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Michigan

Specialty Definition: Flag of Michigan

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On the light blue shield the sun rises over a lake and peninsula, a man with raised hand and holding a long gun represents peace and the ability to defend his rights. The elk and moose are symbols of Michigan, while the eagle represents the United States.

The design on Michigan's deep blue field has three mottos. From top-to-bottom they are:

On a red ribbon: E Pluribus Unum, Latin for "Out of one many", former motto of the United States.

On the light blue shield: Tuebor, Latin for "I will Defend"

On a white ribbon upper loop: Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam, Latin for "If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula"

On a white ribbon lower loop: CIRCUMSPICE, Latin for "Look Around"

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flag of Michigan."

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Lake Michigan

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Lake Michigan is one of the five North American Great Lakes. It is bounded, in clockwise order, by the US states of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which is named for it.

Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes wholly within the borders of the US. It has a surface area of 57750 square kilometers, making it the 5th largest lake in the world. It is 307 miles long by 118 miles wide. It greatest depth is 923 feet (281 m). It contains a volume of 4,918 cubic km of water.

Cities on the shores of Lake Michigan include Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gary, Indiana, Michigan City, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. The southern tip of the lake is heavily industrialized. Some 12 million people live along its shores.

Lake Michigan beaches, especially those beaches of western Michigan and northern Indiana, are known for their beauty. The sand is soft and white, there are often high sand dunes covered in prickly green dune grass and rambling sand cherries, and the water is cold and amazingly clear. When standing on most of the beaches in Michigan, it is impossible to see across the lake to Wisconsin.

Several state parks are located on the lakeshore as well as the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Part of the shoreline is also in the Hiawatha National Forest and the Manistee National Forest. Part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge is located in Lake Michigan.

Lake Michigan drains into Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac and is part of the Great Lakes Waterway.

Motorists can cross Lake Michigan by a ferry that runs from Ludington, Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Great Lakes
Lake Superior	Lake Michigan	Lake Huron	Lake Erie	Lake Ontario

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lake Michigan."

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List of Michigan counties

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List of Michigan counties:

1. Alcona County
2. Alger County
3. Allegan County
4. Alpena County
5. Antrim County
6. Arenac County
7. Baraga County
8. Barry County
9. Bay County
10. Benzie County
11. Berrien County
12. Branch County
13. Calhoun County
14. Cass County
15. Charlevoix County
16. Cheboygan County
17. Chippewa County
18. Clare County
19. Clinton County
20. Crawford County
21. Delta County
22. Dickinson County
23. Eaton County
24. Emmet County
25. Genesee County
26. Gladwin County
27. Gogebic County
28. Grand Traverse County
29. Gratiot County
30. Hillsdale County
31. Houghton County
32. Huron County
33. Ingham County
34. Ionia County
35. Iosco County
36. Iron County
37. Isabella County
38. Jackson County
39. Kalamazoo County
40. Kalkaska County
41. Kent County
42. Keweenaw County
43. Lake County
44. Lapeer County
45. Leelanau County
46. Lenawee County
47. Livingston County
48. Luce County
49. Mackinac County
50. Macomb County
51. Manistee County
52. Marquette County
53. Mason County
54. Mecosta County
55. Menominee County
56. Midland County
57. Missaukee County
58. Monroe County
59. Montcalm County
60. Montmorency County
61. Muskegon County
62. Newaygo County
63. Oakland County
64. Oceana County
65. Ogemaw County
66. Ontonagon County
67. Osceola County
68. Oscoda County
69. Otsego County
70. Ottawa County
71. Presque Isle County
72. Roscommon County
73. Saginaw County
74. Sanilac County
75. Schoolcraft County
76. Shiawassee County
77. St. Clair County
78. St. Joseph County
79. Tuscola County
80. Van Buren County
81. Washtenaw County
82. Wayne County
83. Wexford County

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of Michigan counties."

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List of radio stations in Michigan

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Here is an encyclopedic directory of radio stations in Michigan

AM

• 760 WJR - sports, ABC Radio, Detroit

FM

See also:

Lists of radio stations in North and Central America

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of radio stations in Michigan."

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List of television stations in Michigan

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This is a list of broadcast television stations in the state of Michigan.

VHF stations

• Channel 2: WJBK (FOX) - Detroit, FOX 2, used to be CBS
• Channel 3: WJMN (CBS) - Escanaba
• Channel 3: WWMT (CBS) - Kalamazoo
• Channel 4: WDIV (NBC) - Detroit, Local 4 used to be WWJ, W)D)etroit I)V), 4 in roman numerals
• Channel 4: WTOM (NBC) - Cheboygan
• Channel 5: WBKP (ABC) - Calumet
• Channel 5: WNEM (CBS/UPN) - Bay City
• Channel 6: WCML (PBS) - Alpena
• Channel 6: WLNS (CBS) - Lansing
• Channel 6: WLUC (NBC) - Marquette
• Channel 7: WPBN (NBC) - Traverse City
• Channel 7: WXYZ (ABC) - Detroit
• Channel 8: WGTQ (ABC) - Sault Ste. Marie
• Channel 8: WOOD (NBC) - Grand Rapids
• Channel 9: WWTV (CBS) - Cadillac
• Channel 10: WBUP (ABC) - Ishpeming
• Channel 10: WILX (NBC) - Onondaga
• Channel 10: WWUP (CBS) - Sault Ste. Marie
• Channel 11: WBKB (CBS) - Alpena
• Channel 12: WJRT (ABC) - Flint
• Channel 13: WNMU (PBS) - Marquette (Northern Michigan University)
• Channel 13: WZZM (ABC) - Grand Rapids

UHF stations

• Channel 14: WCMU (PBS) - Mount Pleasant (Central Michigan University)
• Channel 17: WXMI (FOX) - Grand Rapids
• Channel 18: WHTV (UPN) - Jackson
• Channel 19: WDCQ (PBS) - University Center
• Channel 19: WMQF (FOX/UPN) - Marquette
• Channel 20: WDWB (WB) Kids WB - Detroit, WB20, used to be WXON, independent
• Channel 21: WCMW (PBS) - Manistee
• Channel 23: WKAR (PBS) - East Lansing
• Channel 25: WEYI (NBC/WB) - Saginaw
• Channel 27: WCMV (PBS) - Cadillac
• Channel 28: WFUM (PBS) - Flint
• Channel 29: WGTU (ABC) - Traverse City
• Channel 31: WPXD (PAX) - Ann Arbor (Detroit Area), PAX 31, W)P)AX) D)etroit
• Channel 33: WFQX (FOX/UPN) - Cadillac
• Channel 35: WDCP (PBS) - Bad Axe
• Channel 35: WGVU (PBS) - Grand Rapids
• Channel 38: WADL (independent) - Mount Clemens
• Channel 41: WOTV (ABC) - Battle Creek
• Channel 43: WZPX (PAX/WB) - Battle Creek
• Channel 45: WFVX (FOX/UPN) - Vanderbilt
• Channel 47: WSYM (FOX) - Lansing
• Channel 49: WAQP (TBN) - Saginaw
• Channel 50: WKBD (UPN) - Detroit, UPN 50 used to be FOX
• Channel 52: WGVK (PBS) - Kalamazoo
• Channel 53: WLAJ (ABC) - Lansing
• Channel 54: WTLJ (TBN) - Muskegon
• Channel 56: WTVS (PBS) - Detroit
• Channel 62: WWJ (CBS) - Detroit
• Channel 64: WLLA (religious) - Kalamazoo
• Channel 66: WSMH (FOX) - Flint

See also

• List of local television stations in North and Central America

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of television stations in Michigan."

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Michigan

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Michigan

(In Detail) (Full size)
State nickname: Wolverine State
Other U.S. States
Capital	Lansing
Largest City	Detroit
Area  - Total  - Land  - Water  - % water	Ranked 11th 250,941 km2 147,255 km2 103,687 km2 41.3%
Population  - Total (2000)  - Density	Ranked 8th 9,938,444 40/km2
Admittance into Union  - Order  - Date	26th January 26, 1837
Time zone	Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Latitude Longitude	41°41'N to 47°30'N 82°26'W to 90°31'W
Width Length Elevation   -Highest   -Mean   -Lowest	385 km 790 km   603 meters 275 meters 174 meters
ISO 3166-2:	US-MI

Michigan is a state in the United States. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is MI.

The state is known as the birthplace of the automotive industry. However, it also has a large tourist industry. Destinations like Traverse City, Mackinac Island, and the entire Upper Peninsula draw vacationers, hunters, and nature lovers from all over the U.S and Canada. Michigan has the longest coastline of any state except Alaska and more recreational boats than any other state.

USS Michigan was named in honor of this state.

History

Once a thriving lumber capital and supplier of iron and copper minerals, Michigan's declining natural resources gave way at the turn of the twentieth century. The birth of the automotive industry with Henry Ford's first plant in the Highland Park suburb of Detroit, marked the beginning of a new era in personal transportation that permanently changed the socio-economic climate of America. Many automotive manufacturing plants remain, however, Detroit lost its grandeur after World War II, as automotive companies abandoned huge industrial parks in the area for the cheaper labor found in Southern U.S. and offshore plants.

Early European History

• 1622 Étienne Brûlé and his companion Grenoble, French explorers, were probably the first white men to see Lake Superior.
• 1701 Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty, established a trading post on the Detroit River which they named Fort Pontchartrain; present site of Detroit.

U.S. History

• 1805 Michigan Territory was created, with Detroit designated as the seat of government. William Hull appointed as governor. Detroit was destroyed by fire.
• 1828 Territorial Capitol was built at Detroit at a cost of $24,500.
• 1835 First Constitutional Convention. Stevens T. Mason inaugurated as the first Governor. Stevens T. Mason started a war with Ohio over the city of Toledo, (now Toledo, Ohio) known as the Toledo War the same year: Ohio won Toledo but Michigan was given Michigan's upper peninsula which was part of the Territory of Wisconsin at the time.
• Admitted into the union in 1837 as the 26th state, its slave state twin is Arkansas

Major Historical Events

• January 26, 1837 Michigan became the 26th US State.
• 1838 Patriot War
• 1847 A law was passed by the State Legislature to locate the State Capital "in the township of Lansing, in the county of Ingham."
• 1879 New State Capitol dedicated in Lansing. The structure cost $1,510,130.
• 1890s and 1900s Ford, Chrysler and General Motors founded in southeastern Michigan.
• 1957 Five-mile long Mackinac Bridge opened November 1.
• 1974 Gerald R. Ford of Grand Rapids became the 38th President of the United States.
• 1976 Throw away bottles banned by referendum vote.
• 1987 Michigan celebrated 150 years of statehood.

Law and Government

See: List of Michigan Governors

• Capital: Lansing
• Law/Government of state [Note that all the U.S. states have similar legal and political systems, so maybe we only need to mention anything that makes the state distinct]
  • governor -- current, previous governors
    • Current: Jennifer Granholm
  • legislature -- bicameral
    • House of Representatives
    • Senate
  • structure of state judicary
  • state constitution

• Referendum and Voter Initiative: Michigan's constitution provides for voter initiative and referendum (Article II, § 9 [[1] ), defined as "the power to propose laws and to enact and reject laws, called the initiative, and the power to approve or reject laws enacted by the legislature, called the referendum. The power of initiative extends only to laws which the legislature may enact under this constitution."

Geography

See:	List of Michigan counties
	Islands of Michigan

Michigan borders Indiana. Ohio, and Illinois to the south, Minnesota and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula. It consists of two peninsulas:

• the Lower Peninsula and
• the Upper Peninsula

The Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten and its 277 miles long from north to south and 195 miles from east to west. The Upper Peninsula (usually called simply "The U.P.") is as big as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined, but has less than 300,000 inhabitants, who are known as "Yoopers" and whose speech has been heavily influenced by the large number of Scandinavian and Canadian immigrants who settled the area during the mining boom of the late 1800's.

These two sections are connected only by the Mackinac Bridge -- the third longest suspension bridge in the world. The two peninsulas are surrounded by an extensive Great Lakes shoreline. Other than Alaska, Michigan has the longest shoreline of any state -- 2,242 miles (and another 879 miles if islands are included). This equals the length of the Atlantic Coast, from Maine to Florida. The Great Lakes which touch the two peninsulas of Michigan are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. No point in Michigan is more than 6 miles from an inland lake or more than 85 miles from one of the Great Lakes, and the state has more than 11,000 inland lakes and more than 36,000 miles of rivers and streams.

National parks

Economy

• State income
• Major industries/products
  • Automobiles (General Motors, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler), Amway, Cereal (Kellogg), Copper, Furniture (Steelcase, Herman Miller), Iron
• state taxes

Demographics

• Michigan Resident Population (2000 Census): 9,938,444
• racial/ethnic makeup of state
• religious makeup of state

Mercator projection: public domain Online Map Creation

Important Cities and Towns

See: List of cities in Michigan

• Detroit (Motor City, Motown)
• Grand Rapids (The Furniture City)

Education

Colleges and Universities

Adrian College Albion College Alma College Andrews University Aquinas College Baker College Calvin College Center for Creative Studies College of Art and Design Central Michigan University Cleary College Concordia University, Ann Arbor Cornerstone University Davenport University Eastern Michigan University Ferris State University Finlandia University Grace Bible College Grand Valley State University Hillsdale College Hope College Kalamazoo College Kendall College of Art and Design Kettering University Lake Superior State University Lawrence Technological University Macomb Community College

Madonna University Marygrove College Michigan State University Michigan Technological University Northern Michigan University Northwood University Oakland University Olivet College Rochester College Saginaw Valley State University Saint Mary's College Siena Heights University Spring Arbor University University of Detroit Mercy University of Michigan System University of Michigan Ann Arbor University of Michigan Dearborn University of Michigan Flint Walsh College Wayne State University Western Michigan University William Tyndale College

Professional sports teams

Detroit Tigers, Major League Baseball Detroit Lions, National Football League Detroit Red Wings, National Hockey League Detroit Pistons, National Basketball Association

Detroit Shock, Women's National Basketball Association Minor League baseball teams West Michigan Whitecaps Michigan Battle Cats Lansing Lugnuts

Miscellaneous Information

Michigan has 116 lighthouses. The first lighthouses in Michigan were built between 1818 and 1822. They were built to project light at night and to serve as a landmark during the day to safely guide the freighters traveling the Great Lakes.

Michigan has most registered boats (over 1 million) in the United States.

See also Highways of Michigan

Quick Trivia

• Nicknames: Water - Winter Wonderland
• Features: Michigan is the only state composed of two separate peninsulas.
• Motto: "Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice" which is Latin for "If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look about You.", a paraphrase of a statement made by British architect Sir Christopher Wren about his influence on London.
• State Bird: red breasted robin
• State Rock: Petoskey Stone, which is composed of fossilized diatoms from long ago when the middle of the continent was covered with a shallow sea.
• State Tree: White Pine

External Links

• http://www.state.mi.us
• State Website: http://www.michigan.gov/

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Michigan."

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University of Michigan

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The University of Michigan was established in 1817 by the Michigan legislature, by way of a land grant that the Michigan Territory's Native Americans signed away. It has provided a diverse student population with a diverse set of educational opportunities, including academic and professional programs, intramural and NCAA sports programs, and more cultural activities than most residents of Ann Arbor can exploit.

The University of Michigan is often called "The Harvard of the Midwest", a title also claimed by the University of Chicago, Truman State University, and Macalaster College, among others. In response to the comparison, Harvard is often called "The Michigan of the East" by University students, alumni, and staff.

A condition of the treaty that forms the basis for most of the land grant schools in Michigan was that the education of all of the state's Native Americans would be guaranteed in perpetuity. Whether the state's obligation has been met is a topic for debate.

The university in 2003 has 51,000 students and 5,600 faculty in three campuses. The University of Michigan system includes the main Ann Arbor campus as well as two others, the University of Michigan, Dearborn and the University of Michigan, Flint. The university claims to be the largest pre-medicine and pre-law university in the country and to have the largest yearly research expenditure of any university in the United States. It is one of two colleges to have both engineering and medical schools ranked in the U.S.'s top ten. In the 1990s the University of Michigan claimed to have the largest assemblage of Apple Macintosh computers outside of the main factory. Michigan also has the highest tuition of any American state school.

In 2003 a lawsuit involving the school's affirmative action admissions policy reached the U.S. Supreme Court. President George W. Bush took the unusual step of publicly opposing the policy before the court issued a ruling, though the eventual ruling was in its favor.

Famous alumni of the University of Michigan include:

• Ann Coulter, conservative author and attorney, graduated from Michigan Law School in 1988.
• George Crumb, composer, completed his doctorate in music there in 1959
• Gerald R. Ford, 38th U.S. president, studied economics and political science. He played center on two national-championship American football teams and was the team's most valuable player in 1934. He received his B. A. degree in 1935.
• Richard Gephardt, United States House Minority Leader, graduate of UM Law School.
• David Allen Grier, actor
• James Earl Jones, actor
• Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
• Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) earned a Ph.D in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1967
• Lawrence Kasdan studied creative writing and won four Hopwood Awards
• Jack Kevorkian received a medical degree with a specialty in pathology in 1952
• Christine Lahti, actress
• Lucy Liu, actress
• Madonna won a scholarship while in high school to study dance at the University of Michigan; she left the university in the late 1970s
• William Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• Arthur Miller, playwright, author of Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
• Larry Page, co-founder of Google
• Iggy Pop, rock star
• Gilda Radner, actress / comedian
• Claude E. Shannon, "father of information theory"
• Mike Wallace, TV Journalist
• Chris Webber, NBA star, currently with the Sacramento Kings
• Thomas and John Knoll, Co-Creators of Adobe Photoshop

Michigan's sports teams are called the Wolverines. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference; its hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The Michigan football team won the first Rose Bowl game in 1902.

The University of Michigan Health System includes three hospitals: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University Hospital, and Women's Hospital, as well as nearly 150 clinics and MCare, an HMO. The university opened the first university-owned hospital in the United States in 1869. The EKG, gastroscope, and Jonas Salk's polio vaccine were invented at the university.

The University of Michigan is often referred to simply as UM and U of M. The latter term is also used to refer to the University of Minnesota, the University of Montana, the University of Missouri and the University of Maryland. (Note, however, that Missouri is more often referred to as UMC or Mizzou.) University of Michigan students, faculty, and alumni are often heard to assert that only the University of Michigan is "really" the "U of M", or that it has a better claim to that appellation than the others have. The claim has no justification.

External Link

• Unversity of Michigan Home Page
• Alumni Association
• University of Michigan Athletics Site

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "University of Michigan."

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Photo Album: Michigan

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	Various shots of black attendees at a health fair in Detroit sponsored by the Michigan Cancer Foundation providing cancer prevention information. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		Michigan. Credit: NASA.
	Chicago as seen during Lake Michigan SHOALS Lidar survey. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Petoskey State Park, Lake Michigan, Michigan 1997. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Research vessel base near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River on Lake Michigan. Research vessels CISCO and KAHO tied up to pier. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Aerial view of orchards and vinyards. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.
	Cattle watering at an off-stream portable watering system in pasture. Leelanau County, Michigan. Credit: Chris Coulon.		Michigan. Credit: USDA.
	Pair of Mallards in Clinton County, Michigan. Credit: USDA.		Range scientist Patricia Bartling reviews land use data for the Sycamore Creek watershed in Michigan for inclusion in NLEAP - a computer program developed to predict potential leaching of nitrate nitrogen and its impact on underlying aquifers. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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"Sunrise Over Lake Michigan" by Samy Yang Commentary: "I took this picture from my car while on my way to work one morning in summer. I saw the sunrise, thought it was beautiful, whipped out my camera and prayed the road was clear, then took the picture while the car was moving. It turned out better than I"	"Michigan flowers 4" by Liz Bogus Commentary: "Pic of some flowers in Glen Lake Michigan."
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