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Kevin Black spoke to the interim committee tasked with the formula
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Chuck Lura
I used to occasionally hear one of my college professors call out the names of some plants as he drove down the highway at 60 miles per hour. “That is a 60 mile-an-hour plant,” he would declare. One of those plants was curly dock, also known as curled dock, sour dock, or yellow dock.
Main Street
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Craig Blumenshine speaks with Holly Pedersen and Katherine Terras about Project Pipeline, an initiative focused on addressing educator shortages. Later in the show, Erik Deatherage sits down with the bluegrass band Kohlrabi Soup for a lively interview and the band treats us to a few live performances.
Dakota Datebook
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On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted a resolution authorizing the design of the new country’s flag. That resolution read: “Resolved: That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized with a broken vertebrae after a car accident in New Hampshire, according to his spokesperson.
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In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next. -
Macon Blair's take on 1984's gore-core classic is as much a movie about love of family as it is a violent shock comedy.
