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Introduction
Minnesota (/ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə/ (
listen)) is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States. Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory. The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan the "Land of 10,000 Lakes". Its official motto is L'Étoile du Nord (French: Star of the North).
Minnesota is the 12th largest in area and the 22nd most populous of the U.S. states; nearly 60% of its residents live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area (known as the "Twin Cities"), the center of transportation, business, industry, education, and government, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now partially cleared, farmed, and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.
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 Carver, Minnesota c. 1900  |
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Thibault in 2017
Mike Francis Thibault (born September 28, 1950) is an American basketball head coach, formerly of the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA, and now of the Washington Mystics. In 2013, Thibault became the WNBA's all time winningest coach. Thibault was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Upon his graduation from Saint Martin's University in 1979, Thibault entered into the employ of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, for whom he worked first as a scout and, after 1980, as director of scouting and as an assistant coach; during Thibault's tenure, the Lakers twice won the league championship. In December 2012, Thibault was introduced as the new head coach & general manager of the Washington Mystics. He led a revival of the team, getting them to the playoffs and earning a win there for the first time since 2004. For his efforts, Thibault once again earned the Coach of the Year award, joining Van Chancellor as the only coaches to win the award three times. On July 7, 2018, when the Mystics beat the Los Angeles Sparks, Thibault became the first WNBA coach to reach 300 wins. Thibault and his wife Nanci have two children. A son, Eric, who is a member of the Mystics coaching staff and a daughter Carly who is an assistant coach at Mississippi State University. (Full article)
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 The state capital Saint Paul, Minnesota on the Mississippi River |
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Did you know...
White Castle restaurant Building No. 8
- ...that the prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 (pictured) in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?
- ...that Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken, the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
- ..that the 1886 Sauk Rapids tornado changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids?
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Scenic Minnesota
 Gooseberry Falls State Park |
| Credit: Aaron Fulkerson |
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