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- ...that Wheeling Creek (pictured) in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?
- ...that the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal, which operated only eight unprofitable years?
- ...that Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
- ...that the first railroad steam locomotive built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was also the first locomotive to operate in the U.S. state of Ohio?
- ...that John Baldwin (pictured) named the city of Berea, Ohioafter a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
- ...that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
- ...that although rushingchampionship?
- ...that Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879?
- ...that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge (pictured) in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
- ...that the ?
- ...that Gordon K. Bush Airport was built to serve Ohio University and serves as the base for its department of aviation?
- ...that the Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
- ...that it took an act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1894 to settle a property dispute regarding the Pennsylvania Company's use of the state-owned Walhonding Canal (pictured) lands for one of its railroads?
- ...that a Knox County, Ohio, tradition credits members of the Snowden Family Band with writing the song "Dixie"?
- ...that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
- ...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
- ...that the Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio?
- ...that Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio?
- ...that Mount Rumpke is a landfill, that at 1,045 feet above sea level, it is the second highest point in Ohio?
- ...that the John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?
- ...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
- ...that during the vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio, for a day?
- ...that the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guardthat left two dead and more than 200 injured?
- ...that the frozen pizza?
- ...that there has been a long history of inaugural addressof its first president?
- ...that Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio?
- ...that the Cleveland, Ohio, is the second largest theatercomplex in the United States?
- ...that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
- ... that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines?
- ... that Court Avenue, Ohio,(pictured) was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete?
- ... that musician Cleveland, Ohio?
- ... that the National Cartoon Museum wandered between four homes before its acquisition by Ohio State University?
- ... that there are more than 1,200 historical markers(pictured) in Ohio?
- ... that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?
- ... that while in service as a troop transport after World War I, SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre, one of which was a homing pigeon?
- ... that during the Cleveland, Ohio were actually filmed in Battery Park City in Manhattan?
- ... that a picture of the city's history?
- ... that petitions called for the firing of Ohio State athletic director Dick Larkins when he hired little-known football coach Woody Hayes in 1951 instead of Paul Brown?
- ... that the Bob Allen to the Pittsburgh Piratesin December 1963, only to take him back four months later?
- ... that Santo Alcala’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Redsbaseball team?
- ... that Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
- ... that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
- ... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
- ... that Cincinnati, Ohio?
- ... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
- ...that Dory Dean of the 1876 Cincinnati Reds was the first pitcher to include turning his back to the hitter in his delivery before pitching the ball?
- ... that Olympic Torchin 1996?
- ... that the U.S. Court of Appealsappellate work?
- ... that no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Daytie game since 1965?
- ... that former exchange program with the "new" South Africa?
- ... that Abram S. Piatt was an American Zouave colonel and Civil War general who later built a castle in Logan County, Ohio?
- ...that B-26 bomberover France?
- ... that until his death in 1927, James C. Donnell was the last man to call John D. Rockefeller simply "John"?
- ... that in 2007 the Kenyon Athletic Center was surrounded by Knox County residents to "form a shield of protection" in preparation for a Billy Graham Evangelistic Associationevent?
- ... that U.S. President founding of Ohio State Universityone of his two greatest achievements?
- ... that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United Statesin 1904 and 1908?
- ... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
- ...that the first act of desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta?
- ... that although Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliershe had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
- ... that Worthy Streator never set foot in the city of Streator, Illinois, the town named for him, even though it was founded 36 years before his death?
- ... that Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
- ... that the first head coach of Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown (pictured), coached the team for 17 complete seasons?
- ... that American general National Guard general to have commanded his divisionfor the length of the war?
- ... that after Frederick Gottwald lost his position as director of the Cleveland Institute of Art, he got into a fistfight with his successor?
- ... that former exchange program with the "new" South Africa?
- ... that John Fuller, who led a Union Army division at the Battle of Atlanta and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea, was one of the few foreign-born generals in the American Civil War?
- ... that Van Buren State Park in Ohio has family, large group, and equestrian camping areas, the latter with manure bins and picket lines?
- ... that 1949 Michigan football MVP Dick Kempthorn later flew more than 100 missions as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War and received the Distinguished Flying Cross?
- ... that Francis A. Chenoweth served as speaker of both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Washington House of Representatives?
- ... that subsidiaries of the Buckeye Manufacturing Company?
- ... that U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes considered the founding of Ohio State University one of his two greatest achievements?
- ... that the land that became Quail Hollow State Park was owned by only two families between 1820 and its sale to Ohio as a park in 1975?
- ... that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio?
- ... that the Dayton Ballet is the second oldest ballet company in the United States?
- ... that the National Museum of the United States Air Force (pictured) is the largest and oldest military aviation museum in the United States?
- ... that the Wright Brothers from Dayton, Ohio?
- ... that Key Tower in Cleveland is the tallest building in Ohio?
- ... that Sinclair Community College is the largest single campus community college in Ohio?
- ... that on November 29, 1964, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech to more than 6,200 people at the University of Dayton campus?
- ... that the 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in the history of West Virginia?
- ... that Cleveland Indians baseball manager Lou Boudreau hit two home runs in the 1948 American League tie-breaker game to bring the Indians to the 1948 World Series?
- ... that even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
- ... that Most Valuable Player of the 1958 Rose Bowleven though his team lost the game?
- ... that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime?
- ... that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union, Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?
- ... that $150,000?
- ... that Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear?
- ... that Alene B. Duerk, head of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral?
- ... that Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park (pictured) in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
- ... that ?
- ... that Antwone Fisher was born in a woman's prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
- ... that illustrator Blair Lent and author Arlene Mosel collaborated on Tikki Tikki Tembo, called one of the 50 best children's books of the preceding 50 years by The New York Times in 1997?
- ... that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?
- ... that the Ashtabula Harbor Light in Lake Erie was encased in ice by a storm in 1928, trapping its keepers inside for two days?
- ... that Denver and New York City?
- ... that mountaineer Barry Bishop, a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest, lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent?
- ... that National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
- ... that Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
- ... that General Benjamin Tupper's horse was killed under him at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War?
- ... that NCAA championships in the uneven bars and was a first-team All-American in the all-around and balance beam?
- ... that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Big Joe Duskin, had not touched a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil's music?
- ... that American choreographer Bill Cratty quit his tap dancelessons as a child because his two brothers teased him, and he didn't dance again until high school?
- ... that Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo?
- ... that comedian Bill Saluga is the man behind the character Ray Jay Johnson, who is known for the catchphrase "You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay"?
- ... that, after eluding capture for three months when his Rose Bowl60 years ago?
- ... that University of Michigan track team captain Bob Osgood set a world record in the 120-yard (110 m) high hurdles in a "driving rain" that turned the track at Ferry Field into "a miniature lake"?
- ... that, in his first season as a baseball player, Brian Barber's age of 22 was the youngest on an aging St. Louis Cardinals team?
- ... that Ohio teenager Vicki Lynne Cole held up a sign which she hadn't read saying "Bring Us Together Again" at a 1968 Nixonrally, and the candidate later mentioned it in his victory speech?
- ... that ?
- ... that the Buckeye (pictured) is the only U.S. breed of chickenknown to have been created by a woman?
- ... that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
- ... that rival stock car racingseries?
- ... that pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collectioncurrently valued at almost $8,000,000?
- ... that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
- ... that Cas Myslinski worked in a foundry before attending high school, and turned down a scholarship offer from Columbia University in order to attend West Point?
- ... that the walls of the Catholic church in Cassella, Ohio, which burned in an 1888 fire, remained unrepaired for nearly thirty years?
- ... that Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum?
- ... that the Charles H. Bigelow House, in Findlay, Ohio, appeared on David Copperfield's The Magic of David Copperfield XVI: Unexplained Forces as the Barclay House?
- ... that soft drinks while he was with American Maize Productsin the 1970s?
- ... that, unlike corporate creations Betty Crocker and Ronald McDonald, food-brand icon Chef Boyardee was real?
- ... that the Christopher Walker Farm was a center for hog raising in western Ohio?
- ... that Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
- ... that Clement O. Miniger, founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company, lost $5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression?
- ... that Cliff Friend co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
- ... that athleteless than three years after breaking his back in an accident?
- ... that Rebel Without A Cause?
- ... that William Smalley, the first settler in the area of Cowan Lake State Park in Ohio, was held captive by the Lenape twice, for a total of 6 years and 7 months?
- ... that American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline?
- ... that Irish American mob informant Danny Greene drove a green car, wore green jackets, and had his union office repainted and recarpeted in green?
- ... that American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper, type design, typesetting, and printing?
- ... that Western Reserve, and the first person to be buried in the newly-created city of Cleveland?
- ... that David Ross Boyd, the first president of the University of Oklahoma, planted nearly 10,000 trees on campus during his first 18 months in the post?
- ... that the grading dirt roads in the early 20th century, was invented by D. Ward King?
- ... that Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio?
- ... that African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines footballteam?
- ... that a Doodlebug Disasterwas a result of a school project by three 13-year-olds?
- ... that at 49, CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.?
- ... that the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?
- ... that in 1979 Rose Bowl"Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
- ... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?
- ... that 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?
- ... that Mayor of New York City John Lindsay was said to have been so angered by Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times that he broke his telephone after slamming down the receiver?
- ... that in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists?
- ... that Commander governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?
- ... that social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obamaat the age of 105?
- ... that ?
- ... that the U.S. federal government sold the disputed Erie Triangle region to Pennsylvania in 1792 so that statewould have a freshwater port?
- ... that friends of the family raised $3,500 for Laurie Phenix to travel to the 2000 Summer Olympics and see her daughter Erin Phenix win a gold medal?
- ... that race riot in 1946?
- ... that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
- ... that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
- ... that downtown Napoleon, Ohio, is bracketed by the historical and vastly different First Presbyterian Church and St. Augustine's Catholic Church?
- ... that Fort Jefferson, built as a supply depot, endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War?
- ... that all glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
- ... .that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage (pictured)?
- ... that ?
- ... that NBA?
- ... that architect ?
- ... that Oklahoma Constitution?
- ... that 28th Regiment United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War, which suffered nearly fifty percent casualties at the Battle of the Crater?
- ... that the Charles Wintzer Building (pictured) in Wapakoneta, Ohio, was built as a combination house-and-tannery?
- ... that after an ultimatum by the Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walkerback on despite having given him time off for injuries?
- ... that Oregon pioneer and politician Frederick Waymire was compared to Davy Crockett?
- ... that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
- ... that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio, contain a Woodland period archaeological site?
- ... that broad jump?
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- ... that federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate?
- ... that the Stark County Courthouse and the Zanesville Federal Building are both listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and designed by architect George F. Hammond?
- ... that early Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riotsof 1885–1886?
- ... that herbologiststo be a toothache palliative?
- ... that northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp?
- ... that WorldCom up to its bankruptcyin 2002?
- ... that gastrointestinalailments in humans?
- ... that when Princess Diana's tiara for the top of the building?
- ... that the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York, New Jersey, and New England?
- ... that the Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker?
- ... that an employee resignation letter from the son of Wright Brothers, led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown UniversityMedical Center?
- ... that American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess?
- ... that Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
- ... that death penaltyin 1999?
- ... that the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
- ... that rapid construction of an earlier building of Holy Family Catholic Church in Frenchtown, Ohio, won its builders two gallons of whisky?
- ... that Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, Ohio, was designated a historic site after its destruction?
- ... that the builder of the county commissioner of Auglaize County, Ohio?
- ... that Independence Dam State Park in Defiance County, Ohio, is named for a dam built for the Miami and Erie Canal and features some of the canal's ruins?
- ... that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin's football coach and athletic director, Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
- ... that second growth forest, but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
- ... that the Bethany College in West Virginia are both U.S. National Historic Landmarks designed by architect James Keys Wilson?
- ... that war crimes after World War II?
- ... that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont?
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- ... that tried for murder in the United States?
- ... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
- ... that Charlie Grant nearly broke baseball's color barrier decades before Jackie Robinson when John McGraw disguised him as a Native American named "Charlie Tokohama"?
- ... that when the first Green Island Light was destroyed by fire, the keeper and his family survived by huddling in an outhouse?
- ... that the Harris Dental Museum in Bainbridge, Ohio, preserves the first dental school in the United States?
- ... that classical music
- ... that the Quakerarchitecture in Ohio?
- ... that the village of South Salem, Ohio, was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy?