Britt Aamodt

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Recent Pieces from Britt Aamodt

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Briana Scurry’s Gold Medals (01:30)
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Briana Scurry was a legendary soccer player, a World Cup Champion and two-time Olympian. But what was she supposed to do after a concussion sidelined her career forever?
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The Arsonist and the Bible (01:30)
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There was an arsonist loose in Minneapolis. Luckily, he wrote his letter, threatening to burn the city, on a page torn from a book that could be traced.
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The Northwestern National Life Insurance Architect (01:30)
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Northwestern National Life Insurance had outgrown its building in Minneapolis. So it tapped Minoru Yamasaki, a Detroit architect and designer of the World Trade Center ...
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Dan Patch Breaks the World Record (01:30)
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Dan Patch was the greatest athlete in the country. Now the standardbred horse was going to make it official by breaking the world record for harness racing.
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MN90: Mother Bootlegger (01:30)
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Kate Champa just wanted to feed her ten kids and keep a roof over their heads. But the law had a problem with how she was doing it: making bootleg whiskey from a still buried ...
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MN90: The Maidens and the Cult Leader (01:30)
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Victor Barnard was not only a religious leader but Jesus in the flesh. That’s what he told his followers in rural Pine County. Now he wanted them to offer up their first-born ...
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Mn90: Hey, Hey, He’s a Monkee (01:30)
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1963 – Peter Thorkelson flunked out of Carleton College in Northfield for the second time. He’d been more interested in music and drama than his English Literature studies. ...
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MN90: Jam and Lewis Scream (01:30)
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1993 – Minneapolis producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had given Janet Jackson her first platinum albums. Now they were going back in the studio with Janet and her superstar ...
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MN90: About a Cellist (01:30)
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In 2001, Walker Art Center curator Joan Rothfuss had a light bulb moment. Not about a visual artist. But about an experimental cellist, Charlotte Moorman, now mostly ...
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MN90: Dave Frishberg’s Bill (01:30)
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1975 – St. Paul composer and lyricist Dave Frishberg was known for hits like “I’m Hip” and “Peel a Grape.” Now he was being asking to write a song for a cartoon music video ...