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((((K)))))) I look so forward to the day we meet in person,, you are so incredible,,, cant wait.... |
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Pennsylvania ....... Yeah there isn't too much I can say about this
place. Some one get me out of this hellhole. |
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I MUST B THE ONLY 1 FROM S.C. ON HERE
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Illinois is great because it has lots of cows and roads and motels with
signs that say COLOR TV and each letter in COLOR TV is a different color. That's about it. |
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Canadian ,,eh ,,
home state is very peaceful I live in Beaughtiful British Columbia Canada ! Vancouver Island is EXTREME SCENERY !! AWESOME !! FRIGGIN PARADISE !! Ocean , Mountains , rivers , lakes , waterfalls , GIANT trees , friendly people , and really good WEED !! }}}}}}}}}}}bring a compass,even I get lost her{{{{{{{{{{ Photo is of Parksville beach , here on the island , |
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BAM PURPLECAT I NEED TO GO THERE
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Minnesota
northern MN is real beautiful. I love having over 400 lakes with in 25 miles of my house. MN is extremely low crime, & has low cost of living. I love having all four seasons & I love to go ice fishing, snow mobiling, & ice skating. Winter can be tough though with temps -40 0r -50 below zero, blizzards, and lots of snow. |
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Texas
Big beautiful skys and people with a sense of independance and strength. But I now live in Ohio...the best thing I can say is it's not Oklahoma. |
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my home state is oh and the best thing i can say about it is my family
is there I'm in SD and it has an air of desolate beauty about it the wildlife is awsome but their laws completely suck and sturgis motorcycle rally is a week from hell |
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Wisconsin...where DaVinci stood on his deck and tried to take a leak on
me! And...the bestest summers in the world! |
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Usually in the state of confusion
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Minnesota--I am the 32nd state of the United States, having joined the
Union on May 11, 1858. I am be the best place to be with some of the nices people. I have all four seasons even if Winter is the longest one. Minnesota Facts and Trivia Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast. The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet. Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach Duluth. Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country. The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul was Pig's Eye. Named for the French-Canadian whiskey trader, Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, who had led squatters to the settlement. The world's largest pelican stands at the base of the Mill Pond dam on the Pelican River, right in downtown Pelican Rapids. The 15 1/2 feet tall concrete statue was built in 1957. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country. The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse in the country. Minneapolis famed skyway system connecting 52 blocks (nearly five miles) of downtown makes it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside. Minneapolis has more golfers per capita than any other city in the country. The climate-controlled Metrodome is the only facility in the country to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and a NCAA Final Four Basketball Championship. Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. The nations first Better Business Bureau was founded in Minneapolis in 1912. The first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant in the United States were done at the University of Minnesota. Bloomington and Minneapolis are the two farthest north latitude cities to ever host a World Series game. Madison is the "Lutefisk capital of the United States". Rochester is home of the world famous Mayo Clinic. The clinic is a major teaching and working facility. It is known world wide for its doctor's expertise and the newest methods of treatments. The Bergquist cabin, built in 1870 by John Bergquist, a Swedish immigrant, is the oldest house in Moorhead still on its original site. For many years, the world's largest twine ball has sat in Darwin. It weighs 17,400 pounds, is twelve feet in diameter, and was the creation of Francis A. Johnson. The stapler was invented in Spring Valley. In 1956, Southdale, in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, was the first enclosed climate-controlled suburban Shop50states. Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson was the first enlisted man to land with the first American Expeditionary Force in Europe in WWII on January 26, 1942. The first practical water skis were invented in 1922 by Ralph W. Samuelson, who steam-bent 2 eight-foot-long pine boards into skies. He took his first ride behind a motorboat on a lake in Lake City. In Olivia a single half-husked cob towers over a roadside gazebo. It is 25 feet tall, made of fiberglass, and has been up since 1973. The first Children's department in a Library is said to be that of the Minneapolis Public Library, which separated children's books from the rest of the collection in Dec. 1889. The first Automatic Pop-up toaster was marketed in June 1926 by McGraw Electric Co. in Minneapolis under the name Toastmaster. The retail price was $13.50. On September 2, 1952, a 5 year old girl was the first patient to under go a heart operation in which the deep freezing technique was employed. Her body temperature, except for her head, was reduced to 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Dr. Floyd Lewis at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota performed the operation. The first Aerial Ferry was put into Operation on April 9, 1905, over the ship canal between Duluth to Minnesota Point. It had room enough to accommodate 6 automobiles. Round trip took 10 min. Rollerblades were the first commercially successful in-line Roller Skates. Minnesota students Scott and Brennan Olson invented them in 1980, when they were looking for a way to practice Hockey during the off-season. Their design was an ice hockey boot with 3 inline wheels instead of a blade. The first Intercollegiate Basketball game was played in Minnesota on February 9,1895. In 1919 a Minneapolis factory turned out the nations first armored cars. Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka. Hormel Company of Austin marketed the first canned ham in 1926. Hormel introduced Spam in 1937. Introduced in August 1963, The Control Data 6600, designed by Control Data Corp. of Chippewa Falls, was the first Super Computer. It was used by the military to simulate nuclear explosions and break Soviet codes. These computers also were used to model complex phenomena such as hurricanes and galaxies. Candy maker Frank C. Mars of Minnesota introduced the Milky Way candy bar in 1923. Mars marketed the Snickers bar in 1930 and introduced the 5 cent Three Musketeers bar in 1937. The original 3 Musketeers bar contained 3 bars in one wrapper. Each with different flavor nougat. A Jehovah's Witness was the first patient to receive a transfusion of artificial blood in 1979 at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He had refused a transfusion of real blood because of his religious beliefs. Minnesota has one recreational boat per every six people, more than any other state. There are 201 Mud Lakes, 154 Long Lakes, and 123 Rice Lakes commonly named in Minnesota. The Hull-Rust mine in Hibbing became the largest open-pit mine in the world. Minnesota's waters flow outward in three directions: north to Hudson Bay in Canada, east to the Atlantic Ocean, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. At the confluence of the Big Fork and Rainy Rivers on the Canadian border near International Falls stands the largest Indian burial mound in the upper midwest. It is known as the Grand Mound historic site. Author Laura Ingalls Wilder lived on Plum Creek near Walnut Grove. Akeley is birthplace and home of world's largest Paul Bunyan Statue. The kneeling Paul Bunyan is 20 feet tall. He might be the claimed 33 feet tall, if he were standing. Hibbing is the birthplace of the American bus industry. It sprang from the business acumen of Carl Wickman and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson - who opened the first bus line (with one bus) between the towns of Hibbing and Alice in 1914. The bus line grew to become Greyhound Lines, Inc. The first official hit in the Metrodome in Minneapolis was made by Pete Rose playing for the Cincinnati Reds in a preseason game. Polaris Industries of Roseau invented the snowmobile. Twin Cities-based Northwest Airlines was the first major airline to ban smoking on international flights. Alexander Anderson of Red Wing discovered the processes to puff wheat and rice giving us the indispensable rice cakes. In 1898, the Kensington Rune stone was found on the farm of Olaf Ohman, near Alexandria. The Kensington Rune stone carvings allegedly tell of a journey of a band of Vikings in 1362. |
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California is horrible.
But Sandy Eggo is awesome. In fact, everything south of Huntington Beach is pretty sweet. I sorta wish Mexico would annex us. |
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Me too purple...BUT I didn't want to break it to keg-bar that we don't
have states!!!!!! |
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Missouri here and its the show me state. Need I say more. lol
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twilites twin...your area of Minnesota is gorgeous...
been there many times |
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SC - Edisto and Hootie and the Blowfish
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PA the state of taxes, and only two seasons--construction, and
winter....Has beautiful mountains........I must say I am looking forward to moving to Florida, the Daytona area next summer. |
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Massachusetts
Lots of ocean and scenery around, down the street from the Plymouth Rock so lots of history here, 5o miles from Boston or Providence, Rhode Island, just off of Cape Cod. cons-people are rude, expensive to live here, traffic and just getting busier everyday. |
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Kentucky rocks cause of the surrounding nature. Its by the highways,
around every corner, and ya don't have to go far to find llama farms, or cows or even horses. But all that is being destroyed for land development |
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