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Ministry of Railways (India) The Ministry of Railways in India is in charge of the Indian Railways, the state-owned company that enjoys a monopoly in Rail transport in India. It is headed by the Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and two ministers of state.
Ministry of Railways (Pakistan) The Ministry of Railway is responsible for overall control of Pakistan Railways as well as to guide the overall policy. There are four (4) Directorates in this Division namely Administrative Directorate, Technical Directorate, Planning Directorate, and Finance Directorate.
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Denmark (Danish: Ministeriet for Videnskab, Teknologi og Udvikling) is a Danish ministry in charge of research, telecommunication and information technology.
Ministry of State Security The Ministry of State Security (MSS) (Simplified Chinese: 国家安全部; Pinyin: Guojia Anquan Bu, or Guoanbu) is the security agency of the People's Republic of China. It is also probably the Chinese government's largest and most active foreign intelligence agency, though it is also involved in domestic security matters.
Ministry of Supply The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supplying of equipment to the British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply. During the war-years, it was based at Shell Mex House on London's Strand.
Ministry of the Environment (Ontario) The Ministry of the Environment is responsible for addressing the environmental issues affecting the environmental protection of the Canadian province of Ontario and the World. This includes administration of government programs such as Ontario's Drive Clean.
Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (Singapore) The Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (Abbreviation: MEWR; Chinese: 新加坡环境及水源部; Malay: Kementerian Alam Sekitar dan Sumber Air) formerly the Ministry of the Environment (ENV), was set up in 1972 to provide Singaporeans with a quality living environment and a high standard of public health, protected against the spread of communicable diseases.
Ministry of the Navy of Japan The Japanese Naval Ministry was established at the end of the 19th century, along with the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The IJN was broadly based on the British Royal Navy and initially its major vessels were built in the United Kingdom.
Ministry of the State of Denmark Ministry of the State of Denmark (The Prime Minister's Office) (Danish: Statsministeriet) is a Danish government ministry. Atypical of a Danish ministry it does not have any councils, boards or committees associated with it and its near sole responsibility is to act as the secretariat of the Prime Minister of Denmark.
Ministry of Transport (Singapore) The Ministry of Transport (Abbreviation: MOT; Chinese: 新加坡交通部, Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Jiāotōngbù) is a ministry in the Government of Singapore that administers and regulates land, sea and air transportation within the republic’s jurisdiction. Currently, the ministry regulates and commissions four individual government statutory boards: the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Public Transport Council (PTC), which implement the ministry’s policies and tactical directions.
Ministry of Truth The Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) was one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The other Ministries were: Ministry of Love, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace.
Ministry of Unification The Ministry of Unification is a branch of the South Korean government that is charged with working toward the reunification of Korea. It was first established in 1969 as the National Unification Board, under the rule of Park Chung-hee.
Ministry of War A Ministry of War or Ministry for War is an administrative, supply and services agency of an army, as opposed to the entire military establishment. Both Mexico and Brazil both still maintain a War Department for the support of their armies.
Ministry of War of Japan The Ministry of War of Japan (陸軍省 Rikugun shó) was established in the late 19th century, alongside many other Ministries, as part of the creation of the first modern Japanese government. Japan modernized its military might into a force trained in modern (Western) technology, tactics, and discipline in a very short time, allowing it to win the Russo-Japanese War and First Sino-Japanese War.
Ministry of Works The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1943, during World War II, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use. After the war, the Ministry retained responsibility for Government building projects.
Ministry Secretary General of Government of Chile The Minister Secretary General of Government of Chile (Ministerio Secretaria General de Gobierno; SEGEGOB) is the minister of the state of Chile that is charged with acting as the government's organ of communication. The principal function of the Minister Secretary General of Government and his or her staff is to serve as the spokesperson of the government, its face to public opinion
Ministry Watch Ministry Watch is an independent evangelical Christian organisation whose purpose is to review Christian ministries for financial accountability and transparency, and to provide independent advice to Christians considering making donations to them.
Minisupercomputer Minisupercomputers constituted a class of computers that emerged in the mid-1980s. As scientific computing using vector processors became more popular, the need for lower-cost systems that might be used at the departmental level instead of the corporate level created an opportunity for new computer vendors to enter the market.
MiniScribe MiniScribe was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. Through the 1980s, MiniScribe made its name by selling cheap stepper motor-based drives, eventually moving into higher-profile voice coil motor designs before going bankrupt in 1990.
Minit Records Minit Records was a record label originally based in New Orleans and founded by Joe Banashak. After making a distribution deal with Imperial Records, the label released it's biggest hit, the #1 Mother-In-Law by Ernie K-Doe.
Minitab Minitab is a computer program designed to perform statistical functions. In 1972, instructors at the Pennsylvania State University developed Minitab as a light version of OMNITAB, a statistical analysis program by NIST.
Minitel The Minitel is a Videotex online service accessible through the telephone lines, and is considered one of the world's most successful pre-World Wide Web online services. It was launched in France in 1982 by the PTT (Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications; divided since 1991 between France Télécom and La Poste).
Miniten Miniten (derived from mini+tennis) is a tennis-like game played exclusively by naturists. It was devised in the 1930s, in order to provide a suitable game for naturist clubs which often lacked sufficient land to create full-sized tennis courts.
MiniTSFO The Mini TSFO (Training Set, Fire Observation) was the first artillery call-for-fire simulation designed for a personal computer. It was started in 1985 as an outgrowth of a Field Artillery Officer Advanced Cource battlefield research project at the U.
Minivac 601 Minivac 601 Digital Computer Kit was an eletromechanical digital computer product created by Claude Shannon and sold by Scientific Development Corporation as early as 1961 as an educational kit for digital circuits. It used electrical relays as logic switches and for storage.
Minivan Minivan is a term coined in North America for a type of vehicle that looks like a cross between a regular-sized van and a station wagon. In other markets the minivan is known as the minibus, people carrier, multi-utility vehicle (MUV), or multi-purpose vehicle (MPV).
Minix-vmd Minix-vmd is an open source operating system which was created from Minix, and adds some additional features such as virtual memory and X Window System support, and only ran on IA-32 and compatible microprocessor architectures. It was written by many of the same authors who develop Minix, at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.
Minjjarna Shenkora Minjjarna Shenkora is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. At the southern end of the Semien Shewa Zone, Minjjarna Shenkora is bordered on the east, south and west by the Oromia Region, on the northwest by Hagere Mariamna Kesem, and on the northeast by Berehet.
Minjung Minjung is a Korean word that is difficult to properly translate into other languages in a way that retains its historical and cultural connotations. Minjung is a combination of the two Chinese characters min and jung.
Minjung theology Minjung theology emerged in the 1970s, in the experience of South Korean Christians in the struggle for social justice. It is a people's theology, and, according to its authors, "a development of the political hermeneutics of the Gospel in terms of the Korean reality".
Mink A mink is any of several furry, dark-colored, semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, which also includes the weasels and the otters. It is naturally found in North America, northern Europe, and most of Russia west of Ural Mountains.
Mink (comics) Mink is a fictional character who appeared in the Marvel Comics series Squadron Supreme, and appears to be based loosely on Catwoman . She is a former criminal, who became a part of Nighthawk's America Redeemers, who attempted to stop the Squadron from taking over the world.
Mink (manga) Mink (電脳少女☆Mink Dennō Shōjo Mink) is a magical girl manga that was written by Megumi Tachikawa the creator of Saint Tail and Dream Saga, it was published by Kodansha and serialized in Nakayoshi magazine in 2000. It was republished translated into French by Soleil Productions (fr) as Cyber Idol Mink in 2003, and in English by Tokyopop in 2004.
Mink Lungs The Mink Lungs is a Brooklyn-area band began in 1998 as Jennifer Hoopes and Gian Carlo Feleppa were working at a diner in the Hamptons. Both adoring music and influenced by the Flaming Lips and the Pixies, the pair began composing and writing music with Gian's half-brother Tim Feleppa.
Minka Minka (民家, literally house(s) of the people) are residences in the traditional styles of Japanese peasants. Examples of one type, the gasshō-zukuri (合掌造り, literally praying-hands style), are preserved in two villages, Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture, and Gokayama in Toyama Prefecture.
MinkDaisakusen MinkDaisakusen is a hentai video game released for the PC only in Japan in 1997. It is a puzzle game, where you are rewarded with an erotic hentai picture every time a puzzle is completed, very similar to games like the Private Garden series.
Minke Booij Minke Gertine Booij (born on January 24, 1977 in Zaanstad) is a Dutch field hockey player, who played more than 150 international matches for the Netherlands national team since her debut, on September 9, 1998 in a friendly match against Japan.
Minke Smabers Minke Smabers (born March 22, 1979 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland) is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands, who played more than 200 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team. Her current team is Laren.
Minkowski (crater) Minkowski is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, in the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere. It lies about a crater diameter to the north-northeast of Lemaître crater, a formation of similar dimension.
Minkowski Prize The Minkowski Prize is given by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), in recognition to research which has been carried out by a person normally residing in Europe, as manifested by publications which contribute to the advancement of knowledge concerning diabetes mellitus. The Prize honors the name of Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931), a Polish physician and physiologist who was the discoverer of the role of pancreas in the control of glucose metabolism.
Minkowski space In physics and mathematics, Minkowski space (or Minkowski spacetime) is the mathematical setting in which Einstein's theory of special relativity is most conveniently formulated. In this setting the three ordinary dimensions of space are combined with a single dimension of time to form a four-dimensional manifold for representing a spacetime.
Minkowski's question mark function In mathematics, the Minkowski question mark function, sometimes called the slippery devil's staircase, is a function, denoted ?(x), possessing various unusual fractal properties, defined by Hermann Minkowski in 1904.
Minkowski's theorem In mathematics, Minkowski's theorem in the geometry of numbers applies to convex symmetric sets and lattices; it relates the number of contained lattice points to the volume of such a set. This relationship was discovered by Hermann Minkowski in 1889.
Minkowski-Bouligand dimension In fractal geometry, the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension or Minkowski dimension is a way of determining the fractal dimension of a set S in a Euclidean space R^n, or more generally of a metric space (X,d). This dimension is also known as the packing dimension or, less accurately, the box-counting dimension.
Minkowski-Hlawka theorem In mathematics, the Minkowski-Hlawka theorem is a result on the lattice packing of hyperspheres in dimension n > 1. It states that there is a lattice in Euclidean space of dimension n, such that the corresponding best packing of hyperspheres with centres at the lattice points has density Δ satisfying
Minkowski-Steiner formula In mathematics, the Minkowski-Steiner formula is a formula relating the surface area and volume of compact subsets of Euclidean space. More precisely, it defines the surface area as the "derivative" of enclosed volume in an appropriate sense.
Minmi (dinosaur) Minmi, named for Minmi Crossing, Australia (where it was found), was a small species of ankylosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 119 to 113 million years ago. Previously holding the record for the shortest dinosaur name, the title now goes to Mei, a carnivore from China.
Minn Hinsti Dans Minn Hinsti Dans (English translation: "My Final Dance") was the Icelandic entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, performed in Icelandic by Paul Oscar, a former drag queen (although the song was performed by Paul merely wearing some eyeliner) who raised many eyebrows in Iceland with his artistic creations before. The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has lived a hedonistic life - "Crystal champagne, pearls, porcelain/Diamonds for dinner, love for dessert" - and who appears to be either giving this lifestyle up or preparing to die (the lyrics are unclear on this point).
Minna Aaltonen Minna Aaltonen (born 17 September, 1966 in Turku) is a Finnish actress who has played Marianne in London's Burning, Ingrid Coates in Dream Team and she has appeared in Kotikatu, The Bill, Dalziel and Pascoe and Lexx and also features on beer ads in Ireland.
Minna Canth Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson (1844 Tampere - 1897 Kuopio), also known as Minna Canth was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children.
Minna Herzlieb Christiane Friederike Wilhelmine "Minna (Minchen)" Herzlieb (May 22, 1789, Züllichau/Sulechów, Lower Silesia - July 10, 1865, Görlitz) was a German female publisher, and a publisher of Karl Ernst Friedrich Frommann (1765-1839).
Minneapolis Area Synod The Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the largest synod, or diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The synod consists of all the congregations within its territory which is the western metropolitan Twin Cities.
Minneapolis Arena Minneapolis Arena was an indoor arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It hosted the various Minneapolis Millers teams from 1925 until 1963 and the Minneapolis Bruins of the Central Professional Hockey League from 1963-1965.
Minneapolis Board of Education The Minneapolis Board of Education describes itself as a "a policy-making body responsible for selecting the superintendent and overseeing the district's budget, curriculum, personnel and facilities." See Board of education for further details on the functions of a school board.
Minneapolis Business College Minneapolis Business College is a college located in Roseville, Minnesota, conjoined with an office building in the Rosedale Office Complex. The college prepares students for office and business environments and offers courses in accounting, computers, graphic design, criminal justice, medical assistance, office administration, and travel careers.
Minneapolis City Hall Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse (also known as the Municipal Building) is the main building used by the city government of Minneapolis, Minnesota, also serving Hennepin County. The current structure has served many different purposes since it was built, although today the building is mostly used by the city since a modern Hennepin County Government Center now sits across Government Plaza to the south.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a four-year and post-graduate college specializing in the visual arts. Founded in 1886, the College was originally called the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the first class contained 28 students, 26 of which were women.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a comprehensive art museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota on a campus that covers nearly 8 acres (32,000 m²). The museum is unusual in that it is free and photography is allowed.
Minneapolis Millerettes The Minneapolis Millerettes were an expansion All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team that played for one season in 1944 before being replaced by the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1945. They played their home games in Nicollet Park, home of the men's minor league team the Minneapolis Millers.
Minneapolis Millers (hockey) The Minneapolis Millers was the name of various incarnations of minor league ice hockey teams spanning from 1917-1963, including a 1963 Turner Cup winner in the International Hockey League. They had a natural rivalry with the St.
Minneapolis Rap Minneapolis Rap or Minneapolis Hip-Hop is a type of music which originates from the Minneapolis, Minnesota metropolitan area, bu is mainly from inside the city. The style of music can most closely be related to the alternative rap genre, or rap which speaks about, political, ecomomic, and social issues.
Minneapolis sound The Minneapolis sound is a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, R&B & new wave that was masterminded by Prince in the late 1970s. Its popularity was given a boost throughout the 1980s, thanks to his disciples, including The Time, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Morris Day, Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, Ta Mara & the Seen, Sheila E.
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is an 11 acre (45,000 m²) park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. It is located near the Walker Art Center, which operates it in coordination with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
Minneapolis South High School Minneapolis South High School is the largest public school (state funded) in Minneapolis, Minnesota located in Corcoran neighborhood. Its student population is approximately 1,906 (according to the Minnesota Department of Education), with a staff of about 162.
Minneapolis Steel & Machinery The Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company was located at and around the intersection of East 29th street and Minnehaha Avenue, near the triangle-shaped Longfellow Field (now gone). It was one of the companies that merged into the Minneapolis-Moline tractor company.
Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934 grew out of a strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis, a major distribution center for the Upper Midwest. Led by local leaders associated with the Trotskyist Communist League of America, a group that later founded the Socialist Workers Party (United States).
Minneapolis-Moline Minneapolis-Moline was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Minnesota. It was the product of a merger between three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery(MSM), Minneapolis Threshing Machine, and Moline Plow.
Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis (pronounced ) is the largest city in the state of Minnesota in the United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. Minneapolis sits on both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital and second-largest city.
Minneapolis, North Carolina Minneapolis, North Carolina is a township located in Avery County. It shares its name with two other cities in the United States: another small town in Kansas, and the much more famous city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, that state's largest city and twin city of its capital.
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway The Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway (MN&S) was an 87 mile (140 km) long American short line railroad connecting Minneapolis and Northfield, Minnesota. It was incorporated in 1918 to take over the trackage of the former Minneapolis, St.
Minnefer Minnefer was Supervisor of Palace Attendants and Overseer of Messengers in the Fifth dynasty of Egypt. His statue features him standing left foot forward, with his back to a wall and holding short rods in clenched fists.
Minnehaha Academy Minnehaha Academy (often abbreviated MA) is a private school in Minneapolis, Minnesota for students in preschool through 12th grade. It is owned and operated by the Northwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Minnehaha Falls Minnehaha Creek is a tributary of the Mississippi River located in Hennepin County, Minnesota that extends from Lake Minnetonka in the west and flows east for 22 miles (35 km) through several suburbs west of Minneapolis and then through south Minneapolis. Including Lake Minnetonka, the watershed for the creek covers 181 square miles (469 km²).
Minnehaha Falls, Georgia Minnehaha Falls cascade about 100 feet over a stair-stepped rock formation. They are located in Rabun County, Georgia within the boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest in the Tallulah Ranger District and are near Lake Rabun.
Minnehallen Minnehallen or The hall of remembrance was commissioned by the Norwegian parliament after World War I to commemorate the fallen Norwegian sailors of the war. It was unveiled by king Haakon VII and was later converted to the national monument commemorating fallen sailors of both World War I and World War II.
Minnesang Minnesang was the tradition of lyric and song writing in Germany which flourished in the 12th century and continued into the 14th century. People who wrote and performed Minnesang are known as Minnesingers (Minnesänger).
Minnesota 5th congressional district election, 2006 The Minnesota 5th congressional district election, 2006 was an election for the United States House of Representatives for the open seat of incumbent Martin Olav Sabo (DFL), who retired after serving the Minneapolis-based distict for 26 years.
Minnesota 6th congressional district election, 2006 The Minnesota's 6th congressional district election, 2006 was an election for the United States House of Representatives. The three major party candidates were Michele Bachmann (R), Patty Wetterling (D), and John Binkowski (I).
Minnesota 78 Minnesota 78 is an old selection of grapevine, developed at the University of Minnesota. It was extensively used in breeding by Elmer Swenson, with its Vitis riparia background providing a degree of adaptation to the harsh climate of the upper Midwest.
Minnesota 8th congressional district election, 2006 * — Sixteen Term Incumbent Jim Oberstar (D) has had little trouble for re-election ever since he's won his first term, and while the district has been relatively safe and hasn't had a Republican represent it since 1947, Oberstar faces a potential challenge from former Republican U.S.
Minnesota Association of Professional Employees The Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, or “MAPE” is a Minnesota-based labor union representing professional and technical workers employed by the state of Minnesota. This bargaining unit includes employees who perform a wide array of specialized, professional services from accounting to zoology.
Minnesota Ballet The Minnesota Ballet is a ballet company and school located in Duluth, Minnesota. Founded in 1965 by Donna Harkins and Jan Gibson as the Duluth Civic Ballet, the company has since expanded into a touring company with fourteen professional artists, who are locally based.
Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine The Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (MCAOM) is a college of Northwestern Health Sciences University, a natural health care university located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minn., and the fifth-largest city in Minnesota.
Minnesota Constitution The Constitution of the State of Minnesota was initially approved by the residents of Minnesota Territory in a special election held on October 13, 1857, and was ratified by the United States Senate on May 11, 1858, marking the admittance of Minnesota to the Union. Nearly 120 amendments have been approved (often multiple items at once), with perhaps the most significant being a reorganization in 1974 to simplify the document, making it easier for modern readers to comprehend and reducing the extensive verbiage.
Minnesota Daily The Minnesota Daily is the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, published every weekday while school is in session, and published weekly on Wednesdays during summer sessions. Published since 1900, the paper is one of the largest student-run and student-written newspapers in the United States and the fourth-largest paper in the state of Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is the agency of the state of Minnesota charged with maintaining natural areas such as state parks, state forests, recreational trails, and recreation areas as well as managing minerals, wildlife, and forestry. The agency is currently divided into seven sections Ecological Services, Enforcement, Fish & Wildlife, Forestry, Lands and Minerals, Trails and Waterways, and Waters.
Minnesota Experimental City The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) was a proposed planned community to be located in northern Minnesota to be constructed as a public private partnership in the 1960s. In contrast with many of the model cities of the time, the MXC was to be experimental, trying new things rather than proposing to select from the best of the existing practice.
Minnesota Fighting Saints The Minnesota Fighting Saints was the name of two professional ice hockey teams based in Saint Paul, Minnesota that played in the World Hockey Association. The first team was one of the WHA's original twelve franchises.
Minnesota Fringe Festival The Minnesota Fringe Festival is a theatre and performing arts festival held in Minneapolis, Minnesota every summer, usually during the first two weeks in August. The eleven-day event, which features performing artists of many genres and disciplines, is one many Fringe Festivals in North America.
Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2002 Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2002 was notable for two events: the decision of Governor Jesse Ventura- do to the unpopularity he began to have, from the polls and media- not to seek re election and the death of Senator Paul Wellstone shortly before the general election.
Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2006 The 2006 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Tim Pawlenty was endorsed by the state Republican convention on June 2, 2006, while the state Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention endorsed Mike Hatch on June 10, 2006.
Minnesota Golden Gophers The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the college sports team for the University of Minnesota. The university fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, gymnastics, golf, ice hockey, swimming, tennis, and track and field.
Minnesota Graduation Standards The Minnesota Graduation Standards, also known as the Profile of Learning and the Minnesota Academic Standards, created in 1998, were intended to raise standards of education for Minnesota high school students. The Minnesota Graduation Standards were developed to ensure minimum competence in survival skills for all Minnesota graduates from high school.
Minnesota high school boys hockey The Minnesota high school boys hockey program is a high school ice hockey program in the State of Minnesota. Based on tournament attendance, ice hockey is one of the most popular high school sports in the state.
Minnesota High School Speech Minnesota High School Speech refers to the competitive forensics system in the state of Minnesota. These activities are currently coordinated and organized by the Minnesota State High School League, otherwise known as the MSHSL.
Minnesota Historical Society The Minnesota Historical Society is a private, non-profit educational and cultural instutution dedicated to preserving the history of the state of Minnesota. It was founded by the territorial legislature in 1849.
Minnesota House of Representatives 2003-2004 Session The 2003-2004 Minnesota House of Representatives session, part of the 83rd Minnesota Legislature, started in January 2003 and ran until January 2005. It was preceded by the 2001-2002 session and succeeded by the 2005-2006 session.
Minnesota Housing Finance Agency The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) is an agency of the State of Minnesota tasked with reducing and/or eliminating homelessness, increasing home ownership for minorities, and increasing and preserving affordable housing.
Minnesota Iceman The Minnesota Iceman is a purported man-like creature frozen in a block of ice and displayed at state fairs or carnivals in and around Minnesota in the late 1960s as a "missing link". Obviously male in anatomy, it was human-like, hairy, with large hands and feet, and a flattened nose.
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) was created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1963 to provide a liaison between the government of Minnesota and the Native American tribes in the state. The council also brings issues of concern to Indians living in urban areas to the attention of the state government.

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