Aurora Illinois
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Illustrated history and tutorial on Aurora from the University of Alaska Aurora folklore and scientific information from the University of Oulu , Finland ... [Read More]
Illinois Weather
Select a location Alton/St. Louis, St. Louis Regional Airport Aurora, Aurora Municipal Airport Belleville, Scott AFB/MidAmerica Airport Bloomington, Central Illinois Regional Airport Cahokia / St. Louis, St. Louis Downtown Airport Cairo, Cairo Regional Airport Carbondale / Murphysboro, Southern Illinois Airport Carmi, Carmi Municipal Airport Centralia, Centralia Municipal Airport Champaign / Urbana, University Of Illinois-Willard Airport Chicago / Waukegan, Waukegan Regional Airport Chicago / West Chicago, Dupage Airport Chicago / Wheeling, Pal-Waukee Airport Chicago, Chicago Midway Airport Chicago, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport Chicago, Lansing Municipal Airport Chicago/Romeoville, Lewis University Airport Danville, Vermilion County Airport De Kalb, De Kalb Taylor Municipal Airport Decatur, Decatur Airport Effingham, Effingham County Memorial Airport Fairfield, Fairfield Municipal Airport Flora, Flora Municipal Airport Freeport, Albertus Airport Galesbu ... [Read More]
Speaker of the House
Pam Wimbish, who resides in Aurora, Illinois, is the first person in America to ever sign up for a Health Savings Account. Health savings accounts were created so consumers can stow away money in tax-free accounts, giving them greater resources to deal with the minor health care emergencies, while giving them the security of catastrophic health care coverage if something more serious occurs. President Bush signed into law the Medicare bill last December, thereby establishing and making available HSAs for the American people. ... [Read More]
Spaceweather.com: July 2004 Aurora Gallery (Page 6)
Canon digital rebel, ISO3200, check embedded EXIF info for precise exposure data. No photo can do justice to this aurora; it was incredibly active; I pushed to 3200 to reduce exposure time to 4 seconds, but even so the aurora was moving too fast to really catch the detail that was visible to the eye. Streamers were moving and fading in just a second or two, plus there were fainter background waves that moved completely across the sky in just a few seconds. This site has absolutely NO light pollution; it's on the shore of lake superior in Michigan's upper peninsula, wide-field photos of the sky show NO light domes anywhere, so everything you see here is aurora! ... [Read More]
Eric Whitaker of Aurora, Illinois
AURORA --While his career has brought him from Korea to Croatia to Mozambique--with several stops in between--North Aurora native and U.S. foreign diplomat Eric Whitaker can easily trace its origins back to the American Heartland. "We Midwesterners have a sort of wholesome curiosity about foreign cultures because we live here in the interior of our continent," he said. "I think that's why we're so disproportionately represented in the foreign service. We're a unique group of people." Whitaker was back in the Midwest last week by way of the State Department's Hometown Diplomats program, started last year by Secretary of State Colin Powell. The program encourages foreign diplomats to travel back to their hometowns to talk about the importance of foreign policy, which, Whitaker said, profoundly affects American lives every day. "For one, we're working so that other countries are more stable and less susceptible to terrorist elements," he said. "And, since 9/11, that's especially import ... [Read More]
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