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George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890) was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name "Nessmuk", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking.
Nessmuk Lake, also known as Lake Nessmuk, is a reservoir located in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, near the borough of Wellsboro. [1] The lake is owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is managed by the Fish and Boat Commission for the public use of fishing and boating in the lake.
Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is an X-linked recessive inherited disorder characterized by slowly progressing muscle weakness of the legs and pelvis. It is a type of dystrophinopathy . [ 5 ] [ 3 ] The cause is mutations and deletions in any of the 79 exons encoding the large dystrophin protein , essential for maintaining the muscle fiber's ...
The second floor was refitted with four bedrooms (each with a private bathroom), as well as a sitting room, in 1942. [88] One of the bedrooms is a guest bedroom, while the others are used by the mayor's family. The master bedroom and the adjacent sitting room occupy the former site of the park supervisor's apartment. [116]
Gary Stanley Becker (/ ˈ b ɛ k ər /; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. [1] He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago , and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics .
Becker County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,183. [2] Its county seat is Detroit Lakes. [3]
The gate at The Breakers. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 (equivalent to $15.3 million in 2023). [4] The previous mansion on the property was owned by Pierre Lorillard IV; it burned on November 25, 1892, and Vanderbilt commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild it in splendor.