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Park Rapids, Minnesota, the Glossary

Park Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States.^[1]

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1890 establishments in Minnesota

Adult standards

Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.

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Alexandria, Minnesota

Alexandria is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Minnesota, United States. Park Rapids, Minnesota and Alexandria, Minnesota are cities in Minnesota and county seats in Minnesota.

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Area code 218

Area code 218 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji is a city and the county seat of Beltrami County, in northern Minnesota, United States. Park Rapids, Minnesota and Bemidji, Minnesota are cities in Minnesota and county seats in Minnesota.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Classic country

Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Crow Wing Chain of Lakes

The Crow Wing Chain of Lakes is a chain of eleven shallow lakes along the Crow Wing River in Hubbard County, Minnesota, approximately upstream from the Crow Wing's confluence with the Mississippi River.

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De La Hunt Broadcasting

De La Hunt Broadcasting is a small market radio broadcasting company based in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

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DeLorme

DeLorme Publishing Company is a producer of personal satellite tracking, messaging, and navigation technology.

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Delta Connection

Delta Connection is a brand name for Delta Air Lines, under which a number of individually owned regional airlines primarily operate short- and medium-haul routes.

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Esther Miriam Fieldman

Esther Miriam Fieldman (née Fox) (September 14, 1915 – June 29, 2007) was an American businesswoman and politician.

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Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fish Hook River

The Fish Hook River, also spelled Fishhook River, is a tributary of the Shell River, long, in north-central Minnesota in the United States.

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Forum Communications Company

Forum Communications Company is an American multimedia and technology company headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Heartland State Trail

The Heartland State Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail in north-central Minnesota, USA.

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Hubbard County, Minnesota

Hubbard County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Itasca State Park

Itasca State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

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John A. Ainley Jr.

John Albert Ainley Jr. (July 24, 1938 – May 3, 2001) was an American newspaperman and politician.

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KAWE

KAWE (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States, owned by Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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KDKK

KDKK (97.5 FM) is a radio station in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

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KPRM

KPRM (870 AM) is a radio station in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

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KSTP-TV

KSTP-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of ABC.

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KVLY-TV

KVLY-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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KVRR

KVRR (channel 15) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

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KXKK

KXKK (92.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Park Rapids, Minnesota.

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List of counties in Minnesota

There are 87 counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Luther College (Iowa)

Luther College is a private Lutheran liberal arts college in Decorah, Iowa.

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Luther Seminary

Luther Seminary is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also less commonly known as Wold–Chamberlain Field, is a joint civil-military public international airport serving the Twin Cities in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Minnesota State Highway 34

Minnesota State Highway 34 (MN 34) is a highway in west-central and north-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 9 (near Interstate 94/US Highway 52) in Barnesville and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highways 200 and 371 in Walker.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel.

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Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.

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Park Rapids Enterprise

The Park Rapids Enterprise is an American, English language newspaper headquartered in Park Rapids, Minnesota, serving Hubbard County, Minnesota and the surrounding areas.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Rapids,_Minnesota

Also known as History of Park Rapids, Minnesota, Park Rapids, Park Rapids, Hubbard County, Minnesota, Park Rapids, MN.

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