FACTS about your Country, City or State...  

Is the place you live famous for anything? Historic icons? Inventions? Celebrities?

I'm from Ohio and here are some things I've learned about my Home State;

Famous natives and residents:
Neil Armstrong, astronaut
George Bellows, painter and lithographer
George Armstrong Custer, army officer
Doris Day, singer and actress
Hugh Downs, TV broadcaster
Thomas A. Edison, inventor
Clark Gable, actor
James A. Garfield, president
John Glenn, astronaut and senator
Ulysses S. Grant, president
Warren G. Harding, president
Rutherford Hayes, president
Benjamin Harrison, president
William Dean Howells, novelist and critic
Zane Grey, author
Robert Henri, painter
Dean Martin, singer and actor
William McKinley, president
Paul Newman, actor
Jack Nicklaus, golfer
Annie Oakley, markswoman
Judith Resnik, astronaut
Roy Rogers, actor and singer
Gloria Steinem, feminist
William H. Taft, president
Tecumseh Shawnee, Indian chief
Lowell Thomas, explorer and commentator
James Thurber, author and cartoonist
Orville Wright, inventor
Cy Young, baseball player
Ernest H. Volwiler, inventor
Steven Spielberg, director and screenwriter
Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson


Motto: With God all things are possible

State symbols:
flower~ scarlet carnation
tree~ buckeye
bird~ cardinal
insect~ ladybug
gemstone~ flint
song~ “Beautiful Ohio”
beverage~ tomato juice
fossil~ trilobite
animal~ white-tailed deer
wildflower~ large white trillium


Please share some interesting facts or exciting discoveries about the place you call home.