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Hancock, Michigan

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Hancock is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. [1]

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  1. 183 relations: Adit, Amygdule, Anders Brännström, Architecture of Finland, Area code 906, Bilingual sign, Bruce Riutta, Calumet, Michigan, Census, Charles Moyer, Chicago, Citizens' Alliance, City, City manager, Copper, Copper Country, Copper Country Limited, Copper Country strike of 1913–1914, Copper extraction, Copper Harbor, Michigan, Copper Island, Council–manager government, Delaware River, Dollar Bay, Michigan, Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway, Dwight Helminen, East Hancock, Michigan, Eastern Time Zone, Eastern United States, Eddie Olson, Eero Saarinen, Empire of Japan, English Americans, English language, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Federal Information Processing Standards, Finland, Finlandia University, Finnish Americans, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Finnish language, Finns, Finntown, Franklin Township, Houghton County, Michigan, Frederic Baraga, French Americans, Geographic Names Information System, German Americans, Germany, Greyhound Lines, ... Expand index (133 more) »

  2. 1859 establishments in Michigan
  3. Finnish-American culture in Michigan

Adit

An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine.

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Amygdule

Amygdules or amygdales form when the vesicles (pores from gas bubbles in lava) of a volcanic rock or other extrusive igneous rock are infilled with a secondary mineral, such as calcite, quartz, chlorite, or one of the zeolites.

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Anders Brännström

Major General Anders Karl Oskar Brännström (born 28 February 1957) is a retired Swedish Army officer.

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Architecture of Finland

The architecture of Finland has a history spanning over 800 years, and while up until the modern era the architecture was highly influenced by Sweden, there were also influences from Germany and Russia.

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Area code 906

Area code 906 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Bilingual sign

A bilingual sign (or, by extension, a multilingual sign) is the representation on a panel (sign, usually a traffic sign, a safety sign, an informational sign) of texts in more than one language.

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Bruce Riutta

Bruce Henry Riutta (October 14, 1944 – January 24, 2012) was an American ice hockey player.

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Calumet, Michigan

Calumet is a village in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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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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Charles Moyer

Charles H. Moyer (1866 – June 2, 1929) was an American labor leader and president of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) from 1902 to 1926.

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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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Citizens' Alliance

Citizens' Alliances were state and local anti-trade union organizations prominent in the United States of America during the first decade of the 20th century.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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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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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Copper Country

The Copper Country is an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States, including Keweenaw County, Michigan, Houghton, Baraga and Ontonagon counties as well as part of Marquette County.

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Copper Country Limited

The Copper Country Limited was a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (the "Milwaukee Road") and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSS&A) between Chicago, Illinois and Calumet, Michigan, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Copper Country strike of 1913–1914

The Copper Country strike of 1913–1914 was a major strike affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan.

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Copper extraction

Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtain copper from its ores.

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Copper Harbor, Michigan

Copper Harbor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Copper Island

Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula (projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway.

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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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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Dollar Bay, Michigan

Dollar Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) in Houghton County, Michigan, United States.

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Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway

The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSS&A) was an American railroad serving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lake Superior shoreline of Wisconsin.

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Dwight Helminen

Dwight Edward Helminen (born June 22, 1983) is an American former professional ice hockey center who most recently played with the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL.

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East Hancock, Michigan

East Hancock is a primarily residential neighbourhood in Hancock, Michigan, though it also includes the easternmost block of Quincy Street, the main street of Hancock's downtown.

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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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Eastern United States

The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.

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Eddie Olson

Edward F. Olson (January 1, 1922 – February 10, 1995) was an American ice hockey player, born in Hancock, Michigan.

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Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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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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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland.

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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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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finlandia University

Finlandia University was a private Lutheran university in Hancock, Michigan. Hancock, Michigan and Finlandia University are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Finnish Americans

Finnish Americans (amerikansuomalaiset) comprise Americans with ancestral roots in Finland, or Finnish people who immigrated to and reside in the United States.

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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (commonly known as the Suomi Synod) was a Lutheran church body which existed in the United States from 1890 until 1962. Hancock, Michigan and Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Finntown

A Finntown is a quarter populated by Finnish American people in the cities and big villages of the United States.

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Franklin Township, Houghton County, Michigan

Franklin Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Frederic Baraga

Irenaeus Frederic Baraga (June 29, 1797 – January 19, 1868; Irenej Friderik Baraga) was a Slovenian Catholic missionary to the United States, grammarian and author of Christian poetry and hymns in Native American languages.

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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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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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German Americans

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

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall

The Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall is a public building located at 399 Quincy Street in the Quincy Street Historic District in Hancock, Michigan, United States.

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Hancock Township, Michigan

Hancock Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Heikki Lunta

Heikki Lunta is the personification of the snow god in the folklore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, influenced by Finnish mythology. Hancock, Michigan and Heikki Lunta are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Henry (bishop of Finland)

Henry (Henrik; Henrik; Henricus; died 20 January 1156.) was a medieval English clergyman.

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Herb Boxer

Herb Boxer (born June 4, 1947) is an American retired ice hockey winger.

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Hill–Burton Act

The Hospital Survey and Construction Act, commonly known as the Hill–Burton Act, is a U.S. federal law passed in 1946, during the 79th United States Congress.

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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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Houghton County Memorial Airport

Houghton County Memorial Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southwest of the central business district of Calumet, a village in Houghton County, Michigan, United States.

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Houghton County, Michigan

Houghton County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. Hancock, Michigan and Houghton County, Michigan are populated places established in 1846.

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Houghton, Michigan

Houghton is the largest city and county seat of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Hancock, Michigan and Houghton, Michigan are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Hubbell, Michigan

Hubbell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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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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Ike Klingbeil

Ernest Rudolph "Ike" Klingbeil (November 3, 1908 – June 17, 1995) was an American ice hockey player.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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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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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Ishpeming, Michigan

Ishpeming is a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

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Italian Hall disaster

The Italian Hall disaster (sometimes referred to as the 1913 Massacre) was a tragedy that occurred on Wednesday, December 24, 1913, in Calumet, Michigan, United States.

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Jacobsville Sandstone

Jacobsville Sandstone is a red sandstone formation, marked with light-colored streaks and spots, primarily found in northern Upper Michigan, portions of Ontario, and under much of Lake Superior.

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Jill Dickman

Jill Dickman is an American businesswoman and politician.

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Joe Linder

Joseph Charles Linder (August 12, 1886 in Hancock, Michigan – June 28, 1948) was an American ice hockey player.

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John D. Ryan (industrialist)

John Denis Ryan (October 10, 1864 – February 11, 1933) was an American industrialist and copper mining magnate.

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John Hancock

John Hancock (– October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

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John P. Condon

John Pomeroy Condon (December 20, 1911 – December 26, 1996) was a highly decorated aviator in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of major general.

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Kerredge Theatre

The Kerredge Theatre was a theatre located in the 1st block of East Quincy Street in Hancock, Michigan, next to the Scott Hotel.

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Keweenaw County, Michigan

Keweenaw County is a county in the western Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Keweenaw National Historical Park

Keweenaw National Historical Park is a unit of the U.S. National Park Service. Hancock, Michigan and Keweenaw National Historical Park are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Keweenaw Peninsula

The Keweenaw Peninsula is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Keweenaw Waterway

The Keweenaw Waterway is a partly natural, partly artificial waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan; it separates Copper Island from the mainland.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.

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Laestadianism

Laestadianism (Lestadiolaisuus), also known as Laestadian Lutheranism and Apostolic Lutheranism, is a pietistic Lutheran revival movement started in Sápmi in the middle of the 19th century.

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Lake Linden, Michigan

Lake Linden is a village in Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater.

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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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Laurium, Michigan

Laurium is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan, in the center of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

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Lightning strike

A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which the electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground.

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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 Michigan State Historic Sites

The following is a List of Michigan State Historic Sites.

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Lode

In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fracture (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock.

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Louis Moilanen

Lauri "Louis" or "Big Louie" Moilanen (January 5, 1886 – September 16, 1913), was a Finnish-born giant, who holds the record of being Michigan's tallest man. Hancock, Michigan and Louis Moilanen are Finnish-American culture in Michigan.

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Lower Peninsula of Michigan

The Lower Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Lower Michigan – is the larger, southern and less elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; the other being the Upper Peninsula, which is separated by the Straits of Mackinac.

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M-203 (Michigan highway)

M-203 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.

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Marquette, Michigan

Marquette is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Mary Chase Perry Stratton

Mary Chase Perry Stratton (March 15, 1867 – April 15, 1961) was an American ceramic artist.

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Matt Huuki

Matt Huuki (born April 23, 1977) was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives who served one term representing the western end of the Upper Peninsula.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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McLain State Park

F.J. McLain State Park is a public recreation area on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Houghton County, Michigan.

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Michael Lahti

Michael Lahti (born 1945) is a politician from the State of Michigan.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Michigan State University Press

Michigan State University Press is the scholarly publishing arm of Michigan State University.

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Michigan Technological University

Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, United States, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Milwaukee Road

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

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Mineral Range Railroad

The Mineral Range Railroad (reporting mark MRA) is a shortline railroad in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Mohawk, Michigan

Mohawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Mont Ripley

Mont Ripley Ski Area (Often shortened to Mont Ripley, or simply Ripley) is a ski hill located in Franklin Township, Houghton County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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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 Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Scenic Byway

A National Scenic Byway is a road recognized by the United States Department of Transportation for one or more of six "intrinsic qualities": archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and scenic.

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Nevada Assembly

The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ojibwe

The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.

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Old Main, Suomi College

Old Main, is a former educational building located on Quincy Street on the former Finlandia University campus in Hancock, Michigan.

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Paul Coppo

Paul Francis "Racket" Coppo (November 2, 1938 – June 2, 2022) was an American ice hockey player.

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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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Peter Shaw (American actor)

Peter Shaw (born June 17, 1966) is an American vocalist and songwriter, having performed with Trans-Siberian Orchestra for four years.

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Pewabic Pottery

Pewabic Pottery is a ceramic studio and school in Detroit, Michigan.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Portage Charter Township, Michigan

Portage Charter Township is a charter township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Portage Lake Lift Bridge

The Portage Lake Lift Bridge (officially the Houghton–Hancock Bridge) connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, in the US state of Michigan. It crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest.

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Porvoo

Porvoo (Borgå; Borgoa) is a city in Finland.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Private university

Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.

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Prospecting

Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Quincy Mine

The Quincy Mine is an extensive set of copper mines located near Hancock, Michigan.

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Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District

The Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District is a historic stamp mill (used to crush copper-bearing rock, separating the copper ore from surrounding rock) located on M-26 near Torch Lake, just east of Mason in Osceola Township.

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Quincy Smelter

The Quincy Smelter, also known as the Quincy Smelting Works, is a former copper smelter located on the north side of the Keweenaw Waterway in Ripley, Michigan.

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Quincy Street Historic District

The Quincy Street Historic District is a historic district located along the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of Quincy Street, along with 416 Tezcuco Street, in Hancock, Michigan.

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Quincy Township, Houghton County, Michigan

Quincy Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of 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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Ralph Heikkinen

Ralph Isaac "Hike" Heikkinen (May 14, 1917 – January 12, 1990) was an All-American guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1936 to 1938.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Rent Romus

Rent Romus (born 1968) is an American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886).

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Ripley, Michigan

Ripley is a small, unincorporated community in Franklin Township situated upon a slope, just east of Hancock on M-26 and across the Portage Lake Canal from Houghton.

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Robbie Laing

Robert Alan Laing (born March 5, 1958) is an American college basketball coach, currently an assistant at the University of Central Florida.

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Rodney Paavola

Rodney Earland Paavola (August 21, 1939 – December 3, 1995) was an American ice hockey player.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette (Diœcesis Marquettensis) is an ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church, encompassing the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan in the United States.

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Royal Oak, Michigan

Royal Oak is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Samuel W Hill

Samuel W Hill, (November 6, 1815 – August 28, 1889) was an American surveyor, geologist and mining developer in Michigan's Copper Country.

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Scott Hotel

The Scott Hotel is a former hotel located at 101 East Quincy Street in Hancock, Michigan, originally known as the Hotel Scott.

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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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Snowmobile

A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine, motor sled, motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.

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Soo Line Railroad

The Soo Line Railroad is one of the primary United States railroad subsidiaries for the CPKC Railway, one of six U.S. Class I railroads, controlled through the Soo Line Corporation.

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St. Louis

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Street name sign

A street name sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially 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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Tanner Kero

Tanner James Kero (born July 24, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey player for HV71 of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).

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The Calumet Theatre

The Calumet Theatre is a historic theatre located at 340 Sixth Street in the town of Calumet, Michigan.

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The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group.

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Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, Michigan

Torch Lake Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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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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U.S. state

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

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United States Bicentennial

The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic.

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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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Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P.—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.

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Urho Kekkonen

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982.

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UTC−04:00

UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.

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UTC−05:00

UTC−05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −05:00.

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Verna Hillie

Verna Dolores Hillie (May 5, 1914 – October 3, 1997) was an American film actress.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929.

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Western Federation of Miners

The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.

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Wife-carrying

Wife carrying (eukonkanto or, naisekandmine, kärringkånk) is a contest in which male competitors race while each carrying a female partner.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Woodbridge N. Ferris

Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (January 6, 1853March 23, 1928) was an American educator from New York, Illinois and Michigan who served as the 28th governor of Michigan and in the United States Senate as a Democrat.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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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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1960 Winter Olympics

The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley (now known as Olympic Valley), California, United States.

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2000 United States census

The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

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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

1859 establishments in Michigan

Finnish-American culture in Michigan

References

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

Also known as Hancock (Michigan), Hancock Michigan, Hancock, MI, History of Hancock, Michigan.

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