### location:

Maine
* close-knit state of small communities, and people like to see kids they know play ball.
* contains a great number of lakes, mostly of moderate dimensions.
* famous figure who describes different types of law in terms of evolution.
* frugal state.
* has a humid continental climate with a moderate summer and a long winter
  - large coastline that provides abundant habitat for ospreys
  - vast number of peat deposits
  - an abundant black bear population
  - enormous diversity of land, sea and forests
  - hundreds of forested islands, but very few are used by colonial waterbirds
* has more jagged coastline than California and Florida combined
  - lighthouses than any other state
  - one of the most comfortable statewide summer climates in the continental United States
* has the largest black bear population east of the Mississippi
  - population of smokers in the country
* hosts more warbler species during the year than most other states in the country.
* includes Brunswick.
* is most important minerals are sand, gravel, zinc, clays, peat and lead.
* is one of six states in the region known as New England
  - the world's largest pulp-paper producers
  - part of America
  - rich in igneous rock bodies
* is the fourth slowest growing state in the nation
  - largest of the six New England states
* is the largest producer of lobster in the United States
  - wild blueberries in the world
  - last bastion of strong brook-trout populations in the Northeast
* is the most North-Eastern state
  - forested state in the nation
  - northeastern state, neighbouring New Hampshire and Canada
  - only one of the forty-eight contiguous states to border only one other state
* is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable
  - country with native Atlantic salmon
  - on the eastern seaboard with more black bears than New York
  - that borders on only one state
  - whose name is just one syllable
  - with just one syllable
* is the second largest paper making state next to Wisconsin
  - pulp and paper producing state in the Untied States
  - seventh state in which voters have approved the medical use of marijuana
  - sole of the forty-eight contiguous states to border only one other state
* is the toothpick capital of America
  - very cold during the winter months
* land of extremes.
* large state, about the same size as the Commonwealth of Virginia.
* rural state.
* state with a split personality of sorts.
+ Maine, Geography, Climate
  * Maine is mostly safe from hurricanes and tropical storms. By the time they reach the state, many have become  and few hurricanes have made landfall in Maine. Maine has fewer days of thunderstorms than any other state east of the Rockies, with most of the state with less than 20 days of thunderstorms a year. Tornadoes are rare in Maine, about two per year, mostly happening in the southern part of the state.

Mali
* includes Niger.
* is part of Africa.

Massachusetts
* includes Boston.
* is part of America.

### location:

Neighborhood
* Many neighborhoods comprise concentrations of people from such other cultures.
* are areas
  - densely populated, central city locales in the largest metropolitan areas
  - important in real estate because they have a strong influence on property values
  - less segregated by socioeconomic class
  - part of cities
* are places of caring, support, and safety
  - growing economic activity as well as residential neighborhoods
* are the backbone of a city
  - any community, no matter how big or small
  - backbones of communities
* are the building blocks of Cities
* can change over time
  - grow around gardens
* have regulations
  - streets
  - tall trees
* help people cope with isolation.
* remain central in people's everyday lives.
* vary in degree of development.

Nigeria
* includes Niger.
* is part of Africa.

Nook
* are hide
  - retreats
  - squat, and have deep sunken eyes
* is an area