What the hell were they thinking when naming a lake Chargoggagogg­manchauggagogg­chaubunagungamaugg?
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The man was drownding when he was naming it.
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I'd have two guesses ... and that's exactly what they are.\n\n1. Fairview (and all its non-Anglicized derivatives)\n\n2. Riverside (and all its non-Anglicized derivatives)\n\n... because you can pretty much bet that the town was set up either due to a nice view, or because there is water nearby.
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Make up some acronyms.. for instance HOMES stands for the great lakes.  Good luck
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Click on the lake name.
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The indigenous Potawatomi tribe called the marshes on which Chicago was later built "Checagou," which translates to "wild onion" or "garlic" (also referred to as "skunk cabbage"). [1] This name was transferred by European explorers to the Chicago River, and then by settlers to the name of the city. Before Chicago's founding, the name of the river was spelled several ways, such as "Chetagu" or "Shikago".[citation needed]\n\nThe origin of Chicago's nickname as "The Windy City" is debated and has many possible politically-motivated origins (see List of nicknames for Chicago). The most common explanation is that the phrase was created by New York newspapers in the 1880s, during a national debate over which city would host the 1893 World's Fair. However, the Chicago citizenry turned the intended slur into a compliment of the city's new life and vitality following a quick recovery from the previous decade's Great Chicago Fire. Hence the name remains in common usage. However, there has been evidence that the term Windy City had been in use prior to this common explanation. See Windy City, Origin of Name (Chicago) for a more thorough discussion.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that sank in Lake Superior.\nGitche Gumme is the name of Lake Superior in the poem Hiawatha.\nPharos was a small island just off the coast of Alexandria. It was linked to the mainland by a a man-made connection named the Heptastadion, which thus formed one side of the the city's harbour. As the Egyptian coast is very flat and lacking in the kind of landmark used at the time for navigation, a marker of some sort at the mouth of the harbour was deemed necessary - a function the Pharos was initially designed to serve. Use of the building as a lighthouse, with a fire and reflective mirrors at the top, is thought to date to around the 1st Century CE, during the the Roman period. Prior to that time the Pharos served solely as a navigational landmark.\n\n\nI guess the questions have lighthouses in common.
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The word Mississippi comes from the Ojibwa name for the river, "Messipi" (or Misi-ziibi in contemporary spelling), which means great river, or from the Algonquin Missi Sepe, "great river," poetically, "father of waters." The Ojibwe called Lake Itasca Omashkoozo-zaaga'igan (Elk Lake) and the river flowing out of it Omashkoozo-ziibi (Elk River). After flowing into Lake Bemidji, the Ojibwe called the river Bemijigamaa-ziibi (River from the Traversing Lake). After flowing into Cass Lake, the name of the river again changed to Miskwaawaakokaa-ziibi (Red Cedar River) and then to Gichi-ziibi (Big River) after flowing into Lake Winnibigoshish. The Ojibwe name Misi-ziibi applied only to the portion below the Crow Wing River, but the ever-changing names of the river seemed illogical to the English speakers, so after the expedition by Henry Schoolcraft, the longest stream above the juncture of the Crow Wing River and Gichi-ziibi was named "Mississippi River".
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First off they are not ontarios great lakes as ontario doesn't even touch lake michigan. Secondly in what way do you mean they are a mess? is it from invasive species? Pollution? over development? etc...?\nThirdly their are many agencies doing research and clean up efforts on all 5 of the great lakes including the International joint commision a bi-national orginization formed by canadian and U.S. governments in the mid 1800's
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This is kind of like asking how many mountains are there, and then realizing you don't know how to distinguish a mountain from a mole hill. Until you can define how large a body of water makes a lake (are ponds lakes?), there is no definite answer. \n\nMinnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes, and yet some estimates put it at 15,000 lakes.  Here's a lake index for Minnesota: http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/lakes/#Index\n\nIn order to ge a first order approximation for you, I ran a search on the USGS Place Names index and got an error message that the server was down. . They don't have it completed, so several states are still missing.  You might try a search on this place names index. using "lake" as your feature class , I also tried a search using Google Earth, and got only a handful of features. Obviously Google Earth is still being built.
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From growing up on a large property with its own pond I can tell you the average person today at least appears to be less likely to know the difference between a pond and a lake. We had a pond that was ¾ of a football field that my Dad had built (mostly planning, location, a rented backhoe and rain) and I don’t remember anyone who didn’t call it a lake. As much as we corrected them to tell them it was a pond the idea didn’t seem to stick, mostly because we were the only ones who seemed to care whether there even was a difference. \n\n\nThere is a difference between a pond and a lake and it grows primarily out of the source of creation, as with all living things – yes I said living, but we’ll get to that. A lake was made by God; a pond is always man made. As such you might expect ponds, each being made by different men, to look a lot different from one to another and to be stocked with different varieties of plant and animal life from pond to pond, and you’d be right. Some ponds are stocked with fish of one kind and some of another. And some ponds are stocked with fish of many kinds or groups of kinds that can live together, with their natural plant life under the water for food. Where fish are stocked that tend to devour each other or where the proper natural food or other living environment have not been provided you may find plant life only or just a big hole in the ground with water in it. \n\n\n \nA lake by contrast has occurred naturally. Since no man had to commit to a certain amount of time to build it, it can be quite large and so is generally larger than any pond. Now both must be inland. That means they are a body of water surrounded by a lot of land rather than like an island which is a body of land surrounded by a lot of water. Ponds are more often stocked than lakes as lakes have inlets that carry fish but with ponds, just as men create them if man doesn’t put the fish there, they don’t get there. Lakes tend to be teaming with fish of kinds that survive together by natural occurrence. Again the inlets of water tend to nurture such an environment. A lake is also less likely to get fished out. A pond however doesn’t replace its own supply of underwater life as mentioned before.\nSo the volume is not a factor in determining the difference between a pond and a lake.
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If it wasn't for the revenue from licences and the vigilance of fishermen our rivers would be in a state. How much time do the antis spend near the water, how much knowledge do they have of aquatic life and what are they doing to keep rivers and ponds maintained. I've been in a syndicate before, the lake was dug on an old grass-track racing track. The lake is teeming with life, we maintained it and paid particular attention ti the wildlife that we were keen to attract to the water, from insects up to water birds and even mammals such as the water vole which is supposed to be extremely rare. Pffft I've seen them every time I visited the lake. Anglers can also recognise the first signs of disease and nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand.\n\nWhat next? Ban fly spray?
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first, you're spelling it wrong. it's "Kwaikiutl."\n\nhttp://www.studentresources.mrpete.net/LRCoastalSalish.html
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Because!\nDuh...!\n\n\nactually, I wish I knew what you were talking about.  I'm going to look it up on google and see if I have any ideas.  If I do, I will come back and edit my answer.  If I don't, well, I won't.
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that's a dumb question man, Caledonia is a town in Canada, the land is owned by the Canadian government and several housing developers, that's why the natives are so upset and that's why they set a stupid tire fire and a giant blockade on highway 6
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Michigan is from an Algonquian Chippewa Indian word "meicigama" that means "big sea water" (referring to the Great Lakes).
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We don't know their exact name (and it would have been more than one person) but it would have been approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska.\n\nWhat does something not exist until some white guy finds it? How very narrow minded and racist!
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I think that one is called Mud Lake, and it is a glacial feature, as are most of the lakes in the area, including Fremont lake.   \n\n(If you look at the loose rock around it, you will notice it is polished smooth and round, which is evidence of glacial activity. If it were volcanic, there would be thick ash layers, flows, and other clear evidence in the bedrock of the area. A meteor impact large enough to make a lake that size would leave a shatter cone and most likely there would be layers of ejecta with many sharp shards of rock.)