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Things about your mobile phone that you never knew

2009-02-11T21:37:00.002-05:00

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO...!!!

There are a few things that can be done in
times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone
can actually be a life saver or an emergency
tool for survival. Check out the things that you
can do with it:

One: Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is
112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area
of your mobile; network and there is an
emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search
any existing network to establish the emergency
number for you, and interestingly this number
112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
Try it out.

Two: Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This
may come in handy someday. Good reason to
own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car
and the spare keys are at home, call someone at
home on their mobile phone from your cell
phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car
door and have the person at your home press the
unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone
on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves
someone from having to
drive your keys to you. Distance is no object.
You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you
can reach someone who has the other 'remote'
for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the
trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it
unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'

Three: Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To
activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will
restart with this reserve and the instrument will
show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will
get charged when you charge your mobile next
time.

Four: How to disable a STOLEN mobile
phone?
To check your mobile phone's serial number, key
in the following digits on your phone!: * # 0 6 #,
a 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This
number is unique to your handset. Write it down
and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone
get stolen, you can phone your service provider
and give them this code. They will then be able
to block your handset so even if the thief
changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally
useless.
You probably won't get your phone back, but at
least you know that whoever stole it can't
use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there
would be no point in people stealing mobile
phones.

This is the kind of information people don't
mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and
friends

List of the LARGEST Sports Contracts

2009-02-07T20:15:00.006-05:00

See this list of Largest Sports Contracts...

Rank	Player	Team	Sport	Length of contract	Contract value (USD)	Average per year (USD)
1	Alex Rodriguez	New York Yankees	Baseball	10 years (2008-2017)	$275,000,000 [1]	$27,500,000
2	Alex Rodriguez1	Texas Rangers*	Baseball	10 years (2001-2010)	$252,000,000 [2]	$25,200,000
3	Derek Jeter	New York Yankees	Baseball	10 years (2001-2010)	$189,000,000 [3]	$18,900,000
4	Mark Teixeira	New York Yankees	Baseball	8 years (2009-2016)	$180,000,000 [4]	$22,500,000
5	Michael Vick	Atlanta Falcons*	American football	10 years (2005-2014)	$167,000,000 [5]	$16,700,000
6	CC Sabathia	New York Yankees	Baseball	7 years (2009-2015)	$161,000,000 [6]	$23,000,000
7	Manny Ramírez	Boston Red Sox*	Baseball	8 years (2001-2008)	$160,000,000 [7]	$20,000,000
7	Fernando Alonso2	McLaren*	Auto racing	4 years (2007-2010)	$160,000,000 [8]	$40,000,000
9	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	Auto racing	3 years (2007-2009)	$153,000,000 [9]	$51,000,000
10	Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers	Baseball	8 years (2008-2015)	$152,300,000 [10]	$19,037,500
11	Todd Helton	Colorado Rockies	Baseball	11 years (2001-2011)	$151,500,000 [11]	$12,863,636
12	Johan Santana	New York Mets	Baseball	6 years (2008-2013)	$137,500,000 [12]	$22,916,667
13	Kobe Bryant	Los Angeles Lakers	Basketball	7 years (2004-2011)	$136,400,000 [13]	$19,485,714
14	Alfonso Soriano	Chicago Cubs	Baseball	8 years (2007-2014)	$136,000,000 [14]	$17,000,000
15	Peyton Manning	Indianapolis Colts	American football	7 years (2005-2011)	$132,500,000 [15]	$18,928,571
16	Jermaine O'Neal	Indiana Pacers*	Basketball	7 years (2003-2010)	$126,558,000 [16]	$18,079,714
17	Kevin Garnett	Minnesota Timberwolves*	Basketball	7 years (1998-2005)	$126,000,000 [17]	$18,000,000
17	Barry Zito	San Francisco Giants	Baseball	7 years (2007-2013)	$126,000,000 [18]	$18,000,000
17	Vernon Wells	Toronto Blue Jays	Baseball	7 years (2008-2014)	$126,000,000 [19]	$18,000,000
17	Rashard Lewis	Orlando Magic	Basketball	6 years (2007-2013)	$126,000,000 [20]	$21,000,000
21	Michael SchumacherR	Ferrari	Auto racing	4 years (1996-1999)	$124,000,000 [21]	$31,000,000
21	Alexander Ovechkin	Washington Capitals	Ice hockey	13 years (2008-2021)	$124,000,000 [22]	$9,538,461
23	Chris Webber	Sacramento Kings*	Basketball	7 years (2001-2007)	$122,718,750 [23]	$17,531,250
24	Tim Duncan	San Antonio Spurs	Basketball	7 years (2003-2010)	$122,007,704 [24]	$17,429,672
25	Mike Hampton	Colorado Rockies*	Baseball	8 years (2001-2008)	$121,000,000 [25]	$15,125,000
26	Shaquille O'Neal	Los Angeles Lakers*	Basketball	7 years (1996-2003)	$120,000,000 [26]	$17,142,857
26	Jason Giambi	New York Yankees*	Baseball	7 years (2002-2008)	$120,000,000 [27]	$17,142,857
28	Carson Palmer	Cincinnati Bengals	American football	9 years (2006-2014)	$119,750,000‡ [28]	$13,305,555
29	Carlos Beltrán	New York Mets	Baseball	7 years (2005-2011)	$119,000,000 [29]	$17,000,000
30	Ken Griffey, Jr.	Cincinnati Reds*	Baseball	9 years (2000-2008)	$116,500,000 [30]	$12,944,444
31	Donovan McNabb	Philadelphia Eagles	American football	12 years (2002-2013)	$115,000,000‡ [31]	$9,583,333
32	Juwan Howard	Washington Wizards*	Basketball	7 years (1996-2003)	$105,000,000 [32]	$15,000,000
32	Kevin BrownR	Los Angeles Dodgers*	Baseball	7 years (1999-2005)	$105,000,000 [33]	$15,000,000
34	Jason Kidd	New Jersey Nets*	Basketball	6 years (2003-2009)	$103,572,000 [34]	$17,262,000
35	Ben Roethlisberger	Pittsburgh Steelers	American Football	8 years (2008-2015)	$102,000,000 [35]	$12,750,000
36	Albert Pujols	St. Louis Cardinals	Baseball	7 years (2004-2010)	$100,000,000 [36]	$14,285,714
36	Carlos Lee	Houston Astros	Baseball	6 years (2007-2012)	$100,000,000 [37]	$16,666,666
36	Shaquille O'Neal	Miami Heat*	Basketball	5 years (2005-2010)	$100,000,000 [38]	$20,000,000
36	Brett Favre	Green Bay Packers*	American Football	10 years (2001-2010)	$100,000,000 [39]	$10,000,000

Courtesy: Wiki

Sachin .... 72 Records in World Cricket

2009-01-12T19:23:00.010-05:00

The most World records held by a Cricketer…. SACHIN TENDULKAR

His World Records....

Highest Run scorer in the ODI
Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
Most number of nineties in the ODI
Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
Best average for man of the matches in ODI's
First Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI
First Cricketer to pass 15000 run in the ODI
He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59..87 as on 20 March 2007)
Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87..16
Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Most number of 100's in test's 38
He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
He is thus far the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honor
In 2003, Wisden rated Tendulkar as d No. 1 and Richards at No. 2 in all time Greatest ODI player
In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli,
Tendulkar is the only player to score a century in all three of his Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy debuts
In 1992, at the age of 19, Tendulkar became the first overseas born player to represent Yorkshire
Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 runs in a calendar year in ODI's 7 times
Tendulkar has scored 1894 runs in calendar year in ODI's most by any batsman
He is the highest earning cricketer in the world
He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match.. Out of his 56 man of the match awards only 5 times India has lost.
Tendulkar most number man of match awards(10) against Australia
In August of 2003, Sachin Tendulkar was voted as the "Greatest Sportsman" of the country in the sport personalities category in the Best of India poll conducted by Zee News.
In November 2006, Time magazine named Tendulkar as one of the Asian Heroes.
In December 2006, he was named "Sports person of the Year
The current India Poised campaign run by The Times of India has nominated him as the Face of New India next to the likes of Amartya Sen and Mahatma Gandhi among others.
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket
Tendulkar was the first batsman in history to score over 75 centuries in international cricket:79 centuries
Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+ Twenty20s) , as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
Is second on the most number of runs in test cricket just after Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches
The 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record
Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid hold the world record for the highest partnership in ODI matches when they scored 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999
Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid
Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
Only player to have over 100 innings of 50+ runs (41 Centuries and 87 Fifties)(as of 18th Nov, 2007)
the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 and 15,000 run marks IN ODI.
Highest individual score among Indian batsmen (186* against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1999).
The score of 186* is listed the fifth highest score recorded in ODI matches
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
Most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
On his debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the second youngest debutant in the world
When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century
Tendulkar's record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record
Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side
Tendulkar has scored centuries against all test playing nations.[7] He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten
Tendulkar has 4 seasons in test cricket with 1000 or more runs - 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).[6] Gavaskar is the only other Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs
He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
On 3 January 2007 Sachin Tendulkar (5751) edged past Brian Lara's (5736) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home
Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings
Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches
Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), Shane Warne (145 Tests) have appeared in more games than Tendulkar
Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches(144) for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances) .
First to 25,000 international runs
Tendulkar's 25,016 runs in international cricket include 14,537 runs in ODI's, 10,469 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket

That’s not everything, here is a few more in recent time…

New Records..... ......... ..
1. Highest Run scorer in the Test Cricket
2. First Cricketer to pass 12000 run in the Test Cricket
And this Indian Cricketer is still playing …

Techniques to be tied......choose yours

2009-01-10T19:12:00.004-05:00

Ever had a problem to tie a Tie?
See this post and choose your way of doing it.

Top 10 of everything...! (part #2)

2008-11-15T12:07:00.011-05:00

Here you can find Top 10 of Everything listed on a single click. To make it easy to browse, I made it into parts and the rest of the Top 10 listed categories are following on the way.

Here is the part #2...

Hope you find it intresting !... keep reading for more Top of the Tops.
Next coming list includes, Top Vacation spots, Automobiles, Business & Consumer products etc.,

Please do not forget to leave a comment or suggestion/compliment...

Barack Obama childhood...!

2008-11-11T20:38:00.024-05:00

Interesting events and pictures of the new US President Barack Obama's life. The biggest collection ever....All of them put together !

Picture taken with his mother

Barack Obama Sr. poses with his son in the honolulu airport during Obama Sr's. only visit to see his son whilw he was growing up in Hawaii.young Barack was in the 5th grade when the photo was taken.

Barack Obama Sr.,a native of kenya,met his future wife while they were studentat the University of Hawaii. in 1963,he essentislly abandoned his family to continue his studies at harvard.
Grand parents and his mother:

THE DUNHAMS: precocious, self-assuredStanley Ann (left); her impetuous father,who named his only child after himself; her mother, Madelyn, the quiet, firm influence in the home.

At their home in jakarta,Ann Dunham poses in this undated photo with her second husband Lolo Soetoro,their daughter Maya and Barack Obama.

Mom, Sis and Barack

What are his Grand Parents?

Barack Obama with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham during a 1982 visit to New Yark,where Obama was attending Columbia.(Courtesy of theobama Family)

Barack Obama walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya, in Aug. 2006. (AP file)

Barack Obama with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, in Africa (Courtesy)

In this Obama's Family photos: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (Courtesy of the Obama Family)

Barack Obama as a toddler.
(Courtesy of Barack Obama)

Barack walks along WaikikiBeachshortl y before he and his mother moved from Hawaiito Indonesiato live with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in 1967.

Barack poses with his mother, Ann, half sister, Maya, and maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaiiin the early 1970s after the family returned from Indonesia. Neighbors remember the close relationship between youngBarack and his grandfather.

A page from Barack Obama's senior yearbook features his personalized message to family, friends and teammates. (Photo from The Oahuan yearbook / March 23, 2007)

Barack Obama hugs his younger half sister Maya at his high s chool graduation

Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half sister, teaches her Education in American Society class at the University of Hawaii.

At his high school graduation, Barack Obama gets a hug from his grandmother Madelyn as his grandfather Stanley beams. His maternal grandparents raised Obama in Hawaii while his mother was living in Indonesia.

Barack Obama shakes hands during his graduation ceremony from PunahouSchoolin 1979. While in his early teens, Obama chose to stay at the school and live with his grandparents after his mother decided to move back to Jakarta, Indonesia.

The wedding day of Barack Obama Jr. and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson...... (Courtesy of the Obama Family)

Barack and first born

THE FAMILY

Quotations

'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's no thing enlightened about shrinking so

that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others.'

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Top 10 of everything...! (part #1)

2008-11-11T20:34:00.012-05:00

Here you can find Top 10 of Everything listed on a single click. To make it easy to browse, I made it into parts and the rest of the Top 10 listed categories are following on the way.

Now you know Top 10 Countries, Oceans and Lakes... Find out more in my next coming posts like countries with most Billioniers, most airports, most cleanest countries etc.,
Happy reading...!

100 most useful keyboard shortcuts

2008-11-08T16:14:00.016-05:00

There could be many people struggling to use the computer, memorising the menu bar and the location of each particular function under its menu category. Sometimes we end up in spending a lot of time in searching for a specific function and mess up with the things in our daily life.

As the computers took over the world, these days it is really important to be faster in using the computers and its features. Using keyboard shortcuts effectively plays an important role in speeding up our computer skills.

Here is a list of the top keyboard shortcuts being used in the computer world.

The key in this picture is called a Windows key. Using a windows key also you can save a lot of time with these shortcuts.

If you know more keyboard shortcuts, please add to this post.

How much you are eating a week??

2008-11-03T20:11:00.009-05:00

How much food an average family need for a weeks time? Any Idea??

Read this...
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A simple comparison of families over world wide on their food expenses for a week to survive(?).

GERMANY:

The Melander family of Bargteheide - 2 adults , 2 teenagersFood expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

UNITED STATES:

The Revis family of North Carolina - 2 adults , 2 teenagersFood expenditure for one week: $341.98

JAPAN:

The Ukita family of Kodaira City - 2 adults , 2 teenagersFood expenditure for one week: 37 , 699 Yen or $317.25

ITALY:

The Manzo family of Sicily - 2 adults , 3 kidsFood expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11

MEXICO:

The Casales family of Cuernavaca - 2 adults , 3 kidsFood expenditure for one week: 1 , 862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09

POLAND:

The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna - 4 adults , 1 teenagerFood expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27

EGYPT:

The Ahmed family of Cairo - 7 adults , 5 kidsFood expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53

ECUADOR:

The Ayme family of Tingo - 4 adults , 5 teenagersFood expenditure for one week: $31.55

BHUTAN:

The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village - 7 adults , 6 kidsFood expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03

CHAD:

The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp - 3 adults , 3 kidsFood expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Bottom line:

Eat to live but not live to eat

Talking on mobile while driving??

2008-11-02T09:18:00.009-05:00

According to the sources, about 10 percent of the people on the road during the day are using cell phones, up from 8 percent in last year. Six percent of drivers were holding the phones to their ears, up from 5 percent last year.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which issued the report, recommends that motorists use cell phones while driving only during an emergency.

Motorists who use cellphones while driving are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves, according to a study of drivers in Perth, Australia, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The results, published in July 2005, suggest that banning hand-held phone use will not necessarily improve safety if drivers simply switch to hand-free phones. The study found that injury crash risk didn't vary with type of phone.

See this video which gives a simple example, how it is not possible to concentrate on what you are doing, if you are talking on a mobile.

So my sincere advice is not to use mobile while you are driving, working or doing any important thing, unless if it is an emergency call.

What do you think of this article? Welcome your comments and suggestions please.

What makes your state so special in the US?

2008-10-30T17:04:00.013-04:00

Here is an intresting article on what makes your state so special in the US.

WHAT MAKES YOUR STATE SO SPECIAL?

*ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1,

started in 1968.
*ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
*ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S.

that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.
* ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
* CALIFORNIA ... Its economy is so large that if it

were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
* COLORADO ... In 1976 it became the only state to turn

down the Olympics.
* CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented here at

Yale University.
* DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than

any other state.
* FLORIDA .... At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the

U.S.'s largest city.
* GEORGIA ... It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist

John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
* HAWAII ... Hawaiians live, on average, five years

longer than residents in any other state.
* IDAHO ... TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
* ILLINOIS ... The Chicago River is dyed green every

St. Patrick's Day.
* INDIANA ... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets

a half million letters to Santa every year.
* IOWA ... Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
* KANSAS ... Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the

house in The Wizard of Oz.
* KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath

Fort Knox.
* LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because

they were originally Spanish church units..
* MAINE ... It's so big, it covers as many square miles

as the other five New England states combined.
*MARYLAND .... The Oujia board was created in

Baltimore in 1892.
* MASSACHUSETTS ... The Fig Newton is named after

Newton, Massachusetts.
* MICHIGAN ... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby

food capital of the world.
* MINNESOTA ... Bloomington' s Mall of America is so big,

if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there

nearly four days.
* MISSISSIPPI ... President Teddy Roosevelt refused

to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.
* MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
* MONTANA .. A sapphire from Montana is in the

Crown Jewels of England.
* NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in

any other state.
* NEVADA .... Has more hotel rooms than any other

place in the world.
* NEW HAMPSHIRE ... Birthplace of Tupperware,

invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
* NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one

area in the world.
* NEW MEXICO ... Smokey the Bear was rescued from

a 1950 forest fire here.
* NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
* NORTH CAROLINA .. Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
* NORTH DAKOTA ... Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.
* OHIO ... The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
* OKLAHOMA ... The grounds of the state capital are

covered by operating oil wells.
* OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.
*PENNSYLVANIA ... The smiley, :) was first used in 1980

by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
* RHODE ISLAND . The nation's oldest bar, the

White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
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SOUTH CAROLINA ... Sumter County is home to the

world's largest gingko farm.
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SOUTH DAKOTA ... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
* TENNESSEE ... Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest

running live radio show in the world.
* TEXAS ... Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.
* UTAH ... The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant

opened here in 1952.
* VERMONT ... Montpelier is the only state capital without

a McDonald's.
* VIRGINIA .... Home of the world's largest office building ... The Pentagon.
* WASHINGTON .... Seattle has twice as many college

graduates as any other state.
* WASHINGTON D.C. ... Was the first planned capital

in the world.
* WEST VIRGINIA ... Had the world's first brick paved

street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
* WISCONSIN ... The ice cream sundae was invented here

in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream

from being sold on Sundays.
* WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote.

Decisions direct to destinations!

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