Why it’s called Lake Superior
how big this lake is?
LAKE SUPERIOR FACTS· Lake Superior contains ten percent of all the fresh
water on the planet Earth.
· It covers 82,000 square kilometers or 31,700 square miles.
· The average depth is 147 meters or 483 feet.
· There have been about 350 shipwrecks recorded in Lake Superior
· Lake Superior is, by surface area, the largest lake in the world.· A Jesuit priest in 1668 named it Lac Tracy , but that name
was never officially adopted.
· It contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes
combined, plus three extra Lake Erie ‘s!!
· There is a small outflow from the lake at St. Mary’s River
(Sault Ste Marie) into Lake Huron , but it takes almost
two centuries for the water to be completely replaced.
· There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and
South America with water one foot deep.
· Lake Superior was formed during the last glacial retreat, making it one
of the earth’s youngest major features at only about 10,000 years old.
· The deepest point in the lake is 405 meters or 1,333 feet.
· There are 78 different species of fish that call the big lake home .
· The maximum wave ever recorded on Lake Superior was 9.45 meters
or 31 feet high.
· If you stretched the shoreline of Lake Superior out to a straight
line, it would be long enough to reach from Duluth to the Bahamas .
· Over 300 streams and rivers empty into Lake Superior with the
largest source being the Nipigon River
· The average underwater visibility of Lake Superior is about 8 meters
or 27 feet, making it the cleanest and clearest of the Great Lakes .
Underwater visibility in some spots reaches 30 meters.
· In the summer, the sun sets more than 35 minutes later on the
western shore of Lake Superior than at its southeastern edge.
· Some of the world’s oldest rocks, formed about 2.7 billion
years ago, can be found on the Ontario shore of Lake Superior .
· It very rarely freezes over completely, and then usually just for a few
hours. Complete freezing occurred in 1962, 1979, 2003 and 2009.
A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door.
The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.
“Not a chance,” says the husband, “it is 3:00 in the morning!”
He slams the door and returns to bed.
“Who was that?” asked his wife.
“Just some drunk guy asking for a push,” he answers.
“Did you help him?” she asks.
“No, I did not, it’s 3am in the morning and it’s bloody pouring rain out there!”
“Well, you have a short memory,” says his wife. “Can’t you remember about three months ago when we broke down, and those two guys helped us? I think you should help him, and you should be ashamed of yourself! God loves drunk people too you know.”
The man does as he is told, gets dressed, and goes out into the pouring rain.
He calls out into the dark, “Hello, are you still there?”
“Yes,” comes back the answer.
“Do you still need a push?” calls out the husband.
“Yes, please!” comes the reply from the dark.
“Where are you?” asks the husband.
“Over here on the swing,” replied the drunk..
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I don’t know about the good luck/bad luck part of this at the end, but the story is neat
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman’s sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
‘I want to repay you,’ said the nobleman. ‘You saved my son’s life.’
‘No, I can’t accept payment for what I did,’ the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer’s own son came to the door of the family hovel.
‘Is that your son?’ the nobleman asked.
‘Yes,’ the farmer replied proudly.
‘I’ll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he’ll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.’ And that he did.
Farmer Fleming’s son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman’s son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His son’s name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH:
I hope it works…
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
And may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
Now…..Make A wish!! I hope you made your wish!
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Taken with high precision but most of the time just lucky shots. Animal photography at it’s best, at least in a fun way..
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They’re dancing to Joe Turner’s
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Watch this here: S.Loren
Is this a great country or what??
–AND MUCH MORE–BREATHTAKINGLY…
A
Village in Holland wherein you can’t find a single
Road…
All
Transportation is done by boats along the
River.
But
it’s not a problem as it is so
Beautiful!
Hard
To believe such tranquillity!!
Cherry
BlossomsJapan
Tundra
Autumn
In Germany
The
Beauty of Antarctica
Salzburg
Austria – the most
Beautiful city we have ever
Seen.
Neuschwannstein,
King Ludwig’s Castle
In Bavaria , Germany
Windmills
Of Holland
Beauty
Of Tibet
Disney
Castle
Golden
Maple Leaf
Edge
Of Glacier
Lavender
Farm
The
Night Scene of Eiffel Tower
Blue
Sea
Earthbound
Rainbow
Mirror
Lake
Lavender
At the Foot of the Mountain
Comet
(Make a wish)
The
Purple Romance
Breithorn
Peak( Switzerland )
Deep
Autumn
The
Moon and Star on Earth
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This was performed in Times Square New York City .
Great Card Trick- I’ve seen a lot of card tricks, but I’ve never seen anything like this one before. A Card Trick Right in the heart of Times Square ! Just click on the deck of cards!http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Uh0CMcLiRkw%26feature%3dshare
that’s right it may help you and others too: click here: 40piecesofadvice
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Ryan Molloy plays ‘Frankie Valli’, Visit: www.ryanmolloy.com
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“Jersey Boys- Best Musical 2006 Tony Award, Best Musical 2006 Grammy Award, Best New Musical 2009 Olivier Award.
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Captain Jack Sparrow
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Oymyakon russia: Oymyakonwk.wk
Positioned deep in Siberia, the village of Oymyakon holds the distinction of being the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth.
Just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle and reaching record lows of -96.16
, one is forced to ponder not only why, but also how the villagers of this remotest of remote locations survive.
With a day that varies from 3 hours in the winter and 21 hours in the summer and permanently frozen ground due to the extreme subarctic climate, the roughly 500 residents of Oymyakon are mostly unable to grow crops, therefore their diet
basically consists of reindeer and horse meat. While spoiled kids to the south get out of school for snow days, the children of Oymyakon are stuck in class unless the temperature falls below –52C. If you were to go outside naked on an average day, it would take approximately one minute for you to freeze to death.
Besides the obvious issues of remoteness, the cold itself forces this village to be a simple place with few conveniences. Cars are hard to start with frozen axle grease and fuel tanks, unused pipes can freeze within 5 hours, batteries lose life at an alarming speed. Pen ink freezes, anything less than fur fails at keeping the chill off, and electronics are all but useless.
Perhaps one of the most difficult challenges facing these rugged people existing within “Stalin’s Death Ring” is the burial of their dead. With the ground in a state of permafrost, it takes several days to dig a grave, a strenuous task of lighting a bonfire for a few hours, then pushing the coals aside to dig a few inches, then starting another fire, and so on and so forth, until the hole is big enough to hold a coffin.
While its appeal may be mostly due to the novelty of being in such a bizarre climate as there is very little to do in Oymyakon, it has a relatively successful tourism market. Area-specific activities such as reindeer hunts, ice fishing and the juxtaposition of enjoying the hot springs when the temperatures are in the minus-fiftes are available to those who would like to experience this opposite of a tropical vacation spot.
You Michiganers will LOVE this very cool video. Didn’t know you had such a cool song.
About this video
“What happens when 4 guys take 7 days, drive 3000 miles and hit up 50 different cities? A Statewide Singalong! I got a great chance to be one of the guys on the team touring around this great state of Michigan! Sloan Inns- Production Sound Mixer (https://vimeo.com/channels/sloan) Produced by StatusCreative.com Learn more about all these Michigan cities and attractions at http://www.michigan.org”
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The Pure Michigan Statewide Singalong http://vimeo.com/49133017
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Enjoy the fine workmanship.
Inside of a 350 year old Wooden Church in Poland..
360 Degree view, an outstanding technical feat!!
This is truly amazing, make time to ‘look’ all around this Church with the arrows at the bottom of it, and allow it time when you first open it to focus properly, it takes just a few minutes.
Use the + to zoom in and the – to zoom out and look at areas and objects within inches for minute details.
A large screen is preferable to view this in order to do the camera and the artwork justice!
The extensive art work of the period is mind boggling!!
It must have taken years to construct such a beautiful church and the art work and ceiling painting even longer!
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watch this here: Big_Slip
and so it goes!
After being married for 50 years, I took a careful look at my wife one day and said, “Fifty years ago we had a cheap house, a junk car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 23-year-old girl.
Now … I have a $250,000 home, a $45,000 car, a nice big bed and a large screen TV, but I’m sleeping with a 73-year-old woman. It seems to me that you’re not holding up your side of things.”
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 23-year-old girl and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed and watching a 10-inch black and white TV.
Aren’t older women great? They really know how to solve an old guy’s problems!
Here’s a museum I’d like to explore: Museu_sinsheim
This is bizarre – after you find the guy – it’s so obvious.
Once you find him – it’s embarrassing, and you think,
‘Why didn’t I see him immediately?‘Doctors have concluded that if you find the man in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people.If you find the man between 3 seconds and 1 minute, the right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the man between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein.If you have not found the man after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!!!And, yes, the man is really there!!
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Engineers without degrees
Hurricane Sandy, a late-season post-tropical cyclone, swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States in late October 2012. The storm left dozens dead, thousands homeless and millions without power.
MOVE YOUR CURSOR BACK & FORTH TO MOVE THE VERTICAL BAR ON EACH PICTURE TO SEE “BEFORE & AFTER”: Ocean City, NJ, Long Port, NJ, Maryland, etc.
A couple of weeks ago someone had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard.
Something to consider if you have a GPS – don’t put your home address in it.. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.
This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet… Etc…was stolen.
20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says ‘I received your text asking about our Pin number and I’ve replied a little while ago.’ When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text ‘hubby’ in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
Moral of the lesson:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list.
Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc….
And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
Also, when you’re being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came fromthem. If you don’t reach them, be very careful about going places to meet ‘family and friends’ who text you.
“I had the opportunity to meet with Jan e Fonda soon after I was released.
I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV.
She never did answer me“
Hanoi Jane!
What a disgrace to Mrs. Nancy Reagan!
Boycott this movie!
America , we must not forget!
JANE FONDA NANCY REAGAN
This cannot go around too much. Those of us that were living in those years will never forget that she was a traitor and did a lot of damage to our boys.
She has now been chosen to play Nancy Reagan in her life story.
I am sending this one out because so many do not know this truth…
and also because she was on 3 times this week talking about her new book…
And how good she feels in her 70’s… she still does not know what she did wrong..her book just may not make the best list if more people knew…
also…
Barbara Walters said:
Thank you all. Many died in Vietnam for our freedoms.
I did not like Jane Fonda then and I don’t like her now.
She can lead her present life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by without comment and see her “honored” as a “Woman of the Century.”
(I remember this well)
For those who served and/or died. . ..
NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!!
and now President OBAMA wants to honor her……!!!!
In Memory of LT. C.Thomsen Wieland who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton [Famous North Vietnam Prison]
IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!!!!!!
A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE HONORED.
KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA
This is for all the kids born in the 70’s and after who do not remember, and didn’t have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear.
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the ‘100 Women of the Century.’
BARBARA WALTERS WRITES:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot.
The pilot’s name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.
In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison the ‘ Hanoi Hilton.’
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ’s, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American ‘Peace Activist’ the ‘lenient and humane treatment’ he’d received.
She took them all without missing a beat.. At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper…
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam , and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia ; and one year in a ‘black box’ in Hanoi . My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot , South Vietnam , whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs)
We were Jane Fonda’s ‘war criminals….’
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi , I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received… and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as ‘humane and lenient.’
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jan e Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of ‘100 Years of Great Women.’ Lest we forget….’ 100 Years of Great Women’ should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jan e ‘s participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can.. It will eventually end up on her computer and she needs to know that we will never forget.
RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt,
USAF 716 Maintenance Squadron,
Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343
After seeing this video I would never buy it as I don’t like anything that comes from polluted waters in Vietnam or China or Bangladesh. You can now cross catfish (BASA fish) off your menu… Just look for the “Made in Vietnam label”.
Most of the Asian markets and restaurants use these fish from the Mekong river! This may also be the steamed white fish fillet they serve in many Chinese restaurants.
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