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10 Big Things in America's Smallest State
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简介The smallest state in America is often the butt of jokes. Rhode Island is neither a road nor an isla
The smallest state in America is often the butt of jokes. Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. The state launched a notoriously confusing slogan in 2016 that ballooned into a PR fiasco. And it was once famously parodied in the now-defunct website “How Many Rhode Islands”—a simple tool that allowed you to see just how many Rhode Islands could squeeze inside a given country. The United States could contain 3,066 Rhode Islands, and Russia could hold 5,445.
But the tiny state has a rather grand history. Rhode Island was founded on the principle of religious freedom, was the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and was one of only two states not to ratify the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Many of the state’s attractions still loom large, including a 58-foot-long blue fiberglass termite and an improbably large blue bear slumped under a lampshade. (We promise not everything in the Ocean State is blue.)
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