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unusual facts about Stanley, Minnesota



A Time for Burning

Youngdahl was the son of a former governor of Minnesota and federal judge, Luther Youngdahl.

AMCC

Al-Madinah Cultural Center, a non-profit cultural student organization at the University of Minnesota

Angie's Kettle Corn

The producers, Angie and Dan Bastian of Mankato, Minnesota, originally distributed their product in 2002 outside the Metrodome during Minnesota Vikings home games.

Badger Township, Polk County, Minnesota

The subsequent history of Badger Township is virtually indistinguishable from that of most of Northern Minnesota.

Brad Childress

The owner Zygi Wilf was cited as saying, “Brad has done a tremendous job leading this football team and we value the positive environment he has created for the Minnesota Vikings on and off the field, He has continued to positively impact this team and create a strong foundation for future success.

Burnett, Minnesota

Burnett is an unincorporated community in Industrial Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Congo River, Beyond Darkness

All along its 4371 km, we discover places that have seen the turbulent history of this country, while archives remind us of the mythological figures that created its destiny: explorers such as Livingstone and Stanley, the colonial kings Léopold II and Baudouin I and leaders such as Lumumba, Mobutu and Kabila.

DBU

Duluth Business University a private university school located in Duluth, Minnesota

Donald Rickles

He was part of a core group of West Coast announcers for the network that, in his early years, included Don Stanley, Arch Presby, Eddy King, and Frank Barton; by the 1970s the main core announcing lineup had become Rickles, Stanley, Victor Bozeman, and Peggy Taylor.

Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Six weeks after the first Lady Derby's death, at the age of 44 on 14 March 1797, he married the actress Elizabeth Farren, daughter of George Farren, on 1 May 1797.

Elections in Minnesota

Recounts in Minnesota are handled by the State Canvassing Board, as needed in the 2008 Senate election between Norm Coleman and Al Franken.

Eugene Wilson

Eugene McLanahan Wilson (1833–1890), U.S. Representative for Minnesota, 1869–1871

Forgotten Silver

Roscoe, Jane/Hight, Craig (2006): Forgotten Silver: A New Zealand Television Hoax and Its Audience. In: Juhasz, Alexandra/Lerner, Jesse (eds.) (2006): F is for Phony. Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. 171-186.

Get On

However, according to Richard Stanley, the band had been playing the song live already during the previous summer, months before the recording sessions in Stockholm.

Half Dead and Dynamite

Half Dead and Dynamite is the second LP released by the Minnesota indie rock band Lifter Puller.

Herman Beach

Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11,700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota.

Homer, Minnesota

Homer is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Homer Township, Winona County, Minnesota, United States.

Ian Bonar

He co-starred as Stanley Howler in the May 2010 adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

Ixchiguán

During the 20th century, many people from Ixchiguan have migrated to Worthington, Minnesota, a city that is considered a center of Mam speakers in the United States.

Jane Elizabeth Hodgson

In 1981, Hodgson lent her name to a suit (Hodgson v. Minnesota) brought by Planned Parenthood against Minnesota, challenging that state's law requiring that both parents be notified at least 48 hours before a minor has an abortion.

John LaMountain

In September 1859, La Mountain made an ascension with the Atlantic, along with newspaperman John Haddock, from Watertown, New York across Minnesota and Michigan.

Johnsburg, Minnesota

Johnsburg is an unincorporated community in Adams Township, Mower County, Minnesota, United States.

Kabekona, Minnesota

Kabekona is an unincorporated community in Hendrickson Township, Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States.

Lencho Skibba

He played in the youth system for Alemannia Aachen until 2007, when he moved to the United States and joined the Minnesota Thunder.

Marc Stanley

Stanley is a founding and current partner of Stanley, Mandel & Iola, L.L.P. and serves on the Credential Committee of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is co-chair of the board of the Foundation for Jewish Culture, is a partner of Democracy Alliance, and a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional, Senate and National Committees.

Mary Olson

Mary A. Olson (born May 23, 1958) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 4, which includes portions of Beltrami, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and Itasca counties in the northern part of the state.

Max, Minnesota

Max is an unincorporated community in Max Township, Itasca County, Minnesota, United States; located within the Chippewa National Forest and the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.

Minnesota State Highway 36

Highway 36 crosses the St. Croix River via the historic Stillwater Lift Bridge between Stillwater and Houlton, WI.

National Trails System

You can experience the subtle beauties of the southern wetlands and Gulf Coast on the Florida Trail or wander the North Woods from New York to Minnesota on the North Country Trail or experience the vast diversity of landscapes of the southwest on the Arizona National Scenic Trail.

North Carolina Highway 275

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, from US 74/NC 20 (now NC 274), near Bessemer City, to NC 27, in Stanley; the route has changed little since.

Oswalt Academy

Stanley G. Oswalt Academy (originally Oswalt Elementary when opened in 1984) is a K-8 school in the Rowland Unified School District.

Phipps Hornby

Hornby's sister Charlotte Margaret later married her cousin Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, and the close association between the Earls of Derby and the Hornby family would play a significant role in Phipps Hornby's career and politics.

Reed Construction Data

The suit was filed in Minnesota U.S. District Court, with BidClerk alleging that a series of “denial of services” attacks were directed against its online system, flooding it with “millions of page views.”

Robert Gunther

:For the Minnesota politician, see Bob Gunther.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Saffo the Greek

In July 1914, he was in attendance with other figures of the Levee including John Torrio (representing Jim Colosimo), John Jordan, Jackie Adler and Harry Hopkins at Port Lamp Burke's roadhouse near Cedar Creek (Indiana) several hours after gunman Roxie Vanilli, a cousin of Torrio whom he had brought in from New York, had shot and killed Chicago detective Sgt. Stanley Birns.

Silver Creek, Lake County, Minnesota

Silver Creek is an unincorporated community in Silver Creek Township, Lake County, Minnesota, United States.

Stanley Bowie

Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 2008) was a Scottish geologist.

Stanley Glenn

In February 1994, Stanley Glenn and several other players from the Negro Leagues were honored by Vice-President Al Gore at the White House.

Stanley Portal Hyatt

Stanley and his brothers had started from Central Africa in a penniless condition, but by lecturing and journalism in Durban, they got to Mauritius, from which they wore exported as distressed British subjects.

Stanley, Hong Kong

The original Cantonese name of the village was believed to be based on a big tall cotton tree (Bombax malabaricum, Bombax ceiba 木棉樹) often covered with bright red blossoms at the time, hence red pillar (赤柱) in Hakka language.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, March 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Trapper John, M.D.

Other characters included young nurse Gloria "Ripples" Brancusi (Christopher Norris) who later adopted a sickly, homeless girl, Andrea; Stanley Riverside II (Charles Siebert), a pompous, but nonetheless capable doctor (whose father was the head of the hospital board of directors) who later married a dentist named E.J. (Marcia Rodd); and Justin "Jackpot" Jackson (Brian Stokes Mitchell), a young doctor always interested in wagers.

Walbo, Minnesota

Walbo is an unincorporated community in Springvale Township, Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

West Lakeland Township, Washington County, Minnesota

It is just north of Interstate 94 and touches the west bank of the St. Croix River.

West Stanley Pit Disaster

Ex-manager of Newcastle United F.C. Kevin Keegan's grandfather was in the Stanley pit disaster and was one of the few who got out alive.

WMFG

WMFG-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Hibbing, Minnesota, United States


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