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25 Cards in this Set
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Discovered athe source of the MIssissippi river
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Henry Schoolcraft
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Opened the largest flour mill in the world in 1881
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Charles Pillsbury
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Pioneered principals of muscle rehabilitation that became the foundation of physical therapy [polio]
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Sister Elizabeth Kenny
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An aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist, nicknamed the Lone Eagle
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Charles Lindberg
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Minnesota's first public school teacher
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Harriet Bishop
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Established Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Soviet leader who visited Minnesota in 1990
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Known as the ''Empire Builder''
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James J. Hill
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First president of the Minnesota university
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William Watts Folwell
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Established Fort St. Charles on Lake of The Woods on 1732
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Sieur De La Verendrye
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Started the gray hound bus service in 1914
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Carl Wickman
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Astronaut who served as pilot on NASA in 2002
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Duane D. Carry aka "digger"
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Willmar MN resident selected as an astronaut canidate by NASA in January 1978
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George Nelson
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Ojibwa civil rights activist
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Dennis Banks
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First territorial governor
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Alexander Ramsey
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Early Two Harbors attorney who started 3M
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John Dawn
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Lost the presdent election to Richard Nelson
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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The first European to record the existence of St. Anthony Falls
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Father Hennepin
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Explored the Upper Mississippi River
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Zebulon PPike
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Published Minnesota's first newspaper in St. Paul
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James Goodhue
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Woman spokesperson for General Mills consumer product
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Betty Crocker
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American Oil Executive
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J. Paul Getty
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U.S businessman who formed american fur company in 1808
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John Jacob Aster
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Served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986
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Warren E. Burger
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1970 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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Norman Earnest Borlaug
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