Happy Birthday, Washington State!

Today is the anniversary of Washington being admitted to our United States of America.

Date of Admittance:November 11, 1889

Parentage: The state of Washington is the only state that is named after an American. While I can appreciate the idea of honoring our first President, I think it is odd that  a state he had nothing to do with is named after him. The state had been part of the territory ceded to the US in 1846 by Great Britain, who borrowed it from the Native Americans and then never gave it back. 

Place in the Family 
Number 42 
Right on the heels of 
Montana (11-8-1899)
and then waaaay ahead of Idaho (July 1890)

Motto 
"By and by" 
that's pretty deep

Nick-Name

The Evergreen State
Due to its wonderful forests

On the License Plate

"The Evergreen State"
and a silhouette of Mount Ranier 

State Flag

A green banner with the portrait of George Washington
Yeah, that's it

 

First City You Probably Think of 
When You Think "Washington"

Seattle
 Actual State Capital: Olympia
 

State Size (Area) is 18th of 50

Population is closer to 15th of 50

(per 2000 Census figures)

Washington Sports:

NFL 
(Seattle Seahawks)


MLB
(Seattle Mariners)

Anybody From Washington
Ever Grow Up To Be President? 
Nope.

 

Good vs Evil 
(corporate version...
but which is which?)

Starbucks
 


Microsoft 

Musical Washingtonians:

 

 

 

Celebrities From Washington

Bing Crosby

Academy Award-winning actor & entertainer

  

Carol Channing

Broadway comedienne

Steven Hill

actor, "Mission:Impossible"

 

 

Darren McGavin

actor, "Kolchak," "A Christmas Story" 

 

Adam West

actor, "Batman," "Family Guy"

Dick Scobee

commander, Space Shuttle Challenger 

 

 

Craig T. Nelson

actor, "Coach," "Parenthood"

John Elway

QB, Denver Broncos

  

Bill Gates

"Microsoft" founder 

Ryan Stiles

comedian, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

 

Glenn Beck

commentator

 

Rainn Wilson

actor, "The Office" 

Jim Caviezel

actor, "The Passion of Christ" 

 

 

Joel McHale

actor, "Community"

Comic Professionals From Washington

Hank Ketcham

"Denise the Menace"
 

Chuck Jones
"Looney Tunes" Director
 

Gary Larson 

"The Far Side"  

 

A Song For You.... 
"Seattle"
by Bobby Sherman
written by Hugo Montenegro, Jack Keller, & Ernie Sheldon

(this was the theme song to "Here Comes The Brides"

but was never released as a single!)