The flags dimensions shall be three feet fly by two feet hoist（升起）；or five feet fly by three feet hoist；or any size proportionate（成比例的）to either of those dimensions．The field of the flag shall be blue with nineteen stars and a flaming torch in gold or buff．Thirteen stars shall be arranged in an outer circle，representing the original thirteen states；five stars shall be arranged in a half circle below the torch and inside the outer circle of stars，representing the states admitted prior to Indiana；and the nineteenth star，appreciably（略微，有一点）larger than the others and representing Indiana shall be placed above the flame of the torch．The outer circle of stars shall be so arranged that one star shall appear directly in the middle at the top of the circle，and the word “Indiana”shall be placed in a half circle over and above the star representing Indiana and midway between it and the star in the center above it．Rays shall be shown radiating from the torch to the three stars on each side of the star in the upper center of the circle．
State Song州歌
On the Banks of the Wabash，Far Away
Round my Indiana homesteads（家园，田产）wave the cornfields，
In the distance loom the woodlands clear and cool．
Oftentimes（时常地）my thoughts revert to
（回复，归还）scenes of childhood，
Where I first received my lessons，nature’s school．
But one thing there is missing in the picture，
Without her face it seems so incomplete．
I long to see my mother in the doorway，
As she stood there years ago，her boy to greet．
CHORUS
Oh，the moonlight’s fair tonight along the Wabash，
From the fields there comes the
breath of newmown（（草）新割的，刚割的）hay．
Through the sycamores（小无花果树，枫树的一种）
the candle lights are gleaming，
On the banks of the Wabash，far away．
Many years have passed since I strolled（闲逛，漫步）by the river，
Arm in arm，with sweetheart Mary by my side，
It was there I tried to tell her that I loved her，
It was there I begged of her to be my bride．
Long years have passed since I strolled
（闲逛，漫步）thro’there churchyard．
She’s sleeping there，my angel，Mary dear，
I loved her，but she thought I didn’t mean it，
Still I’d give my future were she only here．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．The first long－distance auto race in the U．S．was held May 30，1911，at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway．The winner averaged 75miles an hour and won a 1st place prize of 14，000．Today the average speed is over 167miles an hour and the prize is more than 1．2million．Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the site of the greatest spectacle（观览物，奇观）in sports，the Indianapolis 500．The Indianapolis 500is held every Memorial Day［［美］美国对阵亡战士的纪念日（每州不同，一般5月30日）］weekend in the Hoosier capital city．The race is 200laps or 500miles long．
2．Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana when he was 7years old．He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy．
3．Explorers Lewis and Clark set out from Fort Vincennes on their exploration of the Northwest Territory．
4．The movie “Hard Rain”was filmed in Huntingburg．
5．During WWII the P－47fighter－plane was manufactured in Evansville（埃文斯威，印第安纳州最西南端的一个城市，它位于俄亥俄河畔和肯塔基州边界处。它是煤炭、石油的货运和商业中心，同时也为一农场区）at Republic Aviation．
6．Marcella Gruelle of Indianapolis created the Raggedy Ann doll in 1914．
7．The first professional baseball game was played in Fort Wayne on May 4，1871．
8．James Dean，a popular movie star of the 1950s in such movies as“East of Eden”and “Rebel without a Cause”，was born February 8，1941，in Marion．He died in an auto crash at age 24．
9．David Letterman，host of television’s “Late Show with David Letterman”，was born April 12，1947，in Indianapolis．
10．Santa Claus，Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time．
11．Crawfordsville is the home of the only known working rotary（旋转的）jail in the United States．The jail with its rotating cellblock（监狱中一组囚犯室）was built in 1882and served as the Montgomery County jail until 1972．It is now a museum．
12．Historic Parke County has 32covered bridges and is the Covered Bridge Capital of the world．
13．True to its motto，“Cross Roads of America”Indiana has more miles of Interstate Highway per square mile than any other state．The Indiana state Motto，can be traced back to the early 1800s．In the early years river traffic，especially along the Ohio，was a major means of transportation．The National Road，a major westward route，and the north－south Michigan Road crossed in Indianapolis．Today more major highways intersect（相交，交叉）in Indiana than in any other state．
14．Most of the state’s rivers flow south and west，eventually emptying into the Mississippi．However，the Maumee flows north and east into Lake Erie．Lake Wawasee is the states largest natural lake．
15．Indiana’s shoreline（海岸线）with Lake Michigan is only 40miles long，but Indiana is still considered a Great Lakes State．
16．More than 100species of trees are native to Indiana．Before the pioneer’s arrive more than 80％of Indiana was covered with forest．Now only 17％of the state is considered forested．
17．Deep below the earth in Southern Indiana is a sea of limestone that is one of the richest deposits of top－quality limestone found anywhere on earth．New York City’s Empire State（美国纽约州之别名）Building and Rockefeller Center as well as the Pentagon，the U．S．Treasury，a dozen other government buildings in Washington D．C．as well as 14state capitols around the nation are built from this sturdy，beautiful Indiana limestone．
18．Although Indiana means，“Land of the Indians”there are fewer than 8，000Native Americans living in the state today．
19．The first European known to have visited Indiana was French Explorer Rene’－Robert Cavalier sierur de La Salle，in 1679．After LaSalle and others explored the Great Lakes region，the land was claimed for New France，a nation based in Canada．
20．In the 1700s the first 3Non－native American settlements in Indiana were the 3French forts of Ouiatenon，Ft．Miami，and Ft．Vincennes．Although they had few settlers in the region，French presence in Indiana lasted almost 100years．After the British won the French and Indian War，and upon the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763，the French surrendered（放弃）their claims to the lower Great Lakes region．
