Today is Washington's birthday and some people think that he was an only child.

Fact is...No president of the US was an only child. George Washington had an elder half-brother, Lawrence, from whom he received much of his schooling. Lawrence also accompanied him to the West Indies, Washington's first and only excursion outside of the United States.

MR

 

did you also know they were not only required to not blow the horn but when meeting a horse from the other direction they were supposed to pull over, and stop the engine so as not to scare the horse, and in some town (and still on the books in atleast one MA town) you are required to tie up your motor car to the hitching rings provided.

 

Ok K.T. here is the Bering Land Bridge Theory in a nutshell...

During the last Ice Age a lot of the northern hemisphere was covered in ice. What basically happened was that the natives of the time who lived in what is now modern day China moved north as the glaciers melted and crossed over a spit of land connecting Russia with Alaska. As the glaciers continued to melt, they followed the animals south and settled in various parts of the U.S. becoming eventually our "Native Americans". At the same time the melting of the glaciers and the end of the Ice Age also raised the level of the ocean and the spit of land they crossed was swallowed up by what is now the Bering Sea.

a better explanation can be seen at
http://college.hmco.com/history/read...ringstrait.htm

 

More history/trivia: Thomas Jefferson popularized the wearing of corduroy pants. I learned that in my junior year of high school from my English teacher - my favorite teacher ever, and one of the best men I ever knew.

 

Ok,I can buy the bridge theory it makes sense,in fact I read somewhere that in the roarin 20`s (I think) there was a race around the world and that many car manufacturers entered the race.They raced across the U.S. and when they got to the west coast,the cars were shipped up to Alaska where they were going to continue the race west across the ice.But then they realized it was too risky and the cars weighed too much,so they had the cars shipped over.And as far as tieing the car up to the hitching post,I can buy that one too.I saw family photo albums from my ex-wife`s side of the family,there were pictures from where her mom,grandmother,and great grandmother learned to drive,and sure enough,in every pic,they were draggin a hitchin post!Which kind of explains why hitchin posts are extinct!

 

From an email sent by a fellow Jersey-ite

Facts about New Jersey:

New Jersey is a peninsula.
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
has the highest cost of living.
has the highest cost of auto insurance.<--it's unreal
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.(ditto)
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the World
New Jersey is home to the original mystery pork parts chub, Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland.
New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns, some of the nations' most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch and Cape May.
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production.
In 1642, the first brewery in America opened in Hoboken.
The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah in 1940.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports at Newark Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory.
The first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs was in NJ.
The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ.
The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ.
New Jersey is home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City.
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on their playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.
And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains.
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world.
New Jersey had the first Medical Center, in Jersey City.
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway.
NJ built the first tunnel (Holland Tunnel) under a river, the Hudson.
The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889. (Rutgers College played Princeton.)
The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone now.)
New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S " ProFootball Teams.
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.
The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas Armstrong.
All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Susan Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnely, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom Cruise, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Joe Piscopo, Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper, Admiral Wm. Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas(Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Frank Albert Sinatra, "Uncle Floyd" Vivino, and Kelly Rippa.

 

My brother used to teach physics to supposedly "gifted" high school students.
He: "Did you ever notice that when you were driving down the road on a hot day that it looked like there was water on the road, but it really wasn't there"?
They: "Yeah".
He: "Did you ever wonder why"?
They: "No".
Brady

 

"Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to <A class=contextmatch href="https://www.ford-trucks.com/cgi-bin/banner/redirect.cgi/?REGION=BBS&CAMPAIGN=&ACCOUNT=bartowford&BANNER=ba rtowford1">Florida"

Not sure what this means. The highest point in the Eastern United States is in North Carolina (Mt. Mitchell at 6,684 feet), which borders on the Atlantic Ocean.

See, I did read it all! Brady

 

"New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production"
actually this isn't true either they are third in the united states behind Mass. and Wisconson in cranberry production. for reference check this site

http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/burlington/cranberr.htm

 

alright, alright....I told you is was a cut and paste job. No idea of the age of it though.

WVBrady...maybe with exception to the Appalachians? I don't know what constitutes it as a part of the mountain range or just a nearby hill, so I don't know how they can say .....highlands EXCEPT for the Appalachians. You know what I mean?

Monsterbaby...like I said, no idea on the age of this piece, but I'm not gonna lie and say that I knew Wisc and Mass grew a lot of Cranberries. Interesting though...


The learning never stops!

 

Just a quick note here concerning the Land Bridge from Russia to alaska. The University of Okla. (and who could be more knowledgeable about native americans than them) has confirmed a genetic link between the Mongols of the Russian Steps and the supposed American Indians. So, if the Mongolians came here thousands of years ago, who did they overpower to take possesion of the America's? What is the differance between the Europeans taking this land from the Mongolians and the Mongolians takikng it from whoever had it befor them? And who will someday take it from the Europeans who now dominate American Society?

 

when the car was first invented there was a time when there was only 2 in the whole state of Illinois.. They both collided with each other in an intersection... Now that is the kind of luck I have....