1. Delaware Dec. 7, 1787 Small Wonder Ladybug
2. Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787 Keystone State Firefly
3. New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787 Garden State Honeybee
4. Georgia Jan. 2, 1788 Peach State Honeybee
5. Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788 Constitution State
6. Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788 Bay State Ladybug
7. Maryland Apr. 28, 1788 Free State Checkerspot Butterfly
8. South Carolina May 23, 1788 Palmetto State Carolina Mantid
9. New Hampshire June 21, 1788 Granite State Ladybug
10. Virginia June 25, 1788 The Old Dominion Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
11. New York July 26, 1788 Empire State Ladybug
12. North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789 Tar Heel State Honeybee
13. Rhode Island May 29, 1790 The Ocean State
14. Vermont Mar. 4, 1791 Green Mountain State Honeybee
15. Kentucky June 1, 1792 Bluegrass State Viceroy Butterfly
16. Tennessee June 1, 1796 Volunteer State
17. Ohio Mar. 1, 1803 Buckeye State Ladybug
18. Louisiana Apr. 30, 1812 Pelican State Honeybee
19. Indiana Dec. 11, 1816 Hoosier State
20. Mississippi Dec. 10, 1817 Magnolia State Spicebush Swallowtail
21. Illinois Dec. 3, 1818 Prairie State Monarch Butterfly
22. Alabama Dec. 14, 1819 Yellowhammer State Monarch Butterfly
23. Maine Mar. 15, 1820 Pine Tree State Honeybee
24. Missouri Aug. 10, 1821 Show-me State Honeybee
25. Arkansas June 15, 1836 The Natural State Honeybee
26. Michigan Jan. 26, 1837 Wolverine State
27. Florida Mar. 3, 1845 Sunshine State Zebra Longwing
28. Texas Dec. 29, 1845 Lone Star State
29. Iowa Dec. 28, 1846 Hawkeye State
30. Wisconsin May 29, 1848 Badger State Honeybee
31. California Sept. 9, 1850 Golden State Dogface Butterfly
32. Minnesota May 11, 1858 Land of 10,000 Lakes Monarch Butterfly
33. Oregon Feb. 14, 1859 Beaver State Swallowtail Butterfly
34. Kansas Jan. 29, 1861 Sunflower State Honeybee
35. West Virginia June 20, 1863 Mountain State Honeybee
36. Nevada Oct. 31, 1864 Sagebrush State
37. Nebraska Mar. 1, 1867 Cornhusker State Honeybee
38. Colorado Aug. 1, 1876 Centennial State Hairstreak Butterfly
39. North Dakota Nov. 2, 1889 Sioux State
40. South Dakota Nov. 2, 1889 Coyote State Honeybee
41. Montana Nov. 8, 1889 Treasure State Mourning Cloak
42. Washington Nov. 11, 1889 Evergreen State Green Darner Butterfly
43. Idaho July 3, 1890 Gem State Monarch Butterfly
44. Wyoming July 10, 1890 Equality State
45. Utah Jan. 4, 1896 Beehive State
46. Oklahoma Nov. 16, 1907 Sooner State Honeybee
47. New Mexico Jan. 6, 1912 Land of Enchantment Tarantula Hawk Wasp
48. Arizona Feb. 14, 1912 Grand Canyon State 2 Tailed Swallowtail
49. Alaska Jan. 3, 1959 Land of the Midnight Sun
50. Hawaii Aug. 21, 1959 Aloha State 4 Spot Skinner Butterfly
USA FACTS
USA FACTS
Alabama George Washington Carver, who discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts
Alaska The longest coastline in the U.S., 6,640 miles, greater than that of all other states combined
Arizona The most telescopes in the world, in Tucson
Arkansas The only active diamond mine in the U.S.
California “General Sherman,” a 3,500-year-old tree, and a stand of bristlecone pines 4,000 years old are the world's oldest living things
Colorado The world's largest silver nugget (1,840 pounds) found in 1894 near Aspen
Connecticut The first American cookbook, published in Hartford in 1796: American Cookery by Amelia Simmons
Delaware The first log cabins in North America, built in 1683 by Swedish immigrants
Florida U.S. spacecraft launchings from Cape Canaveral, formerly Cape Kennedy
Georgia The Girl Scouts, founded in Savannah by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912
Hawaii The only royal palace in the U.S. (Iolani)
Idaho The longest main street in America, 33 miles, in Island Park
Illinois The tallest building in the U.S., Sears Tower, in Chicago
Indiana The famous car race: the Indy 500
Iowa The shortest and steepest railroad in the U.S., Dubuque: 60° incline, 296 feet
Kansas Helium discovered in 1905 at the University of Kansas
Kentucky The largest underground cave in the world: 300 miles long, the Mammoth-Flint Cave system
Louisiana The most crayfish: 98% of the world's crayfish
Maine The most easterly point in the U.S., West Quoddy Head1
Maryland The first umbrella factory in the U.S., 1928, Baltimore
Massachusetts The first World Series, 1903: the Boston “Americans” (became the Red Sox in 1908) vs. the Pittsburg Pirates (Pittsburgh had no “h” between 1890–1911)
Michigan The Cereal Bowl of America, Battle Creek, produces most cereal in the U.S.
Minnesota The oldest rock in the world, 3.8 billion years old, found in Minnesota River valley
Mississippi Coca-Cola, first bottled in 1894 in Vicksburg
Missouri Mark Twain and some of his characters, such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Montana Grasshopper Glacier, named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in ice
Nebraska The only roller skating museum in the world, in Lincoln
Nevada Rare fish such as the Devils Hole pup, found only in Devils Hole, and other rare fish from prehistoric lakes; also the driest state
New Hampshire Artificial rain, first used near Concord in 1947 to fight a forest fire
New Jersey The world's first drive-in movie theater, built in 1933 near Camden
New Mexico “Smokey Bear,” a cub orphaned by fire in 1950, buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976
New York The first presidential inauguration: George Washington took the oath of office in New York City on April 30, 1789.
North Carolina Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America, on Roanoake Island in 1587
North Dakota The geographic center of North America, in Pierce County, near Balta
Ohio The first electric traffic lights, invented and installed in Cleveland in 1914
Oklahoma The first parking meter, installed in Oklahoma City in 1935
Oregon The world's smallest park, totaling 452 inches, created in Portland on St. Patrick's Day for leprechauns and snail races
Pennsylvania The first magazine in America: the American Magazine, published in Philadelphia for 3 months in 1741
Rhode Island Rhode Island Red chickens, first bred in 1854; the start of poultry as a major American industry
South Carolina The first tea farm in the U.S., created in 1890 near Summerville
South Dakota The world's largest natural, indoor warmwater pool, Evans' Plunge in Hot Springs
Tennessee Graceland, the estate and gravesite of Elvis Presley
Texas NASA, in Houston, headquarters for all piloted U.S. space projects
Utah Rainbow Bridge, the largest natural stone bridge in the world, 290 feet high, 275 feet across
Vermont The largest production of maple syrup in the U.S.
Virginia The only full-length statue of George Washington, placed in capitol in 1796
Washington Lunar Rover, the vehicle used by astronauts on the moon; Boeing, in Seattle, makes aircraft and spacecraft
West Virginia Marbles; most of the country's glass marbles made around Parkersburg
Wisconsin The typewriter, invented in Milwaukee in 1867
Wyoming The “Register of the Desert,” a huge granite boulder covering 27 acres with 5,000 early pioneer names carved on it
In New York, at the top of a skyscraper it is possible for people to see snow falling while people on the ground see rain?
Passports issued by the US after January 1, 2007 have always-on radio frequency identification chips?
Shopping is the most popular domestic trip activity by American travelers?
There are almost two million women veterans in the US?
The average American woman weighs 140 pounds?
The average clothing size for women in America is size 14?
The longest street in San Francisco is Geary Boulevard?
There are 43 named hills in San Francisco?
The only living coral reefs in the US (hawaii not included) is in the Florida Keys?
The first African American ever to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor was William H. Carney in 1900?
The White House in Washington DC has 132 rooms?
The state of Maryland has no natural lakes?
There are 125 drinking fountains in Central Park, New York?
George W. Bush and John Kerry are related?
The Florida Keys is home to 882 islands?
In 1913 over one million cars where registered in the US?
The state motto of Alaska is "north to the future"?
On January 3, 1959 Alaska became the 49th state?
The former vice-president Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard?
The first zoo in America was opened in Philadelphia in 1874?
In average over 60000 people fly over the US every hour?
Route 20 is the longest highway in the US?
The most superstitious president in the US history are belived to be Theodore Roosevelt?
The oldest city in the US is St. Augustine in Florida?
American green cards are not green. In 1964 they where green?
Henry Bronk gave name to The Bronx in New York?
The first submarine attack in history took place in New York Harbor in 1776?
Many of the American Quakers relocated to Costa Rica in 1951?
The first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut in 1878. The book was only one page long and had fifty names in it?
San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments?
The ZIP code 12345 is assigned to a company in Schenectady, New York - General Electric?
The highest city in the United States is Leadville, Colorado(10,200 feet)?
90% of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants?
Americans throw away 44 million newspapers every day?
A 1997 Gallup poll discovered that 24 percent of American workers would, if they could, fire their boss?
During a lifetime an American Man will spend about 3,500 hours shaving?
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace?
The smallest state capital in the US is Montpelier?
Atlantic City is home to longest boardwalk in the world?
The twin towers of World Trade Center in New York had 208 elevators?
The White House in Washington, DC was the biggest house in the United States until the Civil War?
The US Military Academy at West Point was the first engineering school in the US?
It's only called Air Force one when the US president is aboard the aircraft?
Alaska has rain forests?
Alaska has no borders to any other state?
The worlds longest cave system is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky?
When it comes to making New Year's resolutions weight loss is one of the most common in the US?
Lake Tahoe is the highest alpine Lake in the US?
San Francisco has no cemeteries?
Dallas has More than 6000 restaurants?
A tornado once carried a motel sign 30 miles, from Oklahoma to Arkansas?
Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii is the most active volcano on Earth?
Hawaii has the largest number of introduced plants in the world?
The average number of tornadoes each year in the US is about 800?
Hawaii is one of the worlds most popular honeymoon destination?
Hawaii was once known as the Sandwich Islands?
Old segregation laws in Virginia required separate toilet for black and white people and thats why Pentagon has twice as many toilets as they actually need?
Reno in Nevada is located west of Los Angeles in California?
The first dollar coin in the US was the silver dollar in 1794?
Dollar bills are mostly made from cloths?
Since 1928 the picture of Benjamin Franklin has appeared on every $100 bill?
The Chinook salmon is the state fish of Oregon?
Nebraska is home to the largest porch swing in the world. 25 adults can sit in it?
New York City has 722 miles of subway track?
New York was once called Mahatta by local Indians?
New York was the first capital of the United States?
New York has the largest population of Jewish people outside of Israel?
People in some countires, like Sweden, open their Christmas presents 24 of Dec while in the US people open their presents on the 25 of Dec?
Delaware was the first State in the U.S?
Tennessee is the birthplace of miniature golf?
Wisconsin produce more cranberries that any other state?
The first jukebox in the world was located in San Francisco in 1899?
75% of all raisins eaten by people in the U.S. are eaten at breakfast?
Americans eat six times the amount of protein they actually need in a day?
Americans throw away about 5 million bicycles each year?
The Green Card is actually pink?
In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Now it's 36C?
Americans alone consume more than nine pounds of pickles per person each year?
Tennessee is home to the steepest passenger incline railway in the U.S.
Americans change about 400 million oil filters a year?
93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween?
Americans are making roughly three times more trips to casinos than trips to ballparks?
Americans file about 70000 lawsuits every single day?
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace?
The longest beach in the U.S. is in Washington State?
The first umbrella factory in the U.S. was built in Maryland?
A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945?
Americans eat about 35000 tons of pasta every year?
Some people living in Canada are automatically citizens of the U.S.?
Americans eat so much cereal each year that a chain of empty boxes would stretch all the way to the moon and back to earth?
The state nickname of Iowa is The Hawkeye State?
Americans save less than one percent of their incomes?
Americans will eat about 150 million hot dogs every day?
Where ever you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake?
Americans consume more ice cream than any other nation in the world?
Maryland is home to 10 different kinds of bats?
Americans consume an average of about 67 pounds of sugar each in a year?
During a lifetime an American Man will spend about 3 500 hours shaving?
Americans throw away 44 million newspapers everyday?
On March 29, 1848, Niagara Falls stopped flowing for 30 hours because of ice blocking the River?
Americans consume on an average 3 hamburgers a week?
Americans gamble more money each year than the money they spend on groceries?
Montana is home to the shortest river in the world. Roe River is about 200 feet long?
There are 556 officially recognized native American tribes?
Americans consume 17 billion quarts of popcorn annually?
Kansas City has more fountains than Rome?
Americans eat more than 16 pounds of French fries per person annually?
The average number of people airborne over the U.S. at any given hour is about 61,000?
Americans write more than 42 billion checks every year?
Americans spent about 54 - 55 billion dollars on gambling every year?
The word Arkansas comes from an old Indian word. The word means "land of the orange barrels"?
Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors?
The poorest state i U.S. is Mississippi?
75% of all immigrants who come to US are settled i California, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Illinois and Texas?
Americans are the biggest polluters in the world?
Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state?
Americans spend about $500 million a year on ketchup?
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States?
Americans have not always driven on the right?
Americans tops the world in plastic surgery. Mexico comes in second place?
During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from gunshots and fighting?
More Civil War battles were fought in Virginia than in any other state?
Americans use an average of about eight batteries a year per person?
A town in Texas is called "Ding Dong"?
Over 20% of the population of California are born in other countries?
Americans trow away 4.4 pounds of trash each day per person?
Idaho is home to the deepest gorge in the U.S?
Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour?
Americans eat 18 acres of pizza each day?
Presidents
The White House in Washington, DC. has always been white?
The first U.S. President to be born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter?
The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp and Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper?
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters in the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton was the second?
George Washington was the first President to be seen at a postage stamp?
John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president?
Martin Van Buren, the eighth president in U.S., was the first president to be born in the United States of America?
Thomas Jefferson was the first President of the U.S. to live in the White House?
George Washington's salary a year was $25,000?
Abraham Lincoln had no middle name?
Millard Fillmore was the first President in U.S. to have a stove in the White House?
John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents?
Before you can run for President in the U.S. you must be a natural born citizen, a citizen for at least 14 years and be 35 years of age?
President Gerald Ford had a different name at birth? His name was Leslie King?
Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia?
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons?
James Madison was the smallest president in U.S. history? He stood 5 foot 4 inches long and weighed about 90 pounds?
At least three the U.S. presidents were left-handed? Harry S. Truman, James Garfield and Jerry Ford?
According to the film Fahrenheit 9/11 George Bush Sr. was sitting in a room with bin Laden's brother on the day that 9/11 happened?
The only president to be born on July 4th is Calvin Coolidge in 1872?
The first President to have a Christmas tree in the White House was Benjamin Harrison?
Crime & Law
Drunk drivers in Taiwan can choose their penalty?
You are not allowed to eat ice cream while standing on the sidewalk in Carmel?
In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear?
A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street?
In Blythe, California you are not allowed to wear cowboy boots unless you own at least two cows?
In France there was once a law against selling dolls without human faces?
In Denver Colorado, it is illegal to lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbors?
It is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey?
Al Capone was inmate No.85 in Alcatraz?
The first Arabic country to have women police officers was Oman?
It is illegal to import alcohol into the Maldives?
It's illegal to skateboard without a license in Florida?
In Quebec, Canada, it's illegal to make yellow margarine. It has to be white?
In Alberta, Canada, it's illegal to publicly remove bandages?
Bubblegum is forbidden in Singapore?
Between 1979 and 1988 chess was banned in Iran?
Alcatraz is named after a Spanish word meaning pelican?
Pirates almost never had their prisoners walk the plank?
To kiss in public was a crime in Naples in 1562?
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, if they work in a tropical fish store?
The average criminal sentence length in Colombia is 137 years?
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland?
It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal, India?
In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person?
You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt, at least in theory?
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants?
It's against the law to sneeze or burp in a church in Nebraska, USA?
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer?
In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage?
Saudi diplomats are said to have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain?
About 65 percent of US prison inmates are tattooed?
In Switzerland, it's was once against the law to slam your car door?
A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets?
In Scotland, children as young as 8 can be guilty of crimes?
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona?
It is illegal to sleep within vehicles in the City of Aspen in USA?
On average, each day about 20 banks are robbed in the world?
Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903?
Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel?
Did you know that the LAPD had the very first policewoman?
Members of the armed forces and the police are not allowed to vote in the Dominican Republic?
It was for some time illegal to sell ET dolls in France?
0.7% of Americans are currently in prison?
In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph?
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have their own bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter?
In Maine it is illegal to catch a lobster with your bare hands?
Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia?
You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France?
In Quitman, Georgia it is against the law for a chicken to cross the road?
It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma?
In Iceland, it was once against the law to have a pet dog?
America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation?
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people?
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors?
A Kentucky law specifies that if you come "face-to-face" with a cow on the road you must remove your hat?
Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China?
It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland?
Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903?
In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal?
In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. Waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photo is a crime?
A person's chances of being mugged in London are much higher than in New York City?
Around 1 in 3 persons in Australia is a victim of crime?
715 of every 100 000 people in America are imprisoned?
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch a mice without a hunting license?
Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States?
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death?
In Florida it's illegal to wear swimwear while singing in a public place?
A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking" stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard the vehicle and stopped him?
When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested?
Former enemies, Americans and Russians, now have a great deal in common. They both lead the world in locking people up?
In Alabama it's against the law to play dominoes on Sunday?
Nevada Facts and Trivia
In 1899 Charles Fey invented a slot machine named the Liberty Bell. The device became the model for all slots to follow.
The Reno Ice Pavilion is a 16,000-square-foot rink once dismantled and moved to Reno from Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Bugsy Siegel named his Las Vegas casino "The Flamingo" for the long legs of his showgirl sweetheart, Virginia Hill.
The Imperial Palace on the Las Vegas strip is the nation's first off-airport airline baggage check-in service.
Bertha was a performing elephant that entertained for 37 years at John Ascuaga's Nugget casino located in Sparks. She was 48 years old when she died.
There were 16,067 slots in Nevada in 1960. In 1999 Nevada had 205,726 slot machines, one for every 10 residents.
While Samuel Clemens took the penname "Mark Twain" as a reporter working for the "Territorial Enterprise," he began his writing career as a reporter in the Midwest some years before moving to Virginia City in 1862.
Pershing County located in Cowboy Country features the only round courthouse in the United States. Update: {the Bucks County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, constructed in 1960, is considered round. Now there are two.}
In 1931 the Pair-O-Dice Club was the first casino to open on Highway 91, the future Las Vegas Strip.
In March 1931 Governor Fred Balzar signed into law the bill legalizing gambling in the state.
Once the highest concrete dam in the world, Hoover Dam offers guided tours and a museum of artifacts of the construction and its workers.
In Death Valley, the Kangaroo Rat can live its entire life without drinking a drop of liquid.
Construction of the Nevada State Capitol located in Carson City was proposed on April 14, 1870. Carson City is one of the smallest state capitals in the country. Update: {With current growth, may now be 14th smallest.}
The ghost town of Rhyolite still pays homage to early pioneers and their dreams. Remains of the depot, glass house, bank and other buildings are on display.
In Tonopah the young Jack Dempsey was once the bartender and the bouncer at the still popular Mispah Hotel and Casino. Famous lawman and folk hero Wyatt Earp once kept the peace in the town.
The first recorded white men in the Elko area were fur trappers who trapped beaver in the area starting in 1828.
The first community college in Nevada opened in Elko in 1967. Great Basin College was the forerunner of a statewide system associated with the University of Nevada.
Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is constructed around the fossilized remains of ancient, mysterious reptiles within a well-preserved turn-of-the-century Nevada mining camp.
The ichthyosaur is Nevada's official state fossil.
Austin's oldest church, St. Augustine, requires the establishment's bells in the tower to be rung by pulling a rope located in the men's restroom.
Nevada takes its name from a Spanish word meaning snow-clad.
Most of the state is desert but the Sierra Nevada mountain range near Reno and the Ruby Mountains near Elko has snow for half the year.
Locals use terms like The Sagebrush State, The Silver State, and The Battle Born State as nicknames for Nevada.
Nevada is the seventh largest state with 110,540 square miles, 85% of them federally owned including the secret Area 51 near the little town of Rachel.
Nevada has more mountain ranges than any other state, with its highest point at the 13,145 foot top of Boundary Peak near the west-central border.
Grammatically, the proper term for the mountains is the Sierra Nevada not the Sierras. Robert Conrad almost called one of his television series High Sierra Rangers but changed it to High Mountain Rangers.
Wayne Newton owns a home in the Las Vegas area, and it was a real location for the film "Vegas Vacation."
The longest running show in Las Vegas is the Follies Bergere at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino. It opened in 1959. The production numbers in "Showgirls" were written specifically for the Paul Verhoeven film and shot in the Horizon Hotel at Lake Tahoe. The bulk of the movie used locations located at the Luxor and the Forum Shops at Caesars.
You see the name Hughes on numerous locations and developments. Howard Hughes bought up considerable Nevada property before he died in 1976, including the following hotels and casinos: Castaways, Desert Inn, Frontier, Landmark, Sands, Silver Slipper, and Harold's Club. Part of the Hughes legend was recounted in Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard."
Misfits Flats off Highway 50 near Stagecoach takes its name from the John Huston film. Huston used the privately owned area to film a complicated wild horse round up with Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach.
Nevada is the largest gold-producing state in the nation. It is second in the world behind South Africa.
The state has about 50,000 miles of paved road, much of it featured in films like "Vanishing Point," "Breakdown," "Rainman," and "Lethal Weapon 4."
Hoover Dam, the largest single public works project in the history of the United States, contains 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete, which is enough to pave a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York. The dam face was used in an amazing stunt for Roland Emerich's "Universal Soldier" and has been seen in such films as "Viva Las Vegas" and "Fools Rush In."
The Virginia City steam train still operates and was featured in the Imax project "Mark Twain's America." The "steam train" is a modern-day tourist train and does not link back to the original Virginia & Truckee RR which had its last run to Virginia City in 1938.
The state's Highway 50, known as the Loneliest Highway in America, received its name from "Life" magazine in 1986. There are few road stops in the 287 mile stretch between Ely and Fernley.
Frank Sinatra once owned the Cal-Neva at Lake Tahoe's Crystal Bay. It is possible to stand in both Nevada and California inside Cal-Neva's building.
Nevada's smallest incorporated city is Gabbs located about 140 miles southeast of Reno.Update: {Gabbs, what was Nevada's smallest city was disincorporated on May 8, 2001}
Nevada tribes include the Shoshone, Washo and Paiute. Tribal lands have been used in such film projects as "Misery," and "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
The Las Vegas Strip is actually under jurisdiction of Clark County and can be seen in just about any film set in the city.
Nevada is the only state with an entire museum devoted to the life and time of entertainer Liberace.
Writer and commentator Lowell Thomas called Elko the last cowtown in America. Elko is the home of the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Area 51 is acknowledged with State Route 375 officially christened "The Extraterrestrial Highway" in a ceremony featuring the director and cast of the movie "Independence Day." The highway runs between Alamo and Tonopah. There is a tiny restaurant stop at the Little Ale' Inn at Rachel.
The only Nevada lake with an outlet to the sea is man made Lake Mead.
Camels were used as pack animals in Nevada as late as 1870.
To drive from Los Angeles, California to Reno, Nevada the direction traveled is to the west.
Construction worker Hard Hat's were first invented specifically for workers on the Hoover Dam in 1933.
Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on earth.
Las Vegas has the majority of the largest hotels in the world.
The longest morse code telegram ever sent was the Nevada state constitution. Sent from Carson City to Washington D.C. in 1864. The transmission must have taken several hours.
Virginia City is the home of the Nevada Gambling Museum.
U.S. Government (In Order of Presidential Succession)
president
Vice President
Speaker of the House of Representatives
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
U.S. Army
General of the Army, 5 Stars
General, 4 Stars
Lieutenant General, 3 Stars
Major General, 2 Stars
Brigadier General, 1 Star
Colonel, Silver Eagle Pin
Lieutenant Colonel, Silver Oak Leaf Pin
Major, Gold Oak Leaf Pin
Captain, 2 Silver Bars
1st Lieutenant, 1 Silver Bar
2nd Lieutenant, 1 Gold Bar
U.S. Navy
Fleet Admiral, 5 Stars
Admiral, 4 Stars
Vice Admiral, 3 Stars
Rear Admiral, 2 Stars
Rear Admiral (lower half), 1 Star
Captain, 4 Stripes or Silver Eagle
Commander. 3 Stripes or Silver Oak Leaf
Lieutenant Commander, 21/2 Stripes (two wide with a narrow one between them) or Bronze Oak Leaf
Lieutenant. 2 Stripes or 2 Silver Bars
Lieutenant Junior Grade, 11/2 Stripes (one wide, one narrow) or 1 Silver Bar
Ensign, 1 Stripe or 1 Gold Bar
Angel Hierarchy
Seraphim
Cherubim
Thrones
Dominions
Virtues
Powers
Principalities
Archangels
Angels
Royal and Noble Hierarchy
Emperor, Empress
King, Queen
Prince, Princess
Duke, Duchess
Marquess, Marquessa
Earl or Count/Countess
Viscount/Viscountess
Baron/Baroness
See also Royal title hierarchy.
Academic Rank
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Instructor or Lecturer
U.S. Scouting Ranks
Eagle Palms
Eagle Rank
Life Rank
Star Rank
First Class Rank
Second Class Rank
Tenderfoot Rank
Scout Badge
Classification of Living Organisms
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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