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Rep your state
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Texas Facts and Trivia
1. Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State. 2. The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site. 3. The lightning whelk is the official state shell. 4. Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. 5. Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519-1685, French 1685-1690, Spanish 1690-1821, Mexican 1821-1836, Republic of Texas 1836-1845, United States 1845-1861, Confederate States 1861-1865, United States 1865-present 6. The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. 7. During the period of July 24-26, 1979, the Tropical Storm Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. Claudette produced the United States 24 hour rainfall record of 43 inches. 8. More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States. 9. Edwards Plateau in west central Texas is the top sheep growing area in the country. 10. Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation. 11. The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. 12. Texas boasts the nation's largest herd of whitetail deer. 13. A coastal live oak located near Fulton is the oldest tree in the state. The tree has an estimated age of more than 1,500 years. 14. Sam Houston, arguably the most famous Texan, was actually born in Virginia. Houston served as governor of Tennessee before coming to Texas. 15. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state. 16. The first offensive action of the Texas Revolution occurred in Goliad on October 9, 1835 when local colonists captured the fort and town. 17. On December 20, 1835 the first Declaration of Texas Independence was signed in Goliad and the first flag of Texas Independence was hoisted. 18. The Hertzberg Circus Museum in San Antonio contains one of the largest assortments of circusana in the world. 19. The capital city of Austin is located on the Colorado River in south-central Texas. The capitol building is made from Texas pink granite. It served as the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1840-1842. 20. Austin is considered the live music capital of the world. 21. Texas is home to Dell and Compaq computers and central Texas is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the south. 22. Professional sports teams include the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Houston Astros, Houston Comets, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, and Texas Rangers. 23. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper. 24. The first suspension bridge in the United States was the Waco Bridge. Built in 1870 and still in use today as a pedestrian crossing of the Brazos River. 25. In 1836 five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas: Washington-on-the-Brazos: Harrisburg: Galveston: Velasco: and Columbia. Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837. In 1839 the capital was moved to the new town of Austin. 26. The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C. 27. Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies. 28. The armadillo is the official state mammal. 29. Texas has the first domed stadium in the country. The structure was built in Houston and opened in April 1965. 30. The Houston Comets are the only team in the country to win four back-to-back WNBA championships. 1997-2000 Cynthia Cooper remains the only player to win the WNBA Championship MVP. 31. The worst natural disaster in United States history was caused by a hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900. Over 8000 deaths were recorded. 32. The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston. 33. Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles. 34. Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. 35. El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas. 36. Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area. 37. The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million. 38. More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state. 39. More species of bats live in Texas than in any other part of the United States. 40. Laredo is the world's largest inland port. 41. Port Lavaca has the world's longest fishing pier. Originally part of the causeway connecting the two sides of Lavaca Bay, the center span of was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961. 42. The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden. It contains 38,000 rose bushes representing 500 varieties of roses set in a 22-acre garden. 43. Amarillo has the world's largest helium well. 44. The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos on July 4, 1883. 45. The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water. 46. The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston. 47. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other comparable area in North America. 48. The Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
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alsnow469
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I heart Texas , from Laredo to Amarillo
from Canadian to Nacogdoches.!!
----Dallas Cowboys
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----JFK was shot there
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Re: Rep your state [Re: alsnow469]
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Florida
The Keys
Its Americas Wang
Most sexual predators
more Jews than New York
sunshines 342 days a year
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The Tennessee Aquarium is the largest facility of its kind to focus on fresh water habitat. It features 7,000 animals and 300 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. ? The largest earthquake in American history, the New Madrid Earthquake occurred in the winter of 1811-12 in northwestern Tennessee. Reelfoot Lake located in Obion and Lake Counties was formed during this earthquake. ? Reputed "Turtle Capital of the World," Reelfoot Lake also features thousands of sliders, stinkpots, mud and map turtles.
Oak Ridge was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. Today, because of constant energy research, it is known as the Energy Capital of the World. ? The nation's oldest African-American architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, is located in Nashville. ? The nation's oldest African-American financial institution, Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, is located in Nashville. ? Robert R. Church, Sr. of Memphis is purported to be the South's first African-American millionaire.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" lists the Lost Sea in Sweetwater as the largest underground lake in the United States.
The capitol building was designed by noted architect William Strickland, who died during its construction and is buried within its walls.
Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga after two local attorneys purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00.
? Cotton made Memphis a major port on the Mississippi River. The Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year. ?
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The Tennessee Aquarium is the largest facility of its kind to focus on fresh water habitat. It features 7,000 animals and 300 species of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. ? The largest earthquake in American history, the New Madrid Earthquake occurred in the winter of 1811-12 in northwestern Tennessee. Reelfoot Lake located in Obion and Lake Counties was formed during this earthquake. ? Reputed "Turtle Capital of the World," Reelfoot Lake also features thousands of sliders, stinkpots, mud and map turtles.
Oak Ridge was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. Today, because of constant energy research, it is known as the Energy Capital of the World. ? The nation's oldest African-American architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, is located in Nashville. ? The nation's oldest African-American financial institution, Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, is located in Nashville. ? Robert R. Church, Sr. of Memphis is purported to be the South's first African-American millionaire.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" lists the Lost Sea in Sweetwater as the largest underground lake in the United States.
The capitol building was designed by noted architect William Strickland, who died during its construction and is buried within its walls.
Coca-Cola was first bottle in 1899 at a plant on Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga after two local attorneys purchased the bottling rights to the drink for $l.00.
? Cotton made Memphis a major port on the Mississippi River. The Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year. ?
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Re: Rep your state [Re: Anonymous]
#5573363 - 04/30/06 07:12 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Israel
Where people are hard-core, in your face & intense. Where driving is a gamble and taking the bus is a worse bet. Where the lowest place on earth is, Near the biggest natural cratores (SP?). Where africa meets asia meets europe and they all want to have Jerusalem. Where you can find almost anything, if you look hard enough. Where the "situation" is more importent then our personal lives. Where infected mushroom came from. Where the rave scean still lives most weekends despite everything alse! Where the kids have to spend three years of their lives in the army and then fly away to get shitfaced drunk and loaded with drugs all over the world just to forget and get a clean start. Where mushrooms is something you do in Amsterdam or Thailand. Where it sucks buying cheep weed or hash because you know it came from the arabs and that money most likely finds its way to the haters.
Of course... looking out the window it's nothing like that really... Life goes on in the usual manner but it's much more uptight then most places in the world Its hard to foget where you are in the world and ENJOY your self for a change. and of course... there are loads of good things i neglect to mention (but thats just because personaly i have no good expiriance with most of them )
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Re: Rep your state [Re: Simisu]
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Re: Rep your state [Re: Simisu]
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damn simisu, you got me bent.
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Re: Rep your state [Re: Ferris]
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Virginia--where Dave Matthews and the Neptunes come from Virginia Beach has more stoned skaters than anywhere We kicked the American Nazi Party out and they haven't come back since the seventies Everybody who has kids wants to buy property here The WHFStival draws people from all over the nation here, yearly The government tests the sewage water for cocaine to find out how we do it Seven signers of the Declaration of Independence came from here Thomas Jefferson smoked weed and grew it in his garden George Washington slept here We got your old lady bed with us over here Blunts taste better in Virginia Worst traffic in the nation, even worse than LA, several years running A hundred different cultures crowded in nose to tail in the North Same old yin and yang getting ugly with each other in the South Grimy metal and punk scene in Richmond, Newport News and Hampton Roads (sexiest punk show DJ Michele Diamond) Theta Zeta (punk rock fraternity) doesn't rush--OZ built my hotrod Sigma Nu, stop munching shroomies so you can get your charter back Dirty South hip-hop from High Roller records in the No Neck VA includes Fairfax, home to the infamous Goons punk-rock band Wicked hoops and football abilities from UVA George Mason went to the Final Four this year Politest people South of Vermont Our street gangs can kick your street gangs' ass, why don't you invite them to your state so they can show you? Cos we get kinda tired of 'em Drag racing in the suburbs unreal We host the evillest building on the East Coast, the Pentagon Largest concentration of dead soldiers in the U.S. at Arllington Cemetery Dave Grohl grew up here and lives here still Snipers shot up the place for thirteen days and still we go out at night Every serial killer in the state went to my high school for a week And Jim Morrison went to high school down the street. Virginia! Whoot
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Harmonic_Order said: Virginia--where Dave Matthews and the Neptunes come from Virginia Beach has more stoned skaters than anywhere We kicked the American Nazi Party out and they haven't come back since the seventies Everybody who has kids wants to buy property here The WHFStival draws people from all over the nation here, yearly The government tests the sewage water for cocaine to find out how we do it Seven signers of the Declaration of Independence came from here Thomas Jefferson smoked weed and grew it in his garden George Washington slept here We got your old lady bed with us over here Blunts taste better in Virginia Worst traffic in the nation, even worse than LA, several years running A hundred different cultures crowded in nose to tail in the North Same old yin and yang getting ugly with each other in the South Grimy metal and punk scene in Richmond, Newport News and Hampton Roads (sexiest punk show DJ Michele Diamond) Theta Zeta (punk rock fraternity) doesn't rush--OZ built my hotrod Sigma Nu, stop munching shroomies so you can get your charter back Dirty South hip-hop from High Roller records in the No Neck VA includes Fairfax, home to the infamous Goons punk-rock band Wicked hoops and football abilities from UVA George Mason went to the Final Four this year Politest people South of Vermont Our street gangs can kick your street gangs' ass, why don't you invite them to your state so they can show you? Cos we get kinda tired of 'em Drag racing in the suburbs unreal We host the evillest building on the East Coast, the Pentagon Largest concentration of dead soldiers in the U.S. at Arllington Cemetery Dave Grohl grew up here and lives here still Snipers shot up the place for thirteen days and still we go out at night Every serial killer in the state went to my high school for a week And Jim Morrison went to high school down the street. Virginia! Whoot
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Re: Rep your state [Re: BlueRidge]
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Thank you, I should have added that fact.
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Re: Rep your state [Re: BlueRidge]
#5575158 - 04/30/06 07:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alabama, never under estimate rednecks with shotguns.
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552 original documents pertaining to the Salem witch trials of 1692 have been preserved and are still stored by the Peabody Essex Museum. Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897. Although over 30 communities in the colonies eventually renamed themselves to honor Benjamin Franklin. The Massachusetts Town of Franklin was the first and changed its name in 1778. Norfolk County is the birthplace of four United States presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush. In Holyoke, William G. Morgan, created a new game called "Mintonette" in 1895. After a demonstration given at the YMCA in nearby Springfield, the name "Mintonette" was replaced with the now familiar name "Volleyball." There is a house in Rockport built entirely of newspaper. Hingham's Derby Academy founded in 1784 is the oldest co-educational school in the United States. Hingham's First Parish Old Ship Church is the oldest church structure in the United States in continuous use as a place of worship. The Fig Newton was named after Newton, Massachusetts. The visible portion of Plymouth Rock is a lumpy fragment of glacial moraine about the size of a coffee table, with the date 1620 cut into its surface. After being broken, dragged about the town of Plymouth by ox teams used to inspire Revolution-aries, and reverently gouged and scraped by 19th-century souvenir hunters, it is now at rest near the head of Plymouth Harbor. The Basketball Hall Of Fame is located in Springfield. James Michael Curley was the first mayor of Boston to have an automobile. The plate number was "576" - the number of letters in "James Michael Curley." The mayor of Boston's official car still uses the same number on its plate. The American industrial revolution began in Lowell. Lowell was America's first planned industrial city. On October 1, 1998, "Say Hello To Someone From Massachusetts" by Lenny Gomulka, was approved as the official polka of the Commonwealth. 1634: Boston Common became the first public park in America. 1891: The first basketball game was played in Springfield. Massachusetts holds the two largest cites in New England, Boston, the largest, and Worcester. The creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore, which was formerly private town and state owned land, marked the first time the federal government purchased land for a park. Robert Goddard, inventor of the first liquid fueled rocket, was born and lived much of his life in Worcester and launched the first rocket fueled with liquid fuel from the neighboring town of Auburn. Quincy boasts the first Dunkin Donuts on Hancock Street and the first Howard Johnson's on Newport Ave. Glaciers formed the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard during the ice age. The first U.S.Postal zip code in Massachusetts is 01001 at Agawam. Brewster has become the de facto "Wedding Capital of Cape Cod" because of its many small and larger inns that cater to weddings. The birth control pill was invented at Clark University in Worcester. The signs along the Massachusetts Turnpike reading "x miles to Boston" refer to the distance from that point to the gold dome of the state house. Harvard was the first college established in North America. Harvard was founded in 1636. Because of Harvard's size there is no universal mailing address that will work for every office at the University. In 1838 the Boston & West Worcester Railroad was the first railroad to charge commuter fares. The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. The Mather school was founded in Dorchester in 1639. It is the first public elementary school in America. On top of the commercial building on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain sits a weather vane with a whale on it. The building was once state headquarters of Greenpeace. - "Save the whales" John Adams and John Quincy Adams are buried in the crypt at the United First Parish Church in Quincy. The Children's Museum in Boston displays a giant milk bottle on the museum's wharf. If it were real it would hold 50,000 gallons of milk and 8,620 gallons of cream. Princeton was named after the Reverend Thomas Prince, Pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, and one of the first proprietors of the town. Princeton was incorporated in 1759. Barnstable County is the only Massachusetts county where resident deaths out numbered births between 1990 and 1997. The Pilgrim National Wax Museum in Plymouth is the only wax museum devoted entirely to the Pilgrim's story. In 1908, Miss Caroline O. Emmerton purchased The House of the Seven Gables - built in 1668 - restored it to its present state and, in 1910, opened the site to the touring public. The seven-gabled house inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write his famous novel of the same name. The Boston Tea Party reenactment takes place in Boston Harbor every December 16th. Balance Rock in Lanesborough is named in honor of a 25' x 15' x 10 boulder that balances upon a small stone below it. Massachusetts first began issuing drivers licenses and registration plates in June of 1903. The 3rd Monday in April is a legal holiday in Massachusetts called Patriot's Day. The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth in 1621. William Hill Brown published The Power of Sympathy in Worcester in 1789. An imitation of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther it is regarded as the first American novel. The fourteen counties in Massachusetts are made up of 43 cities and 308 towns. Charles Goodyear in Woburn first vulcanized rubber in 1839. Elias Howe of Boston invented the first sewing machine in 1845. The first nuclear-powered surface vessel, USS Long Beach CG (N) 9, was launched at Quincy in 1961. The USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides', the oldest fully commissioned vessel in the US Navy is permanently berthed at Charlestown Navy Yard. Since 1897 the ship has been overhauled several times in Dry Dock 1. Revere Beach was the first public beach in the United States and is host to Suffolk Downs horse racing track, Wonderland dog racing track and a 14-screen cinema complex. The official state dessert of Massachusetts is Boston cream pie. Milford is known the world over for its unique pink granite, discovered in the 1870's and quarried for many years to grace the exteriors of museums, government buildings, monuments and railroad stations. Acushnet is the hometown of the Titleist golf ball company.
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Jesus Christ I fell asleep 3 times reading that
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florida, americas penis and good weather all year long.
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WASHINGTON STATE
known as: the evergreen state
rhodedendron state flower
jimi hendrix was born and raised in seattle
mt rainier, and mt st. helens= good snowboarding
THE SHROOM CAPITAL OF THE WORRRLLLDDD!!!! along with the most potent shroom in the world-psi. cyanescens, which grow on every street corner in the fall...YES!
IT RAINS TOOOO DAMN MUCH!!!
has the freshest nature smell out of any stae in the US
puget sound area
lots of fucking stoners and growers around here
lots more but i dont want to name them all
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50th in job growth. An October report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said the state had the lowest job growth in the country in the second quarter of 2004.
50th in high school graduation rate. Only 53 percent of high school ninth-graders in South Carolina graduate in four years, according to the Manhattan Institute. While it says the state has the lowest graduation rate in the country, state education officials say the rate actually is higher at 67 percent.
50th in inmate funding. S.C. Corrections Department Director Jon Ozmint wrote in April in The Greenville News that the state had the nation's worst funding per inmate.
49th in average SAT scores. While the state's average SAT score increased by 7 points to 993 in the most recent test results released by The College Board, the state still ranked 49th nationally and 35 points behind the national average.
49th in campaign disclosure. The state does almost the worst job in the country in providing good campaign disclosure information to voters, according to a recent study by the Campaign Disclosure Project.
48th worst in low birthweight babies. Some 10 percent of babies born in South Carolina have low birthweight - more than any other state other than Louisiana and Mississippi, according to the most recent Kids Count survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
47th in low infant mortality. With a 9.3 percent infant mortality rate, South Carolina ranks higher in infant mortality than all other states except three. (Kids Count.)
45th in computers. South Carolina is at the bottom of states with households with computers in their homes, according to an October 2003 survey by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
9th in child deaths. The state ranks 42nd in child deaths with 27 per 100,000 children, compared to 12 in New Hampshire, which had the lowest rate. (Kids Count.)
7th in child poverty. The state tied with Texas and Alabama in having a larger percentage of children in poverty (23 percent) than most states. (Kids Count.)
6th worst place for kids. The state ranked 45th out of 50 in being the best place for kids overall. (Kids Count.)
6th in domestic violence. South Carolina ranks sixth in the country in the number of women killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center.
4th in unemployment. With a 6.6 percent unemployment rate, only Alaska, Mississippi and Louisiana have more jobless people than South Carolina does.
4th in fire deaths. The U.S. Fire Administration says S.C. has the 4th highest rate of deaths from fires in the country, although a 2004 story said the state ranked second.
2nd in mortgage fraud. The state has the second highest mortgage fraud rank in the country, according to the Mortgage Asset Research Institute report.
2nd in violent crime rate. FBI statistics say the state had the nation's second-highest violent crime rate in 2004, while state officials say the high number is because the state does a more accurate job of reporting crime statistics than other states, which inflates the rate. The State Law Enforcement Division said violent crime actually went down in 2004.
Top causes of death. The state had the second highest rate of deaths from stroke and third highest in deaths from obesity, according to data with the S.C. Indicators Project.
First in speeding deaths. South Carolina has more speed-related traffic deaths than any other state, according to a summer report by two federal highway agencies.
First in high college tuition. The state ranks first in the average tuition for state universities compared to per capita income, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Re: Rep your state [Re: Stonerguy]
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Arizona
its fucking hot!
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