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The Kensington Runestone has provoked a host of scholarly and popular articles and books. The Minnesota Historical Society library carries more than forty titles on the subject.
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By the late 1950s, populations of House districts ranged from 7,290 residents to 107,246, and Senate districts from 16,878 to 153,455.
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By mid-1956, John’s Bar had lost its license, and 110 men and women had been convicted of violating the Mann Act.
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The park’s official creation dates from 1919, though no land was purchased until 1921. By 1926, despite few roads and minimal park facilities, 40,000 visitors came.
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Federal drug agents had become curious about the unusual number of prescriptions for morphine and other narcotics that Heim issued from his 12 West Lake Street office.
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Freeman also ordered the plant closed.
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The Hennepin County sheriff provided guards to the smugglers, while the Hennepin County attorney was on hand to head off any prosecution.
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The church was designed by Chicago architect Francis Barry Byrne.
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Kolthoff was a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962.
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Oak savannas — open grassland studded by tall, spreading oak trees — once covered 10 percent of Minnesota.
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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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The Minnesota Freedom Riders were part of a second, expanded stage of the original Freedom Rides.
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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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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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Among successful Minnesota politicians there have been orators, Easterners, professorial types and Jews. Only Wellstone was all of these.
