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State Symbols: An Overview

Added by yongli on 10/21/2015 - 16:40, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
What good are official symbols and emblems? In the abstract, they associate the state or nation with representative features or desirable traits. Symbols usually emphasize something unique, or at least characteristic, about a particular state. The United States and every individual state possess an...

Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 15:16, last changed on 09/19/2018 - 01:07
The Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway climbs the 8.9 miles to the 14,110-foot summit of Pikes Peak . The railway is the highest in North America and was built as a tourist attraction in the late nineteenth century. Other cog railways can be found on Mt. Washington in New Hampshire and throughout...

Agricultural Extension Service

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 13:57, last changed on 11/19/2018 - 01:07
The agricultural extension service in Colorado (1887–present) links individuals, organizations, and communities with research experts to address agrarian issues. These issues encompass rural problems associated with farming and ranching, as well as urban topics such as cooperative gardens and...

Eisenhower Tunnel

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 12:19, last changed on 08/20/2018 - 01:07
The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel (also known simply as the Eisenhower Tunnel) carries Interstate 70 traffic underneath the Continental Divide . The 1.6-mile-long pair of tunnels, carrying two lanes of traffic east and west, respectively, is seventy miles west of Denver in Summit County and...

Santa Fé Trail

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 11:11, last changed on 09/04/2018 - 01:07
The Santa Fé Trail was an international overland route of both commerce and social interaction, joining the US prairie state of Missouri with the province of México Nuevo, Mexico, through much of the nineteenth century. Though its specific date of origin is unclear, it appears to have been the...

Fourteeners

Added by yongli on 08/20/2015 - 10:30, last changed on 01/08/2018 - 01:07
Colorado is home to fifty-eight of the nation’s mountain peaks taller than 14,000 feet in elevation. Known colloquially as “Fourteeners,” these mountains dominate Colorado’s skyline and shape the way people live and identify with nature in the Rocky Mountain West. Throughout Colorado’s history,...

Longs Peak

Added by yongli on 07/27/2015 - 15:41, last changed on 01/27/2018 - 01:07
Longs Peak is an icon of the Rocky Mountain landscape. At 14,259 feet, it is one of Colorado’s tallest mountains, the only Fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park . For more than a century, the mountain has inspired adventuresome men and women to test themselves against its bouldered slopes,...

Alva B. Adams Tunnel

Added by yongli on 06/12/2015 - 15:35, last changed on 07/05/2018 - 14:12
Beneath the glacier-carved peaks and valleys of Rocky Mountain National Park , below the alpine lakes and rushing streams, a concrete-lined tunnel belies the illusion of a pristine wilderness. In 1944, the two ends of the Alva B. Adams Tunnel were connected with a blast of dynamite, creating the...

Tuberculosis in Colorado

Added by yongli on 04/15/2015 - 14:06, last changed on 08/09/2018 - 01:07
Historians estimate that perhaps as many as one-third of Colorado’s early settlers moved to the state for reasons directly or indirectly associated with health. Most came because they believed the arid mountain climate could cure them of one of the nineteenth-century’s deadliest diseases:...

State Seal

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/17/2015 - 17:35, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The circular Seal of the State of Colorado is an adaptation of the Territorial Seal, which was adopted by the First Territorial Assembly on November 6, 1861. The only changes made in the Territorial Seal design were the substitution of the words, "State of Colorado" and the figures "1876" for the...

State Folk Dance

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/17/2015 - 17:33, last changed on 09/22/2017 - 01:07
The Square Dance was adopted as the official state folk dance on March 16, 1992 by an act of the General Assembly. Square dancing is the American folk dance which traces its ancestry to the English country dance and the French ballroom dance, and which is called, cued, or prompted to the dancers...

State Flower

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/17/2015 - 17:28, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The white and lavender Columbine, Aquilegia caerulea , was adopted as the official state flower on April 4, 1899 by an act of the General Assembly. In 1925, the General Assembly made it the duty of all citizens to protect this rare species from needless destruction or waste. To further protect this...

State Flag

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/17/2015 - 17:15, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The state flag was adopted on June 5, 1911 by an act of the General Assembly. The flag was adopted to be used on all occasions when the state is officially and publicly represented, with the privilege of use by all citizens upon such occasions as they deem fitting and appropriate. Laws pertaining...

State Bird

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/17/2015 - 17:05, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The Lark Bunting, Calamospiza melanocoryus Stejneger , was adopted as the official state bird on April 29, 1931. The Lark Bunting is a migrant bird. Flocks arrive in April and inhabit the plains regions and areas up to 8,000 feet in elevation. They fly south again in September. The male bird is...

State Fish

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/13/2015 - 17:20, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The Greenback Cutthroat Trout, Oncorhynchus clarkii somias , was adopted as the official state fish on March 15, 1994, by an act of the General Assembly. The Rainbow Trout was considered the state fish from 1954 until 1994 but was never officially adopted. The Greenback Cutthroat Trout was at one...

State Motto

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/13/2015 - 10:27, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The Latin phrase "Nil Sine Numine” was adopted as part of the Territorial Seal. At recurring intervals the interpretation of this Latin phrase, commonly translated as "Nothing without Providence,” has been disputed. Some say it means "Nothing without God.” In the early mining days of the State, the...

State Name and Nickname

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Added by Greg Vogl on 02/13/2015 - 09:41, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The name of our state, Colorado, has its origin in the Spanish language, as the word for "colored red.” This was the name chosen for Colorado as a Territory in 1861 by Congress. Colorado has been nicknamed the "Centennial State" because it became a state in the year 1876, 100 years after the...

State Animal

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Added by Greg Vogl on 08/14/2014 - 08:22, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep , Ovis canadensis , was adopted as the official state animal on May 1, 1961 by an act of the General Assembly. The Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep is found only in the Rockies, usually above timberline in rugged mountainous areas. The male sheep is three to three and a...

Colorado River

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Added by Greg Vogl on 08/01/2014 - 09:38, last changed on 02/16/2018 - 13:47
The Colorado is the premier river of the American Southwest. Rising in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, this river and its tributaries provide water and hydroelectric power for nearly 35 million people in the United States and Mexico, as well as habitat for several fish species found only in...

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