Re: Interesting facts
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Maine is the only State to border only one other State...
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Re: Interesting facts
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A few people born in Lancaster Ohio General William T. Sherman, famous Civil War General, his brother John Sherman, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, and father of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Thomas Ewing, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and organizer and first Secretary of the Interior Henry Stanberry, Attorney General of the United States and defender of President Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial
Fairfield County Fairgrounds, was founded in 1850, and is the oldest fair of continuous operation in Ohio. After gas was discovered in 1889, the Fairfield County Fair was famous for “Racing by Gas Light”.
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Re: Interesting facts
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Minnesota is the birthplace of such great inventions as
The automatic pop up toaster The retractable seatbelts The airplane black box Wet/ dry sandpaper Roller blades The stapler
�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.� ― Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: Interesting facts
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And while known as the land of 10,000 lakes there are actually more then 12,000 of them
And some of the oldest human made tools found in North America have been found here in MN
�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.� ― Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: Interesting facts
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Georgia, the first US gold rush. I think NC holds that title with Reed’s Gold Mine. If not the tour guides lied to us which is possible.
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Re: Interesting facts
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Oswego N.Y.,where Im from,being a major port and harbor town,was in the book of world records for having the most bar rooms per capita!! Heres to that !! Also pretty famous for our amount of snowfall.We get more snow here and on tug hill near here,than any other place east of the Rockies.Hence all the bars I guess.When you get four to six feet at a time,,not much else to do.
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Re: Interesting facts
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My home town in southern Minnesota has the distinction of being the place of the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
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Re: Interesting facts
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My home town in southern Minnesota has the distinction of being the place of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Mankato, grew up 6 miles south of there.
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Re: Interesting facts
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Dwight '' Dike'' Beede football coach at Youngstown State University from 1938-1972 invented the penalty flag that is used today. At a home game in oct 1941 he introduced the flag system still used today. Prior to using a flag, penalties were signaled with a whistle or horn and created confusion on the field and for the spectators. The flag being silent eliminated this problem. The way the flags are flying in the NFL today i'll bet old Dwight wishes he'd never invented it.
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Re: Interesting facts
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My home town in southern Minnesota has the distinction of being the place of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Mankato, grew up 6 miles south of there. Rapidan?
"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
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Re: Interesting facts
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Re: Interesting facts
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That's more like 11 miles south. I did most of my trapping as a youth between Good Thunder, Rapidan and Mankato -- Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Maple rivers. I knew all those roads like the back of my hand, and did a lot of fishing for cats at the dam.
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"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
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Re: Interesting facts
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There is an imaginary line called the "pine tree line" or the tension zone that runs in WI from roughly Sheboygan to the north and west up roughly Hudson WI. This line represents the upper limit of the southern deciduous forest ecosystem from the northern boreal forest. Being a temperate terrestrial ecosystem this line can range north and or south considerably yearly or on cyclic cycles. The basic difference or dividing factor is south of the line the July average temperature day and night combined is 72 degrees (warm summer and to the north the July average temperature is below 72 degrees (cool summer). As one can imagine along this zone one will find great diversity of flora and fauna which we have in WI and especially band along this zone. Now many may say that this is imaginary and there is no real line. The atmosphere based on jet streams etc. control the temps and the type of climate and weather. Here in WI over the last decade we have had 12-15 major rain events which means there was more than 8 inches in a 24 hour period and all but two of those occurred within 50 miles north or south of that line, so there are atmospheric conditions that create and maintain this temperate terrestrial ecosystem. What we do not have in WI are sufficient altitudes that create different ecosystems but we have great diversity due to the clash between these two systems. Our state agriculture and crops mirror this naturally occurring system as well. What has been occurring over the last 30-50 years is a very slight and slow warming, which is made up mostly due to warmer winters then summers.
Bryce What is the soil type differences between the 2 regions? Michigan has a similar dividing line in the lower peninsula, but it is due to drastically different soil types caused by the glaciers from the last ice age (the one we are still gradually warming up from).
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Re: Interesting facts
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Mississippi believe it or not has more white tail deer per acre than any state in the union. Couldn't tell that by where I hunt. LOL Weren't that many years ago you could hunt them with poison arrows.
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Re: Interesting facts
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That's more like 11 miles south. I did most of my trapping as a youth between Good Thunder, Rapidan and Mankato -- Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Maple rivers. I knew all those roads like the back of my hand, and did a lot of fishing for cats at the dam. Probably crossed paths a time or two. Floated the Blue Earth for coon from Vernon Center to good thunder many a year. Had a pretty good fox line from Amboy to Beauford.
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Re: Interesting facts
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That's more like 11 miles south. I did most of my trapping as a youth between Good Thunder, Rapidan and Mankato -- Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Maple rivers. I knew all those roads like the back of my hand, and did a lot of fishing for cats at the dam. I guess I drove faster back then, seemed like six miles down hwy 66.
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Re: Interesting facts
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about the area you live in.lets hear em.
i've been scouting the area rivers for fur and always find it interesting that all our rivers around flow north.the Genesee river starts in PA and if i dont get out i'll end up in lake Ontario.
lets hear em folks. No you won’t... You will end up in my neck of the woods then die when you go over the falls.
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Re: Interesting facts
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Minnesota is the birthplace of such great inventions as
The automatic pop up toaster The retractable seatbelts The airplane black box Wet/ dry sandpaper Roller blades The stapler
Scotty Olson was actually refining a cruder version of a rollerblade when he came up with the one we know today. Scotty was brutally ripped off and lost the company to Bill Naegle of the roadside bill board company bearing that name. Having 3M here the inventions are too numerous to count. My godfather worked at 3M and designed the thermo nuclear power generator that the astronauts used on the moon and is still functioning up there. Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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