bigcityal. Actually I think they used it in Viet Nam. Very Powerful music.
Facts and History of my State, please share yours.
Wasn't that Wagner in Apocalypse Now??
Ah yes, Viet nam. Would have been more popular if it was a one year war too.
Victor - There are no 'r's in Baa Habaa
Right before my favorite line of that movie - "What they're cleaning up now hadn't happened an hour ago.'
Wagner also. But you need those cymbols to drop those bombs!
How about the smell of napalm in the morning? That's a great movie, based on a great book, Heart of Darkness. They even kept the same character's name - Kurtz!
I guess every war is really bad, but you know of about 15 graduate students that were assistants with me in San Diego in the 1960s more than half of them didn't make it beyond that war. It was devastating to so many people.
Victor
Baxter is a long drive. When you are approaching the park and see Katadin just rise up in front of you - nothing like it.
Well I don't live in a State but I do live in the province of Ontario - here is some info - I thought I would include a variety of different things.....
***Ontario is the country's most populated province
***English is the official language. Ontario's Francophone population is the largest language minority.
***The Toronto Maple Leafs were originally called The Toronto St. Patricks
***The northwestern Ontario community of White River is the birthplace of the bear that Winnie the Pooh was named after.
***Ontario’s Carolinian Zone contains more types of plants and animals then anywhere else in Canada.
***20% of Ontario is covered with water
Interesting Dawn! So Winnie the Pooh is French? I knew I loved that bear for a reason!! LOL
Dawn, what is the name of the bear?
Still laughing at 'largest minority'LOL
Are you near the Carolinian zone?
Here are some more tidbits from Long Island.
American Indians of Long Island, NY
By the year 1643 there were thirteen different Indian Tribes living on Long Island:
Canarsie, Rockaway, Matinecock, Merrick, Massapequa, Nissequoge, Secatoag, Seatauket, Patchoag, Corchaug, Shinnecock, Manhasset and Montauk.
Not a very clear map, but interesting just the same
You're living on a whale Anita!
Very interesting Anita, all those Indian tribes flocked to the same area.....was there a reason for it?
Wonder if it was the well to do that were on the east end?
Or maybe the white man drove them all there? or the fishing and hunting were in abundance.
Infested with daylilies on that east end I heard.
I'm sure it was horse to horse on the precursor to the LIE!
Ok Al...im moving!
Wonder if any relatives of mine were on that Island...... all those DL must of attracted at least one!!
Anita I took this from Wikipedia.....
Christopher Milne had named his teddy after Winnipeg, a bear which he and his father often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. Winnipeg the Bear was puchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en-route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnipeg" after his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie", as she became known, was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as a regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there. Among her many young fans was Christopher Milne, who named his own teddy bear "Winnie".[2] Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.
In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": "But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think - but I am not sure - that that is why he is always called Pooh."
Al no I am not part of that zone - it is further down south from what I can tell.....
Here's a better map - http://www.powertolearn.com/li_history/namap.html
This is great - I'm learning alot. I know much of this was taught in elementary school, but who can remember that far back...... no wise cracks Al....
http://www.powertolearn.com/li_history/Namer.html
Here are some famous Long Islanders, either by birth, rearing or residence. http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-long-islanders?cat=entertainment&nr=1
Long Island is the home of the famous "Wreck Valley". This website lists some of the shipwrecks that can be found off our coasts. http://longislandgenealogy.com/shipwrecks.html
Some nifty NJ facts.
1st college football game played in 1869 in New Brunswick-Rutgers vs Princeton, Rutgers won.
1st baseball game played in Hoboken
1st drive in theater-Camden
1st Indian reservation
Some celebrities that were born in NJ...Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Jon Bon-Jovi,Shaq, Jack Nicholson, Jason Alexander, Frank Sinatra
Most diners in the world
Most shopping malls in the world
And the following are a list of facts that makes me want to move out of Jersey....
Most densely populated state in the US. There are 1030 people per sq mile 13X more than the national average
Only state that every county is considered metro
Most cars stolen in Newark, NJ than any other city even LA and NYC combined!!!
And probably one of the newer facts one of the highest property taxes in the US.
and I will add to that... the best dinners anywhere!
Where in NJ do you get the best dinners?
Bergen County!
Since our other Nutmeggers are not chipping in, here are a few more trivia from Connecticut Magazine:
The can opener, submarine, helicopter, sewing machine, bicycle, 3-ring circus, cookbooks, lollipops, vulcanized rubber, silly putty and hot lobster rolls were invented here.
Our official state song doesn't mention the word "Connecticut".
I want to play for Indiana, may I?
Indiana has over 75 license plates. Visitors to the state get very confused on rides from the airport. :)
Indianapolis is the largest landlocked city in the United States (probably all of North America). There is no navigable water anywhere in the city-county, or even close to the county.
General -- If you have trouble, like me, remembering which is New Hampshire and which is Vermont on a map, or in my case a children's puzzle, use this:
My (Maine)
Very (Vermont)
New Hat (New Hampshire) was bought in
New York
The best I could do when my kids were in grade school LOL!
(The west coast spells COW (California Oregon and Washington)
(The Southwest spells CANT - California, Arizona and NewMexico Texas.)
That's it for today's trivia, but I enjoy reading everybody else's
Suzy
Aren't you the Hoser state also?
Isn't it Hoosier?
Welcome to the Northeast, Illoquin:
As a former resident, my most memorable trivium of the WhosYerState is that the Indiana State House once passed a law setting the value of pi to 3.2. (Luckily that bill died in the Senate -- otherwise all our pizzas would have the wrong amount of cheese.)
Yes, The Hoosier State, and yes, LOL! I'm sure they've passed and tried to pass any number of oddities here. My family is all from Baltimore or Chicago, and my parents and sisters never really embraced Indiana the way I did.
Our state bird is the cardinal and our state flower is the peony, which grows exceptionally well here. When I was in grade school in 1963, I had a small fight with my teacher who tried to teach us the state flower was a Peony, but since I had a BOOK that said it was a Zinnia, I took exception to her teachings. Unfortunately for me, the Zinnia had been the state flower, up until 1957 the year my book was published. LOL! It was always the story I told when you had to tell "My Most Embarassing Moment", because it was embarassing, but not earth-shatteringly humiliating.
Suzy
Lucky you to have the Cardinal for your State Bird....it's my favorite!!
Jared Eliot (b.1685 d.1763) introduced the white mulberry tree and silkworms to Connecticut. Eliot was a botantist, author, the state's leading physician and, for 54 years, the minister of Clinton, CT. He won a gold medal from the Royal Society of Arts in London for a knife he had forged from the black sands of Clinton harbor (his project to set up an iron foundry at the beach and a silk industry in town, as we know, didn't pan out).
David,
Not to be outdone, Indiana has a famous Jared, too! Jared Fogle b. 1980-, the Subway guy who lost 245 pounds eating subway sandwiches! ROTF!
He still comes back to the junior high and high school he attended to give convocations.
Suzy