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50 statesEdgar Noguez
William's Computer app.6
3/26/2013
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Nevada • The Native Indians of
Nevada were the were the Koso, Paiute, Panamint, Pueblo, Shoshoni and Ute tribes
• First explored by the Spanish
• 1826 - Jeddah Smith (1799-1831) leads expedition to Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada
• 1843 - The First wagon trains led by Joseph Walker cross the Sierra
• 1847 - Mormons move to Salt Lake Valley
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California• California was first explored
by the Spanish• 1535 - Hernando Cortes
leads an expedition to La Paz and opens a small colony
• 1579 - The great British sailor, Sir Francis Drake, lands north of San Francisco Bay and claims the territory for England but the land is taken by the Spanish
• 1545 - The Europeans bring typhus to California and the epidemic kills hundreds of thousands of natives
• 1539 - Francisco de Ulla explores the gulf of California
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new York• 1600 - European settlers
who brought seeds to New York introduced apples in the 1600s.
• 1747 - The oldest cattle ranch in the US was started at Montauk on Long Island.
• 1876 - First Boy's Club was established in New York City.
• 1857 - Joseph Gayety of New York City invented toilet paper.
• 1848 - First women's rights convention met at Seneca Falls.
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Hawaii• During the Hawaiian
Monarchy, Hawaii's population was among the most literate in the world.
• •Hawaii is considered the nation's (USA) endangered species capitol.
• 6.Hawaii has two official languages, Hawaiian and English, though Pidgin, Samoan, and Tongan are also spoken.
• 18.Day biting mosquitoes first arrived in Hawaii in 1872 as stowaways aboard a merchant ship, bringing with them new diseases such as malaria and the plague.
• 19.Hawaii is America’s youngest state, entering the nation on August 21, 1959.
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Arizona• 2.The Arizona trout is
found only in the Arizona. • 4.Arizona leads the nation
in copper production. • 5.Petrified wood is the
official state fossil. Most petrified wood comes from the Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona.
• Arizona is a right-to-work state. The law states no person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of non-membership in a labor organization.
• Arizona is home of the Grand Canyon National Park.
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New jersey• New Jersey is the only
state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
• New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S.
• New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth.
• New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
• 19.Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the game monopoly
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Texas• The Texas state capitol
building in Austin is taller than the United States capitol building in Washington, D.C.
• Biggest Chicken-Fried Steaks in the World
• Largest State Fair is the Texas State Fair located in Big "D" (Dallas to all you Yankees!) on a whopping 50 acres at Fair Park
• The world's biggest Roadrunner is Pisano Pete. The 11-foot tall and 20-foot long roadrunner graces the corner of Main Street and Hwy 290 in Fort Stockton, Texas.
• The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide.
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Utah• Levan, is "navel" spelled
backwards. It is so named because it is in the middle of Utah
• The average snowfall in the mountains near Salt Lake City is 500 inches.
• Salt Lake City was originally named Great Salt Lake City. Great was dropped from the name in 1868.
• Rainbow Bridge, Nature's abstract sculpture carved of solid sandstone, is the world's largest natural-rock span. It stands 278 feet wide and 309 feet high.
• 13.State animal: The Rocky Mountain Elk.
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Oklahoma• 34.Oklahoma's four
mountain ranges include the Ouachita's, Arbuckle's, Wichita's and the Kiamichi's.
• 27.Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma.
• 23.Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the Tribal capital of the Cherokee Nation.
• 36.Oklahoma was the setting for the movie "Twister".
• 44.Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water
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Pennsylvania • Pennsylvania is the first
state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate.
• In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.
• Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States
• In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
• In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.