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Sovereignty is understood in jurisprudence ___MASK89___ the full right and power of a governing body to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies . In political theory , sovereignty is a substantive term designating supreme authority over some polity . It is a basic principle underlying the dominant Westphalian model of state foundation . The ___MASK96___ River flows for from Lake St . Clair to ___MASK95___ as a strait in the Great ___MASK49___ system and forms part of the border between Canada and the United States . The river divides the metropolitan areas of ___MASK96___ , Michigan and ___MASK10___ , Ontario - an area referred to as ___MASK96___  ___MASK10___ . The two cities are connected by the Ambassador Bridge , the ___MASK96___  ___MASK10___ Tunnel and the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel . BIRCH ( balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies ) is an unsupervised data ___MASK38___ algorithm used to perform hierarchical clustering over particularly large data - sets . An advantage of BIRCH is its ability to incrementally and dynamically cluster incoming , multi - dimensional metric data points in an attempt to produce the best quality clustering for a given set of resources ( memory and ___MASK12___ constraints ). In most cases , BIRCH only requires a single scan of the database . ___MASK96___ is the ___MASK76___ populous city in the U . S . state of Michigan , the fourth - largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States  ___MASK97___ border . It is the seat of Wayne County , the ___MASK76___ populous county in the state . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK61___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of ___MASK74___ orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Information is that which informs . In other words , it is the answer to a question of some kind . It is thus related to data and knowledge , ___MASK89___ data represents values attributed to parameters , and knowledge signifies understanding of ___MASK50___ things or abstract concepts . As it regards data , the information ' s existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer ( it exists beyond an event horizon , for example ), while in the case of knowledge , the information requires a cognitive observer . The Great ___MASK49___ ( also called the Laurentian Great ___MASK49___ , or the Great ___MASK49___ of North America ) are a series of interconnected freshwater ___MASK49___ located primarily in the upper mid - east region of North America , on the Canada  United States border , which connect to the ___MASK99___ through the Saint Lawrence River . Consisting of ___MASK49___ Superior , Michigan , Huron ( or Michigan  Huron ), Erie , and Ontario , they form the largest group of freshwater ___MASK49___ on Earth , containing 21 % of the world ' s surface fresh water by volume . The total surface is , and the total volume ( measured at the low water datum ) is . Due to their sea - like characteristics ( rolling waves , sustained winds , strong currents , great depths , and distant horizons ) the five Great ___MASK49___ have also long been referred to as " inland seas ". Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area , and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country . The southern half of the Great ___MASK49___ is bordered by the Great ___MASK49___ Megalopolis . Ecorse is a city in ___MASK60___ in the U . S . state of ___MASK55___ , named for the Ecorse River . The population was 9 , 512 at the 2010 census . Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants . Plants with bark include trees , woody vines , and shrubs . Bark refers to all the tissues outside of the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term . It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer bark . The inner bark , which in older stems is living tissue , includes the innermost area of the periderm . The outer bark in older stems includes the dead tissue on the surface of the stems , along with parts of the innermost periderm and all the tissues on the outer side of the periderm . The outer bark on trees which ___MASK46___ external to the last formed periderm is also called the rhytidome . A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses ___MASK89___ " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . Elms are deciduous and semi - deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus " Ulmus " in the plant family Ulmaceae . The genus first appeared in the Miocene geological period about 20 million years ago , originating in what is now central ___MASK15___ . These trees flourished and spread over most of the Northern Hemisphere , inhabiting the temperate and tropical - montane regions of North America and Eurasia , presently ranging southward across the Equator into Indonesia . The ___MASK96___ metropolitan area , often referred to ___MASK89___ Metro ___MASK96___ , is a ___MASK33___ metropolitan area in Southeast Michigan , consisting of the city of ___MASK96___ and its surrounding area . There are several definitions of the area , including the official statistical areas designated by the Office of Management and Budget , a federal agency of the United States . Metro ___MASK96___ is known for its automotive heritage , arts , entertainment , popular music , and sports . The area includes a variety of natural landscapes , , and beaches , with a recreational coastline linking the Great ___MASK49___ . It is one of the nation ' s largest metropolitan economies , with seventeen Fortune 500 companies . The Ecorse River is an river in southern ___MASK55___ . Because of its small size , it is often identified as Ecorse Creek . It flows through the Downriver section of Metro Detroit , and is a tributary of the Detroit River . The early French settlers named it the " ___MASK44___ aux Écorces " (" bark river "). The river was given this name because of a custom , of the local Native American tribe , of wrapping its dead in birch or elm bark , and burying them at the mouth of the river . The river has two branches , which meet at Council Point Park in the city of Lincoln Park , where ___MASK19___ once held a council in 1763 before attacking Fort Detroit . Downriver is the unofficial name for a collection of 18 suburban cities and townships in ___MASK60___ , ___MASK55___ ___MASK81___ of Detroit along the western shore of the Detroit River . A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government . At its core , the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means : " a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected ___MASK25___ ( such as a president ) rather than by a king or queen ". ___MASK55___ is a state in the Great ___MASK49___ and Midwestern regions of the United States . The name ___MASK55___ is the French form of the Ojibwa word " mishigamaa ", meaning " large water " or " large lake ". ___MASK55___ is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States , with the 11th most extensive total area ( the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River ). Its capital is Lansing , and its largest city is Detroit . A river is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , sea , lake or another river . In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such ___MASK89___ stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term river ___MASK89___ applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the United States , " burn " in ___MASK13___ and northeast England , and " beck " in northern England . Sometimes a river is defined ___MASK89___ being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co - operation . A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations , the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict . At its founding , the UN had 51 member states ; there are now 193 . The headquarters of the United Nations is in Manhattan , ___MASK1___ City , and experiences extraterritoriality . Further main offices are situated in Geneva , Nairobi , and ___MASK88___ . The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states . Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security , promoting human rights , fostering social and economic development , protecting the environment , and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine , natural disaster , and armed conflict . Americans are citizens of the ___MASK61___ . The country is home to people of many different national origins . ___MASK89___ a result , Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity , but with citizenship and allegiance . Although citizens make up the majority of Americans , non - citizen residents , dual citizens , and expatriates may also claim an American identity . ___MASK67___ Pontchartrain du Détroit or ___MASK67___ Detroit was a ___MASK67___ established by the French officer Antoine de la Mothe ___MASK29___ in 1701 . The site of the former ___MASK67___ is now within the city of Detroit in the U . S . state of Michigan , an area bounded by Larned Street , Griswold Street , and the Civic Center ( now occupied by office towers ). The ___MASK68___ River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent . Flowing entirely in the United States ( although its drainage basin reaches into Canada ), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the ___MASK68___ River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico . With its many tributaries , the ___MASK68___ ' s watershed drains all or parts of 31 U . S . states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains . The ___MASK68___ ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge . The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota , ___MASK52___ , Iowa , Illinois , Missouri , Kentucky , Tennessee , Arkansas , ___MASK68___ , and Louisiana .