DID YOU KNOW

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:50 pm

Indiana

In 1898,Clinton Beckett introduced football to Pine Village (pop.255) High School and kicked off the town's strong football tradition. The town team,the Villagers,turned pro in 1915 and included legendary Olympic champion Jim Thorpe.

YOU'RE TIGER BAIT · Post by **YOU'RE TIGER BAIT** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:57 pm

i know there should be a minumum of topics you can start as one person, you have so many, people don't get to discuss things, before they cycle off here, from all the new threads by the same person, just my thinking.

X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X · Post by **X8XOHIOLEGENDX7X** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:59 am

Super Mario · Post by **Super Mario** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:30 am

where does noreply get all this info?

RamRodBulldogs44 · Post by **RamRodBulldogs44** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:20 am

It's sad what happened to Jim Thorpe, later in life.

RH@OU · Post by **RH@OU** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:26 pm

You're Tiger Bait wrote:i know there should be a minumum of topics you can start as one person, you have so many, people don't get to discuss things, before they cycle off here, from all the new threads by the same person, just my thinking.

Incognito · Post by **Incognito** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:15 pm

i believe jim thorpe being stripped of his medals turned into an alcoholic and died on a reservation not for sure tho..

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:09 pm

Illinois

Beer Nuts,those sweet and salty glazed peanuts,have been prepared in Bloomington by the Russell Shirk family since 1937.The nuts originally were called Redskins because they are red.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:08 pm

Iowa--The keokuk(pop. 11,427) Firefighter Memorial,completed last November,honors firefighters David McNally,Nate Tuck and Jason Bitting,who died in a 1999 duplex fire while trying to rescue three children,who also perished.

cant stop this · Post by **cant stop this** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:22 pm

how do you find all this worthless info.

cows and chickuns · Post by **cows and chickuns** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:41 pm

Where do you get this?

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:45 pm

Out of a book called Worthless Information

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:47 pm

They gave Jim his medals back but I don't know if he had already died or not.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:52 pm

Kansas

The Butterfield Trail Museum in Russell Springs (pop. 32) tells the story of the Butterfield Overland Dispatch stagecoach line,which operated in the mid-1800s before being replaced by the railroad.The museum occupies the former Logan County courthouse.

tigersfan88 · Post by **tigersfan88** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:43 am

where did u get that book :lol:

U r probaly in it

Just playin with u

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:03 pm

MICHIGAN

Since the early 1900s,Stormy Kromer caps,made in Ironwood (pop. 6,293), have kept ears and noggins toasty.Ida Kromer created the wool cap with tie-down earflaps for her husband,"Stormy," who worked on the railroad.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:19 am

MINNESOTA

Built with native limestone in 1857,Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Minneapolis is the city's oldest church in continuous use.The Catholic church was scheduled to be closed in 1968,but,at the city council's urging,was instead restored.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:48 pm

MISSOURI

Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry,Sara Teasdale was born in St.Louis in 1884.She won the 1918 Columbia University Poetry Society Prize,forerunner to the Pulitzer Prize ,for Love Songs.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:33 pm

NEBRASKA

More than 60 restored military vehickles,including jeeps,ambulnces,armored tanks heliocpters and a 1942 twin-engine Beechcraft c-45,are among the collection of exhibits at the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles in Lexington(pop.-10,011.)

westbrook18 · Post by **westbrook18** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:35 pm

Can't wait for Ohio.....