Marquette

The Marquette Harbor Light is located on Lake Superior in Marquette, Michigan, a part of the Upper Peninsula. It is an active aid to navigation. To... help navigation towards ore docks, Congress approved funds to build the Marquette Harbor Light in 1850. Construction took place in 1852, and first lit in June 1853. However, the initial structure deteriorated rapidly, and funds were approved in 1865 for a replacement tower. In 1875 the Army Corps of Engineers built a 2,000 foot breakwater to reduce the force of wind and waves in Marquette Harbor. A strong storm destroyed the original light in 1889. The new light sits on a concrete crib at the southernmost end of the breakwater wall. The original lighthouse included seven 14-inch Lewis lamps, and a small detached 24 by 30 dwelling constructed of similar materials to that of the tower. In 1853, the United States Lighthouse Board was created and a major system upgrade brought on an installation of a Sixth Order French Fresnel lens in 1856. The new lens was visible up to ten miles . Because of weather conditions, installation, maintenance and operation of a foghorn was integral to the operation.
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Susan Vanita Diol is an American television actress who has played supporting roles in over forty series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation,... NCIS and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Her characters rarely appear in more than one episode. Diol was born in Marquette, Michigan, of Finnish, Swedish, and Indian descent. Her father is Peter Balwant Singh Diol, and her mother is Christine Katherine. Her middle name, Vanita, means "princess of the forest". She was raised in Columbus, Ohio, along with her siblings Katherine Amrita, Michael Peter, and Jennifer Priya. Diol was married to Jerry Rapp from April 1, 1991, until their divorce on August 17, 1993. Diol's second marriage was to Shaun Cassidy on May 7, 1995. They had one child together, Juliet Jones-Diol Cassidy, who was born on March 19, 1998, with a weight of 3.7 kg at birth. She was divorced from Cassidy on March 1, 2003. Diol married her third and current husband, Andy Cadiff, on December 20, 2003, in a Jewish ceremony in their backyard in Pasadena, California. Diol was graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.
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Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world,... being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. Michigan is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. The state has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles from a natural water source or more than 85 miles from a Great Lakes shoreline. It is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten.
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