Tucked on a street east of Riverside Park in southwest Detroit, on the bank of the Detroit River south of the Ambassador Bridge, you’ll find the small gray building of The J.W. Westcott Company.
If you’re not familiar, the company is known for its official U.S. Postal Service mail boat, a floating post office with its own zip code: 48222.
The world’s first non-military floating postal zip code.
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In her keynote address this morning at the United Nations International Women’s Day observance, DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality observance, Doreen Bogdan-Martin described how times are changing, highlighting personal stories of women and girls around the world:
In a field dominated by men, Doreen Bogdan-Martin is the first woman in 158 years to be elected by member nations as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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What a surprise my friends Donna and Bill had when they learned the small dark duck they saw at a nearby inland lake was a Harlequin Duck.
A sea duck typically seen in northwest North America, Greenland, and eastern Canada, the Harlequin Duck winters along the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England as well as the Pacific Northwest coast.
The Harlequin Duck my friends found is a rare bird for southeast Michigan and the first time the bird was sighted in Washtenaw County.
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