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The Soo Locks ( sometimes spelled Sault Locks, but pronounced " soo ") are a set of parallel locks which enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
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On the remaining Great Lakes, these ships are constrained only by the largest lock on the Great Lakes Waterway, the Poe Lock at the Soo Locks, which is long, wide and deep.
The Soo Locks between Lake Superior and the St. Marys River ( Michigan-Ontario ) | St. Marys River
Its principal civil engineering components are the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and the Soo Locks, bypassing the rapids of the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, at Sault Sainte Marie.
Local concern for the protection of the Great Lakes inter-lake navigation locks named Soo Locks at the trans-border area of Sault Sainte Marie prompted area citizens to propose that the U. S. Army Air Forces take over the new airfield.
Marie, Michigan, to protect the Soo Locks ( one battalion ), Savannah River Site ( two ), and one 90mm and two Skysweeper battalions at Thule Air Base, Greenland ( all were removed by 1959 ).
The international boundary runs through the bay, which is heavily used by shipping traffic northbound and southbound from the Soo Locks.
The Whitefish Point Light marks the entry of the bay, Ile Parisienne Light is in the middle of the bay, and Point Iroquois Light lies near the mouth of the bay and the approach of the Soo Locks.
Whitefish Bay became the site of numerous shipwrecks after the Soo Locks opened in 1855.
The first Soo Locks in the 19th century
The first iteration of the U. S. Soo Locks was completed in May 1855, and operated by the State of Michigan until transferred to the U. S. Army in 1881.
On the last Friday of every June, the public is allowed to go behind the security fence and cross the lock gates of the U. S. Soo Locks for the annual Engineers Day Open House.
* Soo Locks homepage U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Soo Locks page
* Animation of how the Soo Locks work.
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Rapid fire pump-kicking seen in American freestyle point sparring is sometimes used in Tang Soo Do competition.
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It is currently being used as an ice arena where the Soo Eagles and the Sault High Blue Devils play.
The Soo Theatre has been a part of Sault Ste.
The 1880s also brought Soo Line, originally to transport grain from nearby Minneapolis to Sault Ste.
The locks share a name ( usually shortened and anglicized as Soo ) with the two cities named Sault Ste.
During World War II, there was also a radar base on the edge of the town, intended to watch for a potential attack on the strategically important Soo Locks at Sault Ste.
* Bon Soo Winter Carnival in Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad ( MStP & SSM ), which was commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of that company with two other CP subsidiaries, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad and Wisconsin Central Railroad.
The Soo City Mavericks played out of the historic Pullar Center in Sault Ste.
While The Atlantic Limited name was only used officially after 1955 on the Montreal-Saint John service, the name, or a variation of it, has possibly seen use for a service which operated on CPR and CPR-subsidiary Soo Line between Minneapolis, Minnesota, via Sault Ste.
The airport hosts the flight-training campus for Sault College as well as the Soo Aviation flying school, resulting in frequent training flights in the vicinity.
Didier Pitre's first major hockey league was in an early IHL playing with the American Soo Indians, who played in Sault Ste.
Soo Line 1003 is a restored 2-8-2 Mikado type steam locomotive of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste.
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* The song " The Butterfly Collector " by The Jam ( the B-Side of the 1979 single " Strange Town ") was inspired by the book, but the song was in fact about Soo Catwoman, who upon the implosion of the Sex Pistols, attempted to become part of The Jam's entourage.
Jordan Chan ( 陈小春 ) Covered " I love you Cheol Soo " in his album " Exclusive Memory " on year 2008 with track # 08 " 每個女人都是美人 " (" Every woman is a Belle ") (" Every woman is a Beauty ") JP!
Marie Railway (" Soo Line ") L-1 class.
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None of these stations are seen on cable in the Canadian Soo, as Shaw cable airs Detroit and Rochester channels instead.
Both lines are still in place today, with the Great Northern tracks now owned by the BNSF Railway and the Soo Line tracks owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The railroads remain in Burlington today, and they are becoming more important to the local oil and gravel industries, though Great Northern is now part of the BNSF Railway and the Soo Line is run by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
# Dogma: Yuji and Marlene infiltrate the Blue infested Medical Station and are soon reunited with Rick and Soo.
Han and Soo Yung are reunited, and Han sends Carter and Lee on vacation together to Hong Kong as a reward for their actions.
Starting with the fourth season, Nigel Bennett and Peter MacNeill are removed from the opening credits, while Soo Garay as Dr. Claire Davison is added to the opening credits, after having guest roles throughout the first three seasons.
Marie Greyhounds ( aka Soo Greyhounds ) are a major junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League.
Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 )-The lines listed below were sampled from the scene in which Private Joker ( Matthew Modine ) and Private Rafterman ( Kevyn Major Howard ) are approached by a Da Nang hooker ( Papillon Soo Soo ).
The Kuliak languages — Ik, Soo, and Nyang ' i — are spoken by small relict communities in the mountains of northeastern Uganda.
Cheong Soo Pieng ( creator of Drying Salted Fish ) and Chen Wen Hsi ( creator of Gibbons Fetching the Moon from the Water ) are two pioneering artists who created a new type of fine arts in Singapore that influenced other local artists, in which their two paintings are featured.
These versions of Tang Soo Do are heavily influenced by Korean culture and also appear related to Okinawan Karate as initially taught in Japan by Funakoshi Gichin.
Tang Soo do forms are a set among of moves demonstrating a defensive or aggressive action for every movement.
Traditionally, nine forms are included in the curriculum of most Tang Soo Do school which are required study to earn the Midnightblue Belt.
There are also similarities between American freestyle point sparring ( as stated above, see NASKA link below ) and Tang Soo Do point sparring.
Consequently, the pace of a Tang Soo Do match can be somewhat slower than would be seen at a typical NASKA-type tournament, but the techniques ( theoretically ) should be somewhat more recognizable as linear, powerful blows that are delivered from reliably stable stances and body positions.
Variation between Tang Soo Do competitions is extensive, but are typically standardized within the various associations.
Because modern Tang Soo Do was developed at the same time as Tae Kwon Do and because many Tae Kwon Do practitioners enjoy Tang Soo Do competition, the powerful rear leg and spinning kick techniques used in both ITF and WTF Tae Kwon Do are commonplace traditional Tang Soo Do competitions, but are not delivered with full contact to the head.
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