Here's a little trivia to help your brain think and stay active -
ALABAMA ..................
Was the first state to have 9-1-1, started in
1968.
ALASKA
..................... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's
license.
ARIZONA ................... Is the only state in the
continental U.S. that
doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
ARKANSAS
................ Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
CALIFORNIA
.............. Its economy is so large that if it were a country,
it would
rank seventh in the entire world.
COLORADO ................ In 1976 it
became the only state to turn down the
Olympics.
CONNECTICUT
........... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University .
DELAWARE
................. Has more scientists and engineers than any other
state.
FLORIDA ..................... At 874.3 square miles,
Jacksonville is the
U.S. 's largest city in the contiguous 48
states.
GEORGIA .................... It was here, in 1886, that
pharmacist John
Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
HAWAII
....................... Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer
than
residents of any other state.
IDAHO ........................ TV was
invented in Rigby , Idaho , in 1922.
ILLINOIS....................... Has
a Governor in jail, one pending jail, &
is the most corrupt state in the
union!
INDIANA ..................... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana , which
gets a
half million letters to Santa every year.
IOWA
........................... Winnebago's get their name from Winnebago
County . Also, it is the only state name
that begins with two vowels.
KANSAS ......................
Liberal, Kansas , has an exact replica of the
house in The Wizard of
Oz.
KENTUCKY .................. Has more than $6 billion in gold
underneath
Fort Knox .
LOUISIANA .................. Has parishes
instead of counties because they
were originally Spanish church
units.
MAINE ......................... It's so big, it covers as many
square miles
as the other five New England states combined.
MARYLAND
................. The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in
1892.
MASSACHUSETTS ....... The Fig Newton is named after Newton ,
Massachusetts
.
MICHIGAN ................... Fremont , home to
Gerber, is the baby food
capital of the world.
MINNESOTA
................ Bloomington 's Mall of America is so big, that if
you spent
10 minutes in each store,
you'd be
there nearly four days.
MISSISSIPPI ................. President Teddy
Roosevelt refused to shoot a
bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its
name.
MISSOURI .................... Is the birthplace of the ice cream
cone.
MONTANA ................... A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown
Jewels
of England.
NEBRASKA .................... More triplets are
born here than in any other
state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ........ Birthplace
of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl
Tupper.
NEW JERSEY
................. Has the most shopping malls in one area in the
world.
NEW MEXICO ............... Smokey the Bear was rescued from a
1950 forest
fire here.
NEW YORK .................... Is home to the
nation's oldest cattle ranch,
started in 1747 in Montauk.
NORTH
CAROLINA ........ Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
NORTH DAKOTA
........... Rigby , North Dakota , is the exact geographic
center of North
America .
OHIO ............................. The hot dog was invented
here in 1900.
OKLAHOMA .................. The grounds of the state
capital are covered by
operating oil wells.
OREGON
........................ Has the most ghost towns in the
country.
PENNSYLVANIA ............ The smiley : ) was first used in
1980 by
computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University .
RHODE
ISLAND ............. The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern,
opened
here in 1673.
SOUTH CAROLINA ......... Sumter County is home to the
world's largest gingko
farm.
SOUTH DAKOTA ............. Is the only
state that's never had an earthquake.
TENNESSEE .....................
Nashville 's Grand Ole Opry is the longest
running live radio show in the
world.
TEXAS ............................... Dr. Pepper was invented in
Waco in
1885. The hamburger was invented in Arlington in 1906.
UTAH
................................ The first Kentucky Fried Chicken
restaurant
opened here in 1952.
VERMONT ........................ Montpelier is the
only state capital
without a McDonald's.
VIRGINIA
.......................... Home of the world's largest office
building, The
Pentagon.
WASHINGTON ................. Seattle has twice as many college
graduates as
any other state.
WASHINGTON D.C. ......... Is the first
planned capital in the world.
WEST VIRGINIA ................ Had the
world's first brick paved street,
Summers Street, laid in Charleston in
1870.
WISCONSIN ..................... The ice cream sundae was invented
here in
1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold
on
Sundays.
WYOMING ........................ Was the first state to
allow women to vote.
What state are you from and did you find out something interesting?
I want to tell you some good news for a change. My husband went to the doctor today having had a CT scan first. The doctor was amazed, but the blood on both sides was gone! Totally. He said this was an amazing case because he was so young and there was no reason why, how, or if it could or would happen again - and that at first the doctors had wanted to operate on him.
Do you remember how mad I was when he was dismissed from the hospital by his doctors because he had to wait until the aspirin was out of his system?
Why did I doubt things? Why didn't I believe that God knew what he was doing? I have such a hard time letting go and believing HE will take care of things.
And - what if he had died? What if he had to have the surgery? Would this also have been the will of God? I always wonder things like this. I have no doubt in God - but I don't always understand HIS ways. I do know this - I don't have to let the unexplainable ruin my believable.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - now men can think the same way - I just don't have a picture for you.
Thank you Sandra at Madsnapper.
