remax: More Idaho Tidbits...
- 08/12/08 05:44 AM
*The Treasure Valley area around Nampa is known as Idaho's Banana Belt. *During the 1860s an Oregon Shoreline Railroad base camp called Boomerang was constructed in Payette. *Pocatello is home to Idaho State University. *Post Falls is known as Idaho's River City. *Saint Stanislaus Church, in Rathdrum, is the oldest brick church in the state of Idaho. *Rigby is known as the birthplace of television since it is Philo T. Farnsworth's hometown. Farnsworth pioneered television technology. *Under Idaho law only two forms of city government are allowed: a mayor/councilor or a council/manager form. *Shelley has been the home of the Idaho … (1 comments)
122. Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.
123. The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
124. The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks … (5 comments)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." _Theodore Roosevelt
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