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Established in 1897, Jostens in Minneapolis has manufactured 50 million class rings for high schools, colleges, military academies and sports championships.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

“Hockey sticks by hockey players” is the motto of Christian Brothers Hockey of Warroad (pop. 1,722). Brothers Roger and Bill Christian, 1960 U.S. Olympic gold medalists, founded the hockey stick manufacturing company in 1964.

first appeared: 5/23/2004

Gray wolves and moose roam at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge in Middle River (pop. 319).

first appeared: 5/16/2004

Wild rice, or manomin, was adopted as the official state grain in 1977. The aquatic grass is often harvested by canoe.

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Lake City (pop. 4,950) on Lake Pepin has the largest small-craft marina on the Mississippi River with more than 600 boat slips.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

Patricia Berg, born in 1918 in Minneapolis, was one of the founders of the Ladies’ Professional Golf Association in 1948. The Associated Press named her top female athlete of the year in 1938, 1943 and 1955.

first appeared: 4/25/2004

Snowmobilers race on grass each September at Hay Days Grass Drags, a popular competition begun in 1967 by the Sno Barons Snowmobile Club in Blaine (pop. 44,942).

first appeared: 4/18/2004

The territorial Legislature passed a bill making St. Peter (pop. 9,747) the capital, but lawmaker Joe Rolette, who favored St. Paul, stole the bill and hid until the Legislature adjourned. In 1858, the temporary capital in St. Paul became permanent.

first appeared: 4/11/2004

The 1993 movie Grumpy Old Men and its 1995 sequel Grumpier Old Men, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, were filmed in Wabasha (pop. 2,599).

first appeared: 4/4/2004

The state Department of Transportation invested an all-time high of $1 billion in 2002 on more than 200 highway projects to improve traffic safety, capacity and mobility.

first appeared: 3/28/2004

Polaris Industries of Roseau (pop. 2,396) manufactured the first modern snowmobiles in the mid-1950s.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

The last big log drive in the state occurred in April 1937 on the Little Fork River, when International Paper Co. workers floated about 16 million board feet of white pine down from upstream lumber camps.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

In 1902, Alexander Anderson of Red Wing (pop. 15,134) discovered the processes to puff wheat and rice. Puffed rice was marketed as a cereal to compete with corn flakes.

first appeared: 3/7/2004

Tonka Trucks were first manufactured in 1947 in the basement of an old school house by the fledgling Mound Metalcraft Co., located near Lake Minnetonka in Mound (pop. 9,634).

first appeared: 2/29/2004

The only operating steam-powered carousel left in the country runs every Labor Day weekend at the annual Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag.

first appeared: 2/22/2004

The Land of 10,000 Lakes has one recreational boat registered for every six people.

first appeared: 2/15/2004

Minneapolis students Scott and Brennan Olson invented rollerblades in 1980 while looking for a way to practice hockey during the off-season. Their design was an ice hockey boot with three in-line wheels instead of a blade.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields, and is the largest such complex in America.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

Weather Permitting, an exhibit of the Minnesota Historical Society History Center in St. Paul, explores how generations have dealt with the state’s often severe weather.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

Some of the oldest rocks on Earth can be found in the Minnesota River Valley from the end of Lac qui Parle to past Montevideo. Earth is 4.5 billion years old and rocks in this area date back more than 3 billion years.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

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