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The other regional labs set up by the 1938 act are located in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (Eastern Regional Research Center), New Orleans, Louisiana (Southern Regional Research Center), and Albany, California (Western Regional Research Center). The Northern Lab was renamed the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in 1990.
As early as 1671, French colonists called the river Miami du Lac 'Miami of the Lake' (in contrast to the Miami of the Ohio or the Great Miami River, called Ahsenisiipi in the Miami-Illinois language). Maumee is an anglicized spelling of the Ottawa or Odawa name for the Miami tribe, Maamii. The Odawa had a village at the mouth of the Maumee ...
Miami–Illinois (endonym: myaamia, [a]) [3] is an indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by the Miami and Wea as well as the tribes of the Illinois Confederation, including the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Tamaroa, and possibly Mitchigamea.
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.
The Prairie Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute charged with providing objective research, expertise, and data on the natural and cultural resources of Illinois. It was established as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by a Public Act of the Illinois State Legislature in 2008. [ 1 ]
NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT NO. 4, GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS 1946-1971. Naval Medical Research Unit Four (NAMRU-4) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was commissioned 31 May 1946 at the Naval Hospital in Dublin, Georgia as the Mcintire Research Unit for Rheumatic Fever, which was named for the Surgeon General of the United States Navy Ross T. Mcintire.
Flourish may refer to: Flourish, a 2006 comedic thriller; Flourish (fanfare), a ceremonial music passage; Flourishing, the state of positive social functioning; Flourish of approval, a symbol used for grading and correcting work; Card flourish, a showy movement of playing cards; A decorative curl in typography or handwriting, such as a swash
Great Lakes, U.S. waterways & lakes: Ballast water transport bans, manual removal from clogged pipes: Initially spread by ballast tanks of oceangoing vessels on the Great Lakes, now spread lake-to-lake by trailer-drawn boats. May be a source of avian botulism in the Great Lakes region. Common starling: Sturnus vulgaris: Contiguous United States