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  Great Lakes (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada
Great Sacandaga Lake is a lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York in the United States
Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal in Egypt
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 Lake - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The significant input sources are precipitation onto the lake; runoff carried by streams and channels from the lake's catchment area; groundwater channels and aquifers, and man-made sources from outside the catchment area.
A periglacial lake is one in which part of its margin is formed by an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier, the ice having obstructed the natural drainage of the land.
A lake may be deposited with sediment, and gradually, the lake becomes a wetland, such as a swamp or marsh.
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 Great Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lakes Michigan and Huron, being hydrologically intertwined, are sometimes considered to be one entity: Lake Michigan-Huron.
Sprinkled throughout the lakes are the approximately 35,000 Great Lakes islands, including Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, the largest island in any inland body of water, and Isle Royale in Lake Superior, the largest island in the largest lake (each island large enough to itself contain multiple lakes).
The Great Lakes are international, and in situations that require regulation, a lack of cooperation between the U.S. and Canada might be predicted to have disastrous consequences.
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 Great Lakes Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The lakes have an effect on weather in the region, known as lake effect.
Lake Champlain on the border between upstate New York and northwestern Vermont briefly became the sixth "Great Lake of the United States" on March 6, 1998, when President Clinton signed Senate Bill 927.
In the development of ecological problems in the Great Lakes, it was the influx of parasitic lamprey populations after the development of the Erie Canal and the much later Welland Canal that led to the two federal governments attempting to work together – which proved a very complicated and troubled road.
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 Great Lakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A smaller sixth lake Lake St. Clair is part of the Great Lakes between Lake Huron and Lake Erie but not officially one of the Great Lakes.
Clair River between Lake Huron and Lake St. the Detroit River between Lake St. Clair and Lake and the Niagara River and Niagara Falls between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
The lakes are heavily used for transportation though cargo traffic has decreased considerably in recent Storms and reefs are a common threat and many ships have sunk in these waters.
www.freeglossary.com /Great_Lakes   (1643 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Great Lakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lake effect snow -- Lake effect snow, also called a snowsquall, is produced in the winter when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lee...
Zebra mussel -- The Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a bivalve mussel native to freshwater lakes of southeast Russia.
Great Lakes -- The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes on or near the United States-Canadian border.
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 Lewis Cass - LoveToKnow Watches
His relations with the British authorities in Canada after the War of 1812 were at times very trying, as these officials persisted in searching American vessels on the Great Lakes and in arousing the hostility of the Indians of the territory against the American government.
To those experiences was largely due the antipathy for Great Britain manifested by him in his later career.
In this same year the Webster-Ashburton treaty between Great Britain and the United States was concluded, and, as England did not thereby relinquish her claim of the right to search American vessels, Cass, after having taken such a decided stand in this controversy, felt himself in an awkward position, and resigned his post.
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 Lakes information site
When the temperature of the water at the surface of a lake reaches the temperature at which water is most dense all the water in the lake can mix, bringing oxygen starved water up from the depths, and bringing oxygen down to decomposing sediments.
The deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia, with a bottom at 1,741 m (5,712 ft.) and is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume.
The largest lake located completely within the boundaries of a single city is Lake Wanapitei in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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 War of 1812 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The war was a result of two major causes: a dispute over repeated violations of American sovereignty by Great Britain, and American expansionism, a desire by some Americans to expand their territory and population by conquering Great Britain's colonies.
On Lake Erie, the American commander Captain Oliver Hazard Perry fought the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813.
Because of the difficulties of land communications, control of the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River corridor was crucial, and so both sides spent the winter of 1812-13 building ships.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/War_of_1812   (7177 words)

  
 United States Encyclopedia Articles @ EasterCrafts.org (Easter Crafts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The death toll has been estimated to be between 6,000 and 12,000 individuals, depending on whether one counts casualties from the city of Galveston itself, the larger island, or the region as a whole.
During most of the 1920s, the U.S. A rise in debt and an inflated stock market culminated in a crash in 1929, triggering the Great Depression, which with the New Deal, led to the rise of greater government intervention in the economy.
The nation did not fully recover until 1941, when the U.S. World War II was the costliest war in American history, but helped to pull the economy out of depression as the required production of military materiel provided much-needed jobs and women entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time.
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 Lake Alternate uses see Lake disambiguation Lake disambiguation A...
Lake :"Alternate uses: see Lake (disambiguation) Lake (disambiguation)." A "lake" is a large body of water, usually fresh water fresh water, surrounded by land.
Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland sea seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes.
The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre Lake Eyre which is dry most of the time but become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall.
www.biodatabase.de /lake   (263 words)

  
 Lake Erie - Wikipedia
One of the five Great Lakes, large freshwater lakes in North America, the world's largest such lakes.
Ecology: Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and became famously polluted in the 1960's and 1970's.
Environmental regulation led to a great increase in water quality; however, invasive Zebra mussels currently threaten the entire Lake Erie ecosystem.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Erie   (118 words)

  
 american revolutionary war - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Led by General Burgoyne, the intention was to seize the Lake Champlain and Hudson River corridor, effectively isolating New England from the rest of the American colonies.
A great number of these smallpox deaths occurred outside the theater of war — in Mexico or among American Indians west of the Mississippi River.
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82.
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 Bicameralism oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
However, as part of the Great Compromise between large states and small states, they invented a new rationale for bicameralism in which the upper house would have states represented equally and the lower house would have them represented by population.
Monarchy was embodied by the consuls, the aristocracy by the Senate, and democracy by the elections and great public gatherings of the assemblies.
The Meech Lake Accord, a series of constitutional amendments proposed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, would have required the federal government to choose a senator from a list of persons nominated by the provincial government; the accord, however, failed to obtain the requisite unanimous consent of the provincial legislatures.
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 USA - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
From the west slope of the Appalachians, the Midwestern prairie is relatively flat and is the location of the Great Lakes as well as the Mississippi-Missouri River, the world's fourth longest river system.
North of the Great Basin and east of the Cascades in the Northwest is the Columbia River Plateau, a large igneous province caused by one of the largest flood basalts ever to appear on Earth, it is marked by dark fl rocks.
In agriculture, the country is a top producer of corn, soy beans, rice, and wheat, with the Great Plains labeled as the "breadbasket of the world" for their tremendous agricultural output.
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 Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (Clockwise from the west) Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia.
The sources of the Congo are in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru.
The rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo contain great biodiversity, including many rare and endemic species, including both species of chimpanzee: the Common chimpanzee and the bonobo (also known as the Pygmy Chimpanzee), mountain gorilla, okapi and white rhino.
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 Great Depression - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
U.S. economic indicators during the course of the Great Depression form a basis for an understanding of the actions and debate that surround this period of economic turmoil.
In the Great Lakes states, farmers had been experiencing depressed market conditions for their crops and goods since the end of World War I.
The British economist John Maynard Keynes coined the term "the paradox of thrift" to describe the deepening of the Great Depression after 1929.
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 Salmon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.
A famous spearfishing site on the Columbia River at Celilo Falls was inundated after great dams were built on the river.
Great Salmon Recipes Salmon recipes listed by cooking method.
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 Lake
A lake is a large body of water, usually fresh water, surrounded by land.
For examples (of saline lakes): the Great Salt Lake, but the Dead Sea.
The largest "lake" in the world is the Caspian Sea, and the deepest is Lake Baikal in Siberia.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/l/la/lake.html   (190 words)

  
 The Ultimate Ontario - American History Information Guide and Reference
There are approximately 250,000 lakes and over 100,000 kilometres of rivers in the province.
The largest city and capital of the province is Toronto, the main component of the Golden Horseshoe conurbation surrounding the western portion of Lake Ontario.
The Americans gained control of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, however, and during the Battle of York occupied the Town of York (later named Toronto) in 1813.
historymania.com /american_history/Ontario   (2149 words)

  
 Articles - US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Great Basin and Columbia Plateau (the Intermontane Plateaus) are arid or semiarid regions that lie in the rain shadow of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.
The Southwest and the Great Basin are also affected by the monsoon from the Gulf of California from July-September, which brings localized but often severe thunderstorms to the region.
Another significant (but localized) weather effect is lake-effect snow that falls south and east of the Great Lakes, especially in the hilly portions of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and on the Tug Hill Plateau in New York.
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 George Washington Encyclopedia Articles @ BilliardMan.com (Billiard Man)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
For the most part, he did not participate in the debates involved, but his prestige was great enough to maintain collegiality and to keep the delegates at their labors.
Today, Washington's face and image are often used as national symbols of the United States, along with the icons such as the flag and great seal.
Perhaps the most pervasive commemoration of his legacy is the use of his image on the one-dollar bill and the Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, is depicted in stone at the Mount Rushmore Memorial.
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 Talk:Great Lakes - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Almost no one visits the Great Lakes as a tourist destination and stays within the USA exclusively.
I added the Great Lakes as one of the regions of the US, but then later realized that what I was thinking of -- Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota -- were normally considered part of the Midwest (I can pull up citations from "Fargo" and "Prairie Home Companion" to prove it if need be).
This could be some kind of disambiguation page or list of all the US states and Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes.
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 The Ultimate Long Point - American History Information Guide and Reference
Long Point is a spit of land located on the north shore of Lake Erie, located in in Norfolk County in the province of Ontario, Canada.
The region is an important location for bird migration in both spring and autumn, including half of the eastern North American Tundra Swan population.
It is an outstanding example of sand dune and sand spit formation in the Great Lakes region.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Long_Point   (166 words)

  
 Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Following the Great Coalition, the Charlottetown Conference and the Quebec Conference of 1864, and the London Conference of 1866, the three colonies—Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—undertook the process of Confederation.
At the same time, the worldwide Great Depression of 1929 affected Canadians of every class; the rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Alberta and Saskatchewan presaged a welfare state as pioneered by Tommy Douglas in the 1940s and 1950s.
The most densely populated part of the country is the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor along the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River in the southeast.
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 International Moving Company
It is bordered on the north and northeast by New York, on the east, across the Delaware River by New Jersey, on the south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, on the west by Ohio, and on the northwest by Lake Erie.
Chester, downstream from Philadelphia, and Erie, the Great Lakes outlet on Lake Erie in the Erie Triangle, are smaller but still important ports.
In 1889 the South Fork Dam, impounding a recreational mountain lake for sportsmen, burst after a heavy rain and destroyed the downstream factory town of Johnstown, killing over 2,200 inhabitants in the notorious Johnstown Flood (the town was later rebuilt and is a reasonably large community today in the central mountains).
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 Cheyenne peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Cheyenne are a Native Americans in the United States nation of the Great Plains.
The Cheyenne nation comprised ten bands, spread all over the Great Plains, from southern Colorado to the Black Hills in South Dakota.
During the 1600 and 1700's, the Cheyenne moved from the Great Lakes region to present day Minnesota and North Dakota and established villages.
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 Ontario - Wikitravel
Ontario is bordered by the province of Quebec to the east, by the Great Lakes region of the United States to the south, by Manitoba to the west and by Hudson and James Bays to the north.
The Niagara region, home to Niagara Falls and Niagara on the Lake, is Ontario's famous wine-production region.
The drive (or boat ride) around Lake Erie takes you through the Working Waterfronts around Buffalo NY, Cleveland OH, Detroit MI, Erie PA, Toledo, OH, and southern Ontario and is intermingled with beautiful preservations of flora and fauna as well as the history of North America's first westward expansion, the Old Northwest Territory.
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 United States of America Statistics, Facts and Figures from CityBloc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
There are sometimes great differences in law and procedure between the different states, concerning issues such as property, crime, health, and education.
Rainfall decreases markedly from the humid forests of the Eastern Great Plains to the semi-arid shortgrass prairies on the high plains abutting the Rocky Mountains.
Many great Western classical musicians and ensembles find their home in the U.S. New York City is a hub for international operatic and instrumental music as well as the world-famed Broadway plays and musicals.
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