Battle Creek

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Bat·tle Creek

 (băt′l)
A city of southern Michigan south-southeast of Grand Rapids. It is a major producer of breakfast cereals.
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Bat′tle Creek′


n.
a city in S Michigan. 55,060.
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"I know an Esquimau in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati for his neckties, and I saw a goatherder in Uruguay who won a prize in a Battle Creek breakfast food puzzle competition.
M2 EQUITYBITES-June 19, 2019-Petros PACE Finance provides USD 1.3 Million C-PACE financing for YMCA in Battle Creek
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Denso, the world's second largest mobility supplier, has invested USD1.95m to open the North Technical Training Centre at its Battle Creek, Michigan, facility.
The 398 unit facility is located in Battle Creek, Michigan in northwest Calhoun County.
The Barn Believers Community Project Fund, a part of the Battle Creek Community Foundation, provides grants to nonprofit organizations for activities focused on preserving traditional and historical barns, such as protecting documents and photo collections, conducting structural assessments, and undertaking outreach and education programs.
1906: In America, William Kellogg formed the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company to make the breakfast cereal he developed as a health food for mental patients.
Eighteen-year-old Dalton Shaffer knew that pizza was exactly what the Morgans needed in their difficult time, and he thought nothing of driving three and a half hours to deliver it to them, in this extraordinary story of kindness out of Battle Creek, Michigan.
has announced the acquisition of WACO Aircraft Corporation, located Battle Creek, Michigan, the company said.
In 1901, Lenna graduated in nursing from the Battle Creek Sanitarium (a Seventh-day Adventist health institution) in Battle Creek, Michigan.
In December 2017 the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) Board announced it had authorized "the issuance, sale, and delivery of power revenue bonds of up to approximately $47 million for the construction of the West Fork Upper Battle Creek Diversion project." This project would divert water from Battle Creek into Bradley Lake for the purpose of increasing energy output at the existing Bradley Lake hydroelectric plant by an average of 37,000 megawatt hours per year.
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