wright College for 25 years and chaired the college's art department. She received degrees from Heritage University, Holy Names College, Siena Heights University, the University of Washington, the Parsons School of Design, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Canada–United States border, Canadian border, west of the Washington–Idaho border, and east of Seattle, along Interstate 90 in Washington, Interstate 90. Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day (United States), Father's Day, and locally by the nickname of "Lilac City". Officially, Spokane goes by the nickname of ''Hooptown USA'', due to Spokane's annual hosting of the Spokane Hoopfest, the world's largest basketball tournament. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, west of Downtown Spokane, which is located near a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Copenhaver Fellows
Deborah Copenhaver Fellows (born 1948) is an American sculptor known for her Western themed works. Her best known work is the life-sized statue of former Arizona senator Barry Goldwater included in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. It was added to the collection as one of Arizona’s two statues in 2015. Life Fellows was born and raised on a ranch in northern Idaho. Her father Deb Copenhaver was a champion rodeo rider, winning two world championships in 1955 and 1956 and was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1991 and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1992. As a teenager Deborah Coperhaver was selected Miss Rodeo Washington. During this time she developed a passion for horses that is frequently reflected in her sculpture. She attended Fort Wright College of the Holy Names where she first began a serious study of sculpture. She married Fred Fellows and had a daughter, Fabienne. Her statue of Bing Crosby was erected just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility
Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility is the largest wastewater treatment plant for Spokane, capable of handling up to 150 million gallons a day. During low flow periods, the outflow of the plant comprises up to 20% of the Spokane River's water. Until its construction in 1952 (completed 1958), Spokane dumped raw sewage into the Spokane River resulting in recurrent Typhoid fever outbreaks. A $126 million upgrade to increase capacity to a day began in 2016, also adding sub-micron membrane technology filtration. It is part of Spokane's $300 million integrated water quality plan. See also *Riverside State Park, namesake, across Spokane River References External links * *{{coord, 47, 41, 47, N, 117, 28, 31, W, display=inline,title Sewage treatment plants in Washington (state) Buildings and structures in Spokane County, Washington 1952 establishments in Washington (state) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Gaedel
Edward Carl Gaedel (June 8, 1925 – June 18, 1961) was the smallest player to appear in a Major League Baseball game. Gaedel gained recognition in the second game of a St. Louis Browns doubleheader on August 19, 1951. Weighing and standing tall, he became the shortest player in the history of the Major Leagues. Gaedel made a single plate appearance and was walked with four consecutive balls before being replaced by a pinch-runner at first base. His jersey, bearing the uniform number "", is displayed in the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck, in his 1962 autobiography ''Veeck – As in Wreck'', said of Gaedel, "He was, by golly, the best darn midget who ever played big-league ball. He was also the only one." Early life Edward Carl Gaedele (Gaedel) was born in Cook County, Illinois, on June 8, 1925. His father, Carl Gaedele (1886–1949), was a Lithuanian immigrant who managed a department store and worked as a parkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane Community College
Spokane Community College is a Public college, public community college in Spokane, Washington. It is part of the Community Colleges of Spokane and was established in 1963. Academics SCC offers associate degree, bachelor's degrees, and certificates. SCC's health sciences division is the largest among community and technical colleges in Washington state. The college is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Campus SCC's campus of 23 administrative, academic and support buildings is located on next to the Spokane River in Spokane's Chief Garry Park, Spokane, Chief Garry Park neighborhood. An additional is used for off-campus facilities, including an Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Center and Felts Field aviation hangar. In 2012–2013, the community colleges' Institute for Extended Learning merged with SCC, expanding its program offerings to include adult basic education, e.g., GED, ESL, High School Completion; Career Transitions; ACT 2 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasquatch
Bigfoot (), also commonly referred to as Sasquatch (), is a large, hairy Mythic humanoids, mythical creature said to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.Example definitions include: *"A large, hairy, manlike creature supposedly inhabiting the north-western United States and western Canada."Oxford English Dictionary) * "Bigfoot is a large and mysterious humanoid creature purported to inhabit the wild and forested areas of Oregon and the West Coast of North America"Oregon Encyclopedia) * (''Bigfoot'' redirected to ''Sasquatch'') "A hairy creature like a human being reported to exist in the northwestern U.S. and western Canada and said to be a primate between 6 and 15 feet (1.8 and 4.6 meters) tall."Merriam-Webster online) * "A very large, hairy, humanlike creature purported to inhabit the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Also called ''Sasquatch''.") * "Sasquatch, also called Bigfoot, (from Salish ''se'sxac'': "wild men") a large, hairy, humanlike c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Valley High School (Washington)
Central Valley High School, often referred to as "CV", is a high school located in Spokane Valley, Washington. Central Valley is one of the three high schools in Central Valley School District #356. History Central Valley High School was originally built in 1927 where Greenacres Middle School currently sits. Athletics Football In the 2000-2001 season the CV Bears became state champions after beating South Kitsap in the Tacoma Dome on 12/6/2001 under the direction of their long time coach Rick Giampietri. They made the playoffs in the 1982–1983, 1983–1984, 1995–1996, 2008–2009, and the 2011–2012 seasons but they fell short of the state title in each occasion. Women's Basketball The Central Valley Women's Basketball team has won six state titles, all in the 4A Class. Their first came in the 1992–1993 season when they beat Snohomish on 3/13/93 by a score of 44–35. They then went to the playoffs eight years in a row from the 1996–1997 season through the 2003– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokane Daily Chronicle
The ''Spokane Daily Chronicle'' is a daily digital newspaper in Spokane, Washington. It was founded as a weekly paper in 1881 and grew into an afternoon daily, competing with ''The Spokesman-Review'', which was formed from the merger of two competing papers. History In 1897, the ''Chronicle'' was acquired by William H. Cowles and became part of the Cowles Company, Cowles Publishing Company. Cowles already owned ''The Spokesman-Review''. Both papers operated out of the Review Building until 1921, but were kept independent; ''The Spokesman-Review'' had a Republican political slant, and the two papers maintained a friendly rivalry. The ''Chronicle'' moved into its own building next door in 1921. The following year the ''Chronicle'' started radio station KOE, setting up an antenna on the taller ''Review'' building. The station operated for less than a year. A ''Chronicle'' Building was first planned in 1917. The final building that remains standing today was designed by G.A. Pehrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corten Steel
Weathering steel, often referred to by the genericised trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as corten steel, is a group of steel alloys that form a stable external layer of rust that eliminates the need for painting. U.S. Steel (USS) holds the registered trademark on the name COR-TEN. The name COR-TEN refers to the two distinguishing properties of this type of steel: corrosion resistance and tensile strength. Although USS sold its discrete plate business to International Steel Group (now ArcelorMittal) in 2003, it makes COR-TEN branded material in strip mill plate and sheet forms. The original COR-TEN received the standard designation A242 (COR-TEN A) from the ASTM International standards group. Newer ASTM grades are A588 (COR-TEN B) and A606 for thin sheet. All of the alloys are in common production and use. The surface oxidation generally takes six months to develop, although surface treatments can accelerate this to as little as one hour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnomon
A gnomon (; ) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term is used for a variety of purposes in mathematics and other fields, typically to measure directions, position, or time. History A painted stick dating from 2300 BC that was excavated at the archeological site of Taosi is the oldest gnomon known in China. The gnomon was widely used in ancient China from the second millennium BC onward in order to determine the changes in seasons, orientation, and geographical latitude. The ancient Chinese used shadow measurements for creating calendars that are mentioned in several ancient texts. According to the collection of Zhou Chinese poetic anthologies ''Classic of Poetry'', one of the distant ancestors of King Wen of the Zhou dynasty used to measure gnomon shadow lengths to determine the orientation around the 14th century BC. The ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander (610–546 BC) is credited with introducing this Babylonian instrument to the Ancient Greeks. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundial
A sundial is a horology, horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the position of the Sun, apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat plate (the ''dial'') and a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto the dial. As the Sun diurnal motion, appears to move through the sky, the shadow aligns with different hour-lines, which are marked on the dial to indicate the time of day. The ''style'' is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, though a single point or ''nodus'' may be used. The gnomon casts a broad shadow; the shadow of the style shows the time. The gnomon may be a rod, wire, or elaborately decorated metal casting. The style must be polar alignment, parallel to the axis of the Earth's rotation for the sundial to be accurate throughout the year. The style's angle from horizontal is equal to the sundial's geographical latitude. The term ''sundial'' can r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Balazs
Harold Balazs (1928 – December 30, 2017) was an American sculptor and artist whose work has been featured in exhibits and public art installations throughout the Northwestern United States. He is known for creating large, abstract metal sculptures, but also created murals, jewelry, furniture, drawings, stained glass, and wooden boats. Life Balazs lived in Mead, Washington and referred to the studio in his barn as Mead Art Works. Balazs was born in 1928 and grew up in Westlake, Ohio during the Depression Era. He moved with his parents to Spokane, Washington. His first collaboration for commissioned work was a mural at Ridpath Hotel in Spokane, produced with Patrick Flammia in 1951. He became a leading liturgical artist, with sculpture, painting, stained glass, and reliefs inside over 200 churches and synagogues in the Pacific Northwest, including a bas relief sculpture on the east facade of the First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon. Balazs served three terms as W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
