Interesting facts about where you live.

[lunarprancer]

Thats been serioisly debated......First powered flight didnt occur in Dayton but in Kill Devil Hills. NC is First in Flight

Yeah, that's bullshit =0) Orville and Wilbur Wright were born and raised in Dayton Ohio and invented the airplane here. Kitty Hawk had more wind, that's it.

Girllll...It had nothing to do with wind but with the dunes....My family is from Xenia and it was such a debate about it....Im not sure how old you are but I actually remember when the 2 states agreed to disgree on the issue and compromised...OHio was the birthplace of flight and NC was First in Fligjt. Evidently that was a very hot topic in the two states . It got even hotter when CT tried to make a claim...OH and NC basically told CT to sit down and shut up.

I worked at the DP&L service center in Xenia years ago.

[Guest]

Um, we are the birthplace of aviation.

Thats been serioisly debated......First powered flight didnt occur in Dayton but in Kill Devil Hills. NC is First in Flight

1. Official birthplace of aviation

In 2003, Congress officially declared Ohio as the “birthplace of aviation” over North Carolina, because Dayton was the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were credited in inventing and flying the first aircraft.

Historians believe the Wright Brothers conducted research, drew up design plans, and created their aircraft inside their bicycle shop on the west side of Dayton. All Ohio license plates now display the words “birthplace of aviation."

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5 reasons why Ohio will always be the state of aviation
Updated Aug 18, 2015
By Cassidy Boyer Apple, Staff Writer
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November is Aviation History Month, and it's no secret that our state was home to quite a bit of this history.

5 reasons why Ohio will always be the state of aviation:

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1. Official birthplace of aviation

In 2003, Congress officially declared Ohio as the “birthplace of aviation” over North Carolina, because Dayton was the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who were credited in inventing and flying the first aircraft.

Historians believe the Wright Brothers conducted research, drew up design plans, and created their aircraft inside their bicycle shop on the west side of Dayton. All Ohio license plates now display the words “birthplace of aviation." For more on the Wright Brothers, click here.

2. The most astronauts

According to NASA, 23 Ohio natives have gone on to become astronauts, more than any other state. Of these numerous astronauts are Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, and John Glenn.


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3. John Glenn

Ohio native John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record in 1957 (travelling from Los Angeles to New York in 3 hours and 23 minutes), was chosen to take part in the famous Mercury 7 flight, and became the first astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962.

To find out even more about John Glenn, click here.

4. National Museum of the United States Air Force

Dayton, Ohio is home to the National Air Force Museum, which displays over 300 aircrafts and missiles.

The museum is expanding even further next year, to include a massive hangar addition, which will house experimental jets, historic presidential planes, and rockets. Click here to learn more.

5. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Wright-Patterson Air Force base, which spans across Greene and Montgomery counties, is one of the largest air force bases in the country.

According to their website, “Wright-Patt's highly specialized workforce of approximately 27,000 military, civilian and contractor employees provide vital support to ensure Air Force and joint warfighters have modernized systems needed to fly, fight and win.”

For more facts about aviation that you may not know, click here.

Funny story about this issue.....Back in the 80s when NC and OH were literally arguing about this my Grandmother made me sit through the OHio state legislature meetings over this and when my dad found out he drove to Columbus non stop picked me up,drove me back to Raleigh to hear NC states version of the debate. Yeahhhhh freaking crazy. 15 years later.....My husband was stationed at Seymour Johnson in NC and they had to evac the jets and they picked Wright-Pat to spend two weeks there. My crazy ass Grandmother decided then and only then she would meet my husband..........This was years after US Congress decided the issue and the debate should have been over. So my grandmother drives from Xenia to Dayton to pick up my husband and while they were driving to a restaurant in downtown Dayton grandmother brings this issue up. My husband being in the AF mentioned CTs little claim and she put him out at the red light (By the Perkins) and he had to walk back to Wright-Patt......People be crazy on this issue. Not just my grandmother or Ohioans. Some North Carolinans in Kill Devil Hills are absolutely rabid about this issue to this day.


In my honest opinion Ohio absolutely deserves the title of birthplace of Aviation. No doubt and they have a history to be proud of . . .Espeically Native American that is largly forgotten....Blue Jacket anyone....

[Guest]

Yeah, that's bullshit =0) Orville and Wilbur Wright were born and raised in Dayton Ohio and invented the airplane here. Kitty Hawk had more wind, that's it.

Girllll...It had nothing to do with wind but with the dunes....My family is from Xenia and it was such a debate about it....Im not sure how old you are but I actually remember when the 2 states agreed to disgree on the issue and compromised...OHio was the birthplace of flight and NC was First in Fligjt. Evidently that was a very hot topic in the two states . It got even hotter when CT tried to make a claim...OH and NC basically told CT to sit down and shut up.

I worked at the DP&L service center in Xenia years ago.

So did my Grandmother. She left there to go work at a Mac Tools factory somewhere near there or Washington Courthouse....I can't remember

[Fullxbusymom]

I live in NH

We have no seat belt laws over the age of 18.
No helmet laws over the age of 18
No mandatory car insurance if you own your vehicle out right.
We have no sales or income tax

• 1. Captain John Smith named New Hampshire after the town of Hampshire, England.
  
  2. Sarah Josepha Hale author and journalist who wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830 is from Newport, New Hampshire.
  
  3. The first free public library in the United States was established at Peterborough in 1833.
  
  4. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
  
  5. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
  
  6. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
  
  7. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
  
  8. Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  
  9. The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
  
  10. New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.

Got to love the live free or die state.

Ever since I found out there are states without income tax (crazy to me) I always wondered why people aren't flocking there...

Property taxes are insane here is why

[AsteroidStar]

I live in Austin.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan lived here
2. Right after Jack the Ripper committed the murders in White Chapel, there was a string of murders here. The victims were houskeepers and prostitutes. Many believed that he had come here and started killing. There are light towers all over town that were put up at the site of the murders, called the Moonlight towers.
3. We have one of the largest bat populations in the world, right under a bridge downtown. People come from all over to "watch the bats"
4. There is an unsolved murder case that pretty much everyone that lives here is super emotional about. Named the "yogurt shop murders", it happened in December 1991. 4 teenage girls were killed. 2 men were caught and convicted. Both were released in 2009, due to lack of evidence.
5. We have 2 major music festivals here every year.
6. We have a birthday party for Eeyore every April.
7. Leslie Cochran was the towns "resident transvestite". He ran for mayor repeatedly, and was loved by everyone. He died in 2012.
8. Matthew McConaughey lives here, and has even taught a class at UT. Back in the 90's he was arrested for playing the Bongos naked on his front lawn here.
9. There is a neighborhood where all of the streets are named after hookers that frequented the area in the 1970's.
10. The UT tower is the location of one of the first school shootings in this country.

[Guest]

I live in Austin.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan lived here
2. Right after Jack the Ripper committed the murders in White Chapel, there was a string of murders here. The victims were houskeepers and prostitutes. Many believed that he had come here and started killing. There are light towers all over town that were put up at the site of the murders, called the Moonlight towers.
3. We have one of the largest bat populations in the world, right under a bridge downtown. People come from all over to "watch the bats"
4. There is an unsolved murder case that pretty much everyone that lives here is super emotional about. Named the "yogurt shop murders", it happened in December 1991. 4 teenage girls were killed. 2 men were caught and convicted. Both were released in 2009, due to lack of evidence.
5. We have 2 major music festivals here every year.
6. We have a birthday party for Eeyore every April.
7. Leslie Cochran was the towns "resident transvestite". He ran for mayor repeatedly, and was loved by everyone. He died in 2012.
8. Matthew McConaughey lives here, and has even taught a class at UT. Back in the 90's he was arrested for playing the Bongos naked on his front lawn here.
9. There is a neighborhood where all of the streets are named after hookers that frequented the area in the 1970's.
10. The UT tower is the location of one of the first school shootings in this country.

UT tower shootung wad not one of the first school shootings in America......It happened about 19666. School shootings in Ameruca started in the 1840s

[AsteroidStar]

I live in Austin.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan lived here
2. Right after Jack the Ripper committed the murders in White Chapel, there was a string of murders here. The victims were houskeepers and prostitutes. Many believed that he had come here and started killing. There are light towers all over town that were put up at the site of the murders, called the Moonlight towers.
3. We have one of the largest bat populations in the world, right under a bridge downtown. People come from all over to "watch the bats"
4. There is an unsolved murder case that pretty much everyone that lives here is super emotional about. Named the "yogurt shop murders", it happened in December 1991. 4 teenage girls were killed. 2 men were caught and convicted. Both were released in 2009, due to lack of evidence.
5. We have 2 major music festivals here every year.
6. We have a birthday party for Eeyore every April.
7. Leslie Cochran was the towns "resident transvestite". He ran for mayor repeatedly, and was loved by everyone. He died in 2012.
8. Matthew McConaughey lives here, and has even taught a class at UT. Back in the 90's he was arrested for playing the Bongos naked on his front lawn here.
9. There is a neighborhood where all of the streets are named after hookers that frequented the area in the 1970's.
10. The UT tower is the location of one of the first school shootings in this country.

UT tower shootung wad not one of the first school shootings in America......It happened about 19666. School shootings in Ameruca started in the 1840s

Fine. Mass school shooting. Happy?

[Guest]

I live in Austin.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan lived here
2. Right after Jack the Ripper committed the murders in White Chapel, there was a string of murders here. The victims were houskeepers and prostitutes. Many believed that he had come here and started killing. There are light towers all over town that were put up at the site of the murders, called the Moonlight towers.
3. We have one of the largest bat populations in the world, right under a bridge downtown. People come from all over to "watch the bats"
4. There is an unsolved murder case that pretty much everyone that lives here is super emotional about. Named the "yogurt shop murders", it happened in December 1991. 4 teenage girls were killed. 2 men were caught and convicted. Both were released in 2009, due to lack of evidence.
5. We have 2 major music festivals here every year.
6. We have a birthday party for Eeyore every April.
7. Leslie Cochran was the towns "resident transvestite". He ran for mayor repeatedly, and was loved by everyone. He died in 2012.
8. Matthew McConaughey lives here, and has even taught a class at UT. Back in the 90's he was arrested for playing the Bongos naked on his front lawn here.
9. There is a neighborhood where all of the streets are named after hookers that frequented the area in the 1970's.
10. The UT tower is the location of one of the first school shootings in this country.

UT tower shootung wad not one of the first school shootings in America......It happened about 19666. School shootings in Ameruca started in the 1840s

Fine. Mass school shooting. Happy?

Not hardly. While it was significant it wasnt even close to being the first mass school shooting

[AsteroidStar]

UT tower shootung wad not one of the first school shootings in America......It happened about 19666. School shootings in Ameruca started in the 1840s

Fine. Mass school shooting. Happy?

Not hardly. While it was significant it wasnt even close to being the first mass school shooting

Bitch about it to someone else. It is widely regarded as such. Oh, and if you are going to lecture someone on their accuracy, learn how to F***ing spell.

[Canadiana]

I live in NH

We have no seat belt laws over the age of 18.
No helmet laws over the age of 18
No mandatory car insurance if you own your vehicle out right.
We have no sales or income tax

• 1. Captain John Smith named New Hampshire after the town of Hampshire, England.
  
  2. Sarah Josepha Hale author and journalist who wrote the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1830 is from Newport, New Hampshire.
  
  3. The first free public library in the United States was established at Peterborough in 1833.
  
  4. Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
  
  5. New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
  
  6. The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
  
  7. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., the first American to travel in space is from East Derry, New Hampshire.
  
  8. Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England -- a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
  
  9. The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
  
  10. New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.

Got to love the live free or die state.

Ever since I found out there are states without income tax (crazy to me) I always wondered why people aren't flocking there...

Property taxes are insane here is why

Ahhhh I see. Can you give a ballpark? Like my taxes are 1200 a year for 3 acres but right in the city I know people who pay 10 or 15k a year for less than half an acre....