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  • noun a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range

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Examples

  • Home-run king Roger Maris was born here before growing up in Fargo, N.D. Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson, called Hibbing home as did Gary Puckett, who went on to record a few hits with his band, the Union Gap.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Garth Woolsey 2011

  • $80 million biomass operations then they will name Hibbing banker Marvin Vuicich.

    Mesabi Daily News 2009

  • That Hibbing, Minn., native who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman but has been known as Bob Dylan since he first started performing in New York's Greenwich Village some 50 years ago -- and who has lived in Los Angeles probably longer than anywhere else -- turns 70 on May 24.

    Tom Teicholz: Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! Tom Teicholz 2011

  • Folk IconThe man the world knows simply as Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman to middle class Jewish parents in Hibbing, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941.

    Iconic American Singer Marks 50th Anniversary 2011

  • Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised in Hibbing, a mining town in northern Minnesota, in a middle-class Jewish family.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

  • At the time, he began weaving a myth about his past, including stories about being a circus hand and a carnival boy, having a rock band in Hibbing that performed on television, and running away from home and learning songs from black blues artists.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

  • Folk IconThe man the world knows simply as Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman to middle class Jewish parents in Hibbing, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941.

    Iconic American Singer Marks 50th Anniversary 2011

  • Folk IconThe man the world knows simply as Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman to middle class Jewish parents in Hibbing, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941.

    Iconic American Singer Marks 50th Anniversary 2011

  • He cleverly pits the young Mr. Dylan's self-styled orphan-hobo persona against the real-life son of middle-class Jewish parents from Hibbing, Minn.

    Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

  • Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised in Hibbing, a mining town in northern Minnesota, in a middle-class Jewish family.

    Peter Dreier: The Political Bob Dylan Peter Dreier 2011

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