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Monday, July 25, 2011

Monday Mailbag: July 25, 2011

Welcome to…

Location: South Carolina

Population: 4,600,000

Entertainment: the beach, whitewater rafting, hiking

Sports: no professional franchises

Famous Former Natives: James Brown, Andrew Jackson, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Melvin Purvis, Ray Allen, Ben Bernanke, Chubby Checker, Stephen Colbert, Joe Frazier, Kevin Garnett, Brett Gardner, Orlando Hudson,

Home to: Sassafras Mountain, Clemson University, Happy Cow Creamery, Sonoco, Fort Sumter

Random Facts: first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation in 1778, first state to declare its secession from the Union in 1860, nation’s leading peach producer and shipper east of the Mississippi River, the walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island in Charleston Harbor were made of spongy palmetto logs which helped to protect the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs

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