January 2009 Cub Scout Roundtable Issue |
Volume
15, Issue
6
February 2008 Theme |
Theme:
American ABC's
Webelos:
Scholar and Engineer
Tiger Cub Activities |
THEME RELATED STUFF
State Abbreviations
Jim Jones,
Great Salt Lake Council
State/Possession Abbreviation
ALABAMA AL
ALASKA AK
AMERICAN
SAMOA AS
ARIZONA AZ
ARKANSAS AR
CALIFORNIA CA
COLORADO CO
CONNECTICUT CT
DELAWARE DE
DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA DC
FLORIDA FL
GEORGIA GA
GUAM GU
HAWAII HI
IDAHO ID
ILLINOIS IL
INDIANA IN
IOWA IA
KANSAS KS
KENTUCKY KY
LOUISIANA LA
MAINE ME
MARSHALL
ISLANDS MH
MARYLAND MD
MASSACHUSETTS MA
MICHIGAN MI
MINNESOTA MN
MISSISSIPPI MS
MISSOURI MO
MONTANA MT
NEBRASKA NE
NEVADA NV
NEW
HAMPSHIRE NH
NEW
JERSEY NJ
NEW
MEXICO NM
NEW
YORK NY
NORTH
CAROLINA NC
NORTH
DAKOTA ND
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
MP
OHIO OH
OKLAHOMA OK
OREGON OR
PALAU PW
PENNSYLVANIA PA
PUERTO
RICO PR
RHODE
ISLAND RI
SOUTH
CAROLINA SC
SOUTH
DAKOTA SD
TENNESSEE TN
TEXAS TX
UTAH UT
VERMONT VT
VIRGIN
ISLANDS VI
VIRGINIA VA
WASHINGTON WA
WEST
VIRGINIA WV
WISCONSIN WI
WYOMING WY
State Slogans and Nicknames
Jim Jones,
Great Salt Lake Council
State
Slogan Nickname
AL Share the
Wonder Cotton State
AK Beyond Your Dreams,
Within Your Reach Last
Frontier
AZ The Grand Canyon State Grand Canyon
State
AR The Natural
State Natural State
CA Golden State
Find Yourself Here
CO Enter a Higher State
Centennial State
CT Constitution
State Full of Surprises
DE First State
It’s Good Being First
FL Sunshine
State Sunshine State
GA Georgia on My
Mind Peach State
HI The Islands of
Aloha Aloha State
ID Great Potatoes. Tasty Destinations.
Gem State
IL Right Here. Right Now.
Land of Lincoln
IA Life
Changing Hawkeye State
IN Restart Your
Engines Hoosier State
KS There’s No Place Like Home Sunflower
State
KY Unbridled
Spirit Bluegrass State
LA Come as you are. Leave Different Pelican
State
ME Worth a Visit, Worth a Lifetime Pine
Tree State
MD Seize the Day
Off Old Line State
MA Make It
Yours Bay State
MI Pure Michigan The
Great Lakes State
MN Explore Minnesota
North Star State
MS Feels Like Coming Home
Magnolia State
MO Show Me
State Show-Me State
MT Big Sky
Country Treasure State
NE Possibilities … Endless
Cornhusker State
NV Wide
Open Silver State
NH You’re Going to Love it Here
Granite State
NJ Come See For
Yourself Garden State
NM Land of Enchantment The Land of Enchantment
NY I Love New York
The Empire State
NC A Better Place to
Be Tar Heel State
ND Legendary
Peace Garden State
OH so Much to Discover
Buckeye State
OK Oklahoma is
OK Sooner State
OR We Love
Dreamers Beaver State
PA State of Independence
Keystone State
RI
Unwind Ocean State
SC Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places. Tar
Heel State
SD Great Faces. Great Places.
Artesian State
TN The Stage Is Set For You
Volunteer State
TX State of the
Arts Lone Star State
UT Life
Elevated Beehive State
VT Vermont naturally Green
Mountain State
VA Virginia is for Lovers The
Old Dominion
WA Say
WA! Evergreen State
WV Open for business
Mountain State
WI Stay Just a Little Bit Longer America’s
Dairyland
WY Like No Place on Earth
Equality State
Trivia from Alabama to Wyoming.
Alice, Golden
Empire Council
Alabama is the only state with all major natural resources needed to make iron
and steel. It is also the largest supplier of cast-iron and steel pipe products.
When a scale map of Alaska is superimposed on a map of the 48 lower states,
Alaska extends from coast to coast. Alaska is over twice the size of Texas.
The
original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed in Lake
Havasu City, Arizona.
You
can look for precious gems, including diamonds, amethyst, garnet, jasper, agate
and quartz at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.
The
highest and lowest points in the continental United States are within 100 miles
of one another in California. Mount Whitney measures 14,495 feet and Bad Water
in Death Valley is 282 feet below sea level.
The
13th step of the state capital building in Denver, Colorado is exactly 1 mile
high above sea level.
Connecticut is home to the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934),
helicopter (1939), color television (1948), and the first lollipop-making
machine (1908).
The
United States city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is
Clearwater, Florida.
Georgia was named for King George II of England, and is the nation’s number one
producer of peanuts, pecans and peaches.
Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee. There are only 12 letters in the
Hawaiian alphabet.
In
Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs
more than 50 pounds.
The
ice cream "sundae" was named in Evanston, Ilinois. Town fathers passed an
ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on Sunday, so ingenious
confectioners and drug store operators served ice cream Sundays, with the syrup
of your choice without the soda. Objection was made to christening a dish
after the Sabbath. So the spelling of "Sunday" was changed to sundae.
At
the St. Louis World's Fair (Missouri) in 1904, Richard Blechyden, served tea
with ice and invented iced tea. The ice cream cone was also invented at the 1904
Fair, when a vendor ran out of cups and rolled up waffles to hold ice cream.
The
light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented
by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park,
New Jersey
laboratory.
The
Genesee River, New York State, is one of the few rivers in the world that flows
south to north.
The
King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and El Paso is
closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.
Wyoming has the lowest population of all 50 United States, but was the first
state to give women the right to vote.
Was
your state left out? Want to know more trivia about a state? Go to
www.50states.com/facts/
and click on any state
Materials found in Baloo's Bugle may be used by Scouters for Scouting activities provided that Baloo's Bugle and the original contributors are cited as the source of the material. |
|
