Maine is another case where no one is quite sure how the name came about. Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, who received a charter for land in Maine, were both English Royal Navy veterans, and the name may have originated with the sailors differentiating the mainland from the many islands off the state's coast.
Photo Courtesy: mikemahler.com. Windmills is an excellent exercise for the shoulder mobility, back & hamstring stretching and trains your core {or abs} how to remain tight in core lifts like overhead presses. Windmills Exercises can be done with bodyweight and with kettlebells as high or overhead, low and doubles.
The smock mill Goliath in front of the wind farm Growind in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Centuries ago, windmills usually were used to mill grain, pump water, or both. Thus they often were gristmills, windpumps, or both.