Great Lakes
the smallest of all the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 7,340 square miles (18,960 square kilometers), but its waters run deep. It holds about four times the water volume, at 393 cubic miles
positioned at the base of the Niagara Falls. It is bordered by Ontario, Canada, to the southwest and north and New York to the south. The St. Lawrence River provides the lake's outlet to the Atlantic Ocean. The lake has a number of lagoons and baymouth bars, which are formations made of sand, mud or other debris that close off bay areas.
There are a number of islands on the lake, including the Thousand Islands region, which is an archipelago of nearly 2,000 islands that line the U.S. and Canadian border. While many of the islands are small or even uninhabitable, the largest is Wolfe Island. It is 48 square miles
Lake Ontario
The league was reorganized as the American League, and became a major league in 1901. This team was one of the first teams to have an "official" nickname.
Professional baseball team
Detroit Tigers
Famous actor best known for playing Jacob Black in the Twilight film franchise, he earned multiple Teen Choice Awards and People's Choice Awards for the role. He also starred in the action films The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl and Abduction.
Taylor Lautner
a United States National Lakeshore located along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau and Benzie counties near Empire, Michigan. The park covers a 35-mile-long (56 km) stretch of Lake Michigan's eastern coastline, as well as North and South Manitou islands. This Northern Michigan park was established primarily because of its outstanding natural features, including forests, beaches, dune formations, and ancient glacial phenomena. The lakeshore also contains many cultural features including the 1871 South Manitou Island Lighthouse, three former stations of the Coast Guard (formerly the Life-Saving Service) and an extensive rural historic farm district. In 2011, the area won the title of "The Most Beautiful Place in America" from Good Morning America.
7: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
They were a Woodland tribe, speaking an Algonquian language, and were related to the Sac and Fox. By the mid-eighteenth century these native americans lived in two communities, the "Prairie Band," along Illinois's Sangamon River, and the "Vermillion Band," east of the Wabash River in Indiana.
The Kickapoo tribe
the second-largest Great Lake with a surface area of 23,000 square miles – slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia – making it the fifth-largest freshwater lake in the world.
It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, extending 3,827 miles and home to 30,000 islands.
Ojibwe legends tell of the water monster "Mishebeshu" (great lynx), who is said to have an underwater den near the mouth of the Serpent River that flows into the lake.
Lake Huron
this team has won eleven Stanley Cups, the third most of any team, and the most of the United States teams. They first won in 1936 and 1937, and again in 1943. Ebbie Goodfellow won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in 1940. Sid Howe was also a star on the team at this time.
Professional hockey team
Detroit Red Wings
Model and actress who was named Rookie of the Year after she graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011. She also appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2012, 2013 and 2017 and was the cover model of Vanity Fair's 100th Anniversary issue.
Kate Upton
this museum is a internationally recognized cultural destination that brings the past forward by immersing visitors in the stories of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that helped shape America. A national historic landmark with an unparalleled collection of artifacts from 300 years of American history.
Henry Ford Museum
These natives originally lived in Indiana, Illinois, and southern Michigan at the time of European colonization of North America. They moved into the Maumee Valley around 1700. They soon became the most powerful American Indian tribe in Ohio.
The Miami tribe
the warmest of all of the Great Lakes, but it also freezes over more than the other lakes. It is the fourth largest when measured in surface area, with round 9,910 square miles (25,700 square kilometers) and the smallest by water volume, with 116 cubic miles (484 cubic km).
touches four U.S. states — New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan — and the Canadian province of Ontario. Buffalo, N.Y., is on the eastern end, and Toledo, Ohio, is on the western end. Cleveland, Ohio, and Erie, Pa., sit on the southern shore.
Its main outlet is Niagara Falls. The Niagara River, the source of the falls, runs 36 miles (58 kilometers) and connects two great lakes.
Lake Erie
an American professional basketball team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. this team competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team plays its home games at The Palace of Auburn Hills and was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne (Zollner) pistions in 1941, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL). The team joined the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1948. In 1949, the NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA, and this team became part of the merged league. Since moving to Detroit in 1957, the Pistons have won three NBA championships in 1989, 1990 and 2004.
Detroit Pistons
Actor and former NFL player who became known for playing Chris's stingy father on the TV series Everybody Hates Chris. He also landed a starring role on the Golden Globe-winning comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine and hosted the FOX series World's Funniest Fails. His film credits include White Chicks, Norbit, Get Smart, Bridesmaids, Blended, Idiocracy and The Expendables.
Terry Crews
the building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. located in Lansing Michigan.
Michigan State Capitol
Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who, when first encountered by the missionary-voyageur Jean Nicolet in 1639, lived along the Menominee River, now the eastern portion of the boundary between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Menominee tribe
By surface area, the world's largest freshwater lake. The surface area of this lake is (31,700 square miles or 82,170 square kilometers) is greater than the combined areas of Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined, even throwing in two extra Lake Eries. Its volume is second only to Russia's Lake Baikal.
This lake contains 10% of all the earth's fresh surface water. There is enough water in this lake (3,000,000,000,000,000--or 3 quadrillion-- gallons) to flood all of North and South America to a depth of one foot.
Lake Superior
the best college football team, members of the Big Ten Conference. this team has a total of six national championships (1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1965, and 1966); the AP Poll voted this team as national champion one time (1952). They have been named national champions twice in the Coaches Poll (1952 and 1965). This team have also won two Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships (1903 and 1905) and nine Big Ten championships (1953, 1965, 1966, 1978, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2013, and 2015).
Michigan State Spartans
Five-division world champion boxer who won 15 world titles and became known for his loud mouth and brash personality. He improved his career record to 48-0 after defeating Manny Pacquiao in what was deemed the "Fight of the Century" in May 2015. He retired in 2017 with a record of 50-0.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
a U.S. National Lakeshore on the shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. It extends for 42 miles (67 km) along the shore and covers 73,236 acres (114 sq mi; 296 km2). The park has extensive views of the hilly shoreline between Munising and Grand Marais in Alger County, Michigan, with picturesque rock formations, waterfalls, and sand dunes.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Native American people who traditionally lived near the Great Lakes. Their lands included parts of what are now the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. They were closely related to their neighbors, the Ottawa and the Ojibwa. These natives built large, bark-covered houses.
The Potawatomi tribe
the third largest of the Great Lakes (when measured by water surface) and the only Great Lake located entirely in the United States. Its name is derived from the Ojibwa Indian word mishigami, meaning large lake.
water surface is 22,300 square miles (57,800 square kilometers). It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume (1,180 cubic miles / 4,920 cubic km).
There are a number of beaches along the coast, and the Great Lakes are sometimes referred to as the “Third Coast” behind the Pacific and Atlantic (the Gulf Coast notwithstanding). Some of the most popular “beach” towns on the Michigan side of the lake include St. Joseph, South Haven, Grand Haven and Holland.
Lake Michigan
This teams fight song is Gridiron Heroes. Theo 'Gridiron' Spight is the fight song singer. This team have won four NFL (pre-1970s AFL-NFL merger) league championships including the years 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957.
Detroit Lions
Comedic actor and physician who is perhaps best known for his role as Leslie Chow in The Hangover series. In the popular NBC series Community, he portrayed Ben Chang. Other film credits include Pineapple Express, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Ride Along 2 and The Duff. In 2019, he began starring in the Nickelodeon series The Casagrandes.
Ken Jeong
First visited by French explorers in the 1600s, this island was an ancient Indian burial ground called Michilimackinac (“Great Turtle”) when, because of its strategic location, the British established a fort there in 1780. After the United States took possession (1783), it became the headquarters of John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and later developed as a resort. Occupied by the British during the War of 1812, it was regained by the United States in 1815.
Mackinac Island
The Ojibwe tribe