According to tribal tradition, during the 17th century the Cheyenne had been driven by the Ho hé ( Assiniboine ) from the Great Lakes region to present-day Minnesota and North Dakota, where they established villages.

According to traditional continuity, both cities are located in the fictional U. S. state of Calisota, a portmanteau of California and Minnesota.

According to co-creator Allan Burns, Minnesota was selected for the show's location after " one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings.

According to the official web site, Otter Tail County contains over 1000 lakes and two Minnesota state parks, Maplewood State Park and Glendalough State Park.

According to Dakota tradition, their ancestors pushed out the Iowa who were found settled at the mouth of the Minnesota River.

According to Melvin Gimmestad's Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota, " Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present-day limits.

According to Minnesota Place Names, Vesta Township was settled in 1868 and organized May 20, 1880.

According to legend, Ross, Minnesota and a number of other surrounding communities are reportedly " hot spots " for sightings of the Native American mythical creature known as the Wendigo.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of and is the largest city in Minnesota by area and the 40th largest city, by area, in the United States.

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources ( DNR ), Two Harbors is located in a region called the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province which contains broad areas of coniferous forest, mixed hardwood, and conifer bogs and swamps.

According to the Minnesota Management and Budget Department, general-fund expenditures from 2004 to 2011 increased an average of 3. 5 percent per two-year term, compared to an average of 21. 1 percent from 1960 to 2003 ( these numbers, however, are not inflation-adjusted ).

According to an article on the front page of the Moose Lake ( Minnesota ) Star on January 17, 1901: " Ex-governor John Lind after having freed himself from the duties of governor last Thursday walked down to the Dispatch office in St. Paul and administered to Editor Black a well-deserved licking.

According to Donohue, as the Pharyngula website was accessible via a link from the University of Minnesota website, it should be bound by the institution's code of conduct which requires faculty to be " respectful, fair and civil " when dealing with others.

Translated by Roger Ariew as Descartes ' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984 ).

According to the University ’ s website, Strayer University now operates additional campuses in Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Utah, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

According to the College Board, as of July 2012 there are 34, 812 undergraduates at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

According to Minnesota Congressional Election 2008 Political Courage Test, Oberstar supports having taxes on corporate earnings, gasoline and cigarettes.

According to Rod Carew, he learned when Wynn came to Minnesota as a coach, his competitiveness didn't end when his career did.

According to one source, " he came to Minnesota in 1922 with a traveling team called the Mesaba Range Black Sox, which featured three other members of the 1919 Black Sox team: Happy Felsch, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams.

According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Art Instruction Schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, the prison's nine complexes are “ specialized uniquely to help facilitate a safe, secure, and humane environment for the offenders incarcerated as well as the staff who work at Oak Park Heights ”.

According to the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service documents, his parents emigrated to America in 1902 via the port of Duluth, Minnesota.

According to Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance at the University of Minnesota, one of the main reasons that medical fraud is such a prevalent practice is that nearly all of the parties involved find it favorable in some way.

According to his keynote speech on October 13, 2007, at the Sinclair Lewis writing conference in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he still intended to compete in the Iditarod.

According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the focus of the racial profiling debate from street crime and “ driving while Black ” to terrorism and “ flying while Arab .” According to a June 4 – 5, 2002 FOX News / Opinion Dynamics Poll, 54 % of Americans approved of using “ racial profiling to screen Arab male airline passengers .” A 2002 survey by Public Agenda tracked the attitudes toward the racial profiling of Blacks and people of Middle Eastern descent.

According to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the president cannot appoint persons of the same political party to more than five of the nine CPB board seats.

According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, Wail al-Shehri and Waleed al-Shehri used Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library in August 2001, where they may have been looking at information on crop dusting.

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

According to Igor Vinogradov, Nicholas and his Minister of Public Education Uvarov spread education through the Empire at all levels.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Altria spent around $ 101 million on lobbying the United States government between 1998 and 2004, making it the second most active organization in the nation.

According to a survey conducted by The Harvard School of Public Health, " 15 % students surveyed said that they had carried a handgun on their person in the past 30 days, and 4 % said that they had taken a handgun to school in the past year ," a sharp increase from just five years earlier.

According to Neil Strauss in the New York Times, "... many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert.

According to the Caledonia Public Library, the town was renamed by one of the Yeggers who saw a blonde girl he aspired to romance named Caledonia.

According to Grant County Public Utility District, power outages in Quincy are rare, with a 99. 99 percent annual average reliability.

According to the Tacoma Public Library's Washington Place Names database: " In 1900, it was chosen as a station by the Spokane-Coeur d ' Alene Electric Railway, and was named Woodard's for the family who owned the land along the railway route.

According to the Poy Sippi Public Library website, the Pine River was called " Poygan Sippi " by Potawatomie Indians, because it flowed into Lake Poygan.

In an interview on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, Dr. McWhorter characterized AAVE as a " hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects ..." According to Dr. McWhorter, virtually all linguists who have carefully studied the origins of AAVE " agree that the West African connection is quite minor.

According to the Public Stadium Authority's website, the events center contributes more than half a billion dollars to the region's economy.

According to librarian Kathleen Hensmen, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri used the Internet access at Delray Beach Public Library in August 2001, where they may have been looking at information on crop dusting ; they reportedly left the library with a third Middle Eastern man thought to be Marwan al-Shehhi, who Hensmen said asked her for the name of a local restaurant.

" According to Microsoft's Justice and Public Safety Division ( Microsoft ) Marketing Manager Ken Reeves, over 2, 000 ( international ) law enforcement organizations had connected to the internet by 1996.

According to the West Midlands Public Health Observatory ( UK ), an adequate level of warmth for older people is in the living room and in other occupied rooms, although most people ( at least in the UK ) will find this quite warm ; is stated as the maximum comfortable room temperature.

According to the 2nd edition of a study by the United States Public Interest Research Group ( US PIRG ) published in February 2005: " Textbook prices are increasing at more than four times the inflation rate for all finished goods, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index.

According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, Garbhapal Ras contained nearly 3 % lead.

According to The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities ( 2001 ), it is considered one of the thirty " Public Ivy League " schools.

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