18．The popular television sit－com，“The Drew Cary Show”is set in Cleveland．
19．East Liverpool was the beginning point of the United States Public Land Survey．The location was the area from which a rectangular－grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785．The survey provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old Northwest Territory．The Ordinance stipulated（规定，保证）that all public lands were to be divided into townships six miles square．
20．Seven United States presidents were born in Ohio．They are：Ulysses S．Grant，Rutherford B．Hayes，James A．Garfield，Benjamin Harrison，William McKinley，William H．Taft，and Warren G．Harding．
21．Some well－known personalities（个性，人格）were born in Ohio．Among them Steven Spielberg，Paul Newman，Annie Oakley，Arsenio Hall and Clark Gable．
22．The first full time automobile service station was opened in 1899in Ohio．
23．In 1852Ohio was the first state to enact（制定法律，颁布）laws protecting working women．
24．Ohio gave America its first hot dog in 1900．Harry M．Stevens created the popular dining dog．
25．Ohio became the 17th state on March 1，1803．
26．East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland was the site of the first pedestrian（徒步的，呆板的）button for the control of a traffic light．The boy chosen for the 1948newsreel（新闻影片）to demonstrate（示范，证明）its operation was Louis Spronze．
27．Ohio has an area of 116，103sq miles．It ranks 34th in state size．
28．Columbus is the state capital and Ohio’s largest city．
29．50%of the United States population lives within a 500mile radius（半径，界限）of Columbus．
30．Dresden（德累斯顿（德国Saxony邦首府））is the home of the world’s largest basket．It is located at Basket Village USA．
31．Fostoria is the only city to be situated in three counties（Seneca，Hancock &Wood）．
32．Ohio’s state flag is a pennant（细长三角旗）design．It is the only state flag of that design in the United States．
33．Ohio University was founded in 1804at Athens and is recognized as the first university in Ohio and in the Northwest Territory．
34．Oberlin College was founded in 1833．It was the first interracial（人种间的，人种混合的）and coeducational（男女合校的）college in the United States．
35．The Glacial Grooves on the north side of Kelleys Island are the largest easily accessible（易接近的，可到达的，易受影响的）such grooves in the world．They were scoured（冲刷）into solid limestone（石灰石）bedrock（［矿］岩床，根底）about 18，000years ago by the great ice sheet that covered part of North America．
36．Marietta was Ohio’s first permanent settlement．Founded in 1788by General Rufus Putnam and named in honor of Marie Antoinette，then queen of France．
37．Chillicothe was Ohio’s first capital city．
38．Cleveland became the world’s first city to be lighted electrically in 1879．
39．Ohio is known as the Buckeye State．
40．Thomas A．Edison from Milan developed the incandescent（遇热发光的，白炽的）light bulb，phonograph（留声机，电唱机），and early motion picture camera．
41．John Lambert of Ohio City made America’s first automobile in 1891．
42．Charles Kettering of Loundonville invented the automobile self－starter in 1911．
43．Charles Goodyear of Akron developed the process of vulcanizing rubber（橡皮，橡胶）in 1839．
44．Roy J．Plunkett of New Carlisle invented Teflon in 1938．
45．You know you’re from Ohio if．．．
46．W．F．Semple of Mount Vernon patented（取得……的专利权，请准专利）chewing gum（〈美〉口香糖，橡皮糖）in 1869．
47．John Mercer Langston is believed to have been the first African American elected to public office．He was elected clerk of Brownhelm in 1854．
48．Long jumper DeHart Hubbard was the first African American to earn an Olympic Gold Medal．The award occurred during the 1924Olympics games held in Paris．He set the record for long jumping．
49．Jesse Owens grew up in Cleveland．He won four gold medals in the 1936Olympics in Berlin．
50．Paul Laurence Dunbar of Dayton is known as the poet laureate（金色的，灿烂的）of African Americans．
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