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Iowa ABC By Ross Schroeder
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A is for American pickers
The shop in the show is in Leclare, Iowa the hometown of buffalo bill. The show premiere was the most watched sense that of Ice truckers.
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B is for black angel 1.It is really the Ruth dodge memorial. the dodges were railroad engineers that lived in counsel bluffs IA.2. It is said it flies around the graveyard at night.
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C is for Crystal lake cave
Discovered by lead miners by Dubuque Iowa. Ironically they found little lead.
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D is for De ,le forest He was born in Iowa He invented the vacuum tube
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E is for Eisenhower ,Mamie
Born in Iowa Last first lady to be born in the 1800s
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F is for
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G is for general dodge He died in counsel bluffs IA
he resigned from the military and became the Union Pacific's chief engineer and thus a leading figure in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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H is for Hooverball It was invented by Herbert Hoover
A tournament is held in west branch Iowa
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I is for Iowa snail This very small snail lives in the driftless area national park in east Iowa. Fossils indicate a larger range
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J is for John Wayne Born in Iowa Got a academy award for True grit
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K is for Kutcher Born in Iowa Famous director
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L is for living history farms
Tells how pioneers turned the land into the most productive farmland in the world. The pope visited it in the 70s.
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M is for me I live in Iowa I made this PowerPoint
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N is for national Mississippi river aquarium
In Dubuque , this museum has 5 large aquariums that have giant catfish, gars, and saltwater fish It is also a museum
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O is for opossum It is north America’s only marsupial
It is famous for playing dead
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P is for pickup One of the most popular cars in Iowa
The first pickup was the model T with a bed
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Q is for Quimby It is in Iowa It has a 9 hole golf coarse
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R is for raccoon They live in Iowa
Their closest relative is the ring-tailed cat(not a cat)
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S is for sod house Pioneers built them because there was little wood.
They are better than log cabins because they don’t catch on fire or leak.
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T is for Tomas Arnold Born in Iowa Starred in true lies True lies
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U is for uranium Scientists from Iowa purified the uranium that went into the atom bomb. Uranium is legal to own in up to 15 pounds.
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V is for vacuum tube It was invented in Iowa Used in TV
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W is for William Cody He is called buffalo bill
He is the sprit of the west
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X is for x-factor It was discovered in Iowa that the x-ray structure of gallium arsenide are determined with CuKa1 for solar cells These solar cells are thinner than the silicon ones
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Y is for Yale It is in Iowa Its population has declined scene 2000
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Z is for blank park zoo It is in Iowa It has a red panda
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