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January 7 Taconite "is a low-grade iron ore. When the high-grade natural iron ore was plentiful, taconite was considered a waste rock and not used. But as the supply of high-grade natural ore decreased, industry began to view taconite as a resource." Duluth "is a seaport city in the State of Minnesota […] Situated at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is accessible to oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes Waterway and the Saint Lawrence Seaway ." U.S. Steel : "The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company was the world's 13th largest steel producer in 2010 ." Table saw safety Saw Stop  (video) Interstellar IMAX: doesn't seem like there are many showing around exce...

Google’s for-profit surveillance problem Royals  "is a song recorded by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde" 我的好妈妈 : cute Chinese children song The National Palace Museum  "(traditional Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; simplified Chinese: 国立故宫博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn) is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, Republic of China. It is one of the national museums in the island nation of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world." Syzygium samarangense  "is a plant species in the Myrtaceae, native to an area that includes the Greater Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but introduced in prehistoric times to a wider area and now widely cultivated in the tropics. English common names include Jambu air […] lian-woo (from the native Taiwanese name ; Chinese: 蓮霧; pinyin: liánwù ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lián-b...