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5 days ago · Ham lived in Duluth. His death comes a week after a 20-year-old man drowned while trying to save a 23-year-old old woman while they had been hiking around a lake near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on ...
3 days ago · One of the most important portage routes in Minnesota, known today as the Northwest Trail, connected the Mississippi River to Lake Superior. Eastbound travelers, beginning the 120-mile route at Sandy Lake, paddled several miles up the West Savanna River to its headwaters. They proceeded on foot, crossing six miles of swamps and hills on the ...
6 days ago · Minnesota's legal identity was created as the Minnesota Territory in 1849, and it became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858. After the chaos of the American Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862 ended, the state's economy grew when its timber and agriculture resources were developed.
3 days ago · Cornelia Zangheri Bandi (66) was an Italian noblewoman whose death on 15 March 1731 may have been a possible case of spontaneous human combustion. [43] [44] But the case has never been proven, with the true cause of death remaining unknown. [43] [44] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (35), composer, died on 5 December 1791.
1 day ago · Minnesota ( / ˌmɪnəˈsoʊtə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" but actually has 14,380 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres ...
- 86,935.83 sq mi (225,163 km²)
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1 day ago · Area code (s) 320, 507, 612, 651, 715/534, 763, 952. Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities after the area's two largest cities, Minneapolis and ...
15 hours ago · Nadir of Americanrace relations. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] Such laws remained in force until 1965. [2]
