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1 [93] Foresight, donations and effort by community leaders enabled ________ to create his finest landscape architecture, preserving geographical landmarks and linking them with boulevards and parkways.

2 Who of the following people founded Minneapolis?

3 What is Minneapolis's nickname?

4 Which of the following titles did Minneapolis have?

5 Hennepin County has the second-highest number of ________ per capita in the U.S.

6 What type of subdivision is Minneapolis?

7 What is the postcode of Minneapolis?

8 ________, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, and Walden University are headquartered in Minneapolis and some others including the public four-year Metropolitan State University and the private four-year University of St.

9 When was Minneapolis established?

10 Who of the following is/was the leader of Minneapolis?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
  • the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker (pictured) that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
  • the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
  • the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?
  • it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
  • during World War II, the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
  • Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
  • Minneapolis' bicycle sharing system Nice Ride Minnesota served over 10,000 trips in its first month?
  • Thomas E. Latimer, a one-term mayor of Minneapolis, also played a key role in the landmark freedom of the press case Near v. Minnesota?
  • an April Fool's Day "news story" which suggested that bull sharks had been found in Minneapolis's Minnehaha Creek drew almost 1,000 hits a day to the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association's website?
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House (pictured), a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?
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