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The great seal of the state of Delaware: First adopted in 1777, with the current version being adopted in 2004. It contains the state coat of arms surrounded by the inscription "Great Seal of the State of Delaware" and the dates 1704, 1776 and 1787. 1777 [2] Motto "Liberty and Independence" Derived from the Order of Cincinnati: 1847 — Nicknames
(state flower) Cornus florida: 1941 [46] Carolina lily (state wildflower) Lilium michauxii: 2003 [47] [48] North Dakota: Wild prairie rose: Rosa blanda or arkansana: 1907 [49] Northern Mariana Islands: Flores mayo: Plumeria: 1979 [4] Ohio: Scarlet carnation (state flower) Dianthus caryophyllus: 1953 [50] Large white trillium (state wild flower ...
In 1975, the Alaska State Board on Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali, [23] and, at Governor Jay Hammond's behest, the Alaska Legislature officially requested that the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN), the federal governmental body responsible for naming geographic features in the United States, change the ...
"Delaware" is a popular song, written by Irving Gordon. [1] The song was published in 1959 and has references to 15 states of the United States . [ 2 ] The states were portrayed, in the form of puns , as: Della wear , new jersey , Calla 'phone ya , how ar' ya , Missus sip , mini-soda , Ora gone , I'll ask 'er , taxes , Wiscon sin , new brass ...
Flower: Forget-me-not: 1917 Tree: Sitka spruce: 1962 Animals. Type Symbol Year ... Alaska State Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
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It is a small (15–17 inches) Arctic grouse that lives among willows and on open tundra and muskeg. Plumage is brown in summer, changing to white in winter. The willow ptarmigan is common in much of Alaska. State fish: King salmon, adopted 1962. State flower: Wild/native forget-me-not, adopted by the Territorial Legislature in 1917. [5]