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Silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd, who starred as Willie Work, Lonesome Luke, and other comic characters in more than 200 films, was born in 1893 in Burchard (pop. 103).

first appeared: 5/18/2003

The 1928 Pilgrim Holiness Church in Arthur (pop. 145) is built with baled hay covered in stucco.

first appeared: 5/11/2003

One of America’s best-known illustrators, John Falter, was born in Plattsmouth (pop. 6,887) in 1910 and grew up in Falls City (pop. 4,671). He completed 185 Saturday Evening Post covers and World War II recruiting posters.

first appeared: 5/4/2003

The Cornhusker State has 96,000 miles of highways and public roads, including 482 miles of interstate highway.

first appeared: 4/27/2003

The Hormel Foods Corp. plant in Fremont (pop. 25,174) is one of only two U.S. locations where SPAM luncheon meat is produced. The other is in Austin, Minn.

first appeared: 4/20/2003

Charles Lindbergh, the first aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris in 1927, learned to fly at the Nebraska Standard Aircraft Corp. in Lincoln in 1922.

first appeared: 4/13/2003

In 1881, settlers named their village North Fork after the river, then simplified it to Norfork. Postal authorities thought it was misspelled and named the town Norfolk (pop. 23,516).

first appeared: 4/6/2003

The Ogallala Aquifer underlying most of the state is the world’s largest underground water supply and was named after the town of Ogallala (pop. 4,930).

first appeared: 3/30/2003

Since 1962, every Husker football game at the 73,650-seat stadium at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has sold out.

first appeared: 3/23/2003

Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards, was born Aug. 29, 1891, in David City (pop. 2,597). He started selling postcards and expanded into greeting cards as the popularity of postcards declined.

first appeared: 3/16/2003

Wild crab apple trees inspired the name for Crab Orchard (pop. 49), platted in 1883.

first appeared: 3/9/2003

French traders in the 1700s referred to local Pawnee Indians as the “republican Pawnees” for their governing style, which inspired the names for the Republican River and Republican City (pop. 209).

first appeared: 3/2/2003

A “wreath of roses” quilt owned by the Museum of Nebraska History in Lincoln is believed to be the oldest surviving quilt made in the state. Martha Allis Hollins stitched the quilt for her 1861 wedding.

first appeared: 2/23/2003

Kohll’s Pharmacy in Omaha last year became the nation’s first pharmacy chain to offer talking prescription labels for visually impaired customers. A handheld electronic device with voice synthesizer reads the dosage information embedded in a microchip on the label.

first appeared: 2/16/2003

Wahoo (pop. 3,942) derived its name from an American Indian word meaning “burning bush.” A shrub, which once grew along the banks of the Wahoo Creek, was the favorite medicinal plant of the Otoe Indian tribe.

first appeared: 2/9/2003

Victor Samuel Johnson, born in 1882 near Minden (pop. 2,964), shed new light on America when he introduced the Aladdin lamp in 1909. The lamp’s mantle and center-draft burner created a white light superior to other kerosene lamps.

first appeared: 2/2/2003

Thurston County is home to two of the state’s six federally recognized American Indian tribes—the Omaha and the Winnebago.

first appeared: 1/26/2003

Twenty of Nebraska’s 323 high schools name their sports teams the Eagles—the most popular mascot in the state.

first appeared: 1/19/2003

The recipe for Dorothy Lynch Home Style Dressing was developed in the 1940s by Dorothy Lynch and her husband, who operated the restaurant at the Legion Club in St. Paul (pop. 2,218). In 1964, Tasty-Toppings Inc. purchased the recipe and rights to the product and now manufactures 3.6 million bottles a year in Duncan (pop. 359).

first appeared: 1/12/2003

The National Museum of Roller Skating in Lincoln contains the largest collection of historical roller skates—dating to 1819—in the world.

first appeared: 1/5/2003

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