Facts about your state or where you come from

I come from the poultry capitol of the world! And that would be Gainesville, GA FTW!

 

Montana.....The Last Best Place....but...NO VACCANCY!

 

you ever seen a chicken lay an egg at another time?

 

I got hens that sometimes lay 6am and as late as 5-530pm

 

Actually 2 islands get snow, more so on the Bigisland but on Maui once in a great while on Haleakala, been there when it snowed once.

 

ahh, that's true.

 

Definitely love the different and varied climates here...that's what I love most about Hawaii

 

the Bay Area is the home of Yahoo, Google, Ebay, Facebook, Craigslist, Netflix, etc. etc.

 

hmm. maybe those are just hawaii chickens lol. all mine lay 10-11 a.m. usually. got one straggler that won't go till 4is, but never later than that.

 

Huntington beach ca... Surf city USA... Named that because there is ridable surf there most days out of the year compared to other surf spots. Note: rideable does not mean good lol. Most of the time it's mushy crap waves but there's always something fun at the pier.

 

Could be

 

Only rain forest in the continental US is where...

 

State of Washington?

 

Roll Tide

 

He was saying that schools like Alabama get their players from highschools in Georgia.

 

Alabama introduced the Mardi Gras to the western world.

Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.

The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.

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.

Montgomery is the capital and the birthplace of the Confederate States of America.

The Confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861.

Baseball player Henry Louis (Hank) Aaron was born in Mobile in 1934.

Baseball player Willie Howard Mays was born in Westfield in 1931

Huntsville is known as the rocket capital of the World.

The Birmingham Airport opened in 1931. At the time of the opening a Birmingham to Los Angeles flight took 19 hours.

Audemus jura nostra defendere is the official state motto. Translated it means "we dare defend our rights."

Harper Lee writer of To kill a Mockingbird.

And my favorite fact: home of Bobby Bowden. Attended Woodlawn HS(birmingham) and in a team football picture he is next to my grandfather.

And of course Paul "Bear" Bryant is buried here. RTR

Birmingham:
Birmingham's Barber Motorsports Park houses the largest collection of vintage motorcycles in North America

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's University Hospital is the among the world's top kidney transplant center

With more than 1,000 acres for biking and hiking, Birmingham's Ruffner Mountain is larger than New York City's Central Park

Southern Living, the nation's most successful regional magazine, is published in Birmingham.

Birmingham is home to the nation's oldest baseball park, Rickwood Field, which opened in 1910 and hosted baseball greats such as Jackie Robinson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lorenzo "Piper" Davis, Willie Mays and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.

Vonetta Flowers, the first African-American to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics (2002 - bobsledding) is a track coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Birmingham is known as the founding city for the celebration of Veterans Day and hosts the nation’s oldest and largest Veterans Day celebration.

Birmingham's role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s placed it "at the center of the most significant domestic drama of the 20th century..."

With the opening of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail throughout the state, Alabama has been called "one of America's top 10 golf destinations."


* And the first three Super Bowl MVPs played for Alabama. Bart Starr and Joe Nammath

 

Just found out today that the inventor of the pace maker lives here on the Bigisland in Kona

 

Kona FTW!

 

HAwaii is the only state that grows coffee, The first Asian American in the United States Senate was Hawaii's Hiram Fong. Descended from Chinese immigrants, Fong was elected to the Senate in 1959.

Hawaii was the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20th, 1959