Grinnell may refer to:
Places
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Grinnell, Iowa
Grinnell is a city in Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,564 at the time of the 2020 census. It is best known for being the home of Grinnell College.
History
Grinnell was founded by settlers from New England who were ...
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Grinnell College
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.
Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-st ...
, a liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa
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Grinnell, Kansas
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Grinnell Glacier
Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glac ...
, a glacier in Montana
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Grinnell Lake
Grinnell Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Named after George Bird Grinnell, the lake has an opaque turquoise appearance from the rock flour (silt) which is transported to the lake from Grinnell Glacier. Gri ...
, a lake in Montana
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Mount Grinnell
Mount Grinnell is a peak located in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Lying just east of the Continental Divide in the Many Glacier region of the park, the peak is flanked to the northwest by Swiftcurrent Glacier ...
, a peak in Montana
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Grinnell Land
Grinnell Land is the central section of Ellesmere Island in the northernmost part of Nunavut territory in Canada. It was named for Henry Grinnell, a shipping magnate from New York, who in the 1850s helped finance two expeditions to search for F ...
, a section of
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. ...
in Nunavut
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Grinnell Peninsula
Grinnell Peninsula is a peninsula in northwestern Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. It was discovered by the First Grinnell Expedition and named "Grinnell Land", after Henry Grinnell
Henry Grinnell (February 18, 1799 – June 30, 1874) was an Amer ...
, a peninsula on Devon Island in Nunavut
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Cape Grinnell
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. The ...
, a cape on Devon Island in Nunavut at Griffin Inlet
Other uses
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Grinnell (surname) Grinnell is a surname, originally of locational or topographical origin.
Notable people with the surname include:
*Claudia Kreuzig Grinnell, German expatriate, English professor and poet
*Frederick Grinnell (1836–1905), American engineer
*Freder ...
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Grinnell Mutual
Grinnell Mutual is a property-casualty mutual insurance company and reinsurer based in Grinnell, Iowa, United States.
Business performance
Grinnell Mutual is the 107th largest property-casualty insurance company in the U.S. with policyholders ...
, an Iowa, US-based reinsurance company
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Grinnell, Minturn & Co
Grinnell, Minturn & Co. was one of the leading transatlantic shipping companies in the middle 19th century. It is probably best known today as being the owner and operator of the '' Flying Cloud'', arguably the greatest of the clipper ships.
His ...
, a 19th-century American shipping company
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Grinnell (automobile)
The Grinnell was an electric car manufactured in Detroit, Michigan by the Grinnell Electric Car Company from 1910-13. The Grinnell was a five-seater closed coupe that sat on a wheelbase. The company claimed to have a range per charge. The vehicl ...
, an electric car made in Detroit, Michigan between 1910 and 1913.
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Grinnell fish
The bowfin (''Amia calva'') is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being the sole surviving species of the Halecomorphi ...
, otherwise known as a Bowfin
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Grinnell Mechanical Products
Grinnell Mechanical Products, a brand of Tyco International Ltd., manufactures grooved piping and mechanical products. Grinnell Mechanical Products specializes in mechanical, fire, HVAC, commercial, mining, institutional and industrial applications ...
and
SimplexGrinnell
SimplexGrinnell, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, is an American company specializing in active fire protection systems, communication systems and testing, inspection and maintenance services. The company headquarters is in Boca Raton, Florida; ...
, subsidiaries of
Tyco International
Tyco International plc was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major bu ...
See also
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Greenhill (disambiguation) Greenhill may refer to:
People
* Greenhill (surname)
Places
;In the UK
* Greenhill, Camden, London, England
* Greenhill, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
* Greenhill, County Durham, England
* Greenhill, County Ferma ...
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