Michigan Academician articles from September 2001

Michigan Academician archives from September 2001

Land of four flags: An archeological dig in Southwestern Michigan uncovers a multinational past. (Research in Michigan).
September 22, 2001... In the southwest corner of Michigan is an area that was claimed first by France, then England, and finally Spain, before it came under American control in the early nineteenth century. The area earned the nickname "Land of Four Flags," the only...

Ignore the man behind the (software) curtain in Michigan's public planning.
September 22, 2001... Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue...

Protecting and strengthening the dream: California junior colleges during the great depression.
September 22, 2001... By 1930, California had established an educational network providing a variety of opportunities for youths and adults. The most distinguishing feature of this network consisted of forty-six junior colleges, thirty-three of them public. The...

Development of GIS databases and applications on the WWW for the upper Peninsula, Michigan.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The purpose of this Superior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project is to establish a geographical data managing system for Michigan's Upper Peninsula that will be available to the public via the World Wide Web (WWW)....

First records of a fish species, the ghost shiner notropis buchanani, in Michigan.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT We report here the first record in Michigan of a new fish species, the ghost shiner Notropis buchanai. Specimens were collected from 4 of 17 tributaries we sampled for non-indigenous round Neogobius melanostomus and tubenose...

The continuity of baroque poetic vision: From the Italian disperata to the french neo-petrarchans.
September 22, 2001... The Italian poets of the disperata take their name from a particular poetic composition and from the theme of despair that pervades their lyrics. The disperata is a poem similar to the canzone (stanza), or capitolo (chapter), whose main theme...

The evolution of the family in great Britain.
September 22, 2001... For thousands of years, the Celtic and Germanic tribes that were the foundation of British society were based upon a clan and an extended family kinship system. During Europe's Middle Ages, most Europeans, as well as the British, developed the...