50 More Facts About the United States (including which state was home to the now-closed theme park Holyland USA: th-cam.com/video/96mHcSzX-10/w-d-xo.html)
2:43 Actually, it is. That land in Tennessee would have given Georgia access to the Tennessee River. Considering the major water problem in Georgia, yeah it was important.
You're right! I am from Chattanooga, TN and now I live in North Georgia and I remember the fueding about that line. It was all over the news and all the radio stations. It was insane. You must live near the line too. Do you?
Georgia said, "Tennessee that's supposed to be my land! It was just wrongly drawn." Then Tennessee said, "Georgia it's 2010 do you think it's your biggest problem?" XD
Most people do not know this: In the isles of Hawaii, there is one isle that still resides the original Hawaiian Monarch family that no one can land on.
Sorry, that's not true. I think you're thinking of either Ni'ihau, which is privately owned by the Robinson family (not part of the monarchy), or Kaho'olawe, which was occupied by the Navy until 1993 when it was returned to the state.
I'm from Wyoming. And I'll never leave. I love it. Never locked my car or house. Can walk down the street at night with a roll of 100s and if you drop one someone will give it back. And honestly we will be the ones to survive the apocalypse
I went to Jackson Hole in 8th grade for a class trip. I'm not normally an outdoorsy person and I normally don't like the cold or mountains, but it was pretty fun.
To be completely honest, Jackson Hole is like the one place in Wyoming that isn't very Wyoming. Like everywhere else is generally Middle Class people and pretty much low prices everywhere (it costs me 5 dollars for a movie ticket and a Jumbo refillable popcorn is 5 bucks) and then you come to Jackson and the Teton Valley and suddenly everyone is Filthy Rich and you spend more on your groceries than you would spend on a Purebred Cocker-Spaniel Puppy.
Saw 'Justin Henry' (WHO? Little boy in 'Kramer Vs. Kramer', and Molly Ringworm's kid brother, '16 Candles') as a young teen in a Stowe, Vt. McDonald's, April 1987. Saw him in shops around town. Everyone knew and liked him. Family from wealthy N.Y.N.Y suburb of Rye, N.Y. .
NJ has Jersey Shore. Try as NJ might, there's just no recovering from that. Also, Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage, not Nauvoo. The places were close to each other, though.
TheCyanLambda No, everyone I know, (Being from a town right next to the Jersey Shore) hates every cast menber and everything they stand for. They are not even from NJ, they are all from New York.
The land grab try by Georgia: Water rights are important, even now, and a lake was in the balance. And actually the definition of Hoosier is just "A native or inhabitant of Indiana." Minnesotans aren't humble, they got to 10,000 and couldn't count any higher.
always gotta wait until the end of these videos to get my state :p also, wyoming has one of the best economies of all the states! and contains most of Yellowstone National Park.
As a Californian living in Oregon, the whole "you can't pump your own gas" thing is extremely weird to me. On a slightly related note, the gas station bathrooms I've seen here are way cleaner than California.
Additional facts about New Mexico: New Mexico holds the largest set of gypsum sand dunes in the world. Clyde Tombaugh moved tho Las Cruces, New Mexico to be a professor at New Mexico State University. He now has a school in his name in Las Cruces.
New Mexico is home to the oldest state capital Santa Fe The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States. New Mexico is the site of the first atomic bomb test in white sands missile range. Lakes and Rivers make up only .002% of the state's total surface area. The lowest water-to-land ratio of all 50 states. Most of New Mexico's lakes are man-made reservoirs. A dam on the Rio Grande formed the Elephant Butte Reservoir the state's largest lake. 1/4 of New Mexico is forested, and the state has 7 National Forests including the Nation's largest, the 3.3 million acre Gila National Forest which includes the Gila Wilderness.
More on Nebraska: - Home of Kool-Aid, Reuben sandwiches (No matter what New York says), and battered onion rings. - Home state of Academy Award-winning actors Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, and Hilary Swank. - Home to the world's largest live chicken show (Wayne) and underground lake (Ogallala aquifer) - Has the only Norfolk in the entire Union pronounced as "nor-fork"
An American ounce said: the best thing we gave to the world was blues and rock and roll A British person ounce said: the best thing gave to the world was America
I live in Nauvoo! Joseph Smith Jr wasn't murdered here though, he was murdered by a mob in Carthage, which is about 25 miles away. Also, it was 1844 not 1839. 1839 is when church members fled Missouri, well except Joseph who was in jail for one of several imprisonments that he was falsely arrested for.
Nashville, TN is known as the Athens of the South, which inspired the Parthenon to be built as a non-permanent structure for the World's Fair....it was so popular they rebuilt it as a permanent structure. A few years ago they finally painted the Athena statue to resemble historic records of the original...and it looks awful.
Just wanted to point out that the location of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s murder was not actually in Nauvoo, Illinois, but in Carthage, Illinois, specifically Carthage Jail, where Joseph willingly came to answer charges of civil disobedience and was waiting for his trial with the promise of protection from the governor of Illinois at the time. We all know how that promise of protection panned out, since during this time, Joseph and the people associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were facing great mob violence and threats of death from many in the area opposed to their beliefs and who feared the church's political influence during this time.
so cool that you mentioned the replica of The Parthenon in Nashville (TN). I've been there -- it's pretty awesome in person, especially once one goes inside and experiences seeing the _other_ replica -- a 42-foot statue of Athena holding a 6" Nike (goddess of victory) and the ginormous shield by her side. also features a pretty cool art 62-piece American art gallery and a detailed photo-mural regarding the monument's construction, as well as replicas of other Greek artwork in other halls.
Tennessee has a full scale version of the Parthenon to honor Tennessee's Centennial Exposition because back in 1897, Nashville was often called the Athens of the South. Now it just sits in Centennial Park and despite people thinking it's full of Greek type things, it is mainly just an art museum with a couple of Greek statues here and there.
Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage not Nauvoo IL. A distance of over thirty miles. I only mention it because I love what you folks are doing. Keep it up!
Damn it, New Mexico! Why can't you have something more interesting for a fact?! I think the fact that Breaking Bad takes place in Albuquerque is more interesting than our capitals elevation. -Love from Las Cruces, NM
@Brian Reilly: Santa Fe is the highest capital being well over 7,000 ft. Denver is only around a mile up (5,280 ft), thus why its called the Mile High City. Fun fact, one of the front steps at the capital in Denver marks the mile high mark.
I toured the Brewster Dairy on a field trip in high school. If you want to know what cottage cheese smells like when being made, leave a bottle of milk out in the sun for ~3 days. Then quickly remove the cap and inhale. In spite of that, I still love cottage cheese.
I live in South Dakota, and I actually have an uncle who is one of people working on Crazy Horse. The reason it isn't done (and probably never will be) is because not enough people are donating money (They don't charge admission) so they don't have enough to get much work done. They're also the fact the my uncle is one of only about five or six who work on it...
I went to State College Area High School! And they actually tell you that they were the first to create drivers education in the in class portion of Drivers Ed. There was an in car portion to the class, where you could get your license, but it was cancelled due to lack of funding in 2011.
While the bill to change the origin of King county's name was introduced and passed in 1986, King county's name wasn't officially changed until Gov. Gregoire signed the bill in 2005. The logo for the county wasn't changed until 2007.
Dunno if anyone else commented, but the reason Crazy Horse is not completed (and probably never will be completed), is because they are relying solely on donations and funds. The government DID offer financial support to the sculptor, but he refused. If he agreed to the funding from the government, it would be a wonderful sight to behold. :)
Hello, LDS member here, here's a clarification with Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage Jail by a mob while awaiting his trial (which he was completely innocent of) Nauvoo is the name of the city he and his followers founded in Illinois. With him was his brother, Hiram and John Taylor, who became our their President of the Church after Brigham Young. The mob broke through the door, shot Hiram and Joseph ran to the window and was shot, and then fell out the window, falling from the second story window where they were being held. Taylor survived by seeking protection under the mattress. He wasn't trying to escape fro jail, he was trying to escape the mob.
Just in case you were curious and because you're pretty kinda wrong about it- Tennessee DOES actually have a massive tie to Greece, being as Nashville is known as "the Athens of the South." This however has no bearing, as it is simply the only remaining structure from a massive fair (I can't remember if it was State or World, but it was in approximately 1896, so I'm assuming it was the centennial anniversary of Tennessee and therefore, a state event). Also, Tennessee is actually a misspelling of the original surveyor's map, who originally spelled it Tennessea in the 1700's.
Check out the Pig War in Washington State. The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire over the boundary between the US and the British Empire. The territory in dispute was the San Juan Islands, which lie between Vancouver Island and the North American mainland. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. With no shots exchanged and no human casualties, this dispute was a bloodless conflict.
VA: "I wanna go join the Confederacy!" Western VA: "But I don't wanna!" VA: "Well TOO BAD!" West Va.: "NO! I'm gonna break off an' become my own state!" VA: "You can do that?" WV: "I can do that." VA: "Well, I'm not calling myself East Virginia just because of you." WV: "Fine!" VA: "FINE!"
Michigan is also home to the only state highway in the US that doesn't have cars on it (M-185, located on Mackinac Island, which banned all motorized vehicles in 1898; emergency vehicles, service vehicles and snowmobiles are exempt from this rule though).
as a Minnesotan i was hoping for something that was unique to Minnesota that wasn't related to Mall of America, Paul and Babe the blue ox, Or the lakes here. yes we do have good trout streams over 2,000 miles of trout streams in the Southeast part. Happy fishing! Our natural fish are the Lake Trout and Brown trout which was brought here and then it became naturalized in our streams.
brook trout are native to southeast,MN, and also lake run brookies on the north shore and streams and lakes in northern MN and many salmon and steelhead are planted and run the north shore also, dont forget the lake trout brook trout hybrids the Splake they plant those up north in lakes. i even caught some rainbows in Mn streams before.
8:23. and that's way we like it. Also don't forget WY is the first state to have a national park, an national monument, first National park, first place several women in leadership positions and the first state to have a county public library. But that's probably to much to put on a list that's about all the different states.
The Fire Ant was first introduced to the U.S. through Mobile, Alabama over 100 years ago. The insect was mostly confined to the southeast until shipments of ant infested sod, plants and flowers from the many nurseries in the Mobile area wound up in other parts of the U.S, even as far as California..
Actually, Georgia's boarder dispute with Tenesee is a lot more serious than people seem to be giving it credit for, and this is for one key reason. If the boarder were to be moved to include the land Georgia says should be theirs, it would give them access to a lake. Water is a pretty darn precious resource, and that lake is the center of the debate around where the boarder should be. Georgia wants that water.
My fave explanation to date for Hoosier is that we were a leper colony and when someone would come across an ear, they'd yell "whose ear?!" yeah, that was in my 4th grade social studies book in Indiana...
Minnesota is also one of the only states that classifies a lake as 10 acres or more, most states say 5 acres or more. By those standards MN has around 17,000 lakes.
50 More Facts About the United States (including which state was home to the now-closed theme park Holyland USA: th-cam.com/video/96mHcSzX-10/w-d-xo.html)
2:43
Actually, it is. That land in Tennessee would have given Georgia access to the Tennessee River. Considering the major water problem in Georgia, yeah it was important.
Also, the Parthenon was made for one of the World's Fairs. It was incomplete until after the fair ended, but they decided to finish it.
You're right! I am from Chattanooga, TN and now I live in North Georgia and I remember the fueding about that line. It was all over the news and all the radio stations. It was insane. You must live near the line too. Do you?
Glad this is here. Came here to explain.
Everything's legal in New Jersey
no actually ..weed isn't legal, campfires aren't legal, shooting those nuisance bears isn't legal..
i understood that reference
no there's a law that you can't where a bullet proof vest wile killing someone
I live in nj
A.Ham
Georgia said, "Tennessee that's supposed to be my land! It was just wrongly drawn."
Then Tennessee said, "Georgia it's 2010 do you think it's your biggest problem?" XD
Lol
Yes actually
Actually Ga needed access tothe Tennessee river, Ga was in a drought
Most people do not know this: In the isles of Hawaii, there is one isle that still resides the original Hawaiian Monarch family that no one can land on.
Sorry, that's not true. I think you're thinking of either Ni'ihau, which is privately owned by the Robinson family (not part of the monarchy), or Kaho'olawe, which was occupied by the Navy until 1993 when it was returned to the state.
THERE'S A SHERLOCK AND JOHN THING ON THE WALL!! Also, great video again John!
I'm from Wyoming. And I'll never leave. I love it. Never locked my car or house. Can walk down the street at night with a roll of 100s and if you drop one someone will give it back. And honestly we will be the ones to survive the apocalypse
I went to Jackson Hole in 8th grade for a class trip. I'm not normally an outdoorsy person and I normally don't like the cold or mountains, but it was pretty fun.
Jackson is a beautiful part. I'm a little more east than Jackson...about 6 Hours. Everything about wyoming is ideal
To be completely honest, Jackson Hole is like the one place in Wyoming that isn't very Wyoming. Like everywhere else is generally Middle Class people and pretty much low prices everywhere (it costs me 5 dollars for a movie ticket and a Jumbo refillable popcorn is 5 bucks) and then you come to Jackson and the Teton Valley and suddenly everyone is Filthy Rich and you spend more on your groceries than you would spend on a Purebred Cocker-Spaniel Puppy.
Jackson is expensive but it's more of the celebrity and tourist part
Not only is Montpelier the smallest capital in the Union, but also the only one to not have a McDonalds. ;)
Jack Stewart that’s the luckiest town in the union. Lol
Saw 'Justin Henry' (WHO? Little boy in 'Kramer Vs. Kramer', and Molly Ringworm's kid brother, '16 Candles') as a young teen in a Stowe, Vt. McDonald's, April 1987. Saw him in shops around town. Everyone knew and liked him. Family from wealthy N.Y.N.Y suburb of Rye, N.Y. .
John Green is a Hoosier?? THAT'S AWESOME!! You rule dude. These videos are the greatest. New friend? :)
0:47 John... did you just make a subtle reference to your own book...
I didn't catch that. You are awesome.
much wow
I say this as a Kansan. Yes, we have some boring bits but we have cool things as well. Like the first Pizza Hut and the cosmosphere.
Pizza Hut is not something to be proud of.
True... but it is something.
It's still better than walmart, damn you Arkansas
At least someone gets it.
Fun fact about South Dakota's Crazy Horse sculpture: Only one dynamite blast is used per year on Crazy Horses' birthday.
"In 1838, before Missouri was even a state,"
Gotta stop yea there, Missouri became a state in 1821
Only a part of it.
SentsuizanXS wat
Goku San Only a part of what is now Missouri became a state in 1821, where is the confusion?
SentsuizanXS Because thats not true
Umm, Missouri was a state in 1821 so...
the Kansas fact killed me lol.
"Manitoba on the other hand, non-stop party" HOLY SHIT WE GOT RECOGNITION
I live in Kansas. I'm slightly insulted that it didn't have a better fact.
I live in Idaho, and I'm insulted that the default thought toward us is actually about our potatoes.
How does Hamilton the short-tempered
Protean creator of the Coast Guard
*Founder of the New York Post*...
ardENTLY ABUSE HIS CABINET POST
DESTROY HIS REPUTATION
WELCOME FOLKS
TO THE ADAMS ADMINISTRATION
The Adams administration!
Jefferson’s the Runner up, which makes him Vice President
Washington Count help you now, no more mr. nice president
An open letter to the fat arrogant anti charismatic national embarrassment known as president John Adams
4:27
1) Necco wafers are AWESOME!
2) it's the PURPLES that are clove. The pinks are wintergreen.
NJ has Jersey Shore. Try as NJ might, there's just no recovering from that.
Also, Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage, not Nauvoo. The places were close to each other, though.
Seriously, do the people who live there even watch that crap? /)
TheCyanLambda No, everyone I know, (Being from a town right next to the Jersey Shore) hates every cast menber and everything they stand for. They are not even from NJ, they are all from New York.
Haha. Figures
They made up with it by giving us Bruce Springsteen
The land grab try by Georgia: Water rights are important, even now, and a lake was in the balance.
And actually the definition of Hoosier is just "A native or inhabitant of Indiana."
Minnesotans aren't humble, they got to 10,000 and couldn't count any higher.
always gotta wait until the end of these videos to get my state :p also, wyoming has one of the best economies of all the states! and contains most of Yellowstone National Park.
Santa Fe may have the highest elevation, but Denver Colorado is definitely the highest state capital
Nicolas Gleason-Boure I see what you did there
Well played, my friend.
Woah, Joseph Smith Jr shoutout!
He deserves no praise, only ridicule.
Im addicted to every channel with john green in it
As a Californian living in Oregon, the whole "you can't pump your own gas" thing is extremely weird to me. On a slightly related note, the gas station bathrooms I've seen here are way cleaner than California.
get out
Screw pumping gas! Oregonians forever!!!!
On a more level headed note: We don't pump our own gas because it creates jobs.
Additional facts about New Mexico:
New Mexico holds the largest set of gypsum sand dunes in the world.
Clyde Tombaugh moved tho Las Cruces, New Mexico to be a professor at New Mexico State University. He now has a school in his name in Las Cruces.
*****
then there T or C, the town that changed its name to Truth or Consequences for 1 mill.
New Mexico is home to the oldest state capital Santa Fe The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States. New Mexico is the site of the first atomic bomb test in white sands missile range. Lakes and Rivers make up only .002% of the state's total surface area. The lowest water-to-land ratio of all 50 states. Most of New Mexico's lakes are man-made reservoirs. A dam on the Rio Grande formed the Elephant Butte Reservoir the state's largest lake. 1/4 of New Mexico is forested, and the state has 7 National Forests including the Nation's largest, the 3.3 million acre Gila National Forest which includes the Gila Wilderness.
Wew Lads new mexico is the only state that still recignises pluto as a planet by law because of clde troumbah
More on Nebraska:
- Home of Kool-Aid, Reuben sandwiches (No matter what New York says), and battered onion rings.
- Home state of Academy Award-winning actors Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, and Hilary Swank.
- Home to the world's largest live chicken show (Wayne) and underground lake (Ogallala aquifer)
- Has the only Norfolk in the entire Union pronounced as "nor-fork"
An American ounce said: the best thing we gave to the world was blues and rock and roll
A British person ounce said: the best thing gave to the world was America
Sometimes when you say "Thank you for watching Mental Floss," it sounds like you're saying Menopause instead. :I
Necro response but yes. VERY yes. I hear that too.
I live in Nauvoo! Joseph Smith Jr wasn't murdered here though, he was murdered by a mob in Carthage, which is about 25 miles away. Also, it was 1844 not 1839. 1839 is when church members fled Missouri, well except Joseph who was in jail for one of several imprisonments that he was falsely arrested for.
That's the fact you went with for Nevada? Really? Well, ok.
Nashville, TN is known as the Athens of the South, which inspired the Parthenon to be built as a non-permanent structure for the World's Fair....it was so popular they rebuilt it as a permanent structure. A few years ago they finally painted the Athena statue to resemble historic records of the original...and it looks awful.
I only knew 12 facts! Loved them all ^^
I literally just watch until they mention my state
I bet dusting those shelves is a b**ch lol
My family and I used to go to the Parthenon all the time when I was little. It's really cool.
Elevation is all you mentioned about New Mexico? What about how we have the largest balloon fiesta in the world?
I love America
3:55 Being from Manitoba, I found this quite hilarious.
Yeah Georgia does need the land
that Kansas joke😂😂
Please do an Art History episode! Great stuff!
Just wanted to point out that the location of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s murder was not actually in Nauvoo, Illinois, but in Carthage, Illinois, specifically Carthage Jail, where Joseph willingly came to answer charges of civil disobedience and was waiting for his trial with the promise of protection from the governor of Illinois at the time. We all know how that promise of protection panned out, since during this time, Joseph and the people associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were facing great mob violence and threats of death from many in the area opposed to their beliefs and who feared the church's political influence during this time.
CLOVE CANDY!!! Darn you, John Green! Now I need to go find some Necco wafers. Yummmmm.
I've lived in Oregon my entire life and I have no idea how to pump gas.
That's a good THING. Don't learn it's really hard and very dangerous.
so cool that you mentioned the replica of The Parthenon in Nashville (TN). I've been there -- it's pretty awesome in person, especially once one goes inside and experiences seeing the _other_ replica -- a 42-foot statue of Athena holding a 6" Nike (goddess of victory) and the ginormous shield by her side. also features a pretty cool art 62-piece American art gallery and a detailed photo-mural regarding the monument's construction, as well as replicas of other Greek artwork in other halls.
um, I mean 6'. totally not 6 inches. XD
I was waiting to see what the Minnesota one was. Kept getting more and more excited :D and boom something I already knew...
Tennessee has a full scale version of the Parthenon to honor Tennessee's Centennial Exposition because back in 1897, Nashville was often called the Athens of the South. Now it just sits in Centennial Park and despite people thinking it's full of Greek type things, it is mainly just an art museum with a couple of Greek statues here and there.
Nice! Great job
Hey, I love Necco Wafers! HOW DARE YOU!! But you're still awesome, John :)
He literally has his teacher working for him :D I love him
Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage not Nauvoo IL. A distance of over thirty miles.
I only mention it because I love what you folks are doing. Keep it up!
I live in King County! How cool :) Something to tell my teachers!
Also, fun fact: there's a city in Washington called George. It' s my favorite city.
Wow! Way to say something great about Massachusetts !
Damn it, New Mexico! Why can't you have something more interesting for a fact?! I think the fact that Breaking Bad takes place in Albuquerque is more interesting than our capitals elevation.
-Love from Las Cruces, NM
lool "it's 2010, is that really your biggest problem!?"
"Fortunately for Alabaman, that steel mill roller coaster only goes up."
Yay TFIOS reference
@Brian Reilly: Santa Fe is the highest capital being well over 7,000 ft. Denver is only around a mile up (5,280 ft), thus why its called the Mile High City. Fun fact, one of the front steps at the capital in Denver marks the mile high mark.
Townshend Kaiser! I loved your reenactment of his role in the senior prank!
I toured the Brewster Dairy on a field trip in high school. If you want to know what cottage cheese smells like when being made, leave a bottle of milk out in the sun for ~3 days. Then quickly remove the cap and inhale. In spite of that, I still love cottage cheese.
I live in South Dakota, and I actually have an uncle who is one of people working on Crazy Horse. The reason it isn't done (and probably never will be) is because not enough people are donating money (They don't charge admission) so they don't have enough to get much work done. They're also the fact the my uncle is one of only about five or six who work on it...
I didn't know it was named for Elizabeth I, you get bonus points for that factlet :P Thanks for the explanation, I always wondered why that was XD
It's actually Carry on Wayward Son. FYI
New Hampshire's Fact had me ROLLING! XD
How long did it take to acquire all the items on the wall?
I went to State College Area High School! And they actually tell you that they were the first to create drivers education in the in class portion of Drivers Ed. There was an in car portion to the class, where you could get your license, but it was cancelled due to lack of funding in 2011.
YES! Thank you, Mr. Green, for acknowledging us Latter-day Saints! You are awesome! No one ever bothers to mention that fact! Thank youuuu!
Minnesota has more shoreline than Hawaii, Florida, and Alaska combined
Kansas really isn't all that empty and it's not just farms and land, and I LOVE IT.
Woah! John Green said something about Manitoba! Woah! Represent!!
While the bill to change the origin of King county's name was introduced and passed in 1986, King county's name wasn't officially changed until Gov. Gregoire signed the bill in 2005. The logo for the county wasn't changed until 2007.
Disclaimer; Joseph Smith Jr was not killed in Navoo, he was living there at the time. He was actually murdered in the nearby town Carthage.
Dunno if anyone else commented, but the reason Crazy Horse is not completed (and probably never will be completed), is because they are relying solely on donations and funds. The government DID offer financial support to the sculptor, but he refused. If he agreed to the funding from the government, it would be a wonderful sight to behold. :)
Texas challenges your assertion of Kansas being the only one with a recording career... :-)
Hello, LDS member here, here's a clarification with Joseph Smith.
Joseph Smith Jr. was murdered in Carthage Jail by a mob while awaiting his trial (which he was completely innocent of) Nauvoo is the name of the city he and his followers founded in Illinois. With him was his brother, Hiram and John Taylor, who became our their President of the Church after Brigham Young. The mob broke through the door, shot Hiram and Joseph ran to the window and was shot, and then fell out the window, falling from the second story window where they were being held. Taylor survived by seeking protection under the mattress. He wasn't trying to escape fro jail, he was trying to escape the mob.
Thanks for trying to help. He also said 1839 instead of 1844 and Navoo instead of Carthage.
P.S.I'm LDS too if you couldn't tell. :D
Jousting is a normal thing in MD. It's live on tv every Tuesday at 6
Just in case you were curious and because you're pretty kinda wrong about it- Tennessee DOES actually have a massive tie to Greece, being as Nashville is known as "the Athens of the South." This however has no bearing, as it is simply the only remaining structure from a massive fair (I can't remember if it was State or World, but it was in approximately 1896, so I'm assuming it was the centennial anniversary of Tennessee and therefore, a state event). Also, Tennessee is actually a misspelling of the original surveyor's map, who originally spelled it Tennessea in the 1700's.
I thought someone as educated and semantically skilled as John wouldn't say that there are 50 states.
It buffered at 0:08 and he looked like Uncle Sam saying "I want you"
Check out the Pig War in Washington State. The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire over the boundary between the US and the British Empire. The territory in dispute was the San Juan Islands, which lie between Vancouver Island and the North American mainland. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. With no shots exchanged and no human casualties, this dispute was a bloodless conflict.
VA: "I wanna go join the Confederacy!"
Western VA: "But I don't wanna!"
VA: "Well TOO BAD!"
West Va.: "NO! I'm gonna break off an' become my own state!"
VA: "You can do that?"
WV: "I can do that."
VA: "Well, I'm not calling myself East Virginia just because of you."
WV: "Fine!"
VA: "FINE!"
Michigan is also home to the only state highway in the US that doesn't have cars on it (M-185, located on Mackinac Island, which banned all motorized vehicles in 1898; emergency vehicles, service vehicles and snowmobiles are exempt from this rule though).
Oregonian here. I have no clue how to pump gas.
Thank you for doing the states alphabetically :D
I'm now singing "The States Song" that I learned in elementary school... Lol nostalgia =p
Go Ohio! I love your Doctor Who and Sherlock stuff by the way. I want that wall in my room!
1838? Missouri became a state in 1821
as a Minnesotan i was hoping for something that was unique to Minnesota that wasn't related to Mall of America, Paul and Babe the blue ox, Or the lakes here. yes we do have good trout streams over 2,000 miles of trout streams in the Southeast part. Happy fishing! Our natural fish are the Lake Trout and Brown trout which was brought here and then it became naturalized in our streams.
brook trout are native to southeast,MN, and also lake run brookies on the north shore and streams and lakes in northern MN and many salmon and steelhead are planted and run the north shore also, dont forget the lake trout brook trout hybrids the Splake they plant those up north in lakes. i even caught some rainbows in Mn streams before.
Founded New York post Alexander Journalist
Did you get that reference?
Jaaacksfiiillllmss (ooh)
My brother, a college student in Albuquerque, loves breaking bad. For Christmas brought home small bags of clove rock candy.
The most interesting one I thought was of Maryland, that actually made me laugh, their state sport is jousting? ! XD that's hilarious.
8:23. and that's way we like it. Also don't forget WY is the first state to have a national park, an national monument, first National park, first place several women in leadership positions and the first state to have a county public library. But that's probably to much to put on a list that's about all the different states.
The Fire Ant was first introduced to the U.S. through Mobile, Alabama over 100 years ago. The insect was mostly confined to the southeast until shipments of ant infested sod, plants and flowers from the many nurseries in the Mobile area wound up in other parts of the U.S, even as far as California..
Actually, Georgia's boarder dispute with Tenesee is a lot more serious than people seem to be giving it credit for, and this is for one key reason. If the boarder were to be moved to include the land Georgia says should be theirs, it would give them access to a lake. Water is a pretty darn precious resource, and that lake is the center of the debate around where the boarder should be. Georgia wants that water.
Tennessee has better food, Tennessee wins.
TacticalGI Bullshit.
You wanna go bro?
Ok people, stop trolling.
Joseph Smith was murdered in Carthage Illinois. He was living in Nauvoo at the time, but Carthage is about 20 miles to the south east.
lol I'm a hoosier and I've wondered what "hoosier" meant all my life
had to laugh at that
Police cars? That's the best you got for Ohio? The Black Keys, man! The Black Keys!
My fave explanation to date for Hoosier is that we were a leper colony and when someone would come across an ear, they'd yell "whose ear?!" yeah, that was in my 4th grade social studies book in Indiana...
Minnesota is also one of the only states that classifies a lake as 10 acres or more, most states say 5 acres or more. By those standards MN has around 17,000 lakes.
It goes the other way too, we're so used to having attendants pump our gas it's confusing when we go out of state and no one comes to pump the gas XD
From Indiana here - I was taught "Hoosier" comes from answering a knock at the door... "Who's "ere?"