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General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: smokeasaurus on August 26, 2013, 08:22:39 AM
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ALABAMA.....Was the first state to have 9-1-1, started 1968.
ALASKA.....One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
ARIZONA.....Is the only state in the continental U.S. that does not follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS.....Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA.....Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO.....In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
CONNECTICUT.....The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University
DELAWARE.....Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
FLORIDA.....At 874.3 square miles, Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S.
GEORGIA.....It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca Cola.
HAWAII.....Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents of any other state.
IDAHO.....TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
ILLINOIS.....Has a Governor in jail, one pending jail, and is the most corrupt state in the union!
INDIANA.....Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters for Santa every year.
IOWA.....Winnebago R.V.s get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state name that begins with 2 vowels.
KANSAS.....Liberal, Kansas has an exact replica of the house in "The Wizard of Oz".
KENTUCKY..... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
LOUISIANA.....Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
MAINE.....It is so large that it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND.....The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892....... Bet you didn't know that! --but consider its proximity to D.C.
MASSACHUSETTS.....The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts.
MICHIGAN.....Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.
MINNESOTA.....Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, that if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there almost four days.
MISSISSIPPI.....President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here... that's how the teddy bear got its name.
MISSOURI..... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
MONTANA.....A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England
NEBRASKA.....More triplets are born here than in any other state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.....Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
NEW JERSEY.....Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
NEW MEXICO.....Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
NEW YORK.....Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.....Surprised?
NORTH CAROLINA.....Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA.....Rugby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America .
OHIO.....The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA.....The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
OREGON.....Has the most ghost towns in the country.
PENNSYLVANIA.....The smiley : ) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University .
RHODE ISLAND.....The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA.....Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA.....Is the only state that's never had an earthquake
TENNESSEE.....Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
TEXAS.....Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The hamburger was invented in Arlington in 1906.
UTAH.....The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
VERMONT.....Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA.....Home of the world's largest office building, The Pentagon.
WASHINGTON.....Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C.....Is the first planned capital in the world
WEST VIRGINIA.....Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
WISCONSIN.....The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sunday.
Also the American Water Spaniel was created there and is the state dog.
WYOMING.....Was the first state to allow women to vote
I hope you enjoyed this. Just proving no matter how old your are, you can still learn something new...!
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Cool list.
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KENTUCKY..... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
That's enough for each person in the USA to get 2.2 million. I'll take mine now :)
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That White Horse Tavern is a neat little place in Newport, RI. It also serves good food.
I use to visit Newport when I had to spend a little time at Groton, CT.
Ed
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IDAHO.....TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
smoke, not to start any controversy, but TV was around long before 1922. The first television patent was by the German Paul Nipkow in 1884. In 1897, another German Karl Braun invented the cathode ray oscilloscope. One of the foremost figures in the complex history of tv is Vladimir Zworykin from Russia (also known as the Father of TV). In 1923, he won his first U.S. patent for tv and won the race for the tv system that we started out with. This is the system that RCA (now NBC) brought to the masses at the World's Fair in New York City in 1939. Philo Farnsworth, who grew up in Rigby, Idaho, moved to San Fransisco after high school. He was also a pioneer in the development of tv with the all-electronic pickup device better known as the camera. Dee can back me up on this info because he was monitoring history way back then.
On a side note, I spent 3 days with Vladimir Zworykin in 1980 when he was attanding a satellite transmission conference in Miami alongside Arthur C. Clark. This was their very first look at satellite television and I witnessed his first words after he saw his first satellite tv picture....."I had no idea this could ever happen." That will stick in my memory forever. The ring around the earth over the equater where all the stationary satellites are located is now known as the Clark Orbit. Another bit of trivia... Arthur C. Clark was not a scientist, but a science fiction writer (Space Odyssey 2001 and 2010). He envisioned this satellite belt over the earth where satellites can maintain position and NASA took it to fruition and proved him right. I, along with several other friends in the business, went to Sri Lanka in 1981 and presented and installed a satellite earth station for Clark to thank him for his contribution to television technology.
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no controversy :) just copied an e-mail I got from my bud and thought it would be a fun Monday read..... :)
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no controversy :) just copied an e-mail I got from my bud and thought it would be a fun Monday read..... :)
It was... fun to read about "my states" - North Dakota - where I grew up, Minnesota - where I live now and have a few times, Hawaii - my favorite, Iowa - a stopover, and Wisconsin - a fairly long stay over...
This was a great list - thanks!
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that was cool. I think west coast toast was invented over here too. 8)
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Cool post Smoke but I doubt California's economy is any where near that now ???
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that was cool. I think west coast toast was invented over here too. 8)
On a rainy day way back when..... :)
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1. Santa Claus, GA is less than 3 hours from here
2. Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi river
3. Home of the Beef Rib King in middle Georgia 8)
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NORTH DAKOTA.....Rugby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America .
I am really close to here ;D, been there several times
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Once a year they have a 9-1-1 festival. The Festival honors all police, fire and emergency personnel and includes a Street Dance & BBQ Cook-off on Friday and a Parade, Arts & Crafts, Exhibits, Car Show, and children's activities
Haleyville, Al The last weekend in May
The town reminds me of Mayberry ;)
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Once a year they have a 9-1-1 festival. The Festival honors all police, fire and emergency personnel and includes a Street Dance & BBQ Cook-off on Friday and a Parade, Arts & Crafts, Exhibits, Car Show, and children's activities
Haleyville, Al The last weekend in May
The town reminds me of Mayberry ;)
Do they call it the "11" festival to save time? ;D
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Haleyville, AL??? Did you say Haleyville?
I have a GOOD friend who lives in Haleyville.
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Also....
Indiana has a ( or several ?) counties that exempt themselves from Daylight Savings Time...and the entire state of Hawaii does not observe DSL either ( where is the Turtle on THAT one??? :D)
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he must be out to sea...maybe migrating
I've lobbed a couple of softballs out there for him in some of my posts and he just let 'em go by...not like him to do that...
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I know Albert is just a hop & skip from there
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I'm still around but sort of depressed that the only thing they could think of to say about my former home state had to do with the Pentagon.