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List Of Minnesota State Symbols
There are nineteen official symbols of the US state of Minnesota, as designated by the Minnesota Legislature. The first named symbol is the List of U.S. state and territory mottos, state's motto, – French language, French for "Star of the North". It was selected in 1861, shortly after Minnesota achieved statehood, by the first governor, Henry Hastings Sibley, Henry Sibley, as a reflection of Minnesota's location in the Northern United States. That same year, the original Seal of Minnesota, state seal was adopted. Minnesota did not designate another official symbol until 1945, when "Hail! Minnesota", then the official song of the University of Minnesota, was designated as List of U.S. state songs, state song. In 1984, Minnesota became the first state to appoint a List of U.S. state foods, state mushroom, the common morel (''Morchella esculenta''). The newest symbols of Minnesota are the flag of Minnesota, state flag and seal of Minnesota, state seal, both adopted on May 11, 2024 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota In United States
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is Forest cover by state and territory in the United States, forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main Politics of Minnesota, political, Economy of Minnesota, economic, and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance, and Shot (ice hockey), shoot a vulcanized rubber hockey puck into the other team's net. Each Goal (ice hockey), goal is worth one point. The team with the highest score after an hour of playing time is declared the winner; ties are broken in Overtime (ice hockey), overtime or a Shootout (ice hockey), shootout. In a formal game, each team has six Ice skating, skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, including a goaltender. It is a contact sport#Grades, full contact game and one of the more physically demanding team sports. The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor ice hockey game, first indoor game was play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NPR News
National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of more than 1,000 public radio stations in the United States. Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors, and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. NPR operates independently of any government or corporation, and has full control of its content. NPR produces and distributes both news and cultural programming. The organization's flagship shows are two drive-time news broadcasts: ''Morning Edition'' and the afternoon ''All Things Considered'', both carried by most NPR member stations, and among the most popular radio programs in the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombus Affinis
''Bombus affinis'', commonly known as the rusty patched bumble bee, is a species of bumblebee endemic to North America. Its historical range in North America has been throughout the east and upper Midwest of the United States, north to Ontario, Canada, where it is considered a "species at risk", east to Quebec, south to Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, and west to the Dakotas. Its numbers have declined in 87% of its historical habitat range.Rusty-patched Bumblebee , Xerces Society On January 10, 2017, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service placed ''B. affinis'' on the list of Endangered species#Endangered species in the United States, endangered species, making the rusty patched bumble bee the first bee to be added to the list in the continental United States (seven species of Hylaeus (bee), yellow-faced bees native to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Banks Of Plum Creek
''On the Banks of Plum Creek'' is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her ''Little House'' series. It is based on about five years of her childhood when the Ingalls family lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed: "The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of ''Little House in the Big Woods''". The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938, as were the next four ''Little House'' books through 1944. Plot summary Having left their little house on the Kansas prairie, the Ingalls family travels by covered wagon to Minnesota and settles on the banks of Plum Creek. Pa trades their two horses, Pet and Patty, and Pet's colt, Bunny, for a dugout and stable. Later, he trades for two new horses as Christmas presents for his family, which Laura and her sister, Mary, name Sam and David. Pa soon builds a new, above-ground, woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little House On The Prairie (novel)
''Little House on the Prairie'' is an autobiographical children's novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published in 1935.Little House on the Prairie Google Books It was the third novel published in the Little House series, ''Little House'' series, continuing the story of the first, ''Little House in the Big Woods'' (1932), but not related to the second. Thus, it is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years". Plot summary The novel is about the months the Ingalls family spent on the prairie in Montgomery County, Kansas. Laura describes how her father built their one-room log house in Indian Territory, having heard that the government planned to open the territory to european colonization of the Americas, white settlers soon. I ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilt-A-Whirl
Tilt-A-Whirl is a flat ride designed for commercial use at amusement parks, fairs, and carnivals. The ride consists of a number of cars which rotate freely while moving in a circle. As the cars revolve, the floor of the ride undulates so that the cars rise and fall as the ride spins. The offset weight of the riders causes each car to rotate. The riders experience varying levels of g-force from the spinning of the car, and the rotation of the ride itself. It is similar to a Waltzer, which is used in Europe. The rides are manufactured by Larson International of Plainview, Texas. Description The ride consists of seven freely-spinning cars that hold three or four riders each, which are attached at fixed pivot points on a rotating platform. As the platform rotates, parts of the platform are raised and lowered, with the resulting centrifugal and gravitational forces on the revolving cars causing them to spin in different directions and at variable speeds. The weight of passenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanding's Turtle
Blanding's turtle (''Emydoidea blandingii)'' is a species of semi-aquatic turtle of the Family (biology), family Emydidae. This species is native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States. It is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of its range. Blanding's turtle is of interest in longevity research, as it shows few or no senescent, common signs of aging and is physically active and capable of reproduction into eight or nine decades of life. Taxonomy There are differences of opinion as to the genus for this species; both ''Emys'' and ''Emydoidea'' occur in published sources in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Etymology Both the Specific name (zoology), specific name, ''blandingii'', and the common name, Blanding's turtle, are in honor of Americans, American Natural history, naturalist Dr. species:William Blanding, William Blanding (1773–1857). Description Blanding's turtle is a medium-sized turtle with an average straight carapace length of approximat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (''Ictidomys tridecemlineatus''), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of John James Audubon, Audubon), is a species of hibernating ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America. Description It is brownish, with 13 alternating brown and whitish longitudinal lines (sometimes partially broken into spots) on its back and sides, creating rows of whitish spots within dark lines. Taxonomy This species has usually been placed in the genus ''Spermophilus'' with about 40 other species. As this large genus is paraphyly, paraphyletic to prairie dogs, marmots, and antelope squirrels, Kris Helgen, Kristofer Helgen and colleagues have split it into eight genera, placing the thirteen-lined ground squirrel in ''Ictidomys'' with two other species. Behavior The thirteen-lined ground squirrel is strictly Diurnal animal, diurn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Timber Wolf
The eastern wolf (''Canis lycaon'' or ''Canis lupus lycaon''), also known as the timber wolf, Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered either a unique subspecies of gray wolf, or red wolf, or a separate species from both. Many studies have found the eastern wolf to be the product of ancient and recent genetic admixture between the gray wolf and the coyote, while other studies have found some or all populations of the eastern wolf, as well as coyotes, originally separated from a common ancestor with the wolf over 1 million years ago and that these populations of the eastern wolf may be the same species as or a closely related species to the red wolf (''Canis lupus rufus'' or ''Canis rufus'') of the Southeastern United States. Regardless of its status, it is regarded as unique and therefore worthy of conservation with Canada citing the population in eastern Canada (also kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Leopard Frog
''Lithobates pipiens''Integrated Taxonomic Information System [Internet] 2012''Lithobates pipiens''[updated 2012 Sept; cited 2012 Dec 26] Available from: www.itis.gov/ formerly ''Rana pipiens'', commonly known as the northern leopard frog, is a species of leopard frog from the true frog Family (biology), family, native to parts of Canada and the United States. It is the List of U.S. state amphibians, state amphibian of Minnesota and Vermont. Description The northern leopard frog is a fairly large species of frog, reaching about in snout-to-vent length. It varies from green to brown in Dorsum (biology), dorsal color, with large, dark, circular spots on its back, sides, and legs.Northern Leopard Frog ''Rana pipiens'' National Geographi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-tailed Deer
The white-tailed deer (''Odocoileus virginianus''), also known Common name, commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, North, Central America, Central and South America. It is the most widely-distributed mainland ungulate herbivore in the Americas; coupled with its natural predator, the Cougar, mountain lion (''Puma concolor''), it is one of the most widely-distributed terrestrial mammal species in the Americas and the world. Highly adaptable, the various subspecies of white-tailed deer inhabit many different ecosystems, from arid grasslands to the Amazon basin, Amazon and Orinoco Basin, Orinoco basins; from the Pantanal and the Llanos to the high-elevation terrain of the Andes. Globally, the white-tailed deer has been introduced (primarily for Trophy hunting, sport hunting) to New Zealand, the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), and some countries in Europe (mainly the Cz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
