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Strange queries land on Twelve Mile Circle. Recently I noticed search engines referencing questions in the form of “does the sun rise (or set) in [name a location].” and sending them to the site. Since I’m pretty sure those would be daily events for most of us except perhaps at extreme latitudes during very specific times of the year, I wondered what the queries actually meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People didn’t seem to be searching for a trick question or answer. Seriously, some of them were like, “Does the sun rise in Chicago.” I wanted to scream, YES OF COURSE THE SUN RISES IN CHICAGO! WHY WOULDN’T THE SUN RISE IN CHICAGO?!?<\/em> I may, in fact, have said it out loud, or at least muttered it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe they really wanted to know the time<\/em> of sunrise? Maybe it was an over-the-water thing, which is where the queries landed<\/a> on 12MC? Or maybe I somehow missed a grand catastrophe this morning and the sun won’t actually rise in Chicago tomorrow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was an awfully long tangent to explain that the sequence made me start thinking about places called Sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunrise, Florida<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I recalled the existence of Sunrise from a time when I had family in South Florida and I traveled down there to visit occasionally. I didn’t remember anything other than the name. So I knew nothing of Sunrise, actually. Nevertheless it came to mind during this exercise so it merited further exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the hockey stadium? It turned out that the Florida Panthers<\/a> National Hockey League team uses Sunrise as its home base, at the BB&T Center (formerly the BankAtlantic Center, and before that the Office Depot Center, and even earlier the National Car Rental Center and the Broward County Civic Arena, and probably something else completely different if someone reads this page a year from now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know the Florida Panthers joined the NHL more than twenty years ago, and yet, hockey in Florida just seems wrong. It didn’t hit the level of weirdness of the curling club that played at the Panther’s practice facility in nearby Coral Spring that I discussed in Sports Facilities I Never Imagined<\/a>. Still, it was odd. Who knew South Florida was such a hotbed for winter sports? Maybe that was the point. People get tired of endless heat and sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunrise, Minnesota<\/h2>\n\n\n\n