All these wonders by the Master’s hand；
Beautiful Nebraska land．
We are so proud of this state where we live，
There is no place that has so much to give．
Beautiful Nebraska，as you look around，
You will find a rainbow reaching to the ground；
All these wonders by the Master’s hand，
Beautiful Nebraska land．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Nebraska was once called “The Great American Desert”．
2．In 1927，Edwin E．Perkins of Hastings invented the powered soft drink Kool－Aid．
3．J．Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day in Nebraska City in 1872．
4．The state nickname used to be the “Tree Planter’s State”，but was changed in 1945to the “Cornhusker State”．
5．State insect is the honeybee．
6．State motto：Equality before the law．
7．The goldenrod was declared the state flower on April 4，1895．
8．The Naval Ammunition Depot located in Hastings was the largest U．S．ammunition（军火，弹药）plant providing 40％of WWII’s ammunition．
9．The Lied Jungle located in Omaha is the world’s largest indoor rain forest．
10．Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich．
11．Spam（canned meat）is produced in Fremont．
12．Nebraska has the U．S．’s largest aquifer（含水土层，蓄水层）（underground lake／water supply），the Ogalala aquifer．
13．Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state．
14．The Union Pacific’s Bailey Yards，in North Platte，is the largest rail classification complex in the world．
15．Nebraska is the only state in the union with a unicameral（一院的，单院的）（one house）legislature．
16．Nebraska was the first state to complete its segment of the nations mainline interstate system，a 455mile stretch of four lane highway．
17．Nebraska is both the nation’s largest producer and user of center pivot irrigation．
18．Nebraska’s Chimney rock was the most often mentioned landmark in journal entries by travelers on the Oregon Trail．
19．The 911system of emergency communications，now used nationwide，was developed and first used in Lincoln，Nebraska．
20．Nebraska has more underground water reserves than any other state in the continental U．S．
21．Marlon Brando’s mother gave Henry Fonda acting lessons at the Omaha Community Playhouse．
22．Lincoln County is the origin of the world’s largest “Wolly Mammoth”elephant fossil（化石）．
23．Weeping Water is the nations largest limestone（石灰石）deposit and producer．
24．Mutual of Omaha Corporate headquarters is a public building built with 7floors underground．
25．The Nebraska Cornhuskers have been to a record 27consecutive（连续的，联贯的）bowl games and 27consecutive winning seasons
26．The University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team has produced more Academic All－Americans than any other Division I school．
27．In Blue Hill，Nebraska，no female wearing a ’hat that would scare a timid（胆小的，羞怯的）person’can be seen eating onions in public．
28．The world’s first college course about radio personality Rush Limbaugh is taught at Bellevue University in Nebraska．
29．Origin of Nebraska’s Name：From an Oto Indian word meaning flat water
30．Nebraska’s Motto：Equality Before the Law
31．Nebraska’s State Gem is the Blue Agate
32．The largest porch（门廊，走廊）swing in the world is located in Hebron，Nebraska and it can sit 25adults．
33．The world’s largest hand－planted forest is Halsey National Forrest near Thedford，Nebraska
34．The world’s only museum dedicated to Fur Trading is located at Fort Atkinson near Blair．
35．The famous architect，Edward Durrell Stone，designed the Stuhr Museum near Grand Island，Nebraska．
36．The University of Nebraska－Lincoln weight room is the largest in the country．It covers three－fourths of an acre．
37．Chevyland USA near Elm Creek，Nebraska is the only museum dedicated to a single line of cars．
38．The largest Kolache Festival in the world is located in Prague，Nebraska．
39．Cozad，Nebraska is located on the 100th Meridian where the humid east meets the arid west．
40．In Nebraska in 1986for the first time ever two women ran against each other for governorship of a state．
41．The cost of the Nebraska Capitol building was9，800，440．07in 1932．The construction job came in under budget and the building was paid for by the time it was completed．
42．Union Pacific Railroad’s museum is headquartered（设总公司于……）in Nebraska．
43．Buffalo Bill Cody held his first rodeo in North Platte，Nebraska July 4，1882．
44．In 1950，Omaha became the home of the College World Series．
45．There are five army forts open to the public in Nebraska：Atkinson，Kearny，Hartsuff，Sidney，and Robinson．
46．Sidney，Nebraska was the starting point of the Black Hills Gold Rush．
47．Antelope and Buffalo are counties in Nebraska named after animals．
48．Dr．Harold Edgerton of Aurora，Nebraska is the inventor of the strobe light（闪光灯）．
49．Kearney，Nebraska is located exactly between Boston and San Francisco．
50．Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town in Omaha，Nebraska in 1917．
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