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Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) is an College Athletic Conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. As the name implies, member schools are located in the state of Minnesota; also, all of the member schools are private, with all but two having a religious affiliation.
Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool (Minuet) An integrated Internet package for DOS Operating Systems on IBM-compatible PC's, that includes modules for electronic mail (using the POP3 protocol), Gopher, telnet, Usenet news (NNTP) and FTP. Minuet provides an easy-to-use, mouse-driven graphical user interface via the TurboVision libraries.
Minnesota Japanese School The Minnesota Japanese School (ミネソタ日本語補習授業校) is a school for the children of Japanese citizens residing in Minnesota, located in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was founded in 1978 and classes are currently held on Saturdays on the campus of Normandale Community College, which also features a beautiful Japanese garden.
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (more than 1,000 acres) is a major horticultural garden and arboretum located about 4 miles west of Chanhassen, Minnesota at 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska, Minnesota. It is part of the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota, and open to the public every day of the year except Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Minnesota Lynx The Minnesota Lynx are a Women's National Basketball Association] (WNBA) team based in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota and play their home games at the Target Center. They are currently coached by Don Zierden, who took the helm in December 2006.
Minnesota Malt "Minnesota Malt" is a story currently being written by minor league baseball player Zack Vank. It documents his actions after waking one morning to find himself in the backwoods of Minnesota, hundreds of miles from his home in Michigan.
Minnesota March Minnesota March is a march for wind band written by John Phillip Sousa for the University of Minnesota. It is now used as one of the university's school songs, with lyrics written by university band director Michael Jalma.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is one of the most frequently used personality tests in the mental health fields. This assessment, or test, was designed to help identify personal, social, and behavioral problems in psychiatric patients.
Minnesota North District (LCMS) The Minnesota North District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern two-thirds of the state of Minnesota; it also includes two congregations in Wisconsin. The southern third of Minnesota constitutes the Minnesota South District, and the rest of Wisconsin is divided between the North Wisconsin and South Wisconsin Districts.
Minnesota Northern Railroad The Minnesota Northern Railroad (AAR reporting mark MNN) is a Class III short line railroad that operates over 224 miles (394 kilometres) of track in northwest Minnesota. The railroad is co-owned by KBN Incorporated and Independent Locomotive Service and is headquartered in Crookston, Minnesota.
Minnesota Online Minnesota Online is a collaborative framework to serve online learners of the 32 member institutions of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Minnesota Online represents a major system-building enterprise that leverages the resources of institutions and the Office of the Chancellor to develop standards-based curriculum and services to meet the needs of the online learner.
Minnesota Opera The Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1963, and is known for premiering such diverse works as Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Frankenstein by Libby Larsen.
Minnesota Pipeline The Minnesota Pipeline (or Minnesota Pipe Line) is a crude oil pipeline that runs from Clearbrook, Minnesota southward to the Twin Cities. It is operated by Koch Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Minnesota Republic The Minnesota Republic is a University of Minnesota newspaper. It advertises as the "conservative alternative" to the two other University of Minnesota student publications: The Minnesota Daily and The Wake Student Magazine.
Minnesota Ripknees The Minnesota Ripknees are a team of the American Basketball Association scheduled to begin play in 2006. The team gets its unusual name after "Ripknee", a character in stories (with a hole in the knee of his blue jeans) which co-owner John Jurewicz used to tell his son, William (also a co-owner) on long car trips.
Minnesota River The Minnesota River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It drains a watershed of nearly 17,000 sq mi (44,000 km²) -- 14,751 sq mi (38,205 km²) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5180 km²) in South Dakota and Iowa.
Minnesota Road Research Facility The Minnesota Road Research Facility (also known as Mn/ROAD, pronounced MinROAD), is an outdoor research laboratory operated by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) that specializes in testing different types of pavement. Said to be the largest such facility in the world, it is located 40 miles northwest of Minneapolis-St.
Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center The Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center is a planned development for Minneapolis, Minnesota. The center is expected as a three building complex holding historical buildings such as the Shubert theater and the Hennepin Center for the Arts, which is to be accompanied by a new three-story atrium.
Minnesota School of Business & Globe College Minnesota School of Business and Globe College are private, for-profit, nationally accredited colleges that have been partnered to provide specialized career training programs in business, medical, and computer technology.
Minnesota School of Cosmetology The Minnesota School of Cosmetology is a private, for-profit, cosmetology school that operates in the Twin Cities area providing career education to it's students to become stylists, estheticians, make-up artists, or nail technicians. The cosmetology component of the education is a 1550 hour course while the nail techology component comprises a 350 hour course.
Minnesota South District (LCMS) The Minnesota South District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the southern third of the state of Minnesota including the Twin Cities area; it also includes two congregations in Wisconsin. The northern two thirds of Minnesota constitute the Minnesota North District, and the rest of Wisconsin is divided between the North Wisconsin and South Wisconsin Districts.
Minnesota State Academies The Minnesota State Academies are two separate schools, the Minnesota State Academy for the Blind and the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, both established by the legislature in 1863. They are public residential schools for Minnesota children with special needs, serving students from birth to age 21.
Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf The Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) is a public residential school serving deaf children in Minnesota. It is one of two Minnesota State Academies located in in Faribault and operated by the state for particular student populations.
Minnesota State College Student Association The Minnesota State College Student Association (MSCSA) is a non-profit organization in Minnesota that represents the students of 46 community and technical college campuses. MSCSA advocates on a statewide and federal level for higher education issues, including full funding of the Pell grant, tax credits for tuition costs, and a federal investigation into textbook prices.
Minnesota State Fair The Minnesota State Fair, marketed for generations as "The Great Minnesota Get-Together," is one of the largest state fairs in the United States. It is held at the state fairgrounds, adjoining the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota.
Minnesota State Highway 120 Minnesota State Highway 120 (often called Century Avenue after the community college of the same name) was created around 1965, as a redesignation for Trunk Highway 100. The state began turning the route over to Ramsey and Washington counties in 2001, which is expected to be finalized in 2009.
Minnesota State Highway 299 Minnesota State Highway 299, also called Olof Hansen Drive, is a short (less than a mile long) route which serves the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf located in Faribault, connecting it to Minnesota State Highway 60. Like most other special Minnesota state highways serving the state institutions, it ends in a circle.
Minnesota State Highway 43 Minnesota State Highway 43 is a highway which runs from Minnesota State Highway 44 near Mabel, Minnesota to the Winona bridge over the Mississippi River to Wisconsin. It runs through Rushford, Minnesota and is about 45 miles long.
Minnesota State Highway 64 Minnesota State Highway 64 is a highway which runs from Minnesota State Highway 210 near Motley, Minnesota to Minnesota State Highway 200 near Laporte, Minnesota. Determined as an important alternate to congestion-plagued MN 371, this road has been designated a Minnesota Regional Corridor along its entire length.
Minnesota State Highway 73 Minnesota State Highway 73 is a highway which runs northwest of Cook south to near Moose Lake to Interstate 35. The cities along the route are Sturgeon, Chisholm, Hibbing, Floodwood, Kettle River, and Moose Lake.
Minnesota State Highway 86 Minnesota State Highway 86 is a highway in southwestern Minnesota. It runs from the Iowa border, where the road is Iowa Highway 86, north through Lakefield and ends at Minnesota State Highway 60 just east of Wilder.
Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet The Minnesota State Knowledge Bowl Meet is an annual, two-day event sponsored by the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, which is Minnesota's governing body of Knowledge Bowl. The State Meet is held in April at Cragun's Resort, located in Brainerd.
Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children The Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children was located in Owatonna, Minnesota from 1886 to 1945. During those years, it was home to a total of 10,635 children who were orphans or had been abused or abandoned.
Minnesota Streetcar Museum The Minnesota Streetcar Museum is a transportation museum that operates two heritage streetcar lines in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the western suburb of Excelsior. The Museum was created as part of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum in the winter of 2004–2005.
Minnesota Territorial Prison The Minnesota Territorial Prison was a prison in Stillwater, Minnesota, operated from 1853 - 1914. Construction of the prison began in 1851, shortly after Minnesota became a Territory The historic site, long since unused, was destroyed by arson] on [[September 3, 2002 prison was well-known because it once housed the Younger Brothers (Cole], [[Bob Younger|Bob, and Jim), members of notorious outlaw Jesse James' gang the prison site has been converted to a large condominium] project.
Minnesota Territory Minnesota Territory was an organized territory of the United States from March 3 1849 to May 11 1858, when Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state. The original boundaries, as carved out of Iowa Territory, included the current Minnesota region and most of what later became Dakota Territory east of the Missouri River.
Minnesota Transportation Museum The Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) is an organization that operates several heritage transportation sites in Minnesota and just across the border in Wisconsin. The museum primarily focuses on preserving and restoring portions of the railroads and buses that once traversed the area.
Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined the IQ test scores of 130 black/interracial children adopted by advantaged white families. The aim of the study was to determine the contribution of genetic or cultural/environmental factors to the poorer performance of black children on IQ tests and in school as compared to white children.
Minnesota True Team State Track and Field The Minnesota True Team State Meet was created in 1987 by the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association to determine the top overall team based on depth rather than top finishers. In a traditional track and field meet, only the top eight or nine competitors per event score points.
Minnesota Twin Family Study The Minnesota Twin Family Study is a longitudinal study of twins conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It seeks to identify the genetic and environmental influences on the development of psychological traits.
Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area is a 5,490 acre member of the Minnesota state park system. The park is not continuous but is composed of waysides, four of which are strung along the Minnesota River between Shakopee and Belle Plaine.
Minnesota Valley Transit Authority The Minnesota Valley Transit Authority (MVTA) is a public transportation agency that provides transit services in Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Rosemount, and Savage. The name refers to the river valley along the Minnesota River.
Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are currently members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
Minnesota Woman Minnesota Woman is the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman who was believed to be at least 10,000 years old. The bones were found near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota on June 16, 1931, during construction on U.
Minnesota Youth Symphonies Minnesota Youth Symphonies, commonly referred to as MYS, is an organization founded in 1972 made up of four orchestras comprised completely of elementary through high school aged music students, and leveled based on student abilities. The String Orchestra, an orchestra comprising just stringed instruments, is conducted by Pat Kelly, and geared for string students at the intermediate level.
Minnesota Zen Center Minnesota Zen Meditation Center was formed when the founding head teacher, Dainin Katagiri, (1928-1990) was invited to come from California in 1972 to teach a small but growing group of Minneapolis students interested in the dharma. After his death, Shohaku Okumura served as interim head teacher until the installation of Karen Sunna, who had studied with Katagiri Roshi until his death.
Minnesota's 1st congressional district Minnesota's First Congressional District extends across far southern Minnesota from the border with South Dakota to the border of Wisconsin. The First District is primarily a rural district built on a strong history of agriculture.
Minnesota's 2nd congressional district Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District spans the width of the entire southern Twin Cities metro area and contains all of Carver, Scott, Le Sueur, Goodhue and Rice Counties. It contains almost all of Dakota County, except the northern tip.
Minnesota's 3rd congressional district Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District is one of the most affluent in the state, encompassing the suburbs of Hennepin County to the north, west, and south of Minneapolis. With blue collar Brooklyn Park to the north, middle-income Bloomington to the south, and higher-income Plymouth and Wayzata to the West, it features a mixed characteristic.
Minnesota's 5th congressional district Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District is, by Minnesota standards, a geographically small urban and suburban congressional district in eastern Minnesota. It covers eastern Hennepin County, including the entire city of Minneapolis, along with parts of Anoka and Ramsey counties.
Minnesota's 8th congressional district Minnesota's 8th congressional district covers the northeastern part of Minnesota, and is currently represented by DFLer, Jim Oberstar. This district consists of Duluth, Hibbing, and the Mesabi Range and is strongly Democratic.
Minnesotan (passenger train) The Minnesotan was a passenger train run by the Chicago Great Western Railway, using the CGW's trackage between Grand Central Station in Chicago, Illinois and Saint Paul Union Depot in Saint Paul, Minnesota, via Rochester, Minnesota.
Minneula Azizov Minneula Azizov (born June 23, 1951) is a retired field hockey player from Russia, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Field Hockey Team from the Soviet Union at the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Minnewaska State Park Preserve The Minnewaska State Park Preserve is a 14,500 acre (58 km²) preserve located on the Shawangunk Ridge in New York on US 44/NY 55, five miles (8 km) west of NY 299, near New Paltz, New York. The park is managed by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Minni Minnawi Minni Arcua Minnawi (born about 1972) is the leader of the largest faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army. Under Minnawi's leadership, his SLA faction signed a peace agreement, known as the May agreement, with the Khartoum government in May 2006.
Minni ritchi Minni ritchi is a type of reddish brown bark that continuously peels in small curly flakes, leaving the tree looking like it has a coat of red curly hair. Brooker and Kleinig (1990) formally described it as a bark type in which "the outer rich, red-brown smooth bark splits both longitudinally and horizontally, the free edges rolling back without completely detaching to expose new green bark beneath".
Minnie 'n Me Minnie 'n Me is a line of merchandise made by The Walt Disney Company featuring the comic character Minnie Mouse when she was young and her childhood companions who include Daisy Duck, Clarabelle Cow, Penny Dog, Patty Pony, TJ Turtle, Heather Hippo, Lily Lamb, Fifi the Peke, Minnie's dog and Trixie the kitten (Daisy's Cat). Later on they added Figaro, Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck.
Minnie and Moskowitz Minnie and Moskowitz is a film by John Cassavetes, starring his wife, Gena Rowlands, and actor Seymour Cassel in the title roles of Minnie and Moskowitz, respectively. It was one of a small number of low-budget (less than $1 million) films bankrolled by Universal Studios in the early 70s, in an attempt to copy the success of Easy Rider.
Minnie Earl Sears Minnie Earl Sears (1873-1933) had a long career as a cataloger and bibliographer at a variety of libraries (Bryn Mawr College, University of Minnesota, New York Public Library), before she joined the publishing company H. W.
Minnie Foxx Minnie Foxx is an African-American singer, songwriter, and actress, and winner of Best Overall Performer in a Live Stage Play at the Black Music Awards, Minnie Williams Foxx is also the long time companion of Michael Jackson's head defense lawyer Thomas Mesereau. Originally from Ohio, she has appeared in a wide variety of television, film, theatre, radio, print, fashion, and entertainment productions, and is a partner in The Collier Image Studios and The Diva Collections.
Minnie Mae Muzik Minnie Mae Muzik is an underground record label created by Ibn Young (who goes under the name Playa Fly) in Memphis, Tennessee. The label was named after Ibn's grandmother and created after his departure from Super Sigg Records, which was under the management of Van Sigger.
Minnie Mouse Minerva "Minnie" Mouse is a fictional character of the Mickey Mouse universe featured in animated cartoons, comic strips and comic book by The Walt Disney Company. The comic strip story "The Gleam" (published January 19-May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse.
Minnie Pearl Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996). She was a country comedienne who, along with friend Roy Acuff, was an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.
Minnie Vautrin Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin (September 27, 1887 – May 16, 1941) was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanking, China during the Nanjing Massacre.
Minnie's Boys Minnie's Boys is a Broadway musical comedy based on the lives of the Marx Brothers. The book is by Groucho's son Arthur Marx and Robert Fisher, and the score was composed by Larry Grossman (music) and Hal Hackady (lyrics).
Minnieville, Virginia Minnieville is an extinct unincorporated town that was once located in Prince William County, Virginia. The Minnieville post office stood at the corner of what is now known as Minnieville Road and Cardinal Drive from 1884 to 1924.
Minnijean Brown-Trickey Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of a group of African-American teenagers known as the "Little Rock Nine." On September 25, 1957, under the gaze of 1,200 armed soldiers and a worldwide audience, Minnijean Brown-Trickey faced down an angry mob and helped to desegregate Central High.
Minnkota Power Cooperative Minnkota Power Cooperative is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative based in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It wholesales electric power to rural electric cooperatives in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Minnowbrook Conference Using funds supplied as part of a "super-professorship" paid for by New York state, Dwight Waldo facilitated a 1968 meeting at Minnowbrook, Syracuse University's conference center in the Adirondack Mountains. Limiting participation to people under age 35, Waldo was principally interested in redefining the focuses of public administration theory in the context of social upheaval--a timely topic in 1968.
Mino District (Sanuki Province) was a former district located in the former Sanuki Province (now Kagawa Prefecture), Japan. On March 16, 1899, the district was dissolved by incorporating parts of it into the neighboring Toyota and Mitoyo Districts.
Mino Nenki Mino Nenki (japanese: 蓑 念鬼, hiragana: みの ねんき, rōmaji: Mino Nenki) a character featured within the Japanese anime Basilisk Kouga Ninpou Chou (known in English as Koga Ninja Scrolls). Nenki was one of ten ninja selected by his leader Ogen to represent their clan of Iga Tsubagakure against the chosen ten of the rival Koga Manjidani clan.
Mino, Kagawa Mino (三野町; -cho) was a town located in the former Mitoyo District, Kagawa, Japan. On January 1, 2006 the town merged with six other towns from the district forming the city of Mitoyo and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Minoan civilization The Minoans (Greek: Μυκηναίοι; Μινωίτες) were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC when their culture was superseded by the Mycenaean culture, which drew upon the Minoans. Based on depictions in Minoan art, Minoan culture is often characterized as a matrilinear society centered on goddess worship.
Minoan eruption The devastating Minoan eruption of Thera in the Bronze Age (dated to 1639-1616 BC via Radiocarbon dating; 1628 BC dendrochronologically; 1530-1500 BC archaeologically) has become the most famous single event in the Aegean Sea before the fall of Troy. The eruption would likely have caused a significant climate upset for the eastern Mediterranean region.
Minoan chronology Minoan chronology refers to the relative dating scheme developed by Sir Arthur Evans for the Bronze Age in Crete based on the excavations initiated and managed by him at the site of the ancient city of Knossos. He called the civilization that he discovered there Minoan.
Minoan pottery Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of rapidly-maturing artistic styles reveal something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they help archaeologists assign relative dates to the strata of their sites.
Minoan women Very little is known about Minoan culture and society. The frequent depictions of women and goddesses make the Minoan civilization an inviting field for feminist archaeology, speculating about matrilinearity or matriarchy.
Minobe Tatsukichi Minobe Tatsukichi (May 7, 1873 to May 23, 1948) was a respected member of the Tokyo University law program, his “organ theory” declared the emperor to be a part of the constitutional structure of Japan rather than a sacred power beyond that of the state itself. His interpretation of the constitution was overwhelmingly accepted by buereaucrats until the 1930's.
Minocycline Minocycline hydrochloride, also known as minocycline, is a member of the broad spectrum tetracycline antibiotics, and has a broader spectrum than the other members. As a result of its long half-life it generally has serum levels 2-4 times that of most other tetracyclines (150 mg giving 16 times the activity levels compared to 250 mg of tetracycline at 24-48 hours).
Minolta Minolta was a Japanese worldwide manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photo-copiers, fax machines and laser printers. Minolta was founded in Osaka, Japan in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten (日独写真機商店; meaning Japanese-German camera shop).
Minolta 16 Minolta 16 refers to a line of 16mm subminiature cameras made by Minolta between 1955 and 1974. The Minolta 16 was the company's first widely successful product, helping to establish its popularity in the world market.
Minolta AF The Minolta AF camera system was a revolutionary collection of photographic equipment from Minolta. Regionally, it was known as Dynax in Europe, Maxxum in North America and Alpha (or α) in Japan and the rest of Asia.
Minolta Hi-Matic Hi-Matic was the name of a long-running series of 35 mm cameras made by Minolta. The original Hi-Matic of 1962 was the first Minolta camera to feature automatic exposure and achieved a small degree of fame when a version (the Ansco Autoset) was taken into space by John Glenn in 1962.
Minolta Maxxum 7000 The Minolta MAXXUM 7000 (7000 Dynax AF in Europe) 35mm SLR camera was introduced in 1985. It marked a significant milestone in photography as it was the first camera to feature both integrated autofocus (AF) and motorised film advance, the standard configuration for later amateur and professional single lens reflex cameras.
Minolta Tower Opened in 1962, the Konica Minolta Tower Centre is located in Niagara Falls, Ontario and was the first of the modern observation towers built near the brink of the Falls. For more than 100 years, there had been various, but much smaller, towers built throughout the area with most of them being wooden structures.
Minolta X-700 The Minolta X-700 was a 35 mm single-lens reflex camera introduced by Minolta in 1981; it was their final manual-focus SLR before the introduction of the revolutionary auto-focus Minolta Maxxum 7000. It used the basic body of the XG-M but added full program autoexposure in addition to the XG-M's aperture priority and metered manual modes.
Minolta XK You are looking probably at one of the most under-mentioned classic SLR of the seventies. May be its birth was a little untimely but it was almost a generation ahead of some of its more well known competition on the professional camera market.
Minooka High School Minooka High School, or MHS, is a public four-year high school located in Minooka, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Minooka Community High School District 111.
Minor (graph theory) In graph theory, a graph H is called a minor of the graph G if H is isomorphic to a graph that can be obtained by zero or more edge contractions on a subgraph of G. Edge contraction is the process of removing an edge and identifying its two endpoints.
Minor (law) A minor under the law is a person who is not yet a legal adult (reaching the legal age of majority). The primary criterion is usually a specific age, which may vary per jurisdiction and over time, but historically is has also varied by gender and even been determined by vaguer definitions, such as physical/sexual maturity.
Minor actors and actresses in Harry Potter The following are minor actors and actresses who are best or only known for their smaller roles in Harry Potter films. For a complete list of actors and actresses who appear in the films, see List of Harry Potter films cast members.
Minor artscene groups This is a growing list of the minor computer underground artscene groups spanning from roughly 1992 to the present day. Minor artscene groups are differentiated from organizations with their own Wikipedia articles by the following criteria:
Minor Arcana The Minor Arcana of the Tarot deck consist of 56 cards, which are closely related to the deck of 52 playing cards used in most modern card games. It is comprised of four suits, most commonly named Wands, Cups, Swords, and Coins (also called Pentacles or Disks), although there is a wide variety of different names and suit symbols used in different decks.
Minor Badgers in Redwall In the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, there are numerous badger characters. Most of them fall under the category of Badger Lord or Badger Mother, but there are a few who do not and some of those who do are rather minor to the story.
Minor civil division Minor civil division (MCD) is a term used by the United States Census Bureau to designate the primary governmental and/or administrative divisions of a county, such as a civil township, precinct, or magisterial district. MCDs exist in 28 states and the District of Columbia.
Minor Counties Cricket Championship The Minor Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England that is competed for by those county cricket clubs that do not have first-class status. The competition was incepted in 1895 and, apart from the two World War periods, has been contested annually ever since.
Minor directory page A minor directory page is a construct intended for use when articles have been split and it is no longer suitable to simply redirect. The material appropriate for the reader may be on one of several related articles, yet it is not suitable to disambiguate as there is no ambiguity in the meaning of the term.
Minor Disturbance Minor Disturbance was the debut (and only) release by DC hardcore punk pioneers The Teen Idles. The 8-track EP is valued by hardcore punk fans, especially by fans of Minor Threat, which evolved out of this group.
Minor grand trine In astrology, a minor grand trine occurs when one planet or celestial body forms a trine to another planet, and another planet is posited at the midpoint of the two planets so as to create two sextile aspects between the two planets.
Minor Gryffindors The following are minor characters from the Harry Potter series from Gryffindor House. For other Gryffindor characters, see Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley and Minor characters associated with Quidditch.

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