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Minneapolis downtown
Taken from a flight just after take off from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP), on my way from Detroit to Seattle.
Some facts I compiled about Minneapolis from Wikipedia:
- Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.
- Known as the "Twin Cities," Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 3.5 million residents.
- The city is abundantly rich in water with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway.
- Five Fortune 500 headquarters are in Minneapolis proper: Target Corporation, U.S. Bancorp, Xcel Energy, Ameriprise Financial, and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
- It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle.
- In 2007 Minneapolis was named America's most literate city, it has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music.
- The region is second only to New York City in live theater per capita and is the third-largest theater market in the U.S. after New York and Chicago.
- The Minneapolis park system has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America.
- More than 40% of adults in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area give time to volunteer work, the highest such percentage of any large metropolitan area in the United States.
- European Americans (German and Scandinavian) make up about two-thirds of Minneapolis's population. The German Americans in the city, making up over one-fifth (23.1%) of the population. The Scandinavian American population is primarily Norwegian and Swedish.
October 16, 2010, taken from flight over Minneapolis, somewhere over here.
Minneapolis downtown
Taken from a flight just after take off from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP), on my way from Detroit to Seattle.
Some facts I compiled about Minneapolis from Wikipedia:
- Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.
- Known as the "Twin Cities," Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 3.5 million residents.
- The city is abundantly rich in water with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway.
- Five Fortune 500 headquarters are in Minneapolis proper: Target Corporation, U.S. Bancorp, Xcel Energy, Ameriprise Financial, and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
- It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle.
- In 2007 Minneapolis was named America's most literate city, it has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music.
- The region is second only to New York City in live theater per capita and is the third-largest theater market in the U.S. after New York and Chicago.
- The Minneapolis park system has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America.
- More than 40% of adults in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area give time to volunteer work, the highest such percentage of any large metropolitan area in the United States.
- European Americans (German and Scandinavian) make up about two-thirds of Minneapolis's population. The German Americans in the city, making up over one-fifth (23.1%) of the population. The Scandinavian American population is primarily Norwegian and Swedish.
October 16, 2010, taken from flight over Minneapolis, somewhere over here.