Lake Superior
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The largest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Superior is the largest, highest in elevation, and deepest of the Great Lakes.
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Others created AI-generated images of Somali “founders” planting flags on the shores of Lake Superior.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025
As the Edmund Fitzgerald loaded its cargo hold on a Sunday afternoon in the fall, the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior was unseasonably warm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
A federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, last summer gave Enbridge three years to shut down part of Line 5 that runs across the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024
Which was the profession of the namesake of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the ore freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on Nov. 10, 1975?
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2024
Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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