Mississippi facts

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Spelling out Mississippi used to be a jump rope game on the school playground.








The Mississippi State Flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. The committee recommended for the flag "one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.


Mississippi Facts and Trivia

• In 1963 the University of Mississippi Medical Center accomplished the world's first human lung transplant and, on January 23, 1964, Dr. James D. Hardy performed the world's first heart transplant surgery.
• Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty.
• In 1902 while on a hunting expedition in Sharkey County, President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear. This act resulted in the creation of the world-famous teddy bear.
• The world's largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula.
• The first bottle of Dr. Tichener's Antiseptic was produced in Liberty.
• The world's largest cactus plantation is in Edwards.
• Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935.
• H.T. Merrill from Luka performed the world's first round trip trans-oceanic flight in 1928.
• In 1884 the concept of selling shoes in boxes in pairs (right foot and left foot) occurred in Vicksburg at Phil Gilbert's Shoe Parlor on Washington Street.
• The first female rural mail carrier in the United States was Mrs. Mamie Thomas. She delivered mail by buggy to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914.
• Historic Jefferson College, circa 1802, was the first preparatory school established in the Mississippi Territory. Located in Washington the educational institution is also the site where tradition holds Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason in 1807, beneath what became known as Burr Oaks.
• William Grant Still of Woodville composed the Afro-American Symphony.
• Burnita Shelton Mathews of Hazelhurst was the first woman federal judge in the United States and served in Washington, the District of Columbia.
• Dr. Emmette F. Izard of Hazelhurst developed the first fibers of rayon. They became known as the first real synthetics.
• The first nuclear submarine built in the south was produced in Mississippi.
• In 1871 Liberty became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument.
• Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
• Leontyne Price of Laurel performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
• Mississippi is the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star.
• The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan.
• Guy Bush of Tupelo was one of the most valuable players with the Chicago Cubs. He was on the 1929 World Series team and Babe Ruth hit his last home run off a ball pitched by Bush.
• S.B. Sam Vick of Oakland played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. He was the only man ever to pinch hit for the baseball great Babe Ruth.
• Blazon-Flexible Flyer, Inc. in West Point is proclaimed to make the very best snow sled in the United States, which became an American tradition. It is called The Flexible Flyer.
• Friendship Cemetery in Columbus has been called Where Flowers Healed a Nation. It was April 25, 1866, and the Civil War had been over for a year when the ladies of Columbus decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with beautiful bouquets and garlands of flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called Memorial Day each year, an annual observance of recognition of war dead.
• The largest Bible-binding plant in the nation is Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood.
• After the Civil War, famed hat maker John B. Stetson learned and practiced his trade at Dunn's Falls near Meridian.
• In 1834 Captain Isaac Ross, whose plantation was in Lorman, freed his slaves and arranged for them to be sent to Africa, where they founded the country of Liberia. Recently, representatives of Liberia visited Lorman and placed a stone at the Captain's gravesite in honor of his kindness.
• The world's largest cottonwood tree plantation is in Issaquena County.
• David Harrison of Columbus owns the patent on the Soft Toilet Seat. Over 1,000,000 are sold every year.
• The first football player on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton of Columbia.
• Greenwood is the home of Cotton Row, which is the second largest cotton exchange in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
• The oldest game in America is stickball. The Choctaw Indians of Mississippi played the game. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia.
• The International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal.
• Natchez was settled by the French in 1716 and is the oldest permanent settlement on the Mississippi River. Natchez once had 500 millionaires, more than any other city except New York City.
• Natchez now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
• The Natchez Trace Parkway, named an All American Road by the federal government, extends from Natchez to just south of Nashville, Tennessee. The Trace began as an Indian trail more than 8,000 years ago.
• The Vicksburg National Cemetery is the second largest national cemetery in the country. Arlington National Cemetery is the largest.
• D'Lo was featured in "Life Magazine" for sending proportionally more men to serve in World War II than any other town of its size. 38 percent of the men who lived in D'Lo served.
• Mississippi suffered the largest percentage of people who died in the Civil War of any Confederate State. 78,000 Mississippians entered the Confederate military. By the end of the war 59,000 were either dead or wounded.
• Pine Sol was invented in 1929 by Jackson native Harry A. Cole, Sr.
• The world's largest pecan nursery is in Lumberton.
• Greenwood is called the Cotton Capital of the World.
• Belzoni is called the Catfish Capital of the World.
• Vardaman is called the Sweet Potato Capital of the World.
• Greenville is called the Towboat Capital of the World.
• Root beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr.
• Of Mississippi's 82 counties, Yazoo County is the largest and Alcorn County is the smallest.
• The Mississippi River is the largest in the United States and is the nation's chief waterway. Its nickname is Old Man River.
• At Vicksburg, the United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station is the world's largest hydraulic research laboratory.
• At Pascagoula the Ingalls Division of Litton Industries uses leading-edge construction techniques to build the United State Navy's most sophisticated ships. At the state's eight research centers programs are under way in acoustics, polymer science, electricity, microelectronics, hydrodynamics, and oceanography.

Thanks to: Ron Collins, Greg Maxedon, Source: 'Mississippi', published by the office of the Secretary of State





              



Capital: Jackson

State abbreviation/Postal code: Miss./MS

U.S. Representatives: 4

Organized as territory: April 7, 1798

Entered Union (rank): Dec. 10, 1817 (20)

Present constitution adopted: 1890

Motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)

State symbols:

flower flower or bloom of the magnolia or evergreen magnolia (1952)
wildflower coreopsis (1991)
tree magnolia (1938)
bird mockingbird (1944)
song Go, Mississippi (1962)
stone petrified wood (1976)
fish largemouth or black bass (1974)
insect honeybee (1980)
shell oyster shell (1974)
water mammal bottlenosed dolphin or porpoise (1974)
fossil prehistoric whale (1981)
land mammal white-tailed deer (1974), red fox (1997)
waterfowl wood duck (1974)
beverage milk (1984)
butterfly spicebush swallowtail (1991)
dance square dance (1995)
Nickname: Magnolia State

Origin of name: From an Indian word meaning Father of Waters

10 largest cities (2012): Jackson, 175,437; Gulfport , 70,113; Southhaven, 50,374 Hattiesburg , 47,169; ; Biloxi, 44,578; Meridian, 40,832; Tupelo, 35,490; Greenville, 33,418; Olive Branch, 34,485124; Horn Lake 26,529

Land area: 46,907 sq mi. (121,489 sq km)

Geographic center: In Leake Co., 9 mi. WNW of Carthage

Number of counties: 82

Largest county by population and area: Hinds, 245,285 (2010); Yazoo, 920 sq mi.

State parks: 24

Residents: Mississippian

2015 resident population: 2,992,333

Indiana Facts

                 


First explored for France by Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, in 1679-1680, the region figured importantly in the Franco-British struggle for North America that culminated with British victory in 1763. George Rogers Clark led American forces against the British in the area during the Revolutionary War and, prior to becoming a state, Indiana was the scene of frequent Native American uprisings until the victories of Gen. Anthony Wayne at Fallen Timbers in 1794 and Gen. William Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe in 1811.

During the 19th century, Indiana was the site of several experimental communities, including those established by George Rapp and Robert Owen at New Harmony.

Indiana's 41-mile Lake Michigan waterfront -one of the world's great industrial centers- turns out iron, steel, and oil products. Products include automobile parts and accessories, mobile homes and recreational vehicles, truck and bus bodies, aircraft engines, farm machinery, and fabricated structural steel. Wood office furniture and pharmaceuticals are also manufactured.

The state is a leader in agriculture with corn the principal crop. Hogs, soybeans, wheat, oats, rye, tomatoes, onions, and poultry also contribute heavily to Indiana's agricultural output.

Much of the building limestone used in the U.S. is quarried in Indiana, which is also a large producer of coal. Other mineral commodities include crushed stone, cement, and sand and gravel.

Wyandotte Cave, one of the largest in the U.S., is located in Crawford County in southern Indiana, and West Baden and French Lick are well known for their mineral springs. Other attractions include Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, and the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park.

In 2005, a tornado hit Evansville, killing 22 and injuring 200. Storms and tornadoes again were the cause of loss of life in 2012, when Marysville was destroyed and 13 were killed.

Five people were killed and more than 40 were injured when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in 2011.

Vice President Mike Pence - who grew up in Indiana - served as Governor of Indiana for four years.






Capital: Indianapolis

State abbreviation/Postal code: Ind./IN

U.S. Representatives: 9

Organized as territory: May 7, 1800

Entered Union (rank): Dec. 11, 1816 (19)

Present constitution adopted: 1851

Motto: The Crossroads of America

State symbols:

flower peony (1957)
tree tulip tree (1931)
bird cardinal (1933)
song On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away (1913)
river Wabash
stone limestone
Nickname: Hoosier State

Origin of name: Meaning "land of Indian"

Official language: English

10 largest cities (2014): Indianapolis, 834,852; Fort Wayne, 254,555; Evansville, 120,235; South Bend, 100,800; Carmel, 83,565; Bloomington, 81,963; Fishers, 81,833; Hammond, 79,686; Gary, 79,170; Muncie, 70,087

Land area: 35,867 sq mi. (92,896 sq km)

Geographic center: In Boone Co., 14 mi. NNW of Indianapolis

Number of counties: 92

Largest county by population and area: Marion, 918,887 (2014); Allen, 657 sq mi.

State parks: 23 (56,409 ac.)

State historic sites: 17 (2,007 ac.)

Residents: Indianan, Indianian, Hoosier

2015 resident population: 6,619,680




Indiana Facts and Trivia

• The first long-distance auto race in the U. S. was held May 30, 1911, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The winner averaged 75 miles an hour and won a 1st place prize of $14,000. Today the average speed is over 167 miles an hour and the prize is more than $1.2 million. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the site of the greatest spectacle in sports, the Indianapolis 500. The Indianapolis 500 is held every Memorial Day weekend in the Hoosier capital city. The race is 200 laps or 500 miles long.
• Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana when he was 7 years old. He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy.
• Explorers Lewis and Clark set out from Fort Vincennes on their exploration of the Northwest Territory.
• The movie "Hard Rain" was filmed in Huntingburg.
• During WWII the P-47 fighter-plane was manufactured in Evansville at Republic Aviation.
• Marcella Gruelle of Indianapolis created the Raggedy Ann doll in 1914.
• The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne on May 4, 1871.
• James Dean, a popular movie star of the 1950s in such movies as "East of Eden" and "Rebel without a Cause", was born February 8, 1941, in Marion. He died in an auto crash at age 24.
• David Letterman, host of television's "Late Show with David Letterman," was born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis.
• Santa Claus, Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time.
• Crawfordsville is the home of the only known working rotary jail in the United States. The jail with its rotating cellblock was built in 1882 and served as the Montgomery County jail until 1972. It is now a museum.
• Historic Parke County has 32 covered bridges and is the Covered Bridge Capital of the world.
• True to its motto, "Cross Roads of America" Indiana has more miles of Interstate Highway per square mile than any other state. The Indiana state Motto, can be traced back to the early 1800s. In the early years river traffic, especially along the Ohio, was a major means of transportation. The National Road, a major westward route, and the north-south Michigan Road crossed in Indianapolis. Today more major highways intersect in Indiana than in any other state.
• Most of the state's rivers flow south and west, eventually emptying into the Mississippi. However, the Maumee flows north and east into Lake Erie. Lake Wawasee is the states largest natural lake.
• Indiana's shoreline with Lake Michigan is only 40 miles long, but Indiana is still considered a Great Lakes State.
• More than 100 species of trees are native to Indiana. Before the pioneer's arrive more than 80% of Indiana was covered with forest. Now only 17% of the state is considered forested.
• Deep below the earth in Southern Indiana is a sea of limestone that is one of the richest deposits of top-quality limestone found anywhere on earth. New York City's Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center as well as the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, a dozen other government buildings in Washington D.C. as well as 14 state capitols around the nation are built from this sturdy, beautiful Indiana limestone.
• Although Indiana means, "Land of the Indians" there are fewer than 8,000 Native Americans living in the state today.
• The first European known to have visited Indiana was French Explorer Rene'-Robert Cavalier sierur de La Salle, in 1679. After LaSalle and others explored the Great Lakes region, the land was claimed for New France, a nation based in Canada.
• In the 1700s the first 3 Non-native American settlements in Indiana were the 3 French forts of Ouiatenon, Ft. Miami, and Ft. Vincennes. Although they had few settlers in the region, French presence in Indiana lasted almost 100 years. After the British won the French and Indian War, and upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French surrendered their claims to the lower Great Lakes region.
• Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war.
• Ft. Wayne, Indiana's 2nd Largest city, had its beginnings in 1794, after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, when General "Mad Anthony" Wayne built Ft. Wayne on the site of a Miami Indian village.
• Many Mennonite and Amish live on the farmland of Northeastern Indiana. One of the United States largest Mennonite congregations is in Bern. According to Amish ordnung (rules) they are forbidden to drive cars, use electricity, or go to public places of entertainment.
• At one time Studebaker Company of South Bend was the nation's largest producer of horse-drawn wagons. It later developed into a multimillion-dollar automobilemanufacturer.
• In Fort Wayne, Syvanus F. Bower designed the world's first practical gasoline pump.
• Indianapolis grocer Gilbert Van Camp discovered his customers enjoyed an old family recipe for pork and beans in tomato sauce. He opened up a canning company and Van Camp's Pork and Beans became an American staple.
• Muncie's Ball State University was built mostly from funds contributed by the founders of the Ball Corporation, a company than made glass canning jars.
• Thomas Hendricks, a Democrat from Shelbyville, served Indiana as a United States Senator, a United States representative, governor, and as Vice President under Grover Cleveland. Indiana has been the home of 5 vice presidents and one president.
• Peru Indiana was once known as the "Circus Capital of America".
• Indiana University's greatest swimmer was Mark Spitz, who won 7 gold medals in the 1972 Olympic games. No other athlete has won so many gold medals in a single year.
• In 1934 Chicago Gangster John Dillinger escaped the Lake Country Jail in Crown Point by using a "pistol" he had carved from a wooden block.
• Before Indianapolis, Corydon served as the state's capitol from 1816-1825. Vincennes was the capital when Indiana was a territory.
• East Race Waterway, in south Bend, is the only man-made white-water raceway in North America.
• In 1862, Richard Gatling, of Indianapolis, invented the rapid-fire machine gun.
• The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was organized in Terre Haute in 1881.
• Sarah Walker, who called herself Madame J.C. Walker, became one of the nation's first woman millionaires. In 1905 Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker developed a conditioning treatment for straightening hair. Starting with door-to-door sales of her cosmetics, Madame C.J. Walker amassed a fortune.
• From 1900 to 1920 more than 200 different makes of cars were produced in the Hoosier State. Duesenbergs, Auburns, Stutzes, and Maxwells - are prize antiques today.
• The Indiana Gazette Indiana's first newspaper was published in Vincennes in 1804.
• The state constitution of 1816 directed the legislature to establish public schools, but it was not until the 1850s that state government was able to establish a public school system.
• Before public schools families pitched in to build log schoolhouse and each student's family paid a few dollars toward the teachers salaries.
• At one time 12 different stagecoach lines ran through Indiana on the National Road. (Now U.S. Interstate 40)
• In the 1830s canals were dug linking the Great Lakes to Indiana's river systems. The canals proved to be a financial disaster. Railroads made the canal system obsolete even before its completions.
• Indiana's first major railroad line linked Madison and Indianapolis and was completed in 1847.
• The farming community of Fountain City in Wayne County was known as the "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad." In the years before the civil war, Levi and Katie Coffin were famous agents on the Underground Railroad. They estimated that they provided overnight lodging for more than 2,000 runaway slaves who were making their way north to Canada and freedom.
• During the great Depression of the 1930's 1 in every 4 Hoosier factory hands was out of work, farmers sank deeper in debt, and in southern Indiana unemployment was as high as 50%.
• In the summer of 1987 4,453 athletes from 38 nations gathered in Indianapolis for the Pan American Games.
• The Saturday Evening Post is published in Indianapolis.
• Comedian Red Skelton, who created such characters as Clem Kadiddlehopper, and Freddie the Freeloader, was born in Vincennes.
• The Poet Laureate of Indiana, James Whitcomb Riley was born in a two-room log cabin in Greenfield. He glorified his rural Indiana childhood in such poems as "The Old Swimmin' Hole" "Little Orphant Annie", and " When the frost is on the Pumpkin".
• Albert Beveridge won the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1920, for The Life of John Marshall. In 1934 Harold Urey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of deuterium. Ernie Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in foreign Correspondencein 1944. Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in economics, 1970.

The flags dimensions shall be three feet fly by two feet hoist; or five feet fly by three feet hoist; or any size proportionate to either of those dimensions. The field of the flag shall be blue with nineteen stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff. Thirteen stars shall be arranged in an outer circle, representing the original thirteen states; five stars shall be arranged in a half circle below the torch and inside the outer circle of stars, representing the states admitted prior to Indiana; and the nineteenth star, appreciably larger than the others and representing Indiana shall be placed above the flame of the torch. The outer circle of stars shall be so arranged that one star shall appear directly in the middle at the top of the circle, and the word "Indiana" shall be placed in a half circle over and above the star representing Indiana and midway between it and the star in the center above it. Rays shall be shown radiating from the torch to the three stars on each side of the star in the upper center of the circle. Flag adopted 1917.

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Pizza Party Friday sounds like something we'll start this coming school year. We rush from here to there 2 days a week and we can fall off track pretty quickly early into the school year.

I'm thinking if we designate every Friday night to pizza .. in one form or another -meal planning will be easier and the kids will know what to expect.

As a home school parent you can send away for the Pizza Hut Book it! There's a coupon per child you enroll for every month of the school year. You can eat in (we usually go in for our Christmas party treat) or pick up the pizza. We pick up as we're headed home the library or headed to an activity.

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You can make pizza so many ways; with so many toppings. My suggestions is experiment with homemade pizza dough and sauce recipes. It adds a respect to the cooking process and the kids are using their brains and not glued to electronics.
I have four children so each one will be assigned a Friday. We can discuss the Friday pizza dinner menu as I write out my grocery list and meal plan for the week. My duty as a mom is to make sure my kids are self sufficient and independent. Letting them help in the up keep and cooking going on in the house helps me get them closer to being self sufficient  and independent.
I like to say things like "quick and easy" because if you let them know, hey, its quick and easy to make oatmeal... they wont grunt in the kitchen that they're starving when they see a packet of oatmeal they'll know, hey! This is quick and easy" and they can make it themselves.


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Pizza Beach Blanket






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Portable Pizza Pouch





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Pizza Chef Apron




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