Independence Day
U.S. Population.: In 1776, 2.5 million. In 2007, 302 million.
Liberty, as a town name: 30 of them. Iowa has four: Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty, West Liberty.
Eagle: 32. Eagle Pass TX is the largest. There’s also an Eagle County in Colorado.
Independence: 11. The one in Missouri is the tops with 110,208.
Freedom: 5. Freedom CA takes it with 6,000 residents.
Patriot, Indiana, the only Patriot in the country, pop. 195.
How about America or its variants? You’re in luck; we have five and the largest is American Fork, Utah, with 21,372 residents.
Flags: While we import almost all of our flags from China, the flags we export go in large measure to Trinidad and Tobago.
Cookout Info: Chances are 1 in 4 that your dogs and sausages came from Iowa . . . 50-50 that your baked beans came from Michigan or North Dakota . . . also 50-50 that your potato salad and/or chips came from Idaho or Washington . . . 70 percent that your lettuce came from California . . . 2 in 3 that your tomatoes came from Florida or California. But it’s close to a sure thing that your ketchup came from California.
A colorful Independence Day event is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island (Brooklyn, NY), which supposedly started on July 4, 1916, as a way to settle a dispute among four immigrants as to who was the most patriotic.
(Info with bold print is from the Census Bureau.)
Liberty, as a town name: 30 of them. Iowa has four: Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty, West Liberty.
Eagle: 32. Eagle Pass TX is the largest. There’s also an Eagle County in Colorado.
Independence: 11. The one in Missouri is the tops with 110,208.
Freedom: 5. Freedom CA takes it with 6,000 residents.
Patriot, Indiana, the only Patriot in the country, pop. 195.
How about America or its variants? You’re in luck; we have five and the largest is American Fork, Utah, with 21,372 residents.
Flags: While we import almost all of our flags from China, the flags we export go in large measure to Trinidad and Tobago.
Cookout Info: Chances are 1 in 4 that your dogs and sausages came from Iowa . . . 50-50 that your baked beans came from Michigan or North Dakota . . . also 50-50 that your potato salad and/or chips came from Idaho or Washington . . . 70 percent that your lettuce came from California . . . 2 in 3 that your tomatoes came from Florida or California. But it’s close to a sure thing that your ketchup came from California.
A colorful Independence Day event is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island (Brooklyn, NY), which supposedly started on July 4, 1916, as a way to settle a dispute among four immigrants as to who was the most patriotic.
(Info with bold print is from the Census Bureau.)
posted by Tom Carten at 2:17 AM
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The Nathan's hot dog eating contest is so big now that it's televised on ESPN!
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