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Pards Rule
08-31-2011, 03:16 AM
Which state was admitted first to the Union - Northor South Dakota?
Hammersmith
08-31-2011, 03:18 AM
Which state was admitted first to the Union - Northor South Dakota?

Forever to be unknown.
DjKyRo
08-31-2011, 03:18 AM
Simultaneous on November 2, 1889, were they not? Or is this one of those "which twin came out first" type of questions?
Hammersmith
08-31-2011, 03:23 AM
Simultaneous on November 2, 1889, were they not? Or is this one of those "which twin came out first" type of questions?

Pres Harrison had the statehood bills shuffled and the names hidden so he didn't know which one he was signing. After he was done, the bills were shuffled again to keep the order secret. So no one will ever know which was officially first. We're 39 and SD is 40 only because alphabetization.
chuckles
08-31-2011, 03:36 AM
Which state was admitted first to the Union - Northor South Dakota?

Bison football? Oh wait, this has nothing to do with it. Nice message board skills...
NDSUDude
08-31-2011, 03:39 AM
North technically, it may have even been a coin flip, but they were basically created at the same time. It's like a set of twins and one is a 1 min older than the other.
Tatanka
08-31-2011, 03:41 AM
Trick question. North Dakota isn't really technically a state.
SDbison
08-31-2011, 03:42 AM
Trick question. North Dakota isn't really technically a state.
Yep, ND is a country.
CaBisonFan
08-31-2011, 04:01 AM
norther...either that er the otherner
Twentysix
08-31-2011, 04:05 AM
North Dakota is a soverign nation. Much to Citdogs disapointment.

Suck it south carolina. :rofl:
Pards Rule
08-31-2011, 09:31 AM
Yes to all the above - I found that interesting tidbit a while back and now can actually use it.
SDbison
08-31-2011, 09:43 AM
Is it Friday yet?.......I can't sleep.
ndsubison1
09-02-2011, 05:00 AM
dakota territory
bisonpride4ever
09-02-2011, 05:06 AM
Which state was admitted first to the Union - Northor South Dakota?

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344Johnson
09-02-2011, 05:12 AM
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too drunk to care at this point............Go Bison!!!!! I think?
Scooter1
09-02-2011, 05:38 AM
Alot of people think that North Dakota was part of the Louisiana Purchase...that is only half right. All the land north of the Missouri River was actually purchased from the French two years before the Louisiana Purchase. This territory, Fargovisaclearascatchuan, an Indian word meaning land far from anywhere whose visibility is limited by the curve of the earth and the occasional Sasquatch, was purchased (stolen) by new President Thomas Jefferson when French Canadian diplomat Louis D. Anne' arrived on a diplomatic trip to the US. Apparently, he got drunk with Jefferson and inadvertently traded this territory for 321 plaid flannel shirts, 137 flapper caps and 2300 round black rubber disks that he thought looked cool at the time. Local historians jokingly refer to this land grab as the Louis D Anne' purchase.
ndsubison1
09-02-2011, 06:08 AM
too drunk to care at this point............Go Bison!!!!! I think?

words of wisdom to live by!
Bogie
09-02-2011, 06:41 AM
The French really had nothing to do with it.

According to several letters preserved on behalf our namesake, the Marquis de Lafayette (which remain hermetically sealed in the Lafayette College archives), extant American Bison long ago were placed deliberately in the Dakota Territories, subsequent to the Louisiana Purchase, merely for the thrill of the kill at the hands of east coast adventurers.

History repeats itself, after all. Let that be a lesson to you.
SamsRams
09-02-2011, 07:09 AM
which came first lakes posting something on the wrong board about something that has nothing to do with football or a layfayette fan doin it on bisonville? I'll check the lafayette page later this week since it only is compatible on my commodore 54
Tatanka
09-02-2011, 07:26 AM
this thread has potential.
Scooter1
09-02-2011, 07:35 AM
The French really had nothing to do with it.

According to several letters preserved on behalf our namesake, the Marquis de Lafayette (which remain hermetically sealed in the Lafayette College archives), extant American Bison long ago were placed deliberately in the Dakota Territories, subsequent to the Louisiana Purchase, merely for the thrill of the kill at the hands of east coast adventurers.

History repeats itself, after all. Let that be a lesson to you.

Whatever, crazy clown lady.
I suppose it was stored next to the mime makeup,
red noses, and the water squirting novelty brassieres.