21．Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory，which included present day Ohio，Indiana，Illinois and Wisconsin，which were ceded（放弃）to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war．
22．Ft．Wayne，Indiana’s 2nd Largest city，had its beginnings in 1794，after the Battle of Fallen Timbers，when General“Mad Anthony”Wayne built Ft．Wayne on the site of a Miami Indian village．
23．Many Mennonite and Amish live on the farmland of Northeastern Indiana．One of the United States largest Mennonite congregations（集合，集会，［宗］圣会）is in Bern．According to Amish ordnung（rules）they are forbidden to drive cars，use electricity，or go to public places of entertainment．
24．At one time Studebaker Company of South Bend was the nation’s largest producer of horse－drawn wagons．It later developed into a multimillion－dollar automobile
manufacturer．
25．In Fort Wayne，Syvanus F．Bower designed the world’s first practical gasoline pump（加油泵）．
26．Indianapolis grocer Gilbert Van Camp discovered his customers enjoyed an old family recipe for pork and beans in tomato sauce．He opened up a canning company and Van Camp’s Pork and Beans became an American staple（主要产品（或商品），原材料）．
27．Muncie’s Ball State University was built mostly from funds contributed by the founders of the Ball Corporation，a company than made glass canning jars．
28．Thomas Hendricks，a Democrat from Shelbyville，served Indiana as a United States Senator，a United States representative，governor，and as Vice President under Grover Cleveland．Indiana has been the home of 5vice presidents and one president．
29．Peru Indiana was once known as the “Circus（马戏团，杂技团）Capital of America”．
30．Indiana University’s greatest swimmer was Mark Spitz，who won 7gold medals in the 1972Olympic games．No other athlete has won so many gold medals in a single year．
31．In 1934Chicago Gangster John Dillinger escaped the Lake Country Jail in Crown Point by using a “pistol（手枪）”he had carved from a wooden block．
32．Before Indianapolis，Corydon served as the state’s capitol from 1816—1825．Vincennes was the capital when Indiana was a territory．
33．East Race Waterway，in south Bend，is the only man－made white－water raceway in North America．
34．In 1862，Richard Gatling，of Indianapolis，invented the rapid－fire machine gun（机关枪）．
35．The American Federation of Labor（AFL）was organized in Terre Haute in 1881．
36．Sarah Walker，who called herself Madame J．C．Walker，became one of the nation’s first woman millionaires（百万富翁，大富豪）．In 1905Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker developed a conditioning treatment for straightening hair．Starting with door－to－door sales of her cosmetics，Madame C．J．Walker amassed a fortune．
37．From 1900to 1920more than 200different makes of cars were produced in the Hoosier State．Duesenbergs，Auburns，Stutzes，and Maxwells －are prize antiques（古物，古董）today．
38．The Indiana Gazette Indiana’s first newspaper was published in Vincennes in 1804．
39．The state constitution of 1816directed the legislature to establish public schools，but it was not until the 1850s that state government was able to establish a public school system．
40．Before public schools families pitched in to build log schoolhouse and each student’s family paid a few dollars toward the teachers salaries．
41．At one time 12different stagecoach（公共马车）lines ran through Indiana on the National Road．（Now U．S．Interstate 40）
42．In the 1830s canals were dug linking the Great Lakes to Indiana’s river systems．The canals proved to be a financial disaster．Railroads made the canal system obsolete（荒废的，陈旧的）even before its completions．
43．Indiana’s first major railroad line linked Madison and Indianapolis and was completed in 1847．
44．The farming community of Fountain City in Wayne County was known as the “Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad”．In the years before the civil war，Levi and Katie Coffin were famous agents on the Underground Railroad．They estimated that they provided overnight lodging（寄宿处，寄宿）for more than 2，000runaway（逃亡的，逃走的）slaves who were making their way north to Canada and freedom．
45．During the great Depression of the 1930’s 1in every 4Hoosier factory hands was out of work，farmers sank deeper in debt，and in southern Indiana unemployment was as high as 50％．
46．In the summer of 19874，453athletes from 38nations gathered in Indianapolis for the Pan American Games．
47．The Saturday Evening Post is published in Indianapolis．
48．Comedian Red Skelton，who created such characters as Clem Kadiddlehopper，and Freddie the Freeloader（吃白食的人），was born in Vincennes．
49．The Poet Laureate of Indiana，James Whitcomb Riley was born in a two－room log cabin in Greenfield．He glorified（赞美，颂扬）his rural Indiana childhood in such poems as “The Old Swimmin’Hole”“Little Orphant Annie”，and “When the frost is on the Pumpkin”．
50．Albert Beveridge won the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1920，for The Life of John Marshall．In 1934Harold Urey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of deuterium（［化］氘）．Ernie Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in foreign Correspondence in 1944．Paul Samuelson won the Nobel Prize in economics，1970．
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姓名趣谈
美国人的姓名是以名·名·姓为序排列组成的。第一名又称教名，是受法律承认的正式名字。中间名通常用缩写表示，由钟爱孩子的父母或其亲戚所取，他们甚至把自己的名字直接取给孩子。中间名代表本人同亲属之间的关系，外人一般不称呼中间名，也不得究其详，甚至法院也不承认中间名是法定姓名的一部分。姓氏是由家族世代相传的。美国法律规定，妇女婚后要使用丈夫的姓，即使离婚，也应予保留，非经法律判决，不可恢复未婚时的姓。
在欧洲，姓氏比名字的出现要晚得多。公元11世纪后，欧洲人才开始逐步使用姓氏。直到16世纪文艺复兴，基督教会要求对姓氏进行登记，姓氏才得到普遍使用。
18世纪末19世纪初美国犹太人因法律制约才被迫使用姓氏，所以他们对姓氏持一种无所谓的态度，甚至常常更换；而西班牙人的后裔却恰恰相反，他们比任何人都更看重自己的姓氏，绝不肯轻易改换。至于美国黑人的姓氏，则多数是从当年奴隶主那里承继下来的。
采用历史上非凡人物的名字在美国人中始终是一种时髦。像奥古斯丁、马丁、查尔斯、威廉、伊丽莎白和乔治这样的名字俯拾皆是。同时，美国本国的总统和民族英雄也受到人们的推崇，不少人给孩子取名叫华盛顿、林肯，或叫富兰克林、罗斯福。
在美国，人们并不会认为儿子沿用父亲的名字是犯忌。相反，某些人还十分乐意让儿孙沿用本人的名字，并引以为荣。美国前总统富兰克林·罗斯福和石油大王洛克菲勒就为儿子取了与自己相同的名字。为有所区别，美国人称呼与父亲同名的人时，常冠以“小”字，例如“小罗斯福”、“小洛克菲勒”等。
熟人在互相称呼时，习惯于称名不称姓，即称呼对方的第一名。名字被叫惯或表示亲昵时，常常在发音上有所变化。例如，把约翰叫作约翰尼，把詹姆斯叫作吉米，把简叫作珍妮特，把伊丽莎白叫作莉比、莉萨或莉齐。
美国妇女结婚后要使用丈夫的姓，但仍保留自己的名。一般来说，人们在称呼已婚妇女时都是用她丈夫的姓加上“夫人”二字。例如克拉拉·福特嫁给约翰·史密斯，人们便称她为约翰·史密斯夫人。但她自己平时写信或登记签名时，常在夫姓前用她自己的名字而不是丈夫名，写作克拉拉·史密斯。而一旦丈夫去世，她就完全用丈夫的姓名，不再用自己的名字。
