16．Michigan State University was founded in 1855as the nation’s first land－grant university and served as the prototype（原型）for 69land－grant institutions later established under the Morrill Act of 1862．It was the first institution of higher learning in the nation to teach scientific agriculture．
17．The largest village in Michigan is Caro．
18．Michigan’s state stone，The Petoskey is the official state stone．It is found along the shores of Lake Michigan．
19．The Mackinac Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world．Connecting the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan，it spans 5miles over the Straits of Mackinac，which is where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet．The Mighty Mac took 3years to complete and was opened to traffic in 1957．
20．Gerald R．Ford grew up in Grand Rapids and became the 38th president of the United States He attended the University of Michigan where he was a football star．He served on a World War II aircraft carrier and afterward represented Michigan in Congress for 24years．He was also was an Eagle Scout，the highest rank in Boy Scouts．
21．The Kellogg Company has made Battle Creek the Cereal Capital of the World．The Kellogg brothers accidentally（偶然地，意外地）discovered the process for producing flaked cereal（谷类食品，谷类）products and sparked the beginning of the dry cereal industry．
22．The painted turtle is Michigan’s state reptile（爬虫动物）．
23．The western shore of Michigan has many sand dunes ［（由风吹积而成的）沙丘］．The Sleeping Bear Dunes rise 460feet above Lake Michigan．Living among the dunes is the dwarf lake iris the official state wildflower．
24．Vernors ginger ale（姜汁无酒精饮料）was created in Detroit and became the first soda pop made in the United States．In 1862，pharmacist（配药者，药剂师）James Vernor was trying to create a new beverage（饮料）when he was called away to serve our country in the Civil War．When he returned，4years later，the drink he had stored in an oak case had acquired a delicious gingery（姜味的）flavor．
25．The Detroit Zoo was the first zoo in America to feature cageless（无隔离圈的，（滚动轴承）无夹圈的），open－exhibits that allowed the animals more ******* to roam．
26．Michigan is the only place in the world with a floating post office．The J．W．Westcott II is the only boat in the world that delivers mail to ships while they are still underway（起步的，进行中的）．They have been operating for 125years．
27．Indian River is the home of the largest crucifix（十字架）in the world．It is called the Cross in the Woods．
28．Michigan has the longest freshwater（淡水（不是海洋水的），湖水）shoreline in the world．
29．Michigan has more shoreline than any other state except Alaska．
30．The Ambassador Bridge was named by Joseph Bower，the person credited with ****** the bridge a reality，who thought the name“Detroit－Windsor International Bridge”as too long and lacked emotional appeal．Bower wanted to“symbolize（作为……的象征）the visible expression of friendship of two peoples with like ideas and ideals”．
31．Michigan has more than 11，000inland lakes and more than 36，000miles of streams．
32．Michigan has 116lighthouses（灯塔）and navigational lights．
33．Seul Choix Point Lighthouse in Gulliver has been guiding ships since 1895．The working light also functions as a museum，which houses early 1900s furnishings（家具，设备）and maritime artifacts．
34．Forty of the state’s 83counties adjoin（邻接，毗连）at least one of the Great Lakes．Michigan is the only state that touches four of the five Great Lakes．
35．Standing anywhere in the state a person is within 85miles of one of the Great Lakes．
36．Michigan includes 56，954square miles of land area；1，194square miles of inland waters；and 38，575square miles of Great Lakes water area．
37．Sault Ste．Marie was established in 1668****** it the oldest town between the Alleghenies（spurge［植］平铺富贵草）and the Rockies（洛矶山脉）．
38．Michigan was the first state to provide in its Constitution for the establishment of public libraries．
39．Michigan was the first state to guarantee every child the right to tax－paid high school education．
40．Four flags have flown over Michigan －French，English，Spanish and United States．
41．Isle Royal Park shelters one of the largest moose herds remaining in the United States．
42．Some of the longest bulk freight（散装货物）carriers in the world operate on the Great Lakes．Ore carriers 1，000feet long sail Michigan’s inland seas．
43．The Upper Michigan Copper Country is the largest commercial deposit of native copper in the world．
44．The 19chandeliers in the Capitol in Lansing are one of a kind and designed especially for the building by Tiffany’s of New York．Weighing between 800－900pounds apiece（每人）they are composed of copper（铜），iron and pewter（白蜡）．
45．The first auto traffic tunnel（隧道，地道）built between two nations was the mile－long Detroit－Windsor tunnel under the Detroit River．
46．The world’s first international submarine railway tunnel was opened between Port Huron，Michigan and Sarnia，Ontario，Canada in 1891．
47．The nation’s first regularly scheduled air passage service began operation between Grand Rapids and Detroit in 1926．
48．In 1879Detroit telephone customers were first in the nation to be assigned phone numbers to facilitate handling calls．
49．In 1929，the Michigan State Police established the first state police radio system in the world．
50．Grand Rapids is home to the 24－foot Leonardo da Vinci horse，called Il Gavallo，it is the largest equestrian（在马背上的，骑士阶层的）bronze sculpture in the Western Hemisphere．
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欧文
欧文，（Washington Irving 1783—1859），作家，1783年4月3日出生于纽约。幼年体弱多病，16岁辍学，先后在几个律师事务所学法律，但对法律并没有兴趣，喜爱文学，喜爱漫游。1804年因病赴欧洲休养，到过法国、意大利和英国，一度想成为画家。1806年回国后在弗吉尼亚州任律师，后帮助他的两个哥哥经营进口生意。这时他与律师霍夫曼的女儿玛蒂尔达订婚，她于1809年早死；后来他虽有过几次恋爱，却一直过着独身生活。1807年，他和哥哥威廉等人共同创办一种不定期刊物《杂拌》，开始了他的文学创作活动，显露出他的幽默、风趣和含蓄的讽刺才能。
欧文的第一部重要作品是《纽约外史》（1809）。此后10年，除英美战争期间曾于1814年担任过短期军职之外，一直在帮助他的哥哥经商。1815年欧文去英国利物浦在他哥哥所开设的分行工作；1818年分行因经济萧条而倒闭，欧文留居英国，以写作为生。