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Denali

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Obama changed the name mount McKinley to Denali

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Jack Dalrymble

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Governor of North Dakota will not seek realection

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Tom Hanson

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Fonder of Zorbaz died when he was 70 years old

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Jared fogle 1

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Arrested and fired from subway for child pornography

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President jimmy carter

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Announced he has brain cancer at 90 years old

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One direction

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Announced they are breaking up for a time for solo projects

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Iran nuclear deal

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The senate did not have 60 votes for the Iran deal

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David Ortiz

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Recently hit two home runs in the same game and hit his 500th run

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Stephen Colbert

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The new host of the late show

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Scott walker

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Governor of Wisconsin announced he would drop out of the candidate for president

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General Motors

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Recently fined for faulty engine switches for $900,000,000

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Ben Carson (Islam comment)

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Candidate says anyone who is a Muslim shouldn’t be president and he wouldn’t vote for one

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Tim Kelly and Tara Mack

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MN reps were ticketed for making out in public and resigned from the ethics committee

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John d odegard

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Nominated for the rough rider award in North Dakota

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Jackie Collins

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Author died from breast cancer

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Kim Davis

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Was arrested for not signing same sex marriage

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Pope Francis

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Came to America on a 6 day tour and is pushing to let immigrants come

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John boeher

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Is resigning

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Volkswagen

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Found out they are manipulating the co2 flow out of the exhaust pipe

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Mona Lisa

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Trying to find the model

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Yogi bearra

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famous baseball player for the Yankees died at 90

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Mars

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Announced by NASA there is water on Mars

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Minnesota (ISIS, ISIL)

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Minnesota became the number one state to have people leave to join ISIL AND ISIS

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Playboy

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Announced they will no longer have nude photographs

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Afghanistan

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Obama will be withdrawing all troops. He will leave about 10,000 people there

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Russia in Syria

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Russia is bombing Syria, attacking ISIS

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Jerry parr

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Died at age 85

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Tunisia national dialogue quartet

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Won noble peace prize

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Minnesota Lynx

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Won third WNBA championships

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Oct 21, 2015

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Back to the future, the day they went back to the future

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Hillary Clinton

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Testified in front of Benghazi

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Gateway arch

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50th anniversary celebrated in St. Louis

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Justin Trudeau

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New prime minister in Canada

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Oprah Winfrey

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Shocked wallstreet, bought 10% of bill gates

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Eddie Murphy

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Won the mark twang award for humor

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Torii hunter

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Retire from baseball 12 years with twins

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Flip Saunders

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Timberwolves coach died from cancer at 60 years old

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S.C. Student

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Was on cell phone. Teacher asked her to put it away she refused, asked her to leave she refused, cop came flipped her desk and dragged her out of the room

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U.S combat troops

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P.O descending a few hundred troops to Syria says they are advisers

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Who warning

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Have announced that if you eat processed meat it will make you die

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Daniel James Hienrich

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In jail for abducting Jacob wiethering

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Paul Ryan

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Wisconsin representative now speaker of the house

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Jerry kill

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Announced he is resigning from Minnesota gopher football coach for health reasons

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Abby wambach

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Retired from women’s soccer

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KC. Royals

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Won the World Series (baseball)

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Starbucks cups

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Starbucks used to change the color of the cups and now they’re not

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Capt. Florent groberg

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Won the Medal of Honor

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Paris terrorist attack

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Simultaneous attacks on Paris by ISIS. 130 people killed

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Picasso “les femmes d’alger

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Sold for 1.79 million

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Peyton manning

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Broke the record for most yards

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Ronda rousey vs. holly holm

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Holm beat rousey in the UFC match

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Jamart Clark

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Shot in Minneapolis one cop shot him from a riot

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GMO salmon

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FDA allowed people to sell GMO salmon they grow 2x as big

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Turkey/Russia

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Turkey shot down a fighter plane from Russia

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Calvin and Hobbes

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Cartoon celebrate 30th anniversary

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Fighting Hawks

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New mascot for UND

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David beckham

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Announced the hottest man in the world

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Jared fogle 2

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Subway guy convicted of child pornography

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Brett farve

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Retired from greenbay

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Kobe Bryant

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From Los Angles lakers last year playing

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NYC and sodium

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City of New York has to put a warning sign if something has more then 2,300 mg of sodium

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Women in combat

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Defense department announced that women can be in the front combat

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San Barnardino CA

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Sight of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. ground since 9-11
14 people killed and 21 injured

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Andrew Sadek

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Was a young college student found dead near the Red River and cops used him as a CI

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Mark Zuckerberg

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Has announced after his first baby daughter he will donate 99% of his Facebook earnings to charity

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Trump Muslim proposal

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We need to stop people from coming into our country. From Muslims

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Obama/climate accord

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A climate change accord was signed in France

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Josh Renville

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North Fargo senior took picture with an AR rifle and wanted it in the year book

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German chancellor

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Angela merkel voted for females person of the year

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Bill Cosby

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Was formally charged for sexual assault

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Steve Harvey

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Put the crown on the wrong person for miss universe

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Meadowlark lemon

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Harlem globe trotter died at age 83

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Star Wars the force awakens

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Became number 1 debuting movie and number 1 grossing movie of all time

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Natalie Cole

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Singer died at age 65

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