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| North Dakota Facts |
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New Leipzig, North Dakota is known as The Small, Friendly German Town on the Dakota Prairie and hosts an annual Oktoberfest. |
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An attempt to drop the word North from the state name was defeated by the 1947 Legislative Assembly. Again in 1989 the Legislature rejected two resolutions intended to rename the state Dakota. |
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Dakota Gasification Company in Beulah, North Dakota is the nation's only synthetic natural gas producer. |
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