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unusual facts about twin cities



Denny McNamara

A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represents District 54B, which includes portions of Dakota and Washington counties in the southeastern part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Flag of Thunder Bay

The twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur amalgamated in 1970, and mayor Saul Laskin wanted to promote the new city by having a distinctive flag.

KMOJ

With Rhythmic station KHTC changing to Adult Top 40 in 2012, KMOJ is the only urban-oriented station in the Twin Cities.

Leave 'Em Laughing

Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.

Minneapolis, North Carolina

It shares its name with two other cities nationwide: another small town in Kansas, and the much larger and more famous city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, that state's largest city and twin city of its capital, Saint Paul.

Minnesota State Highway 64

This route is often used by motorists as a shortcut between Bemidji and the Twin Cities to avoid congestion on nearby Highway 371.

Minnesota State Highway 95

This highway runs through mostly rural areas immediately north and east of the Twin Cities, although increasing development in the eastern suburbs of Saint Paul may bring increased traffic to the highway.

Nicollet Mall

Over the years, Nicollet Mall has seen the closing of several national clothing brands, including Polo Ralph Lauren and Cole Haan, which was also its only store in the Twin Cities.

Pine Bend Refinery

The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Highway 52 and Minnesota State Highway 55.

Ridgedale Center

Ridgedale Center is a large, regional shopping mall in Minnetonka, Minnesota a western suburb of the Twin Cities.

Robert H. Bahmer

He earned his bachelor's degree from Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota, his master's from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Graduate and professional programs are offered at facilities in Winona, the Twin Cities, Rochester, Apple Valley, Minnetonka and Oakdale, Minnesota; and various course delivery sites around Minnesota and Wisconsin; Jamaica, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Smush

(For example, the chain might become "Leap Yeardrum Major Tommy Thompson Twin Cities," by combining "Leap Year," "Ear Drum," "Drum Major," "Major Tom," "Tommy Thompson," "Thompson Twins," and "twin cities.")

Twin Cities Rail Transport

Rail transport in the Twin Cities currently consists of Amtrak service between Chicago and Seattle, the METRO Blue Line light rail service running between downtown Minneapolis and the Mall of America, passing by the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, and the Northstar Commuter Rail line between downtown Minneapolis and a number of northwest suburbs.

WELY

WELY was owned by retired CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt from 1995 to 1997, at which point it was purchased by Janice Erickson, a Twin Cities transplant.

Winnipeger

In October 1904 the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway (Soo Line) and Canadian Pacific Railway began overnight passenger service between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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1991 World Series

A Twin Cities sports writer wrote that on that night, "Morris could have outlasted Methuselah."

Bob Allison

During his baseball career, he worked during the off season in sales for Coca-Cola Bottling Midwest Co. in suburban Minneapolis and after retirement, he continued with that business, becoming a plant manager and a sales manager Coca Cola's Twin Cities Marketing Division.

Brittani Senser

Her father, Joe Senser, played for the Minnesota Vikings in the 1980s and now owns a chain of sports bar-restaurants around the Twin Cities.

Burnsville Performing Arts Center

Past performances include the Girl Singers of the Hit Parade, Larry Carlton, Louie Anderson, Lori Lane, Richard Marx, Church Basement Ladies, Melissa Manchester, Bill Engvall, Nick Colionne, Celtic Crossroads, Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rob Lake, Tommy Emmanuel, Sinbad, Ralphie May, Dakota Valley Symphony, Chameleon Theater Circle, Miss Minnesota USA/Teen USA, and Cirque D’Or.

Chastity Brown

She is a contributing artist to Think Out Loud, a Twin Cities effort to end homelessness through music, and has performed at events for nonprofits promoting youth access to the arts, including Vega Productions, Inc., and Free Arts Minnesota, among others.

Chris Monroe

Her work has been published in Funny Times, Ripsaw, the Funny Pages, Zenith City Arts, Madcap, Twin Cities Reader, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Transistor and Ruminator.

Dakota County

Dakota County, Minnesota in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of east-central Minnesota

Facedown Records

Facedown has more recently signed Twin Cities metalcore group Your Memorial, Nashville metalcore group A Plea for Purging and Alabama "southern metal" group Remove the Veil.

Festival Cup

As Edinburgh's twin cities include Munich, Florence and Kiev, the local media speculated that a globally recognised team such as FC Bayern Munich, ACF Fiorentina or Dynamo Kiev may play in Scotland's capital.

Glacial history of Minnesota

This produced a roughly triangular sandy outwash region called the Anoka Sand Plain, reaching from St. Cloud to the Twin Cities up to the northeast to Grantsburg, Wisconsin.

Harrington Mansion and Events Center

Based in Winona, Minnesota, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota expanded its educational programs to serve the Twin Cities community by establishing a Minneapolis campus in 1983, located at 2500 Park Avenue South, less than one block from the Harrington estate.

James P. Cannon

Therefore when the labor movement revived in the early 1930s the Communist league was well placed to put its ideas into action in the Twin Cities and through their influence in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters the union rapidly grew after an historic dispute in 1934.

John Honeycutt Hinrichs

Hinrichs served in numerous Ordnance assignments in the United States and overseas, including a posting to Frankford Arsenal and command of the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.

Knol Tate

Knol Tate is a musician, singer/song writer and poet hailing from Minnesota's Twin Cities.

KPXM-TV

In the late 1980s, KXLI attempted to create the Minnesota Independent Network (MIN) along with Twin Cities station KTMA (now WUCW), KVNJ-TV (now KVRR) in Fargo, North Dakota and KXLT-TV in Rochester.

KZJK

Although they were licensed to the west Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park, the tower was located far east of the Twin Cities, in Somerset, Wisconsin.

Marion Greene

After earning her M.B.A. from the University of Texas in Texas, Greene moved to the Twin Cities, where she worked in marketing for Pillsbury and General Mills before shifting to the medical device industry, working for Guidant and St. Jude Medical.

Minnesota North Stars

North Stars radio broadcasts originated from WCCO Radio from 1967 to 1978, then moved to another Twin Cities-based clear-channel station, KSTP, where radio broadcasts stayed until the team moved to Dallas in 1993, save a few seasons on a 5,000-watt radio station, WAYL.

Norwich Twenty Group

It has built up strong links with Norwich's twin cities in Europe and now holds joint exhibitions with Novi Sad in Serbia, Rouen in France and Koblenz in Germany.

Paul Thissen

In 2006, he was named one of "Forty Under 40" top business professionals in the Twin Cities by the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal.

Peter Fishman

In 2005 he was the artistic director of the creative team for the cultural exchange between the twin cities of Smolensk and Hagen (Germany).

Pirates' House

Lee H. Adams is the founder of The Mystery Café located in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

Portuguese dialects

Besides the official status of Portuguese in Uruguay, there's also the Portunhol Riverense, spoken in the region between Uruguay and Brazil, particularly in the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento, where the border is open and a street is the only line dividing the two countries.

River Warren Falls

These kettles created basins for the Twin Cities Lakes, such as Harriet and Calhoun.

Riverense Portuñol language

It is spoken on the border between Uruguay and Brazil, and more specifically in the region of the twin cities of Rivera (Uruguay) and Santana do Livramento (Brazil).

SteppingStone Theatre for Youth Development

The exception is their annual production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! Started in 1989, it is the second longest running Christmas show in the Twin Cities.

Streetcars in Minneapolis

Twin City Rapid Transit Company, which ran a streetcar system in the Twin Cities until 1954

Transport in Kolkata

Also the twin cities of Kolkata and Howrah are connected by local water ferries through the extensive ghats like Fairlie Ghat, Howrah Ghat, Shibpur Ghat, Prinsep Ghat, Cossipore Ghat, etc.

Twin Cities Hardingfelelag

The Twin Cities Hardingfelelag was founded by Norwegian master fiddler Olav Jørgen Hegge.

It provides dance music at Scandinavian dances and events in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St.