Tennis Club participates in a dual tennis tournament with the University of Minnesota each fall, and also sponsors a two-day state invitational tennis meet at Carleton in May.

The Marlins also drafted P Johan Santana from Houston in the Rule 5 Draft but traded him to Minnesota in a prearranged deal for P Jared Camp.

Gustavus Adolphus College, a Lutheran college in St. Peter, Minnesota is also named for the Swedish king.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

There were also five teams which the Texans had never beaten: the Baltimore Ravens ( 0-5 in regular season, 0-1 in playoffs ), Minnesota Vikings ( 0-2 ), New York Jets ( 0-5 ), Philadelphia Eagles ( 0-3 ) and San Diego Chargers ( 0-4 ).

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

In a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota also protested Olson's being allowed to return to Minnesota.

As part of the deal, the Twins also signed a 30-year lease of the new stadium, effectively guaranteeing the continuation of the team in Minnesota for a long time to come.

Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

He also led Minnesota to three playoff appearances, including a division title and an NFC Championship Game.

This injury was a very significant part to this Minnesota Vikings team due to the fact they also lost Moss.

Spam that is sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota, ( also known as Spam Town USA ) and in Fremont, Nebraska.

They also lost in 1924, when the Washington Senators won their only World Series in their history ( prior to their move to Minnesota ).

Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.

It also hosted the 1991 World Series as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves.

For example, already in Sergio Corbucci's Minnesota Clay ( 1964 ) that appeared only two months after A Fistful of Dollars, you find an American style " tragic gunfighter " hero confronting two evil gangs, one Mexican and one Anglo, and ( just as in A Fistful of Dollars ) the leader of the latter is also the town sheriff.

Minnesota SNOBOL4, By Viktors Berstis, the closest PC implementation to the original IBM mainframe version ( even including Fortran-like FORMAT statement support ) is also free, and is at http :// www. berstis. com / snobol4. htm.

A new translation has also appeared of Aesthetic Theory and the Philosophy of New Music by Robert Hullot-Kentor, from the University of Minnesota Press.

Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).

Vernon also played for the " Old Senators ", who became the Minnesota Twins.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann also gave a response to the address for the Tea Party Express, a first for the political movement.

Lee's elder brother Peter Lee ( 李忠琛 ) would also join him in Seattle for a short stay before moving on to Minnesota to attend college.

In the United States it is found most notably in California, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Washington but also in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont wine.

Cities in the United States possessing side-by-side water towers labeled HOT and COLD include Granger, Iowa, Canton, Kansas, and St. James, Missouri ( Eveleth, Minnesota at one time had two such towers, but no longer does ).

It takes several fewer hours to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin or Minneapolis, Minnesota from Houghton than it does to travel to Detroit.

U. S. Highway 14 bisects the city from east to west, as does the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad.

In mid December 2010, BMO announced its purchase of Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, which does business as M & I Bank, Wisconsin's largest and oldest bank, mainly doing business in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Arizona, along with the Indianapolis market.

The Home Guard does a troop exchange with the Minnesota National Guard every year.

In the state of Minnesota, vehicular homicide is one of the six levels of criminal vehicular operation, and is defined as causing the death of a person, that does not constitute murder or manslaughter, as a result of operating a motor vehicle in a grossly negligent manner, or in a negligent manner while in violation of the driving while intoxicated law, or where the driver flees the scene in violation of the felony fleeing law.

The University of Illinois also has a facility for HTS, as does the University of Minnesota.

Minnesota has about the same percentage of high technology employment as does the nation.

Molnau was a controversial transportation commissioner ; while she does not have a college degree and said she did not read bridge inspection reports, she frequently promoted herself as a transportation expert while refusing to ask for funding to fix hundreds of problem bridges in Minnesota.

Paul Allen is known as the voice of the Minnesota Vikings, since he does the play by play for KFAN's broadcast of Vikings games.

* Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings ( does hearings for some but not all state agencies )

Starboard does big: Buys major Twin Cities AM station from Minnesota Public Radio for $ 7 million.

Nor does Kinnick ever mention the tryout during any of his journal entries or letters when he discusses one of his many games with Iowa against Minnesota.

The Libertarian Party withdrew their endorsement, as Minnesota law does not allow fusion candidates.

* Trail of Terror, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ( annual event, 3 / 4 mile indoor Halloween-themed maze )< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. trailofterrorfest. com / home. htm </ nowiki >

A post office in his hometown of Bloomington, Minnesota was renamed the Thomas E. Burnett, Jr. Post Office and his former middle school, Oak Grove Middle School in Bloomington, encourages eighth-grade students to participate in an annual Tom Burnett Day of Service.

The city is also home to a burgeoning artist's community, and serves as a hub to the annual Meander — Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl.

Held on the third Thursday in June every year since 1874, it is believed to be the longest-running annual community festival in Minnesota.

In 2005, the city became the first in rural Minnesota with an annual gay pride event, East-Central Minnesota Pride, and one of only two rural communities to hold such an event in the United States.

With an average annual temperature of, Embarrass is the coldest place in Minnesota.

The BAC presents three annual performances by the Minnesota Orchestra and has recently commissioned works by Diavolo and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

The Minnesota Lynx Foundation holds an annual " Catwalk for a Cure " event at the Mall of America during the WNBA's Breast Health Awareness Week to raise funds for breast cancer related charities.

This led Dunn to schedule an annual Thanksgiving game against a team of ex-Gophers all-stars from the University of Minnesota.

The Blacklock Nature Sanctuary has an annual Artist Fellowship Program through a grant from the Jerome Hill Foundation to support Minnesota artists.

* The Jack Mytton Run, an annual streaking event by nude students, happens on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota across Northrup Mall on the first class day following spring break.

Minneapolis, Minnesota started a zombie-themed pub crawl in 2005 that has become an annual tradition which has grown to over 5, 000 participants in 2009.

FORT SNELLING AIM ANNUAL POW WOW: AIM establishes an annual pow-wow to recognize its 20th Anniversary, at Fort Snelling in Minnesota.

In that year, at their annual convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, they merged with another group named the Independent Pentecostal Churches, and adopted the name under which they currently operate.

From 1948 until 2008, the Hiawatha Club has produced an annual Song of Hiawatha Pageant, performed on the last two weekends in July and the first weekend in August in Pipestone, Minnesota at a large outdoor amphitheater.

** In bicycle racing, annual Tour of 10, 000 Lakes Stage Race in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Besides broadcasting from various arenas and locations across the country ( such as the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, from which the very first episode of Nitro was broadcast ), Nitro also did special broadcasts from the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando in 1996, and did annual Spring Break-Out episodes from Panama City Beach, Florida starting in March 1997.

His speech at a parade in rural Minnesota during the summer attracted what organizers of the annual event described as one of its largest audiences.

* Northern wild rice ( Zizania palustris ) is an annual plant native to the Great Lakes region of North America, the aquatic areas of the Boreal Forest regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan in the US.

The most recent GSA annual meeting was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 9 – 12 October 2011.

In 1995, the small and staunchly conservative town of Mount Rose, Minnesota is preparing for its annual beauty pageant.

The Minneapolis Aquatennial is an annual event held in the U. S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 1940 celebrating the city's famous lakes, rivers, and streams.

KVSC is well known in central Minnesota for its annual 50-hour trivia marathon.