Which U.S. state is known as the Land of Steady Habits?
Connecticut.
Which state is known as the Blue Hen State? Delaware.
Which state is known as the Gopher State? Minnesota.
Which state is known as the Beaver State? Oregon.
The Humber suspension bridge over the Humber River near Hull, England is the longest bridge in the world. Completed in 1981, it is 4,626 feet long. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, the world’s second-largest bridge, is 4,260 feet long. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is third, at 4,200 feet.
The Dinosaur National Monument is nearly 205,000 acres of dinosaur beds which are located in Colorado and Utah.
The abyssal zone begins at a depth of 6,600 feet and runs to 19,800 feet. It covers 83 percent of the area of oceans and seas. Water temperature in the abyssal zone is about 39 degrees Fahrenheit.
The United States has about 36,000 acres in Cuba. The United States has a naval base at Guantanamo Bay near the western end of the south coast of Cuba, 572 miles from Havana. The United States has leased the site since 1903, despite pressure from Fidel Castro’s government to leave.
Tipperary is a county in Munster Province, Ireland. It occupies a broad strip of land between the Shannon and Suir rivers. The Irish name for Tipperary is Contae Tiobraid Arann. It is a long way from most places.
The people of the country Persia in southwestern Asia always called their homeland Iran, or “Land of the Aryans.” But Westerners started calling it Persia in the sixth century B.C., taking the name from Persis, or Parsa (modern Fars), a region of southern Iran. In 1935, the country’s government officially requested that the nation be…