[SOC] Fwd: NEW JERSEY TRIVIA

[W2AGN]

OK, we've heard from Iowa and Lost Wages, now
A few words about NEW JERSEY........

New Jersey is a peninsula.

New Jersey has the highest population density in the US An
average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the
national average.

Highland, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the
entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.

New Jersey has the highest percentage urban population in
the US with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.

New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are
classified as metropolitan areas.

New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.

New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than
Havana, Cuba.

North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with
more cars stolen in Newark then any other city.

Even the 2 largest cities, NYC and LA put together.

New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and
railroads in the US New

Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most in any
one state in the nation.

New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes
referred to as the diner capital of the world.

North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the
world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile
radius.

New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride
by inventor John P. Holland.

New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of the
nations most famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic City,
Seaside Heights, Cape May.

New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest
chemical and pharmaceutical producing state in the nation.

New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport
in the US located in Elizabeth.

The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture
projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park
laboratory.

The first sea-plane was built in Keyport.

The first air-mail to Chicago was started from Keyport.

The first phonograph records were made in Camden.

New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in
Atlantic City.

Atlantic City is where the street names came from for the
game Monopoly.

Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.

New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area
outside of the Middle East countries.

The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.

New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world.

New Jersey is home to the Boy Scouts of America with its
headquarters located in New Brunswick.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.

New Jersey had the first Medical Center, Jersey City.

The Pulaski Sky Way (first sky way highway) from Jersey City
to Newark.

The first tunnel under the Hudson River. (Holland Tunnel)

The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in
Paterson.

New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers
child abuse prevention workshops to every public school.

The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.

The first intercollegiate football game was played in New
Brunswick; in 1889 Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers
won.

The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden.

Home to both of NEW YORK'S Pro Football Teams The first
radio station and broadcast was in Paterson.

Unofficially divided into two parts...This side and that
side of the parkway

bridge.

Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason
Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, Joan
Robertson, Joseph Czesnik, Dr.Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken
Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Clint Schneider,
Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney
Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Eileen Donnely Grover
Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis,
Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer Bruce Willis, Caesar
Romero, Lou Costello, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee,
Danny DaVito, Richard Conti, Joe Pesci, Robert Blake, John
Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Jerry
Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Thomas Edison,
Phyllis Newman, all New Jersey natives.  

And last but not least....

New Jersey produces the most beautiful women in the world!


-- 
   --------------------------
      John L Sielke   W2AGN
       w2agn@pobox.com
 http://mywebpages.comcast.net/w2agn
        Trustee: W3IYQ