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In 1799, the Bey of Tunis, Hammuda ibn Ali, sent ten Tunisian Barbarin sheep as a gift to George Washington. [3] [4]: 155 Two reached the Belmont estate of Richard Peters in Pennsylvania. [3] Peters lent his Tunis rams for breeding and the breed gradually spread.
The Iowa State Fair was held in a different community every two years after it was first established. The first fair was held in Fairfield in 1854. The other towns that hosted the fair included Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Iowa City, Dubuque, Burlington, Clinton, Keokuk and Cedar Rapids. [2] The state fair moved to Des Moines permanently in 1878.
The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in Des Moines, Iowa, every August.. It began in 1854 and has been held on the Iowa State Fairgrounds since 1886. It is based in the state capital Des Moines, Iowa over an 11 day period in August.
A livestock show is an event where livestock are exhibited and judged on certain phenotypical breed traits as specified by their respective breed standard. Species of livestock that may be shown include pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, rabbits, llamas, and alpacas. [4]
Postcard of John K. Daniels’s butter sculpture of a boy, cow, and calf. Iowa State Fair, 1911. [1] The first butter cow in Iowa was made by sculptor John K. Daniels at the 1911 Iowa State Fair. [1] The sculpture was sponsored by the Beatrice Creamery Co., now part of Con-Agra Foods. The exhibit, designed as a way to promote dairy products in ...
Wallace sculpted the State Fair's butter cows for 36 years until his death in 1956. [3] Earl Frank Dutt was the butter cow's official sculptor from 1957–1959 [ 1 ] Norma "Duffy" Lyon petitioned fair officials to become sculptor for the 1960 Iowa State Fair; [ 4 ] she would go on to have the longest tenure, sculpting the fair's butter cows and ...
Richard Collett takes a deep dive into the country’s fascinating history. Forget Europe; from the ruins of Carthage to the El Jem amphitheatre, Tunisia’s restoration efforts show off its ...
Iowa became part of the United States of America after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but uncontested U.S. control over what is now Iowa occurred only after the War of 1812 and after a series of treaties eliminated Indian claims on the state. Beginning in the 1830s Euro-American settlements appeared in the Iowa Territory, U.S. statehood was ...