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Robidoux trading Post near Gering, Nebraska, which was built in the 1850s in a secluded canyon near the Oregon Trail, has been reconstructed with hand-hewn logs. Supplies and blacksmithing were available at the trading post for westward-bound travelers.

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The war between England and the United States ended December 24, 1814.

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The only stateowned milling complex in the United States is the North Dokota Mill and Elevator Association in Grand Forks. In 1922, voters approved construction of a mill so farmers could process,manufacture and market their own wheat products.

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More than 3,000 pieces of original art created by children's picture book illustrators is showed at the Mazza Museum. International Art from Picture Book at the University of Findlay,Ohio.

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Belle Fourche,South Dakota is known as "South Dakota's Antique Capital" because of its many antiques and collectibles stores on Main Street.

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Artist Vinnie Ream, who sculpted the marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol, was the first woman and the youngest artist, only 18, to receive a commission from the U. S. government for a statue. She was born in 1847, in Madison, Wisconsin.

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The state's oldest commercial water-powered flour mill is Greefield Mills in Howe, Indiana, owned by the Henry Rinkel family since 1904

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The total area of Orono, Minnesota is about 24 square miles

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The total area of Orono, Minnesota is about 24 square miles

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West Branch, Iowa the birth place of President Herbert Hoover, is located in the eastern part of the state, not the western, as reported in a previous edition of American Profile

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The world's longest chain of pennies--40 miles long--was laid by volunteers in Fort Scott, Kansas in July. The group also set down a mile of pennies in a worlds-record time of 2 hours, 23 minuts and 1 second. The events raised money for the city's Ellis Park.

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The first Republican state convention was on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan, when an assembly of anti-slavery men met to officially form a new political party and to choose a slate of candidates.

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With 12 city parks covering more than 115 acres, Montevideo, Minnesota has earned the nickname "City of Parks"

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Remains of earthen mounds constructed for ceremonal, residential and religious purposes at a once fortified Indian village are preserved at Townosahgy State Historic Site in Misssissippi County, Missouri. Indians of the Mississippi culture inhabited the site between A.D. 1000 and 1400.

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Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.

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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

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