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OHIO

Published on May 05, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

OHIO

Capital City: Columbus
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State Bird

Cardinal
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State Flower

Scarlet Carnation
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State Tree

Buckeye Tree

Ohio's Flag

Ohio's Motto

With God, all things are possible

Ohio's animal

White Tailed Deer
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Ohio's State Seal

Ohio's insect

Ladybug

Ohio's Gemstone

flint
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Ohio's reptile

Black Racer
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Ohio's Wild Flower

White Trillium

Ohio's State Beverage

Tomato Juice
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Ohio's State Fossil

Trilobite
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Beautiful Ohio

State Song

Hang On Sloopy

Rock Song
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Cleveland boasts America's first traffic light. It began on Aug. 5, 1914.

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The first ambulance service was established in Cincinnati in 1865.

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Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team.

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Akron was the first city to use police cars.

Cincinnati had the first professional city fire department

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Akron is the rubber capital of the world.

Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Ohio is the leading producer of greenhouse and nursery plants

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton

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Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. He was from Wapakoneta

The Wright Brothers are acknowledged as inventors of the first airplane they were from Dayton

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The popular television sit-com, "The Drew Cary Show" is set in Cleveland

Seven United States presidents were born in Ohio. They are: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding.

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Some well-known personalities were born in Ohio. Among them Steven Spielberg, Paul Newman, Annie Oakley, Arsenio Hall and Clark Gable

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Ohio gave America its first hot dog in 1900. Harry M. Stevens created the popular dining dog.

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Ohio became the 17th state on March 1, 1803

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50% of the United States population lives within a 500 mile radius of Columbus

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Fostoria is the only city to be situated in three counties (Seneca, Hancock & Wood)

Ohio's state flag is a pennant design. It is the only state flag of that design in the United States.

Chillicothe was Ohio's first capital city

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Cleveland became the world's first city to be lighted electrically in 1879.

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Thomas A. Edison from Milan developed the incandescent light bulb, phonograph, and early motion picture camera

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John Lambert of Ohio City made America's first automobile in 1891

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W.F. Semple of Mount Vernon patented chewing gum in 1869.

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Jesse Owens grew up in Cleveland. He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

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Ohio has an area of 116,103 sq miles. It ranks 34th in state size

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