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state of:
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Minnesota
North Star State - Gopher State - Land of 10,000 Lakes
Where Soda is called "Pop"
Minnesota became the 32nd US State on May 11, 1858.
Capital City: Saint Paul
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Information, fun facts, jokes, humor, hunting, fishing, camping,
gambling, casinos, famous people, state symbols, state song, links - anything
and everything having to do with the US state of Minnesota.
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- Minnesota's largest cities: Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, Bloomington, Plymouth, Brooklyn Park, Eagan, Coon Rapids, Burnsville
- The Louisiana Purchase Territory consists of the following states (or parts of states):
Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
and Wyoming.
- Minnesota Area Codes: 218 (Duluth & Moorhead); 320 (St. Cloud); 507 (Rochester & Mankato); 612 (Minneapolis); 651 (St. Paul); 763 (Maple Grove & Coon Rapids); 952 (Bloomington & Edina)
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Did You Know?
Minnesota is called The Land
of 10,000 Lakes
but it really has 11,842 lakes.
-- Submitted by CYGoalie
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U. S. Census Bureau
Minnesota State & County Quick Facts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27000.html
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- William Demarest, Actor - Saint Paul
- Bob Dylan, Singer, Song Writer - Duluth
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Author - Saint Paul
- Judy Garland, Singer, Actress - born Frances Ethel Gumm
on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Died June 22, 1969 in London, England.
www.judygarlandmuseum.com
- Jean Paul Getty, Oil Executive - Minneapolis
- Garrison Keillor, Author, Humorist, Poet,
Radio Host of "A Prairie Home Companion" was born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7,
1942 in Anoka, Minnesota. http://prairiehome.publicradio.org
- Jessica Lange, Actress - born Jessica Phyllis Lange on April 20, 1949
in Cloquet, Minnesota.
- Sinclair Lewis, Author - born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota on February 7, 1885. Died January 10, 1951.
- Edward Lowe, Inventor of kitty litter - was born July 10, 1920 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He died on October 4, 1995.
www.lowe.org
- John Madden, Sportscaster - Born April 10, 1936 in Austin, Minnesota
- Roger Maris, Baseball Player - Born September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. Moved to North Dakota in 1942. He died on December 14, 1985 of lymphoma cancer at the age of 51.
www.rogermaris.com
- Charles Horace Mayo, Surgeon - born July 19, 1865 in Rochester, Minnesota. Died May 26, 1939 in
Chicago, Illinois. Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic. www.mayoclinic.com
- William J. Mayo, Surgeon - born June 29, 1861 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. Died July 28, 1939. Co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
www.mayoclinic.com
- Eugene J. McCarthy, Senator - born March 29, 1916 in Watkins, Minnesota. Ran for President of the US in 1968.
- Walter F. Mondale, US Vice President and Senator - Born January 5, 1928 in
Ceylon, Minnesota. Served as Vice President under President Jimmy Carter 1977-1981.
- Jane Russell, Actress - born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. Moved to California. Died "Unable to bear children, Russell championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment of 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States." Source:
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000066/bio
- Winona Ryder, Actress - born Winona Horowitz on October 29, 1971 in Winona, Minnesota. Grew up in California. Goddaughter of Timothy Leary.
www.geocities.com/winonaryder2
(no official Web site found.)
- Charles M. Schultz, Cartoonist, Creator of Peanuts Cartoon - born November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He died February 12, 2000. The last original strip ran on February 13,
2000 - Schulz had died at 9:45PM the night before. www.snoopy.com
and www.schulzmuseum.org.
To see the first and last Peanuts comic strips, see: www.petcaretips.net/charlie_brown_comic_strip.html.
- Jesse Ventura, Entertainer, Politician - Minneapolis
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Casinos in Minnesota
- Black Bear Casino
& Hotel
Casino, Hotel, Conference Center & Golf
1789 Highway 210
Carlton, MN
218-878-7400 or 800-553-0022
Web site: www.blackbearcasinohotel.com
- Fond-du-Luth Casino
129 East Superior Street
Duluth, MN 55802
218-722-0280 or 800-873-0280
Web site: www.fondduluthcasino.com
Located in downtown Duluth. Open daily Monday thru Thursday 10AM to 2AM. Open 24 hours on weekends.
- Fortune Bay Resort & Casino
1430 Bois Forte Road
Tower, MN 55790
Casino: 800-992-PLAY (7529)
Resort: 800-555-1714
Web site: www.fortunebay.com
Casino, hotel, conference facilities, golf, bingo and more.
- The Wilderness Golf Course
1450 Bois Forte Road
Tower, MN 55790
218-753-8917 or 800-992-4680
- Grand Casino Hinckley
Web site: www.grandcasinomn.com
Located one hour north of the Twin Cities.
- Grand Casino Mille Lacs
Web site: www.grandcasinomn.com
Grand Casino Mille Lacs overlooks the shores of Lake Mille Lacs, in the heart of Minnesota’s finest vacationland.
- Grand Portage Lodge and Casino
Casino Office - P.O. Box 234
Grand Portage, MN 55605
218-475-2441 or 1-800-543-1384
Web site: www.grandportage.com
Casino, slots, bingo. Casino open 24 hours.
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Casinos in Minnesota
(cont'd.)
- Jackpot Junction Casino Hotel
39375 County Highway 24
P.O. Box 420
Morton, MN 56270
1-800-WIN-CASH (946-2274)
Web site: www.jackpotjunction.com
- Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
Official Casino Hotel of Mall of America
952-445-9000 or 800-262-7799
Web site: www.mysticlake.com
Casino, slots, table games, bingo, hotel, resort. Mall of America.
- Northern Lights Casino
- Palace Casino Hotel
- Prairies Edge Casino Resort
- Red Lake Nation
- Treasure Island Resort Casino
- White Earth Reservation
- White Oak Casino
For information about
Minnesota Casinos, see:
Casinos
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Lottery in Minnesota
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Other Gambling in
Minnesota
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Casino Directory and International Gambling Guide
provides the most complete information for
Minnesota casinos and other gambling facilities
for anywhere in the world - including
Minnesota - such as casino cruise ships,
poker rooms, poker tournaments, pari-mutuel
facilities, horse racing, dog races, racinos,
off-track betting (OTB), sportsbooks and racebooks.
World Casino Directory also publishes lottery
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Gambling
information for American gamblers and tourists! |
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U.S. Casino Links presents a gambling forum for every state in the
US. Clicking above on Land Based Casinos or U.S. Casinos will take you to the same site.
Click the link below to visit the state guide with information
about casinos, riverboat gambling,
Vegas-style casinos, Indian casinos, casino cruise ships,
racetracks, pari-mutuel facilities (dog & horse betting), poker games,
state lotteries, and other forms of land-based gambling. |
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Click on the link below
for information about gambling in Minnesota:
Minnesota
Casinos and Gambling |
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with casino, bingo, lottery information for other US States
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You Know You're From Minnesota If...
- You know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, and Shakopee.
- "Vacation" means going to Valleyfair.
- You measure distance in minutes.
- You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
- You know where the "Iron Range" is.
- Everyone in your family has hit a deer at
least once.
- You have refused to buy something because it's too "spendy."
- Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
- You believe that the Vikings would have won four Super Bowls by now if they were still playing in Metropolitan Stadium.
- You are convinced the Twins will never win the pennant because the owners are too cheap to pay the good players, so they all leave.
- You were proud when you turned 12 and got a pair of "5 bucklers" for your birthday.
- You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town I wanna go with."
- You have a nickname for your chain saw and you pat it on the fuel tank at the end of a hard day's sawing.
- You have either a pet or a child named "Kirby."
- Someone mentions Old Hubie or the Humph, and you know exactly who they mean.
- You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
- You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk.
- Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
- The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.
- You have ever had an entire telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
- You never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.
- You don't understand why everyone thinks Garrison Keillor is so funny.
- You think that deer season is a national holiday.
- You find -20 degrees F "a little chilly".
- Your town isn't trying to be ironic when it plans a "winter carnival."
- You have ever worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
- You know if another Minnesotan is from southern, middle or northern Minnesota as soon as they open their mouth.
- You have friends who schedule their wedding in the middle of January without a thought about weather conditions.
- Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.
- Your town has an annual festival honoring a fruit, vegetable or ethnic food.
- You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping the food will swim by.
- You keep the snow tires on your truck or car all year because it's not worth taking them off for only two months.
- You grew up thinking rice was only for dessert.
- You think that ketchup is a little too spicy.
- Every January, from age 2 to 13, you let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.
- Your gas station thinks "full service" means filling your gas tank, washing the windshield, checking the oil and being friendly to the customers.
- You praise the parents of the state's top basketball player for pulling him off of the team until his grades improve.
- The temperature in March is above freezing for three days in a row, and you think it's summer.
- You can recite, from memory, more than a half-dozen "Ole and Lena" jokes.
- You know people named Ole and Lena.
- You remember the thrill of going to the top of the Foshay Tower.
- You laugh out loud every time you see a news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast.
- You voted for Mondale.
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Ole and Lena got married. On their honeymoon trip they were nearing Minneapolis when Ole put his hand on Lena's knee. Giggling, Lena Said, "Ole, you can go farther if ya vant
to!"
So Ole drove to Duluth.
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Funny city & town names in
Minnesota:
Fertile, Moorhead, Climax, Cummings, & Gentilly
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Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources
www.dnr.state.mn.us/index.html
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Judy Garland Museum
2727 US Highway 169 South
P.O. Box 724
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
Web Site: www.judygarlandmuseum.com
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Parks -
State
Parks In Minnesota
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Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
(MPRB)
www.minneapolisparks.org
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North Mississippi Regional Park
Situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the cities of Brooklyn Center
and Minneapolis, North Mississippi Regional Park offers spectacular views of the river and surrounding woods as well as an important connection to Minnesota's rich river heritage.
www.threeriversparkdistrict.org/parks/northmississippi.cfm
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Three Rivers Park District (TRPD)
Formerly Hennepin Parks, Three Rivers
Park District is a natural resources-based park system located in the suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of Minnesota that manages more than 27,000 acres of park reserves, regional parks, regional trails and special use facilities.
The Park District offers facilities for every season, including: picnicking, swimming, creative play, boating, fishing, downhill skiing, snowboarding, golf, camping and sledding; extensive trails for hiking, biking, in-line skating, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, as well as program sites for nature, recreation, historic and farm education.
For more information, see the official Web site:
www.threeriversparkdistrict.org
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“Hail Minnesota”
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- Minnesota State Flower: Lady Slipper
- Minnesota State Tree: Norway Pine (Red Pine)
- Minnesota State Bird: Common Loons (Great
Northern Diver)
- Minnesota State Fish: Walleye
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Links
for Other Minnesota Web Sites |
Pheasants Forever
1783 Buerkle Circle,
St. Paul, Minnesota 55110
651-773-2000
Toll Free: 1-877-773-2070
Web site: www.pheasantsforever.org
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