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  2. History of Minneapolis - Wikipedia

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    The Minneapolis City Hall (which also served as the Hennepin County Courthouse at the time) was the tallest building in Minneapolis from its construction in 1888 until 1929. A municipal ordinance instituted in 1890 restricted buildings to a height of 100 feet (30 m), later raised to 125 feet (38 m).

  3. History of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    At a Minneapolis campus from 1927 until the 1990s, Honeywell, experts in variable feedback-control, [164] had a national profile in military technology. [165] Medtronic, founded in a Minneapolis garage in 1949, is the world's largest medical device maker as of 2020. [166]

  4. Territorial era of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Stevens received the claim and built a house, the first house in Minneapolis, in 1850. Later in 1854, Stevens platted the city of Minneapolis on the west bank. [101] In 1855 the first bridge across the main channel of the Mississippi (anywhere in the nation) was built between Minneapolis and Saint Anthony. [22]

  5. The 35 Best Books About Time Travel - AOL

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    A secret government organization, the Department of Diachronic Operations (or D.O.D.O. for short), is dedicated to bringing magic back, and its members will travel through time to change history ...

  6. Time travel - Wikipedia

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    Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a device known as a time machine. The idea of a time machine was popularized by H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time ...

  7. Minneapolis - Wikipedia

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    Minneapolis has a history of structural racism [285] and has racial disparities in nearly every aspect of society. [286] As White settlers displaced the Indigenous population during the 19th century, they claimed the city's land, [287] and Kirsten Delegard of Mapping Prejudice explains that today's disparities evolved from control of the land ...

  8. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    While the "marriage" didn't last, it was biggest corporate merger in history at the time. 2006 : America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services.

  9. Pierre Bottineau - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Bottineau, 1855 Bottineau's 1854 house, preserved in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Pierre Bottineau (January 1, 1817 – July 26, 1895) was a Minnesota frontiersman. [1]Known as the "Kit Carson of the Northwest," he was an integral part of the history and development of Minnesota and North Dakota.