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The Great Lakes: A Vital Economic Waterway in North America
TLDR The Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, form an interconnected system of freshwater lakes that serve as a crucial transportation route for freighters carrying millions of tons of goods annually. These lakes are hydrologically connected and play a significant role in the economy of North America.
Timestamped Summary
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The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes in North America that are interconnected and form one of the most important economic waterways in the world.
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Lake Superior is the largest and deepest of the Great Lakes, containing 10% of all the standing freshwater in the world.
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Lake Michigan is the second largest Great Lake and is hydrologically connected to Lake Huron, while the largest city on Lake Michigan is Chicago.
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Lake Huron is connected to Lake Superior via the St. Mary's River and the Sue Locks, and Lake Huron flows south through the St. Clair River into Lake St. Clair and then through the Detroit River, which empties into Lake Erie.
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Lake Erie has major ports including Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, and Buffalo, which receives extreme amounts of snow due to the lake effect, and the water from Lake Erie flows into Lake Ontario through the Niagara River and the Welland Canal.
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The Great Lakes Waterway, which includes the St. Lawrence Seaway, allows ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to Duluth, Minnesota, covering a total distance of 2,340 miles or 3,770 kilometers, and is a crucial transportation route for over 100 freighters carrying millions of tons of dry bulk goods annually.
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The story of the greens of rice and the checkerboard is apocryphal and there is no evidence that it ever really happened, but it is a great story to demonstrate exponential growth. The proper pronunciation of the Latin text "principia-mathematica" is principia, with a hard C like the letter K.
