" The state tree is the Longleaf Pine, the state flower is the Camellia.

Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

* Magnolia grandiflora is the official state flower of both Mississippi and Louisiana.

In the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, rhododendron flowers have been used for some time to make popular fruit and flower wines.

R. ponticum is the state flower of Indian-administered Kashmir and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

Rhododendron catawbiense, the most widespread rhododendron of the Appalachian Mountains, is the state flower of West Virginia, and is in the Flag of West Virginia.

Rhododendron macrophyllum, a widespread rhododendron of the Pacific Northwest, is the state flower of Washington.

Later, however, Lysenko falsely claimed that a vernalized state could be inherited-i. e., that the offspring of a vernalized plant would behave as if they themselves had also been vernalized and would not require vernalization in order to flower quickly.

Eschscholzia californica, commonly called the California poppy or golden poppy, is a perennial and annual plant, native to the United States, and the official state flower of California.

As the official state flower of California Eschscholzia californica is pictured on welcome signs along highways entering California.

It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily ( genus Calochortus ) and the Matilija poppy ( Romneya coulteri ) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

A common misconception associated with the plant, because of its status as a state flower, is that the cutting or damaging of the California poppy is illegal.

Rafflesia is the official state flower of Indonesia, the Sabah state in Malaysia, and of the Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

* The sunflower is the state flower of the US state of Kansas, and one of the city flowers of Kitakyūshū, Japan.

The Preakness Stakes has been termed " The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans " because a blanket of Viking daisies, decorated to look like Black-eyed Susans ( Rudbeckia hirta, the state flower of Maryland ) is traditionally placed around the winner's neck.

In 1940, it was proposed to drape the winning horse in a garland of black-eyed Susans, the state flower of Maryland.

The state did not have an official flower, leaving mistletoe as the assumed state flower until the Oklahoma Rose was designated as such in 2004.

The " yucca flower " is the state flower of New Mexico.

In eleven states, the fiscal year of the cities ends on December 31, while the state fiscal year ends on June 30 ( Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin ).

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

* Ai, Ohio, a town in the U. S. state of Ohio

The main body of the church moved first to Kirtland, Ohio in the early 1830s, then to Missouri in 1838, where the 1838 Mormon War with other Missouri settlers ensued, culminating in adherents being expelled from the state under Missouri Executive Order 44 signed by the governor of Missouri.

Dayton () is the 6th largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County.

A program launched in the city of Cleveland in 1995 and authorized by the state of Ohio was challenged in court on the grounds that it violated both the federal constitutional principle of separation of church and state and the guarantee of religious liberty in the Ohio Constitution.

During the American Civil War, the oil-producing region spread over much of western Pennsylvania, up into western New York state, and down the Ohio River valley into the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and the western part of Virginia ( now West Virginia ).

Following the unexpected carnage at the battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Ohio state government sent 3 steamboats to the scene as floating hospitals with doctors, nurses and medical supplies.

The state also set up 12 local offices in main transportation nodes to help Ohio soldiers moving back and forth.

Since Indiana was first settled in its southern tier ( the state's first capital, Corydon, is in the south near the Ohio River ), it is hypothesized that the name was carried as the population expanded northward in the state.

Knowing that the federal government would pay " top dollar ", the employees of a contractor in the Indiana Territory reportedly named Robert Hoosier asked their boss if they could go work for this higher wage in the neighboring state of Ohio.

* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

In total, Liberia comprises of which is land and is water, making the country slightly smaller than the U. S. state of Ohio but larger than Virginia.

* 1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U. S. state.

The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel.

Although such boats cruised on the Ohio River in an oval pattern up and down, the state of Kentucky soon protested.

The Ohio River as a whole is ranked as the most polluted river in the US based on 2009 and 2010 data although the more industrial and regional Ohio tributary, Monongahela River, which the data names as home to the biggest polluter in the state, ranked behind 16 other American rivers for pollution at number 17, while the Allegheny is not cited as a polluted river.

From 1851 to 1853, Truth worked with Marius Robinson, the editor of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Bugle, and traveled around that state speaking.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

they will destroy the shrines, temples, museums, and churches of the state that is the implacable enemy of the life they believe in.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

Actually it amounts to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering the additional half-million dollars Gov. Vandiver allocated last year from the state surplus.

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

But there is hope, for Conservation Commissioner Bontempo has tagged the sanctuary as the kind of place the state hopes to include in its program to double its park space.

The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.

An adequate system of VA hospitals is better equipped to care for the veterans than any 50 state hospitals.

There is no charge and no state aid.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Purchase of state vehicles is handled similarly to all state purchases.