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Marquette
Marquette city (1990 pop. 21,977), seat of Marquette co., N Mich., Upper Peninsula, on Lake Superior; settled 1849, inc. as a city 1871. It is a shipping center for a lumber, farm, and resort region. Chemicals, wood products, and mining machinery are manufactured. Marquette is the seat of Northern... Read more |
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Portage
Portage . 1 Town (1990 pop. 29,060), Porter co., NW Ind., a suburb of Gary, on Lake Michigan; inc. 1959. The town, which was once surrounded by great industries, manufactures steel and a number of other goods. It is also a shipping center; Burns International Harbor, built in the 1970s,... Read more |
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Jacques Marquette
Jacques Marquette , 1637-75, French missionary and explorer in North America, a Jesuit priest. He was sent to New France in 1666 and studied Native American languages under a missionary at Trois Rivières . In 1668 he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa, spent a winter at Sault Ste Marie,... Read more |
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Marquette Electronics Inc
Marquette Electronics, Inc. 8200 West Tower AvenueMilwaukee, Wisconsin 53223U.S.A.(414) 355-5000Fax: (414) 355-3790 Public Company Incorporated: 1965Employees: 1,498Sales: $253.8 millionStock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 3845 Electromedical Equipment Founded in 1965, Marquette Electronics, Inc.,... Read more |
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Sault Sainte Marie (United States)
Sault Sainte Marie city (1990 pop. 14,689), seat of Chippewa co., N Mich., Upper Peninsula, a port of entry on the St. Marys River opposite Sault Ste Marie, Ont.; inc. as a city 1887. A variety of light manufactured goods are produced, but the city's economy is principally based on tourism and... Read more |
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Alfred Vincent Kidder
Alfred Vincent Kidder 1885-1963, American archaeologist, b. Marquette, Mich., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1908; Ph.D. 1914). From 1915 to 1929 he conducted excavations at Pecos, N.Mex., for the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. This research is considered to have laid the foundation for modern... Read more |
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Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory first possession of the United States, comprising the region known as the Old Northwest, S and W of the Great Lakes, NW of the Ohio River, and E of the Mississippi River, including the present states of Ohio, Ind., Ill., Mich., Wis., and part of Minn. Exploration and Early... Read more |
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Missouri River
MISSOURI RIVER MISSOURI RIVER, in the central and northwest central United States, is a major tributary of the Mississippi River and the longest river in the United States (2,466 miles). It drains a watershed of approximately 580,000 square miles. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached... Read more |
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Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet , 1645-1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an... Read more |
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Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier , 1858-1950, American essayist, b. Philadelphia. Her essays, esteemed for their scholarship and wit, are collected in several volumes, including Books and Men (1888), Points of Friction (1920), and To Think of Tea! (1932). She also wrote biographical studies of Jacques Marquette... Read more |
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