Archive for the ‘Minnesota’ Category
January
Jenelle Norris
Minnehaha Falls
Kangsheng Liu
My Secchi Disk
Lake Street Bridge Collapse, Minneapolis, 1989
The current Lake Street Bridge replaced the previous bridge, a wrought-iron span built in 1889. The previous bridge was the second-oldest bridge in use over the Mississippi, next to the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri (built in 1874). At the time, the Minneapolis Tribune opined that the new bridge was a "foolish extravagance," since [...]
35W Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis
The eight-lane bridge on Interstate 35W, part of a major artery between Minneapolis and St. Paul, was being repaired at the time, and a witness told MSNBC that he had heard a jackhammer being used on the roadway just before the collapse about 6 p.m. Central time. Witnesses said the bridge, which was built in [...]
Weather Forecasts
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Bicycle Maps
Minnesota State Bike Maps, Wisconsin State Bike Maps, Wisconsin County Bike Maps, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, Elroy-Sparta Trail.
The Current State of Things
The current time and date. The current phase of the moon. The current financial cost of the Iraq invasion. The current US national debt. How things look in Moose Lake, Minnesota, Mt. St. Helens, Washington, Davis Station, Antarctica,
Nuuk, Greenland, New York, New York, the Falkland Islands An estimate of the number of people in U.S. [...]
Art
The Katherine Nash Gallery at The University of Minnesota Art Department. Jean Dubuffet at the Fondation Dubuffet. PS1 and The Dia Center in New York. Insecula, l’encyclopédie des arts et de l’architecture. Mabuse. Niff Actuals.
Flora
Help on growing ornamentals that are native to your (US) region. A weblog that is occasionally about gardening in Minnesota. Digitized rare botanical books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanical illustrations from the University of Delaware Special Collections. Botanical illustrations by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women. The National Agricultural Library’s collection of images from The [...]