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Photos: Memorable Minnesotans in 2014

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Practicing meditation
Using a stuffed animal to assist with breathing techniques, fifth-grader Vermetrice relaxed during a yoga class at River Bend Education Center in Minneapolis on Sept. 11.
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While 2014 held momentous events, it also introduced us to fascinating people across the state.

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Competitors
Arrowhead 135 competitors, January 27 near International Falls, Minn.
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Practicing meditation
Using a stuffed animal to assist with breathing techniques, fifth-grader Vermetrice relaxed during a yoga class at River Bend Education Center in Minneapolis on Sept. 11.
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Ruth Knox in her Minneapolis home.
In 1944, Ruth Knox, then 25, signed up for the Women's Army Corps, known as the WACs. "My mother had a fit," Knox, now 95, said in a recent interview in her home in Minneapolis. "She just said, 'Nice girls don't go in the Army.' I was already in the Army."
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