Yucca roots were used for soap and shampoo which gave it the nickname of soaptree Yucca. Fun Fact Yucca flowers can be ground and made into candy. With its sword-shaped leaves and towering clusters of white flowers, the state flower of New Mexico is hard to miss against the open and ari...
of Watersas an alternate, more poetic appellation for the river. (Other mighty rivers, such as the Nile, had also been given this title in English literature before the Mississippi.) However, the nameMississippiactually comes from Ojibwamisi-sipi,meaning simply "big river." In 1666 French ...
Between those, flies, and gnats we have tons of insects that love to "bug" us here in New York State.Why do we have "official state insects?" It feels like there's an official everything, right? From the official bird to the official flower and everything in between. Did you know ...
Like its neighbor New Mexico, Texas’ state tree honors a producer of nuts; the tree’s (and nut’s) name comes from an Algonquian word meaning“a nut that it takes a stone to crack.”This tree has grown in Texas since prehistoric times and, today, is the key ingredient in one of ...
Crescit Eundo, meaning It grows as it goes, is found in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Book VI, Line 341. The New Mexico state motto was first used in 1882, when acting Territorial Secretary, William G. Ritch, added the Latin phraseCrescit Eundoto an early 1860's version of the ...
MR DOUGHNUT…Clockwise, top left, doughnut machine inventor Adolph Levitt (front row, dark suit) with some chums at a train station; doughnut gawkers gather before the window at Levitt’s Mayflower Doughnuts, 1933 (photo by Martin Munkácsi); ad touting one of Levitt’s machines as a form...
The ultimate embodiment of a Mississippi man's Tinder profile can be seen here in this exceptional photo. In the rain-soaked backyard outside Red's Blues Club during the Sunflower Blues and Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, a man fearlessly tends to his sizzling barbecue. Alamy Stoc...
Origin of name:From the Spanish Pascua Florida, meaning “feast of flowers” Motto:In God we trust (1868) State symbols: Flower:Orange Blossom (1909) Tree:Sabal Palm (1970) Animal:Florida Panther (1982) Bird:Mockingbird (1927) Marine Animal:Manatee (1975) ...
Origin of name:From an Ojibwe word meaning "Great River," sometimes rendered "Father of Waters Motto:"Virtute et armis" (By valor and arms) Slogan:"Feels Like Coming Home" State symbols Flower:Magnolia (1952) Tree:Southern magnolia (1938) ...
Origin of name: The state of Colorado was named after the Colorado River, which Spanish explorers named "Río Colorado" (meaning "colored river") for its reddish silt. Motto:“Nil Sine Numine” (“Nothing Without Providence”) Slogan: “Colorful Colorado” State symbols: Flower: White and ...