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The 230-member high school marching band in Jamestown (pop. 15,100) was one of 17 high school bands from across the nation to march in the 112th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasedena, Calif., New Year’s Day. Each band member raised $750 to pay for the trip.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Beach (pop. 1,040) is the only town in the nation with that name. Founded in 1909, the town was named after Capt. Warren C. Beach, an army officer who escorted railroad surveyors through the region.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Garrison (pop. 1,463), the state’s self-proclaimed walleye capital, has a 26-foot-long statue of Wally Walleye in its downtown.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

Raised in Williston (pop. 12,463), Phil Jackson played basketball at the University of North Dakota from 1964-67 before playing 17 years for the New York Knicks. He now coaches the Los Angeles Lakers.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

The A.M. Tofthagen Library in Lakota (pop. 782) was started by Norwegian immigrant Amun M. Tofthagen, a local merchant who traveled the world and donated items he collected to the town.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

The state bird of North Dakota is the western meadowlark. This ground-nesting songbird also is the state bird of Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

At 2,063 feet, the KTHI-TV antenna tower at Blanchard is the tallest man-made structure in the world. The second-tallest is the 2,060-foot-tall KXJB tower, a few miles away near Galesburg (pop. 153).

first appeared: 4/8/2001

Assumption Abbey in Richardton (pop. 592), home to 30 monks, was founded in 1983 by Swiss priest Vincent Wehrle.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

In 2000, North Dakota students led the nation in total Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. They scored 588 and 609 on the verbal and math portions, respectively.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

Although it became a state Nov. 2, 1889, the same day as South Dakota’s birth, North Dakota is called the 39th State because, alphabetically, it’s ahead of South Dakota. But since President Benjamin Harrison told no one which proclamation he signed first, no one really knows.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

With farmland covering more than 90 percent of the state, North Dakota produces about 75 percent of the nation’s flaxseed and leads the nation in sunflower, barley, and spring and duram wheat production.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

After hiking 272 miles in 20 days, ex-Confederate soldiers who joined the Union army rather than live as prisoners-of-war arrived at Fort Rice along the Missouri River in 1864. The riverboat that was supposed to bring them to the fort was stopped by low water.

first appeared: 3/4/2001

North Dakotans will be able to view two total solar eclipses later this century—on Aug. 23, 2044, and Sept. 14, 2099.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

When Lewis and Clark arrived at what is now Mandan (pop. 15,907) on their way west in 1804, they were greeted by French trader Rene Jessaume, who had been living among the Mandan tribe for 15 years.

first appeared: 2/18/2001

Operational from 1902 until 1918, a windmill in Kenmare (pop. 1,315) is the only remaining Danish-style windmill in the state. At one time there were six.

first appeared: 2/11/2001

—A 15-foot stone obelisk in Rugby (pop. 2,774) marks the geographic center of the North American continent, a fact established by mapmakers in 1931.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—Aviator Carl Eielson, who co-piloted the first flight across the Arctic Ocean in 1928, was born in Hatton (pop. 778) in 1897.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

The International Peace Park, 12 miles north of Dunseith (pop. 771), consists of 888 acres in the United States and an adjoining 1,451 acres in Manitoba, Canada.

first appeared: 1/21/2001

The Red River of the North is one of the few rivers in North America that flows north, its waters ultimately emptying into Hudson Bay.

first appeared: 1/14/2001

The Fort Union Trading Post in Williams County was the main fur-trading post in the upper Missouri River region from 1829 to 1867.

first appeared: 1/7/2001

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