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Amusing to me that Minneapolis was important enough at the time that Harvard put it on an exam.
by remarkEon 2y ago
Amusing to me that Minneapolis was important enough at the time that Harvard put it on an exam.
- landosaari 2y agoCursory search yields two things: Flour mills [0] and railway system [1] [0] https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)
- engineer_22 2y agoWhy
- dylan604 2y agoIgnorant of facts would be a good answer
- germinalphrase 2y agoOnly amusing if you don’t know anything about Minneapolis, western expansion, or railroads.
- remarkEon 2y agoNo, I grew up there (though I was born in Iowa). I was making a comment about how usually Harvard and the like forget about places like Minnesota. So it's amusing in the sense that you have to go back to 1906 to find a time when they don't.