Colorado turns 143 years old today. That’s worth a high five – or a mile-high five! Denver (Colorado’s capital) is nicknamed “The Mile High City” because it is 1 mile above sea level. The 1-mile height is marked all around town, like with a special purple row of seats at the baseball stadium. Colorado is […]
Utah looks like Wyoming took a bite out of it, but this state doesn’t cut corners. Lots of fantastic firsts come from this state, like the TV and the Frisbee. But it’s hard for us people to compete with nature in Utah. Besides the beautiful national parks, there’s the Great Salt Lake. This enormous lake […]
It’s more than 100 years old, but New Mexico is still newer than (New) Hampshire, Jersey, and York. And the people of New Mexico have some fresh ideas, too – like the World Shovel Race Championships! That’s just what it sounds like: people sit on snow shovels and slide super fast down a mountain. Last February was […]
If you like to play hide ‘n’ seek, you already know this state’s name. That’s because we count out “One Mississippi, two Mississippi…” to give our friends enough time to hide. It’s a long name, and an even longer river. The Mississippi River makes up the squiggly western border of the state (the left side […]
Today’s state is famous for a couple of very different things. It was in North Carolina in 1903 that brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright strung together sheets, sticks and a couple of propellers, and took off up into the sky. Their funky little machine became the first airplaneto fly! Can you imagine how that must have […]
On this day in 1788, New York became the 11th state in the United States. New York is famous mostly because of New York City, which has more people than any other U.S. city. It was even the nation’s capital from 1785 to 1790. In fact, in 1789 George Washington was inaugurated president right on Wall Street. […]
It’s the only state named after a president…but George Washington was known for a cherry tree, and Washington state is all about apples. What’s that all about? The Evergreen State grows almost 3 million tons of apples every year, which is more than 10 *billion* apples. If lined up side by side, they would circle […]
…because it was doing Bedtime Math’s 50 States of Math road trip! It may have been heading back home to Delaware. Sure, this little state is the 6th densest (most crowded) state with people. But thanks to the loads of chicken farms there, Delaware has 200 times as many chickens as people. No wonder the state bird […]
Connecticut is one more state proving that great things come in small packages. While it’s the 3rd smallest state, it is home to 3.5 million people – plus all the slimy, splashing, slurping sea creatures at Mystic Aquarium! This aquarium has whales, sharks, seals, turtles and many other critters. Even better, you can also meet one of […]
Not a whole lot of people live in South Dakota, but there are 4 people there who really rock. Carved into the rocky side of Mount Rushmore are the faces of 4 great presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. And when we say giant, we mean it: it’s carved into the […]