Sunday 3 February 2008

Nicknames for US States? III



As we mentioned in previous posts I and II American States are called by their popular nicknames: for example the state of Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie, Alaska is called the Last Frontier,Iowa's nickname, the Hawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, an Indian chief who spent most of his life in neighboring Illinois! ...If you want to know about it read and listen to Voice of America

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