Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon<\/p>\n
“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.” – (?)Mark Twain<\/p>\n
I like this quote, I even love this quote, but Mark Twain?\u00a0 Doesn’t sound like Twain to me.\u00a0 Sounds more like an existentialist thinking in Country Western.\u00a0 A little bit country, a little bit Camus.<\/p>\n
HONEYBEE FACTS:<\/p>\n
The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.<\/p>\n
Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is -40 or 110 degrees.<\/p>\n
The St. Lawrence Seaway
\nopened in 1959
\nallowing oceangoing ships to
\nreach Duluth, now an
\ninternational port. Duluth,
\nMinnesota and Superior,
\nWisconsin are ranked the 3rd and 4th largest ports in the world. If
\ncounted together they would be the worlds largest port.<\/p>\n
The
\nMinneapolis
\nSculpture
\nGarden is the
\nlargest urban
\nsculpture
\ngarden in the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse in the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has
\n90,000 miles of
\nshoreline, which is more
\nthan California, Florida
\nand Hawaii combined!<\/p>\n
In 1956,
\nSouthdale, in the
\nMinneapolis suburb
\nof Edina, was the first
\nenclosed climatecontrolled
\nshopping
\nmall.<\/p>\n
The Hormel Company of Austin, MN marketed the first
\ncanned ham in 1926 and introduced spam in 1937.<\/p>\n
Introduced in 1963, the Control Data 6600, designed by
\nControl Data Corporation, was the first “super” computer. It was
\nused by the military to simulate nuclear explosions and break
\nSoviet codes as well as to model complex phenomena such as
\nhurricanes and galaxies.<\/p>\n
There are 201 named
\nMud Lakes, 154 named
\nLong Lake, and 123
\nnamed Rice Lake in
\nMinnesota.
\nThe Hull\u2010Rust mine in
\nHibbing is the largest
\nopen\u2010pit mine in the
\nworld.<\/p>\n
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Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon “Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.” – (?)Mark Twain I like this quote, I even love this quote, but Mark Twain?\u00a0 Doesn’t sound like Twain to me.\u00a0 Sounds more like an existentialist thinking … Continue reading Trivia (thanks, Tom)<\/span>