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Nebraska

Nebraska. By: Mikaiela & Kaylie. Nebraska’s Subtitles. State capital: Lincoln State number: 37 State color: Red State song: Beautiful Nebraska State soft drink: K ool-aid State dance: Square dance State nickname: Cornhusker state State motto: Equality before the Law

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Nebraska

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  1. Nebraska By: Mikaiela & Kaylie

  2. Nebraska’s Subtitles • State capital: Lincoln • State number: 37 • State color: Red • State song: Beautiful Nebraska • State soft drink: Kool-aid • State dance: Square dance • State nickname: Cornhusker state • State motto: Equality before the Law • State governor: David Heineman

  3. Nature Subtitles • State flower: Goldenrod • State tree: Cottonwood • State fossil: Wooly Mammoth • State rock: Praire Agate • State river: Platte river • State animal: White-tailed Deer • State bird: Western Meadowlark • State reptile: Desert tortoise • State fish: Channel catfish • State insect: Honey-bee

  4. Presentation • Did you know, that Nebraska is the happiest state in the USA ? Well, according to a national broadcast Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, the declaration stems from the way the state is weathering the economic storm in an ongoing study by Mainstreet.com called the Happiness Index.

  5. Facts • Elephant Hall, a museum in Lincoln, has the biggest collection of elephant skeletons in the world. The biggest mammoth fossils ever discovered were found in Lincoln County. • Kool-aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927 in Hastings. He changed his soft drink syrup, Fruit Smack, into a powder to make it easier to ship. • Second Wind Ranch, near Comstock, has more water-pumping windmills (about 125) gathered together than any other place on Earth. • The Niobrara is one of the top canoeing rivers in the country because it has more than 90 waterfalls. • Many ranches are giant-sized, covering more than 100,000 acres.

  6. More facts • Nebraska averages 39 tornadoes a year. Nebraska had 102 tornadoes in 1999. • Sneezing or burping are illegal during a church service in Omaha, Nebraska. A parent can be arrested if his child can not hold back a burp or sneeze. • Lincoln was once nicknamed the Church City because of the number of churches in the town. • Gerald Ford was born in Nebraska. • The nation’s first Native American woman doctor lived in Nebraska. Her name was Susanne LeFlesche Picotte. • The world’s largest hamburgers are made at Siox Sundries in Nebraska.

  7. Even more facts • The 911 system of emergency communications, now used nationwide, was developed and first used in Lincoln, Nebraska. • Cherry County in Nebraska is larger than the state of Connecticut. • Four historical trails crossed over Nebraska including Oregon, Lewis and Clark, Mormon, and Pony Express. • Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich. • Mutual of Omaha Corporate headquarters is a public building built with 7 floors underground.

  8. Pictures Western Meadowlark White-tailed Deer Desert Tortoise Channel Catfish

  9. More Pictures Mammoth Fossil Prairie Agate Honey-bee Goldenrod Cottonwood

  10. Even More Pictures Nebraska’s Flag Nebraska’s Song Lyrics

  11. Resources • www.legendsofamerica.com/ne-facts.html

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