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Downtown Minneapolis skyline

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County. The city 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, these two cities form the core of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the sixteenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.2 million residents. The city is abundantly rich in water with twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi riverfront, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway. Minneapolis was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington. America's most literate city, Minneapolis has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition of charitable support through progressive public social programs and through private and corporate philanthropy. (more...)

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge destruction

A film of the 1940 collapse of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, Washington, United States. The bridge opened on July 1, 1940 and from the start became notorious for its movement during windy days, earning the nickname "Galloping Gertie". The wind-induced collapse occurred on November 7, 1940, due partially to a physical phenomenon known as mechanical resonance.

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