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Dasani (/ d ə ˈ s ɑː n i /) is a brand of bottled water created by the Coca-Cola Company, launched in 1999. [1] It is one of many brands of Coca-Cola bottled water sold around the world. The product is filtered and bottled.
Pere Marquette State Park was not acquired until May 1932. Known then as Piasa Bluff State Park, the 1,511-acre (611 ha) park was the largest in Illinois at the time. In 1933 the state park system's development picked up. Under the governorship of Henry Horner the lodge projects at the state parks began.
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas. [1]
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the state parks and state recreation areas, enforces the fishing and game laws of Illinois, regulates Illinois coal mines and other extractive industries, operates the Illinois State Museum system, and oversees scientific research into the soil, water, and mineral ...
Wolf Lake in Illinois has a storied history that somehow has lost track of the origins of the name that goes back over 150 years. Part of this history includes visits by Abraham Lincoln in which Mary Todd Lincoln nearly drowned. [3] In 1947, the state acquired a 160 acres (65 ha) parcel known as the Wolf Lake State Recreation Area.
Adeline Geo-Karis Illinois Beach State Park, part of the Illinois state park system, is located along Lake Michigan in northern Lake County in northeast Illinois. Together with lands to the north, including Chiwaukee Prairie , it forms the Chiwaukee Prairie Illinois Beach Lake Plain , an internationally recognized wet-land of importance under ...
[4] [26] With Lanier Byrd, Davis co-created the formula that gives a characteristic taste to Dasani water, [10] [27] a product of The Coca-Cola Company. [26] In addition to hydrology, Davis was interested in recombinant DNA and fuel cell technologies for renewable energy. [28] Davis retired in 2009, becoming a professor emeritus of St. Philip's ...
Pere Marquette State Park was founded in 1931 as the Piasa Bluffs State Park, but was soon renamed.The park's heart is a Civilian Conservation Corps-built lodge, first built in the 1930s and later expanded in 1985 to contain 72 rooms.