Portal:Iowa/Did you know/1

• ...that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th-century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
• ...that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
• ...that the quarterbacks for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of the 19th century included a Brigadier General decorated for valor in World War I, the brother of a famous novelist, one of the founders of General Motors, the physician at a Kimberly-Clark mill, the son of the Governor of Wyoming, a steamboat builder, a Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and a sheep rancher from Walla Walla?

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1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/May, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/March, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/December, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.