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Minnesota (
pronounced ˌmɪnɨˈsoʊtə (help·info)) is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. The 12th-largest state by area in the U.S., it is the 21st most populous, with approximately five million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858. The state is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, and those lakes and the other waters for which the state is named, together with state and national forests and parks, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the Twin Cities, the center of transportation, business, and industry, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state, often referred to as "Greater Minnesota" or "Outstate Minnesota", consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; eastern deciduous forests, also heavily farmed and settled; and the less populated northern boreal forest. (Full article)
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Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Garland was the youngest child of former vaudevillians and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney, and the film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. (Full article)
- ...that Gordon Parks High School (pictured), an alternative school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is named after the famous photographer?
- ...that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
- ...that temperature extremes in Minnesota have varied from −60 °F (−51 °C) to 114 °F (46 °C)?
On July 24, 1786 Joseph Nicolas Nicollet was born in Cluses, Savoy, France. He led a surveying mission from Fort Snelling to the Pipestone region in southwestern Minnesota and southeastern South Dakota in 1838. (Full article)
- Minneapolis, Minnesota celebrates its sesquicentennial—150 years as a city—in conjunction with the Aquatennial on 18–27 July.
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