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1. 410 relations: A cappella, Acrisure Amphitheater, Ada Township, Michigan, Advance Newspapers, Aerospace, African Americans, Alaska Natives, Alexander Calder, Allendale, Michigan, Alticor, AM broadcasting, American Broadcasting Company, American Fur Company, American Hockey League, American Seating, Amtrak, Amway, Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Amway River Bank Run, Andrew Jackson, Angelus, Aquinas College (Michigan), Arconic, Area code 616, Arthur Vandenberg, ArtPrize, Asian Americans, Associated Press, Atlantic Media, Austin Automobile Company, Automotive industry, Aviation, Ōmihachiman, Baptists, Barbershop music, Battle Creek, Michigan, Battle of the Thames, Belknap Lookout, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Betty Ford, Bielsko-Biała, Big-box store, Bissell, Blacklisting, Bus rapid transit, Cadillac, Michigan, Calder Cup, Calvin Theological Seminary, Calvin University, Car, ... Expand index (360 more) » « Shrink index

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3. Michigan Neighborhood Enterprise Zone

A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Acrisure Amphitheater

Acrisure Amphitheater is a 12,000 seat outdoor amphitheater planned to break ground in Grand Rapids, Michigan in early 2024 and to be completed by 2026.

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Ada Township, Michigan

Ada Township is a civil township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Ada Township, Michigan are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Advance Newspapers

Advance Newspapers, based in Hudsonville, Michigan, published weekly community newspapers for Kent County, Michigan and portions of Muskegon, Ottawa, and Allegan counties.

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Aerospace

Aerospace is a term used to collectively refer to the atmosphere and outer space.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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Allendale, Michigan

Allendale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ottawa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Alticor

Alticor is a privately owned American corporation run by the DeVos and Van Andel families.

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AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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American Fur Company

The American Fur Company (AFC) was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States.

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American Hockey League

The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).

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American Seating

American Seating Inc. is a company specializing in the production of chairs and other seating, including seats for rail transport and public transportation, schools and churches.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Amway

Amway Corp. (short for "American Way") is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) company that sells health, beauty, and home care products.

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Amway Grand Plaza Hotel

Amway Grand Plaza Hotel is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and is named after Amway Corporation, which is based in nearby Ada Township.

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Amway River Bank Run

The Amway River Bank Run is an annual road running race hosted by Amway in U.S. city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the month of May.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Angelus

The Angelus'' (1857–1859) by Jean-François Millet The Angelus (Latin for "angel") is a Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation of Christ.

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Aquinas College (Michigan)

Aquinas College is a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Arconic

Arconic Corporation is an American industrial company specializing in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing.

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Area code 616

Area code 616 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Grand Rapids, Michigan and all or part of five surrounding counties.

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Arthur Vandenberg

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951.

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ArtPrize

ArtPrize is an art competition and festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and ArtPrize are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Media

Atlantic Media is an American print and online media company owned by David G. Bradley and based in the Watergate in Washington, D.C. It publishes The Atlantic, a print and online publication that also holds themed events; and offers business intelligence and consulting services through its National Journal Group subsidiary.

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Austin Automobile Company

The Austin was a brass era American automobile manufactured in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1901 to 1921.

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Automotive industry

The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.

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Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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Ōmihachiman

City Hall Traditional buildings Preservation Area is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

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Baptists

Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.

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Barbershop music

Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic texture.

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Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers.

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Battle of the Thames

The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, was an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies.

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Belknap Lookout

The Belknap Lookout Neighborhood is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Benton Harbor, Michigan

Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Betty Ford

Elizabeth Anne Ford (formerly Warren; April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011) was the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of former president Gerald Ford.

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Bielsko-Biała

Bielsko-Biała (Bílsko-Bělá; Bielitz-Biala, Biylsko-Biołŏ; Byłc-Bejł) is a city in southern Poland, with a population of approximately 166,765 as of December 2022, making it the 22nd largest city in Poland, and an area of.

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Big-box store

A big-box store, a hyperstore, a supercenter, a superstore, or a megastore is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.

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Bissell

Bissell Inc., also known as Bissell Homecare, is an American privately owned vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturing corporation headquartered in Walker, Michigan in Greater Grand Rapids.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy.

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT), also referred to as a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability, and other quality features than a conventional bus system.

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Cadillac, Michigan

Cadillac is a city in and county seat of Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cadillac, Michigan are county seats in Michigan.

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Calder Cup

The Calder Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the playoff champions of the American Hockey League.

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Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Seminary is a private Christian Reformed Church seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Calvin University

Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Catholic Central High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Catholic Central High School is a college preparatory high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Celebration on the Grand

Celebration on the Grand was a free music festival held in Grand Rapids, Michigan to celebrate the quality of life in the Grand River valley and to act as an unofficial end to the summer for Grand Rapids.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Centennial Exposition

The Centennial International Exhibition, officially the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876.

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Charles Christopher Trowbridge

Charles Christopher Trowbridge (December 29, 1800 – April 3, 1883), "Biographical Sketch of Charles C. Trowbridge," read June 3, 1883, published in Pioneer Collections: Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, 1907, pp.

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Charter school

A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

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Christian Reformed Church in North America

The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA or CRC) is a Protestant Calvinist Christian denomination in the United States and Canada.

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Circumferentor

A circumferentor, or surveyor's compass, is an instrument used in surveying to measure horizontal angles.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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City commission government

City commission government is a form of local government in the United States.

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City High-Middle School

City High Middle School is a public, magnet high school operated by the Grand Rapids Public Schools in the greater Grand Rapids, Michigan area.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city in the council–manager form of city government.

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Coalesse

Coalesse is a United States–based furniture company founded in 2008.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Combined statistical area

Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSA) across the 50 U.S. states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage.

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Commemoration of Casimir Pulaski

Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779) was a Polish nobleman, soldier and military commander who has been called "the father of the American cavalry".

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Cooley Law School

Cooley Law School (Cooley) is a private law school in Lansing, Michigan, and Riverview, Florida.

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Corewell Health

Corewell Health is a non-profit healthcare system located in the state of Michigan in the United States.

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Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital

Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital is a hospital in the Grand Rapids Medical Mile in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Cornerstone Theological Seminary

Cornerstone Theological Seminary (formerly Grand Rapids Theological Seminary) of Cornerstone University is a private interdenominational evangelical Christian seminary located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Cornerstone University

Cornerstone University is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Council of Three Fires

The Council of Three Fires (in Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government is a form of local government used for municipalities, counties, or other equivalent regions, commonly used in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Crain Communications

Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.

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CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Davenport University

Davenport University is a private university with campuses throughout Michigan and online.

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David John Walkowiak

The Most Reverend David John Walkowiak, J.C.D. (born June 18, 1953) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as the twelfth bishop of the Diocese of Grand Rapids in Michigan since 2013.

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Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period.

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Dearborn, Michigan

Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.

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Delta Air Lines

Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Denver Nuggets

The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Detroit are county seats in Michigan and Michigan Neighborhood Enterprise Zone.

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Detroit Free Press Marathon

The Detroit Free Press Marathon is a race run every third Sunday in October in Detroit, Michigan, United States, and Windsor, Ontario, Canada, since 1978.

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Detroit Metropolitan Airport

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is the primary international airport serving Detroit and its surrounding metropolitan area in Michigan, United States.

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Detroit Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit.

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Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit.

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DeVos Place Convention Center

DeVos Place Convention Center, erected on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a multi-purpose convention center.

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Douglass Houghton

Douglass Houghton (September 21, 1809 – October 13, 1845) was an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

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Dutch Americans

Dutch Americans (Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch and Flemish descent whose ancestors came from the Low Countries in the distant past, or from the Netherlands as from 1830 when the Flemish became independent from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands by creating the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Eastown, Grand Rapids

Eastown is a 70 square block district in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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El Vocero Hispano

El Vocero Hispano is the largest Spanish language weekly newspaper in West Michigan that presents local and international news to its readers.

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English Americans

English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fall of Saigon

The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.

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Farmers Insurance Group

Farmers Insurance Group (informally Farmers) is an American insurer group of vehicles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products.

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Farmers' market

A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Ferris State University

Ferris State University (FSU or Ferris) is a public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan.

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Festival of the Arts (Grand Rapids)

The Festival of the Arts – known locally as simply Festival, typically with the year added (e.g. "Festival 2005") – is a three-day multimedia arts festival, held annually at the La Grande Vitesse sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June.

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Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank (5/3 Bank), the principal subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp, is a bank holding company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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First Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan

First Protestant Reformed Church is Reformed congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Fish ladder

A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as movements of potamodromous species.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.

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Ford Airport (Dearborn)

Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, was one of the first modern airports in the world.

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Fountain Street Church

Fountain Street Church (FSC) in Grand Rapids, Michigan started out as a Baptist congregation, but it changed its views when liberal Christianity became popular in the late 1800s.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

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Fred A. Huber Trophy

The Fred A. Huber Trophy was awarded annually by the International Hockey League to the North American ice hockey team with the most points during the regular season.

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Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a botanical garden, art museum, and outdoor sculpture park located in Grand Rapids Township, Michigan, United States.

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French Americans

French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fujita scale

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.

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Furniture

Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).

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Ga East Municipal District

Ga East Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

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Ga West Municipal District

Ga West Municipal District is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

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Gangnam District

Gangnam District is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea.

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GE Aviation Systems

GE Aviation Systems (formerly Smiths Aerospace) is an American aerospace engineering, aircraft engine and aircraft parts manufacturer.

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Gemini Media

Gemini Media was founded in 1979 by John H. Zwarensteyn in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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General strike

A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal.

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Gentex (automotive supplier)

Gentex Corporation is an American electronics and technology company that develops, designs and manufactures automatic-dimming rear-view mirrors, camera-based driver assistance systems, and other equipment for the global automotive industry.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

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Gerald R. Ford International Airport

Grand Rapids Gerald R. Ford International Airport is a commercial airport in Cascade Township, approximately southeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is the presidential museum and burial place of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States (1974–1977), and his wife Betty Ford.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Gordon Food Service

Gordon Food Service (GFS) is a foodservice distributor based in Wyoming, Michigan serving the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the United States and coast-to-coast in Canada.

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Grace Christian University

Grace Christian University is a private evangelical Christian university in Wyoming, Michigan.

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Grand Elk Railroad

The Grand Elk Railroad is a Class III railroad which operates in the states of Indiana and Michigan.

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Grand Rapids (baseball)

The Grand Rapids Baseball Club was a minor league baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan that played under several different names at various times between 1883 and 1951.

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Grand Rapids Art Museum

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art.

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Grand Rapids Business Journal

The Grand Rapids Business Journal is a bi-weekly business newspaper concentrating on Grand Rapids, Michigan and the surrounding area.

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Grand Rapids Chicks

The Grand Rapids Chicks were a women's professional baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Civic Theatre

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was founded in 1925 and has grown into one of the largest community theatres in the United States.

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Grand Rapids Community College

Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) is a public community college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Cyclones

The Grand Rapids Cyclones are a semi-pro basketball team from Grand Rapids, Michigan who compete in the Premier Basketball League.

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Grand Rapids Danger

The Grand Rapids Danger was a team in the North American Basketball League (NABL) in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Downtown Market

The Grand Rapids Downtown Market is a public market in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Dragonfish

The Grand Rapids Dragonfish were a men's senior semi-professional box lacrosse team in the Continental Indoor Lacrosse League.

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Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad

The Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad is a railroad in western Michigan, United States.

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Grand Rapids FC

Grand Rapids FC was an American soccer club based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose senior men's team played in USL League Two.

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Grand Rapids Flight

The Grand Rapids Flight were a team in the International Basketball League based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Gold

The Grand Rapids Gold are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and are affiliated with the Denver Nuggets.

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Grand Rapids Griffins

The Grand Rapids Griffins are a professional ice hockey team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Hoops

The Grand Rapids Hoops were a basketball team that played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Marathon

The Metro Health/Grand Rapids Marathon is a race run every October in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA since 2004.

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Grand Rapids Medical Mile

Grand Rapids Medical Mile is a designated area within the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids metropolitan area

The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland.

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Grand Rapids Owls (1977–1980)

The Grand Rapids Owls are a defunct professional ice hockey team, who were members of the International Hockey League from the 1977–1978 season to 1979–1980 season.

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Grand Rapids Police Department

The Grand Rapids Police Department is a municipal police department within Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan, United States.

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Grand Rapids Public Museum

The Grand Rapids Public Museum, located on the bank of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is among the oldest history museums in the United States.

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Grand Rapids Public Schools

The Grand Rapids Public Schools is a public school district serving Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Rampage

The Grand Rapids Rampage was an arena football team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Rise

The Grand Rapids Rise are a professional indoor volleyball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Grand Rapids Rockets

The Grand Rapids Rockets are a defunct International Hockey League team.

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Grand Rapids Symphony

The Grand Rapids Symphony is a professional orchestra located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

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Grand River (Michigan)

The Grand River (Ottawa: owashtanong, "Far-Flowing Water") is a river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University (GVSU, GV, or Grand Valley) is a public university in Allendale, Michigan.

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Grandville, Michigan

Grandville is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Grandville, Michigan are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Gunter's chain

Gunter's chain (also known as Gunter's measurement) is a distance-measuring device used for surveying.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Haworth (company)

Haworth Inc. is a privately held, family-owned office furniture manufacturer headquartered in Holland, Michigan, United States.

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Health care

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.

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Heartside

Heartside is a neighborhood located near downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Heat wave

A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Helen DeVos Children's Hospital

The Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (HDCH) is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 241-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Heritage Hill Historic District (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Heritage Hill is a residential neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Herman Hoeksema

Herman Hoeksema (13 March 1886 in Hoogezand – 2 September 1965 in Grand Rapids) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.

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Herman Miller

MillerKnoll, Inc., doing business as Herman Miller, is an American company that produces office furniture, equipment, and home furnishings.

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Hillary Scholten

Hillary Jeanne Scholten (born February 22, 1982) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 3rd congressional district since 2023.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Home Rule Cities Act (Michigan)

The Home Rule City Act was a statute enacted by the Michigan Legislature as Public Act 279 of 1909.

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Hope Network

Hope Network is a non-profit Christian organization in Michigan that helps people with disabilities live independently.

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Hopewell tradition

The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period.

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Howard Miller Clock Company

The Howard Miller Company is a Zeeland, Michigan, based manufacturer of longcase clocks and other home furnishings.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Indian Trails

Indian Trails, Inc., is an intercity bus operator primarily serving the U.S. state of Michigan, with routes also serving Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.

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Interstate 196

Interstate 196 (I-196) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs for in the US state of Michigan.

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Interurban Transit Partnership

The Interurban Transit Partnership, branded as The Rapid, is the public transit operator serving Grand Rapids, Michigan and its suburbs.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.

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Isaac McCoy

Isaac McCoy (June 13, 1784 – June 21, 1846) was an American pioneer and Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in what became the states of Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas.

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Jacobson's

Jacobson's was an American regional department store chain.

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James Kent (jurist)

James Kent (July 31, 1763 – December 12, 1847) was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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John Ball (pioneer)

John Ball (November 12, 1794 – February 5, 1884) was a settler, educator, lawyer and member of the Michigan State Legislature.

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John Ball Zoological Garden

John Ball Zoo is located on the west side of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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John Mason (artist)

John Mason (March 30, 1927January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics.

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John Raymond Henry

John Raymond Henry (August 11, 1943 – November 1, 2022) was an American sculptor.

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Johnson Wax Headquarters

Johnson Wax Headquarters is the world headquarters and administration building of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994.

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JW Marriott Grand Rapids

The JW Marriott Grand Rapids is a hotel located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo is a city in and the county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Kalamazoo, Michigan are county seats in Michigan.

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K–12

K–12, from kindergarten to 12th grade, is an English language expression that indicates the range of years of publicly supported primary and secondary education found in the United States and Canada, which is similar to publicly supported school grades before tertiary education in several other countries, such as Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Iran, the Philippines, South Korea, and Turkey.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kendall College of Art and Design

Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) is a college of art and design located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Kenneth Snelson

Kenneth Duane Snelson (June 29, 1927 – December 22, 2016) was an American contemporary sculptor and photographer.

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Kent County, Michigan

Kent County is located in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Kent County, Michigan are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts.

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Kregel Publications

Kregel Publications is an Evangelical Christian book publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Kuyper College

Kuyper College is a private Christian college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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La Grande Vitesse

La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding City Hall and the Kent County Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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Labor Day

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake-effect snow

Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water.

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Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lazarus (department store)

F&R Lazarus & Company (commonly known as Lazarus) was a regional department store with its retail chain operating primarily in the U.S. Midwest, and based in Columbus, Ohio.

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LEED

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program used worldwide.

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Lewis Cass

Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782June 17, 1866) was an United States Army officer and politician.

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List of counties in Michigan

There are 83 counties in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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List of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan

This is a list of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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List of municipalities in Michigan

Michigan is a state located in the Midwest region of the United States.

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List of people from Grand Rapids, Michigan

The following is a list of notable people associated with Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of United States cities by population

This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States.

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List of United States urban areas

This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations.

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LMCU Ballpark

LMCU Ballpark is a ballpark located in Comstock Park, Michigan, just north of Grand Rapids.

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Louis Campau

Louis Campau (August 11, 1791 – April 13, 1871), also spelled Louis Campeau, was an important figure in the early settlement of Saginaw and Grand Rapids - two important Michigan cities in which he had established trading posts.

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Lucius Lyon

Lucius Lyon (February 26, 1800September 24, 1851) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan.

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Lyman Kipp

Lyman Emmet Kipp, Jr. (December 24, 1929 – March 30, 2014) was a sculptor and painter who created pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and were often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl Constructivists.

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M-11 (Michigan highway)

M-11 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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Mackinac Island

Mackinac Island (Île Mackinac; Mishimikinaak ᒥᔑᒥᑭᓈᒃ; Michilimackinac) is an island and resort area, covering in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Magdelaine Laframboise

Magdelaine La Framboise (1780–1846), born Marguerite-Magdelaine Marcot,David A. Armour, "MARCOT, MARGUERITE-MAGDELAINE," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol.

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Marcelo Lehninger

Marcelo Lehninger (born 1 October 1979, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is music director of the Grand Rapids Symphony, a professional orchestra located in Michigan, U.S.A., and artistic director of the Bellingham Festival of Music in Washington State.

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Mark di Suvero

Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient.

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Marquette Rail

Marquette Rail is a short line railroad operating in Michigan.

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Maya Lin

Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor.

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Métis

The Métis are an Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces.

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McKay Tower

McKay Tower is a building in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, located on Monroe Center.

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Meijer

Meijer Inc. (stylized as meijer) is an American supercenter chain that primarily operates throughout the Midwestern United States.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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Meyer May House

The Meyer May House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States.

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Michigan Area of The United Methodist Church

The Michigan Area Conference is one of 54 Annual Conferences of The United Methodist Church in the United States.

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Michigan House of Representatives

The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature.

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Michigan Mayhem

The Michigan Mayhem were a minor league professional basketball team based in Muskegon, Michigan, that competed in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).

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Michigan Senate

The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature.

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (MSUCHM) is an academic division of Michigan State University (MSU) that grants the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree, emphasizing patient-centered care and a biopsychosocial approach to caring for patients.

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Michigan statistical areas

The U.S. currently has 43 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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Michigan's 3rd congressional district

Michigan's 3rd congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in West Michigan.

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Midland, Michigan

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Michigan, in the United States. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Midland, Michigan are county seats in Michigan.

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Midwest League

The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball league established in 1947 and based in the Midwestern United States.

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Midwest United FC

Midwest United FC is an American soccer club based in Grand Rapids, Michigan that fields teams in MLS NEXT and Elite Clubs National League and senior teams in the Great Lakes Division of USL League Two and USL W League.

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Mill race

A mill race, millrace or millrun, mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel (sluice) conducting water to or from a water wheel.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.

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MLive Media Group

MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan.

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Mohawk people

The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

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Mound Builders

Many pre-Columbian cultures in North America were collectively termed "Mound Builders", but the term has no formal meaning.

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Multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing or pyramid selling, is a controversial marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.

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Multiplex (movie theater)

A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens or auditoriums within a single complex.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Municipal clerk

A clerk (pronounced "clark" /klɑːk/ in British and Australian English) is a senior official of many municipal governments in the English-speaking world.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

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Muskegon Catholic Central High School

Muskegon Catholic Central High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Muskegon, Michigan.

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Muskegon, Michigan

Muskegon is a city in and the county seat of Muskegon County, Michigan, United States. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Muskegon, Michigan are county seats in Michigan and Michigan Neighborhood Enterprise Zone.

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MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Heritage Academies

National Heritage Academies, Inc. (NHA) is a for-profit education management organization headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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NBA G League

The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the official minor league organization of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New Great Migration

The New Great Migration is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 60-year trend of black migration within the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Nielsen Media Research

Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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Niles, Michigan

Niles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near the Indiana state line city of South Bend.

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Noahquageshik

Noahquageshik (1755–1855 or 1770–1840), also spelled Nawehquageezhik, Nawehquageezhig, or Nowgeschick (from Naawakwegiizhig, "Noon-day" or "Noon-sky"), and better known as Chief Noonday, was a chief of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Nation Native Americans in what would become the U.S.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Northwest Territory

The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolution.

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Northwood University

Northwood University (NU) is a private university focused on business education with its main campus in Midland, Michigan.

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Odawa

The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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Old National Bank

Old National Bank is an American regional bank with nearly 200 retail branches operated by Old National Bancorp and based in Chicago and Evansville, Indiana.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth.

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Our Daily Bread Ministries (formerly RBC Ministries) is a Christian organization founded by Martin De Haan in 1938.

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Outline of health sciences

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences: Health sciences – those sciences that focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Panic of 1873

The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain.

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Paul B. Henry

Paul Brentwood Henry (July 9, 1942 – July 31, 1993) was an American professor of political science and politician from Michigan.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Pere Marquette (Amtrak train)

The Pere Marquette is a passenger train operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services on the route between Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois.

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Perrigo

Perrigo Company plc (פריגו) is an American Irish-registered manufacturer of private label over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, and while 70% of Perrigo's net sales are from the U.S. healthcare system, Perrigo is legally headquartered in Ireland for tax purposes, which accounts for 0.60% of net sales.

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Perugia

Perugia (Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber.

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Peter Secchia

Peter Finley Secchia (April 15, 1937 – October 21, 2020) was an American businessman and Republican political activist, who also served as the United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino from 1989 to 1993.

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Petoskey, Michigan

Petoskey is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Petoskey, Michigan are county seats in Michigan.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Piece work

Piece work or piecework is any type of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed, regardless of time.

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Plaster Creek

Plaster Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Polish American Historical Association

The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), founded in 1942, is a scholarly not-for-profit association dedicated to the study of Polish American history and culture.

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Polish Americans

Polish Americans (Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland.

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Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII (Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903.

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Potawatomi

The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region.

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Prairie School

Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States.

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Premiere

A premiere, also spelled première, (from première, 1er) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work.

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Presbyterian Church (USA)

The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.

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President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home

The President Gerald R. Ford Jr.

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Pro Volleyball Federation

The Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) is a women's professional indoor volleyball league in the United States.

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Protestant Reformed Churches in America

The Protestant Reformed Churches in America (PRC or PRCA) is a Protestant denomination of 33 churches and over 8,000 members.

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Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary is a Reformed seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Racine, Wisconsin

Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Reformed Church in America

The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard DeVos

Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team.

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River House Condominiums

River House Condominiums is a residential skyscraper built on the west bank of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan located next to Bridgewater Place.

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Rix Robinson

Rix Robinson (1789–1875) was a Michigan pioneer.

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Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Robert Morris (artist)

Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer.

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Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium

The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, named for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, was constructed in the early 1960s as part of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.

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Rogers Plaza

Rogers Plaza also referred to as Rogers Plaza Town Center since 2002 is an enclosed shopping mall in Wyoming, Michigan, United States, a suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids

The Diocese of Grand Rapids (Dioecesis Grandcataractensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in western Michigan in the United States.

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Rosa Parks Circle

Rosa Parks Circle is a plaza located in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Rosalynn Bliss

Rosalynn Bliss (born August 3, 1975) is an American politician, social worker, and mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Schuler Books & Music

Schuler Books is an independent bookseller with four locations across the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Severe weather

Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life.

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Silver Line (Grand Rapids)

The Silver Line is a bus rapid transit line run by the Interurban Transit Partnership in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Smiths Group

Smiths Group plc is a British, multinational, diversified engineering business headquartered in London, England.

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South Gull Lake, Michigan

South Gull Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ross Township, Kalamazoo County, in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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SpartanNash

SpartanNash Company (formerly Spartan Stores, Nash Finch) is an American food distributor and grocery store retailer headquartered in Byron Center, Michigan.

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Special Olympics

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries.

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St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)

The St.

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St. Patrick High School (Portland, Michigan)

St.

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Steelcase

Steelcase Inc. is an international manufacturer of furniture, casegoods, seating, and storage and partitioning systems for offices, hospitals, classrooms, and residential interiors.

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Steketee's

Steketee's was a department store based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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Stephen Antonakos

Stephen Antonakos (Στυλιανός Αντωνάκος; November 1, 1926 in Agios Nikolaos, Laconia, Greece – August 17, 2013 in New York City) was a Greek-American sculptor most well known for his abstract sculptures often incorporating neon.

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Stout Air Services

Stout Air Services was an airline based in the United States.

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Synagogue

A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.

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Tecumseh

Tecumseh (October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands.

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Temple Emanuel (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Temple Emanuel (בית המקדש עמנואל) is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 1715 Fulton St East, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States.

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Term limit

A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office.

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Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.

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The Grand Rapids Press

The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper published in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.

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The Polar Express (film)

The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr., based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg.

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Thornapple River

The Thornapple River (Ottawa: Sowanquesake, "Forked River") (GNIS ID #) is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Tornado outbreak of April 2–3, 1956

From April 2–3, 1956, a large, deadly tornado outbreak affected the Great Plains, parts of the South, and the upper Midwest in the contiguous United States, especially the Great Lakes region.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Trauma center

A trauma center, or trauma centre, is a hospital equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries such as falls, motor vehicle collisions, or gunshot wounds.

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Trinity Health

Trinity Health is an American not-for-profit Catholic health system operating 92 hospitals in 22 states, including 120 continuing care locations encompassing home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Turnstone (company)

Turnstone is an office furniture company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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U.S. Green Building Council

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), founded in 1993, is a private 501(c)3, membership-based non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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UFP Industries

UFP Industries, Inc. was founded in Michigan in 1955 as a supplier of lumber to the manufactured housing industry.

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United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.

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United Football League (1961–1964)

The United Football League was a professional American football minor league that operated between 1961 and 1964.

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United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.

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United Reformed Churches in North America

The United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA) is a theologically conservative federation of Reformed churches founded in 1996.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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United Women's Soccer

United Women's Soccer (UWS) is a national pro-am women's soccer league in the United States.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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University of Michigan Health - West

University of Michigan Health - West, formerly known as Metro Health – University of Michigan Health, is a nonprofit health system affiliated with the University of Michigan Health, with primary and specialty care services at 30 locations in West Michigan.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".

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Van Andel Arena

Van Andel Arena is a multi-purpose arena situated in the Heartside district of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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Van Andel Institute

Van Andel Institute (VAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit biomedical research and science education organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Vernon J. Ehlers Station

The Vernon J. Ehlers Station is a train station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States served by Amtrak, the U.S. national railroad passenger system.

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Wage

A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Water fluoridation

Water fluoridation is the addition of fluoride to a public water supply to reduce tooth decay.

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Wealthy Theatre

Wealthy Theatre is an American movie theatre and performance center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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West Catholic High School

West Catholic High School is a private Catholic college preparatory secondary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan (U.S.). It opened in 1962 with loans from Kenowa Hills Public Schools.

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West Michigan

West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for a region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

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West Michigan Whitecaps

The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Minor League Baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

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Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

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WGVU-TV

WGVU-TV (channel 35) is a PBS member television station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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White Pigeon, Michigan

White Pigeon is a village in St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Widdicomb Furniture Company

Widdicomb Furniture Company was an American furniture company.

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Widow

A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has usually not remarried.

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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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WLLA

WLLA (channel 64) is a religious independent television station licensed to Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan.

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Wolverine World Wide

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. or Wolverine Worldwide, is a publicly traded American footwear manufacturer based in Rockford, Michigan.

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WOOD-TV

WOOD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for West Michigan.

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WOTV

WOTV (channel 41) is a television station licensed to Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of ABC and The CW.

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WWMT

WWMT (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of CBS.

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WXMI

WXMI (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of the Fox network.

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WXSP-CD

WXSP-CD (channel 15) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.

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Wyoming Police Department

The Wyoming Police Department is a municipal police department of the city of Wyoming, Michigan.

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Wyoming, Michigan

Wyoming is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Wyoming, Michigan are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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WZZM

WZZM (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan as an affiliate of ABC.

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Yankee

The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States.

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Zapopan

Zapopan is a city and municipality located in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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Zondervan

Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

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2013 Grand Rapids flood

The 2013 Grand Rapids flood lasted from April 12 to 25, 2013, affecting multiple areas in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Grand Rapids, Michigan and 2013 Grand Rapids flood are grand Rapids metropolitan area.

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2017 United Women's Soccer season

The 2017 United Women's Soccer season was the 23nd season of pro-am women's soccer in the United States, and the 2nd season of the UWS league.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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See also

1826 establishments in Michigan Territory

• Adrian, Michigan
• Bath Charter Township, Michigan
• Blissfield, Michigan
• Brooks Farm
• Charles Trowbridge House
• Chippewa County, Michigan
• Deerfield, Michigan
• Faribault, Minnesota
• Farmington, Michigan
• Grand Lodge of Michigan
• Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Lenawee County, Michigan
• Literary Voyager
• Mooreville, Michigan
• Musgrove Evans House
• Raisin Charter Township, Michigan
• Washtenaw County, Michigan

Michigan Neighborhood Enterprise Zone

• Detroit
• Flint, Michigan
• Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Highland Park, Michigan
• Holland, Michigan
• Muskegon, Michigan

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan

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