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Millions of years ago, what we know today as The Great Lakes, a shallow sea known as the Michigan Basin, centered in Michigan stretched outward to surrounding areas of today’s Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ontario Canada. Mountain streams carrying red iron oxide deposited sediments into the sea forming a large delta which over the years became the Queenston Shale.

This magnificent landscape is believed to form with overgrazing the soft layer of the shale by farming that exposed this red iron rich material. The farming has stopped in 1931, however the erosion continues increasing this remarkable site in size.

The hills and gullies are composed of clay containing mostly red iron oxide and green iron oxide visible as greenish-gray bands throughout the land.

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CRIMEA is one of the most interesting sites in the world. It is really worth a long trip to see the beauty of that Black Sea penin­sula, bewitching with its magnificent natural beauty and amazing because of the blending here of cultures and civili­zations. Crimea has a long and uniqu­ely interesting history. It offers tourists not only comparatively new palaces and parks, but also remains of ancient towns and ruins of medieval stron­gholds. There are no literally. „native” in­habitants on Crimean Peninsula. It is the real Babel Tower of nationalities: Rus­sians (over 65%), Ukrainians (approx. 20%), Tatars (10%), Georgians, Jews, Germans, Armenians, Bulgarians, Gre­eks, Belarusian, and Poles, of course.

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Lublin, the largest city in southeastern Poland, is well endowed with historic buildings. It is also an important center of academic life and a city marked with Jewish culture.

The city, with the first permanent settlement on its site estimated to be in the 6^th or 7^th century, has seen and experienced a lot. A target for attacks (Tatars, Swedes, Germans), was destroyed and rebuilt, but also thrived as a great trade center and a meeting place for Polish and Lithuanian nobles. In 1944, after Lublin had been liberated from the Nazis, Poland’s first communist government arrived here on the tanks of the Red Army, making Lublin the capital of Poland for awhile.

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