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Church of St. Columba: ‘A high point of modern church architecture in the Twin Cities’
The church was designed by Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne.
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All about chemistry: The remarkable career of the University of Minnesota’s Izaak Kolthoff
Kolthoff was a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962.
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A disappearing ecosystem: Minnesota’s oak savannas
Oak savannas — open grassland studded by tall, spreading oak trees — once covered 10 percent of Minnesota.
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Lawyer, civil rights campaigner and diplomat: the life of William T. Francis
In July 1927, sixteen years after he first tried for a diplomatic appointment, W. T. Francis was named U.S. Minister and Consul to Liberia.
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Remembering Minnesota’s Freedom Riders
The Minnesota Freedom Riders were part of a second, expanded stage of the original Freedom Rides.
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Duluth’s Glensheen estate is one of the best-preserved mansions of its kind in Minnesota
The house is famous for its beauty inside and out — and as the site of one of Minnesota’s most notorious murders.
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Minnesota’s Morton gneiss is one nice-looking stone
Quarried in Renville County, Morton gneiss is one of the oldest stones on the planet: about 3.5 billion years old.
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On 14th anniversary of his death, remembering the career of Sen. Paul Wellstone
Among successful Minnesota politicians there have been orators, Easterners, professorial types and Jews. Only Wellstone was all of these.
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St. Paul’s first murderer: Edward Phelan (probably)
On September 27, 1839, Dakota boys found a body washed up under Dayton’s Bluff, near Carver’s Cave (Wakan Tipi).
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Minnesota and Wisconsin’s own Platteville limestone totally rocks
The stone is characterized by its gray color, rough texture, and many fossils.