Crossword clues for michigan
michigan
- Midwestern state
- Where Kalamazoo is, hometown of NFL wide receiver Greg Jennings
- US Great Lake
- State that's home to Flint and Detroit
- State made of two peninsulas
- State in two parts
- Motor City's state
- Largest lake located entirely within the United States
- Lake by which Chicago stands
- Lake ___ (after translation, "Lake Large Lake")
- Bipeninsular state
- Big lake: Ojibwa
- A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck)
- A player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops
- The largest fresh-water lake entirely within the United States borders
- The 3rd largest of the Great Lakes
- A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
- The player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- *The Great Lakes
- Type of rummy
- The Wolverine State
- A Great Lake
- Rummy variety
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name originally applied to the lake, perhaps from Old Ojibwa (Algonquian) *meshi-gami "big lake." The spelling is French. Organized as a U.S. territory 1805, admitted as a state 1837. A resident might be a Michigander (1848) or a Michiganian (1813).
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Michigan is a state located in the Great Lakes and midwestern regions of the United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area (the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River). Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.
Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge. The state has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. As a result, it is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. Michigan also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than from a natural water source or more than from a Great Lakes shoreline.
What is now Michigan was first settled by various Native American tribes before being colonized by French explorers in the 17th century and becoming a part of New France. After the defeat of France in the French and Indian War in 1762 the region came under British rule, and was finally ceded to the newly independent United States after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. The area was organized as part of the larger Northwest Territory until 1800, when western Michigan became part of the Indiana Territory. Eventually, in 1805, the Michigan Territory was formed, which lasted until it was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state. The state of Michigan soon became an important center of industry and trade in the Great Lakes region and a popular immigrant destination.
Though Michigan has come to develop a diverse economy, it is widely known as the center of the U.S. automotive industry, being home to the country's three major automobile companies (whose headquarters are all located within the Detroit metropolitan area). While sparsely populated, the Upper Peninsula is economically important due to its status as a tourist destination as well as its abundance of natural resources, while the Lower Peninsula is a center of manufacturing, services, and high-tech industry.
Michigan (styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State on the cover) is a concept album by American indie folk songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on July 1, 2003 on Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty and Secretly Canadian in the US, and on Rough Trade in Europe. It is Stevens' third studio album and features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Michigan.
The album is the first in Stevens' " The 50 States" project, a planned series of 50 albums to encompass all 50 states of the United States. Stevens only released two state albums before admitting the project was a "promotional gimmick".
Michigan is a U.S. state.
Michigan may also refer to:
- Michigan (album), also known as Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State, an album by Sufjan Stevens
- Michigan, West Virginia
- Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes, an inland fresh-water sea
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University of Michigan typically the flagship Ann Arbor campus
- Michigan Wolverines, the athletic program of the University of Michigan
- USS Michigan, U.S. Navy ship
- Michigan: Report from Hell, a horror-themed video game released for the PlayStation 2
- the Michigan (train), a train which operated between Chicago and Detroit
The Michigan was an automobile built in Kalamazoo, Michigan by the Michigan Automobile Company from 1903 to 1908.
The men behind the company were the Fuller brothers, Charles D., and Frank D. They owned the Fuller Brothers Manufacturing Company that made washboards and other wood products. They negotiated with the Blood brothers, owners of the Kalamazoo Cycle Company and builders of the Blood cycle car. On December, 30th, 1902, they established together the Michigan Automobile Company with Charles Fuller as chairman, Frank Fuller as secretary and general manager, Maurice E. Blood as treasurer, and Charles C. Blood as superintendent.
The Michigan Buggy Company started out building high-wheeled buggies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 1911, they started producing low-built tourers and roadsters, which were powered by 33 hp or 40 hp four-cylinder engines. These were known by "Mighty Michigans" in company advertisements, but were never officially named this. The company was in business from 1908-14.
Usage examples of "michigan".
Michigan plant of Archimedean, Johnny Barefoot appeared for his appointment with Kathy and found her in a state of gloom.
Soon Bedaux acquired the additional adornment of a socially impeccable spouse in the person of Fern Lombard, the daughter of a Michigan tycoon.
He is on the faculty of the FBI Academy in the Behavioral Science Unit, and also holds adjunct faculty status with the University of Virginia and Michigan State University, and is a senior research fellow with the University of Pennsylvania.
UM 006 is a cadaver who recently journeyed across Detroit from the University of Michigan to the bioengineering building at Wayne State University.
In his youth his father and uncles had gone on fishing expeditions up in Michigan returning severely hung over but with coolers full of bluegills, bass and trout.
Because the new president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, may well be the most liberal major college president in America, and in his earlier job as president of the University of Michigan, he instituted the most aggressive affirmative action program anywhere.
And even those who had recognized him could never be found now, and even if they could be found, they would not know what had happened to Dick Dayton after he disappeared from the northwest end of the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
In Michigan alone, the birthplace of downsizing, there are over fifty militia groups, the most in the country.
So you could say that just one person brought on the entire mean-spirited Engler Revolution in Michigan.
University of Michigan, this machine was part of the interuniversity very high speed Backbone Network Service, or vbns network, which linked Michigan to several other research-oriented universities.
May, 1919, the Left Wing fight had become so serious that the National Executive Committee revoked the charter of the Socialist Party in Michigan and suspended the Russian, Lithuanian, Ukranian, Lettish, Polish, South Slavic and Hungarian branches, expelling or suspending considerably over 25,000 members out of a total dues-paying membership of about 100,000.
National Executive Committee at its session in Chicago, May 24 to 30, expelled without a trial the state organization of the Socialist Party of Michigan, constituting about 6,000 members, suspended the Russian, Lithuanian, Lettish, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian and South Slavic Federations of the party, constituting more than 30,000 members, and worst of all--and let it be said to their everlasting shame--are autocratically holding up the national membership referendum for the election of a new National Executive Committee, International Delegates, International Secretary, and the holding of a national convention.
Lake Winnebago, to tribes around Lake Mendota, and finally, early in the nineteenth century, to one Solomon Juneau, a Frenchman, at the new trading post of Milwaukee on the Menominee River and the shore of Lake Michigan.
A native Michigander, since her move to the San Francisco Bay Area she has been plotting ways to enjoy Michigan summers and California winters.
The evidence, however, points in the other direction: In experiments performed by the American neurophysiologist Ralph Gerard at the University of Michigan, hamsters were taught to run a simple maze and then chilled almost to the freezing point in a refrigerator, a kind of induced hibernation.