Thy light shall ever be
A beacon（灯塔）bright and clear．
Thy son and daughters true
Will proclaim（宣布）thee near and far，
They shall guard thy fame and adore（崇拜，爱慕）thy name；
Thou shalt be their Northern Star．
Like the stream that bends to sea，
Like the pine that seeks the blue；
Minnesota，still for thee
Thy sons are strong and true．
From the woods and waters fair；
From the prairies waving far，
At thy call they throng（群集）with their shout and song；
Hailing thee their Northern Star．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Minnesotan baseball commentator（评论员，讲解员）Halsey Hal was the first to say“Holy Cow”during a baseball broadcast．
2．The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78football fields—9．5million square feet．
3．Minnesota Inventions：Masking and Scotch tape，Wheaties cereal，Bisquick，HMOs，the bundt pan，Aveda beauty products，and Green Giant vegetables．
4．The St．Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959allowing oceangoing（远洋航行的）ships to reach Duluth．
5．Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater（Old Log Theater）and the largest dinner theater（Chanhassan Dinner Theater）in the country．
6．The original name of the settlement that became St．Paul was Pig’s Eye．Named for the French－Canadian whiskey trader，Pierre“Pig’s Eye”Parrant，who had led squatters（蹲着的人）to the settlement．
7．The world’s largest pelican（［鸟］鹈鹕）stands at the base of the Mill Pond dam on the Pelican River，right in downtown Pelican Rapids．The 151/2feet tall concrete statue was built in 1957．
8．The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country．
9．The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse（剧场）in the country．
10．Minneapolis’famed skyway（航线）system connecting 52blocks（nearly five miles）of downtown makes it possible to live，eat，work and shop without going outside．
11．Minneapolis has more golfers per capita（每人，照人数分配的）than any other city in the country．
12．The climate－controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl，a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship．
13．Minnesota has 90，000miles of shoreline，more than California，Florida and Hawaii combined．
14．The nation’s first Better Business Bureau was founded in Minneapolis in 1912．
15．The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow（髓）transplant in the United States were done at the University of Minnesota．
16．Bloomington and Minneapolis（明尼阿波利斯（美国城市））are the two farthest north latitude cities to ever host a World Series game．
17．Madison is the“Lutefisk（（=lutfisk，ludefisk，ludfisk）碱液洗的鳕鱼）capital of the United States”．
18．Rochester is home of the world famous Mayo Clinic．The clinic is a major teaching and working facility．It is known world wide for its doctor’s expertise（专门技术）and the newest methods of treatments．
19．The Bergquist cabin，built in 1870by John Bergquist，a Swedish immigrant，is the oldest house in Moorhead still on its original site．
20．For many years，the world’s largest twine ball has sat in Darwin．It weighs 17，400pounds，is twelve feet in diameter，and was the creation of Francis A．Johnson．
21．The stapler（订书机）was invented in Spring Valley．
22．In 1956，Southdale，in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina，was the first enclosed climate－controlled suburban Shop 50states．
23．Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson was the first enlisted man to land with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26，1942．
24．The first practical water skis were invented in 1922by Ralph W．Samuelson，who steam－bent eight－foot－long pine boards into skies．He took his first ride behind a motorboat（摩托艇）on a lake in Lake City．
25．In Olivia a single half－husked cob towers over a roadside gazebo（眺望台，露台）．It is 25feet tall，made of fiberglass（玻璃纤维，玻璃丝），and has been up since 1973．
26．The first Children’s department in a Library is said to be that of the Minneapolis Public Library，which separated children’s books from the rest of the collection in Dec．1889．
