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John Denver wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music for "Rocky Mountain High", adopted by Colorado in 2007 as one of the state's two official state songs, [2] and co-wrote both lyrics and music for "Take Me Home, Country Roads", adopted by West Virginia in 2014 as one of four official state songs. [3]
The 1990s animated television series Animaniacs used the tune for "Wakko's America", in which Wakko names all 50-state capitals in the form of a song. [37] [38] In 1942, Carson Robison performed an anti-Axis Powers version of "Turkey in the Straw". [39] Phonograph record version by Clayton McMichen.
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. This article is part of a series on. Political divisions ofthe United States.
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The other 40 states have separate buildings for their supreme courts, though in Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah the high court also has ceremonial meetings at the capitol. [ clarification needed ] Most U.S. capitol buildings are in the neoclassical style with a central dome , which are based on the U.S. Capitol , and are often in a park-like setting.
List of state capitals of Nigeria. The following is a list of Nigerian state capitals . State. Capital. Abia. Umuahia. Adamawa. Yola. Akwa Ibom.
This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas.
List of U.S. state dances. Many states of the United States have adopted official dances as one of their state symbols. The practice has extended to U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] Starting in the 1970s, many states adopted square dance as their state dance, the result of a campaign by square dancers to make it the national dance.