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VAULT - 1960S

Six Rapid City cheerleaders died along with three adults, including a father who piloted the plane, as they returned from a state basketball tournament
The dozen-plus missing persons cases we profiled came from incidents over nearly a century, from 1938 to 2012.
Cool Whip on your favorite dessert? Thank William A. Mitchell, born in Raymond, Minnesota, for his prolific career inventing convenience foods we enjoy
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Once home to the deadliest weapons on the planet, former silo, Cold War launch facility stands as reminder of dangerous times.

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In the backwoods of Buzzle Township, Minnesota, is Pinewood — once an lively logging camp filled with lumberjacks and early settlers.
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Documents detail an Arabian horse on the Iron Range from the Polish communist party, plans to covertly sterilize the stallion, and a possible informant in the News Tribune newsroom.
A look back at the Minnesotan who inspired more than one of his songs and how the state's cold spring inspired another.
Shortly after a pilot and co-pilot began observing a mysterious, glowing object, it rose quickly into the sky and disappeared.
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Thom Higgins gained national notoriety for throwing a pie in the face of anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in the 1970s. A decade earlier, he gained notoriety on a university campus for another reason.
The basalt shared properties with a sample brought to Earth on Apollo 11, so researchers ground down the basalt into the very first lunar simulant.
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A second victim seemingly wounded the unknown assailant with his own knife, but authorities never caught up with the man.
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A Minnesota woman went missing in 1964. Her family still wants answers.
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A fast-moving winter storm assaulted Minnesota in January 1967, plummeting temperatures and stranding students and a teacher in a school bus for hours. Here's how they escaped.
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Guitarist Pat Hare recorded the menacing song "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby" in Memphis in 1954. But the song would take on an eerie legend after Hare shot and killed his partner and a Minneapolis Police officer in 1963.

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