Happy Birthday, Utah!

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

Date of Admittance: January 4, 1896

Parentage: The word "utah" is said to be based on the Ute tribe's name, which means "people of the mountains." 

Place in the Family 
Number 45
Utah was admitted six years after Wyoming (July 1890)
and 11 years before Oklahoma (Nov 1907)

Motto 

"Industry"

Because....they have almost none? 

Nick-Name 

The Bee-Hive State

Native Utahans claim to resemble the lowly bee in their commitment to hard-work and their sense of team-work. Utah considers itself a very hard-working and industrial place (hence the motto quoted above.) This isn't because there are a gazillion bee-hives in the state. 

On the License Plate 

"Life Elevated" and one of the Arches from Arches National Park 

State Flag 

A blue flag with the state symbol in the center.

I don't mind the seal so much, but I am so not a fan of 

words on flags! If you have to put your state's name on your

flag, you're doing something wrong. (And the dates are 

the arrival of the Mormons in 1847 and the date of 

statehood.)

First City You Probably Think of 

When You Think "Utah" 

Salt Lake City

Actual State Capital:Salt Lake City

State Size (Area) is 13th of 50
Population is closer to 34th of 50

(per 2000 Census figures)

Utah Sports: 
NBA (Utah Jazz)

Anybody From Utah
Ever Grow Up To Be President?
Nope!   

Good vs Evil 
Sundance Film Festival
New West Independent Films

Butch Cassidy

Old West Train Robber

Utah Celebrities

Great Salt Lake

Monument Valley

star of John Ford westerns

 

Arches National Park

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

"America's Choir" 

The Great Brain

series of books by John D. Fitzgerald

and Mercer Mayer

The Osmonds

"One Bad Apple" etc etc!

Mike Lookinland 

actor, "The Brady Bunch"

Anthony Geary

actor, "General Hospital"

Merlin Olsen

actor, "Little House On The Prairie"

  
James Woods

actor, "Ghosts of Mississippi"

Roseanne Barr

actress, comedienne 

Jared & Jerush Hess

"Napoleon Dynamite"

A Song For You.... 
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" 
performed by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

(it was either them or the Osmonds, and I 

figured most people have seen & heard 

the Osmonds already, so....!)