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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., and 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 the national forests and parks, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Approximately 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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Peter Hans "Pete" Docter (born 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. and Up, and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally successful". He has been nominated for six Oscars (one win thus far for Up -- Best Animated Feature), three Annie Awards (winning two), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons." Docter was born in Bloomington, Minnesota... (Full article)
- ... that the Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House (pictured) features an indoor well pump, but a five-hole, two-story outhouse connected to the house via a skyway?
- ... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
- ... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
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Many U.S. senators offered polite arguments that the population was too sparse and that statehood for Minnesota was premature. Senator John Burton Thompson of Kentucky, in particular, argued that new states would cost the government too much for roads, canals, forts, and lighthouses. Although 22 senators voted against statehood, the enabling act passed in 1857. (Full article)
- Apple Butter Day is held October 23 in Forestville near Preston, Minnesota. Fees and a state park vehicle permit apply. (See the website.)
- President Obama will headline a rally for Democratic-Farmer-Labor party gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton on October 23 in Minneapolis.
- Vertical Currency: Five Years of Emerging Artists at Rochester Art Center is exhibited at the Rochester Art Center from September 25, 2010 to January 9, 2011. (See the website.)
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