The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

The area surrounding Cadillac is primarily rural, and is considered to be part of Northern Michigan.

* 1962: Northern Michigan College, Marquette, Michigan

Many small cities in Northern Michigan and Door County, Wisconsin are centered on a tourist base that takes advantage of the beauty and recreational opportunities offered by Lake Michigan.

Northern Michigan University ( or NMU for short ) is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

With a population of nearly 10, 000 undergraduate and graduate students, Northern Michigan University is the Upper Peninsula's largest university.

Northern Michigan University was established in 1899 by the Michigan Legislature as Northern State Normal School with the original purpose of providing teacher preparation programs in Michigan's then-wild and sparsely populated Upper Peninsula.

* Northern Michigan College of Education, 1942

* Northern Michigan College, 1955

In 1963, through the adoption of a new state constitution in Michigan, Northern was designated as a comprehensive university serving the diverse educational needs of Upper Michigan.

* Northern's multi-purpose student events center, funded in part by a $ 2 million donation by 1971 alumnus John Berry, opened in 1999 and is the home of the Northern Michigan University hockey and men's and women's basketball teams.

Northern Michigan University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Northern Michigan University's vision for education in the 21st century is a learning environment that embraces technology to enhance student access, promote the development of independent learners and encourage greater student-faculty communication and collaboration.

Northern Michigan's rivals in sports action are the two other major schools in the upper peninsula: Michigan Technological University, and Lake Superior State University.

The United States Olympic Education Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University is one of four Olympic training centers in the country and the only one located on a college campus.

Northern Michigan Hall traditions are numerous and involve the students, letting them bond as a community.

The Superior Edge encompasses a wide range of in-and out-of-classroom experiences that will provide Northern Michigan University students with a distinct advantage by better preparing them for careers, lifelong learning, graduate school, and life as engaged citizens.

The North Wind began in 1972 as Northern Michigan University's first independent, student newspaper.

* Northern Michigan Dragway

In 2009 Northern Michigan Dragway celebrated its 40th season of operation.

Northern Michigan Dragway is only asphalt dragstrip north of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The first race at Northern Michigan Dragway was held on Memorial Day 1970.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

This is not due to any policy of discrimination on the part of the Northern universities.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.