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[Dirtball]

I am from Pennsylvania and I will start this off..

PENNSYLVANIA

Fun Facts:

Nickname: Keystone State - During colonial times Pennsylvania was the middle colony of the original 13 colonies. It held the colonies together like the "keystone" in a window or door arch.

Background: Pennsylvania was settled in 1643. Philadelphia was our state capital during the Revolutionary War and York was the first capital of the United States.

State name’s meaning: Penn’s Woods (after Admiral William Penn's father)

Motto: Virtue, Liberty and Independence

Important Documents: Several important documents were written in Pennsylvania
The Constitution of the United States
The American Declaration of Independence
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Flower: Mountain Laurel

Tree: Hemlock

Bird: Ruffed Grouse

Animal: Whitetail Deer

Insect: Firefly

Dog: Great Dane

Beverage: Milk

Fish: Brook Trout

Fossil: Phacops Rana

Ship: United States Brig Niagara

[snortin nortin]

Missouri

Missouri was named after a tribe called Missouri Indians; meaning "town of the large canoes"

Missouri is known as the "Show Me State," which some say began in 1899 when Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver stated, "I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me."

The state animal is the Mule.



Some laws in Missouri

Called the Brothel Law, it is illegal in Missouri for more than four unrelated persons to occupy the same dwelling.

Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.

It is unlawful to throw hard objects by hand in Missouri.

Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.

Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling animal paws is prohibited.

Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.

In Missouri, minors are not allowed to purchase cap pistols, however they may buy shotguns freely.

In Buckner, Missouri, yard waste may be burned any day except Sunday.

Dancing is strictly prohibited in Purdy, Missouri.

Should you decide to provide alcoholic beverages to an elephant in Missouri, you could be arrested.

It's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a bucket.

Frightening a baby is in violation of the law in Missouri.

A milk man may not run while on duty in Missouri.

Things you would not have today if it
were not for Missouri.

The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream.

The first train of the Atlantic-Pacific Railway, which became the St.Louis-San Francisco Railway, or "Frisco," arrived in 1870.

Iced Tea was first served at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904

The soft drink Dr Pepper was introduced at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. 7-Up also was invented in St. Louis.

The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912

The first ready-mix food to be sold commercially was Aunt Jemima pancake flour. It was invented in St. Joseph, Missouri and introduced in 1899.

Sedalia has been called the cradle of classical ragtime.

(Chuck Berry is a Missourian)

Many historians believe that the Civil War began along the border of Missouri and Kansas when Missourians and Kansans battled over whether Kansas would become a “free-state” or a “slave state.” The border warfare began in 1854, seven years before the start of the Civil War.

(don't start none, won't be none)

Famous Missourians

Samuel Clemens, more familiarly known as Mark Twain, was born in Florida, Missouri and grew up in nearby Hannibal. Beginning his career as a printer’s apprentice for the Missouri Courier in Hannibal, he eventually wrote for the Keokuk, Iowa Saturday Post. Soon thereafter, however, he abandoned his literary career and spent 18 months as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. After the Civil War, he returned to writing for newspapers and magazines, before writing his novels based on life on the Misssissippi River, such as Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Daniel Boone lived longer in Missouri than in any other state and regarded Missouri as his home.

Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, May 8, 1884 and was raised in Independence. Beginning as a successful Missouri farmer, he served in France during World War I and after the war, opened a men’s clothing store in Kansas City. An active Democrat, he became a Senator in 1934. As the 33rd President of the United States, Truman ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan at the end of World War II.

( Yes the man had balls)

Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri, the son of a Baptist minister. Some believe that cruel treatment by Union soldiers during the Civil War was what turned Jesse and his brother Frank to a life of crime after the war. Their first bank robbery got them $60,000 from a bank in Liberty, Missouri. For 15 years, Frank and Jesse robbed trains and banks throughout the US. In 1876, Jesse and Frank were involved in a robbery along with the Younger Brothers and other gang members. The Pinkerton detectives killed or wounded all of them except Frank and Jesse. From that point, Jesse, his wife, and children went into hiding, but the $10,000 price on Jesse's head led Bob Ford to shoot him at his St. Joseph, Missouri home in 1882 to collect the reward.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, writer of Little House on the Prairie grew old in Mansfield Missouri.

Leroy "Satchel" Paige received his nickname as a young boy when he worked as a redcap and "looked like a walking satchel tree." He was noted for his famous "hesitation pitch."

Missouri likes Disaster's
in a big way...

The most powerful earthquake to strike the United States occurred in 1811, centered in New Madrid, Missouri. The quake shook more than one million square miles, and was felt as far as 1,000 miles away.

The most destructive tornado on record occurred in Annapolis, Missouri on March 18, 1925. In three hours, it spun through the town leaving a 980-foot wide trail of demolished buildings, uprooted trees, overturned cars and left in its wake 823 people dead and almost 3,000 injured.

For those of you Tightwads looking for a freebie..

St. Louis offers more free, major visitor attractions than anyplace outside of the nation's capital. These include the Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Zoo, Cahokia Mounds, Museum of Westward Expansion, St. Louis Science Center, Missouri History Museum, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Grant's Farm and more.

Kansas City is known for
Barbeque But.....

Kansas City is known for its barbeque cuisine, and St. Louisans consume more barbecue sauce per capita than any other city in America.

We make alot of Beer here in
Missouri.

Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri is the largest beer producing plant in the nation.

We were very popular in the 1860's

Missouri was the third most fought-over state in the Civil War, right after Virginia and Tennessee.

We are responsible for the Movie "The Exorcist"

St. Louis was the site of the demonic possession incident that inspired the book, and later the movie, "The Exorcist."

Like Caves ??

Missouri has 5,500 recorded caves. Nearly 20 Missouri caves are called or connected to saltpeter, which was mined in some Missouri caves in the early 1800’s because nitrate was needed for the manufacture of gunpowder. At least 13 cave names are associated with "beaver," 36 with "bear," 13 with "panther," and 17 with "wildcat." More than 30 have "buzzard" in their names.

8 states suround Missouri
(adding to our popularity)

Missouri ties with Tennessee as the most “neighborly” state in the U.S., bordered by eight states.

And we are the GateWay to the west.

St. Louis; is also called, "The Gateway to the West"

Who needs a weather forecaster ?

Ozark folk wisdom says that splitting a persimmon seed into 2 thin halves will reveal an omen of the coming winter's weather. If the seeds reveal "spoons," they point to shoveling snow. "Fork" images foretell light snow and "knives" portend cutting cold winds.

We had our own Obama before Obama was cool..

Blanche Kelso Bruce, the slave child of a Mississippi planter and a slave, became the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate in 1875. He founded a school for blacks in Hannibal.

Other trivial facts from Missouri.

The tallest man in documented medical history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from St. Louis. He was 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall

Situated within a day’s drive of 50% of the U.S. population, Branson and the Tri-Lakes area serves up to 65,000 visitors daily.

The tallest monument built in the U.S., the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, is 630 feet tall.

Hermann, Missouri is a storybook German village with a rich wine-making and riverboat history that is proudly displayed in area museums. Built in 1836 as the "New Fatherland" for German settlers, the town has achieved national recognition because of its quality wines and distinctive heritage.

(Everybody Wang Chung Tonite)

[Dirtball]

Originally Posted by snortin nortin

Should you decide to provide alcoholic beverages to an elephant in Missouri, you could be arrested.

WoW,This here law will keep me out of Missouri for sure. I just can't believe someone would allow a law to be passed like that...

[snortin nortin]

Originally Posted by Dirtball

WoW,This here law will keep me out of Missouri for sure. I just can't believe someone would allow a law to be passed like that...

Personally I quit partying with Elephants,, they can't hold thier liquor....

[Dirtball]

Originally Posted by snortin nortin

Personally I quit partying with Elephants,, they can't hold thier liquor....

I thought everyone knew that you held your liquor by the ears...

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I live in N.Y. IF YOU HEVE TO ASK HOW HIGH THE TAXES ARE HERE, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE.