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unusual facts about Great Lakes region


Great Lakes region

Wisconsin-born, Chicago-trained Sullivan apprentice Frank Lloyd Wright designed prototypes for architectural designs from the commercial skylight atrium to suburban ranch house.


Great Lakes WATER Institute

Located on Milwaukee's inner harbor, it is the only major aquatic research institution located on Lake Michigan and the largest of its kind in the Great Lakes region.

Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands

The Eastern Woodlands extended roughly from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the eastern United States and Canada.


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Cody Reinberg

Born in Villa Ridge, Missouri, Reinberg attended St. Francis Borgia High School, played club soccer for the Maryland Heights Stars, and played college soccer at Drury University, where he was an All-Great Lakes Valley Conference Honorable mention selection and All-Great Lakes Region Third Team pick as a sophomore in 2006, and earned All-Conference First Team honors as a junior in 2007.

Corrin Varady

Corrin is currently producing “Road to Freedom Peak”, a journey between himself and a former child soldier as they ride their bicycles across three countries in the African Great Lakes region, bringing local and international awareness to the use of children in conflict directed by filmmaker Max Pugh.

Francis Parkman Prize

1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Grand Canal

GRAND Canal or Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal, proposed for Great Lakes region of North America

Johannes Hildebrandt

He gave his name to a number of species, including Encephalartos hildebrandtii, the Hildebrandt's Starling (Hildebrandt's Starling), and Hildebrandt's Francolin (Pternistis hildebrandti), the latter two which he discovered in Kenya in the African Great Lakes region.

Kipsigis people

As with some Bantu groups, the Kipsigis and other Nilotes in the Great Lakes region have, through interaction, adopted customs from Southern Cushitic groups, including the age set system of social organization, circumcision, and elements of vocabulary.

Robert Bandeen

One of his first major decisions as vice-president Great Lakes Region was to consolidate the U.S. lines under a newly created holding company named Grand Trunk Corporation.

Swahili culture

The period from the 10th to the 15th century in the eastern African Great Lakes region is often referred to as the "Shirazi Era", as many trading settlements were created by Shirazi Persians.

Virtual Museum of New France

This encompasses the French settlements and territories that spread from Acadia in the East through the Saint Lawrence Valley, the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Valley, and south to Louisiana from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

White Hurricane

Great Blizzard of 1978 - A blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada

Great Lakes Storm of 1913 - A blizzard that affected the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada