Allen Iverson

On February 12, 2005 Iverson scored a career-high 60 points against the Orlando Magic. Maine has a long tradition of personal self-reliance, and Yankee ingenuity. The explicit lyrics of the album caused an uproar in Philadelphia, prompting him to stop the release before it hit the shelves. The three largest Protestant denominations in Maine are: Baptist (12% of the total state population), Methodist (8%), Congregationalist (3%). Iverson also attempted to release a rap album named "40 Bars" under the alias "Jewelz". The religious affiliations of the people of Maine are:. One such incident involved a family party where he allegedly threatened his wife with a handgun, but was later acquitted of the charges. The five largest ancestries in the state are: English (21.5%), Irish (15.1%), French (14.2%), American (9.4%), French Canadian (8.6%).

Dating back to his teenage years, Iverson has had some run-ins with the law. The racial makeup of the state is:. Iverson has at times been a controversial personality in the NBA. As explained in detail under "Geography" there are large tracts of uninhabited land in some remote parts of the interior. Gold had been expected from a team stacked with NBA players. For example, some communities may have a much larger seasonal retail sector than their official, small population figure would imply. Things did not go as planned for the American team, however, as they returned home with only a bronze medal. Therefore, there are some situations in which official census figures could be misleading for Maine.

Iverson later reunited with Larry Brown as a member and co-captain of the 2004 USA Olympics basketball team. These are the summer people of Maine lore. Official census figures normally count a person as a resident only once, at the place of the primary home. We're talking about practice". Many of these visitors establish an alternate secondary residence in Maine during some or all warm months and then depart for their primary residence in the off-season. We're not even talking about the game, the actual game, when it matters. Maine is a popular tourist destination, but it also experiences harsh winters and, consequently, the great temporary influx of visitors occurs during the warmer months. After the 76ers were defeated in the first round of the 2002 playoffs and Iverson was criticized by Brown for missing practices, Iverson held a press conference in which he said "We're talking about practice. As of 2003, the state's population was 1,305,728.

He had a love-hate relationship with Brown, however. Maine is also the home of The Jackson Laboratory, a non-profit institution and the world's largest mammalian genetic research facility. He has leveled lavish praise on coach Larry Brown, often saying that he would not have reached the heights that he has in the sport without Brown's guidance. Bean (Freeport). These rules limited his effectiveness over the next few years, but he was still able lead the NBA in steals and minutes played while maintaining his high scoring averages. Some of the very few large companies that do maintain headquarters in Maine include Fairchild Semiconductor (South Portland) and the famous outdoor supply retailer L.L. The NBA changed several rules the next offseason, most notably allowing zone defenses. Structurally, this could be a weakness in an economy that depends on extracting forest and sea resources, because decisions that affect the long-range stability of the resource base are being made in distant locations which do not have to live on a day to day basis with the consequences of their policies.

Most of the basketball world expected the Lakers to sweep through the finals, but Allen Iverson carried his team to a shocking overtime victory in the opener at Los Angeles, and nearly upset the Lakers again in game two. Maine has very few large companies that maintain headquarters in the state, and fewer than before due to consolidations and mergers, particularly in the pulp and paper industry. In these finals, the Sixers faced Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, who had reached the final series undefeated throughout the playoffs. Historically, however, beaver trapping was much more significant in the North Woods and Canadian Maritimes than the small industry of today and was the cause of much early wealth and many trading settlements. He had his best season in 2001, leading the league in scoring, winning the MVP award, and reaching the NBA Finals. The principal pelt taken by value is beaver. As a rookie he quickly gained national popularity for a famous crossover dribble he made while being guarded by Michael Jordan. Note: Many trappers are part-time).

Later known as "The Answer," Iverson was drafted as the first pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers and has led the team in scoring ever since. Maine has a small trapping industry, which, with 3,157 resident trappers, is nevertheless larger than that of most Eastern states ( Source: Portland Press Herald, Jan 23, 2005. He opted for basketball, enrolling at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., which does not play top-level football. In 2001, Maine's largest city surpassed Boston as New England's busiest port (by tonnage), due to its ability to handle large tankers. While attending Bethel High School in Hampton, Iverson was a spectacular all-around athlete who was regarded not only as one of the top basketball players in the country, but also arguably the country's top high school football quarterback. Around 1880, Portland's rail link and ice-free port made it eastern Canada's principal winter port, until the aggressive development of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1900s. He is an all-star point guard for the Philadelphia 76ers. Maine ports play a key role in national transportation.

Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American basketball player. Naval shipbuilding and construction remain key as well, with Bath Iron Works in Bath and Portsmouth Naval Yard in Kittery. Its industrial outputs are paper, lumber, and wood products, electronic equipment, leather products, food processing, textiles, and tourism. Aroostook County is known for its potato crops. Maine's agricultural outputs are seafood (notably lobsters), poultry and eggs, dairy products, cattle, blueberries, apples, and maple sugar.

Its per capita personal income for 2003 was $29,164, 29th in the nation. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Maine's total gross state product for 2003 was $41 billion. The noted American ecologist Rachel Carson did much of her research at one of the Maine seacoast's most characteristic features, a tide pool for her classic "The Edge of the Sea." The spot where she conducted observations is now preserved as the Rachel Carson Salt Pond Reserve at Pemaquid Point. Millions of ordinary Americans have enjoyed this coastal scenery at Maine's Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England, and the second-most visited national park in the United States.

In the case of Maine there has been a partially offsetting rise in land also, due to the melting of heavy glacier ice, which caused a rebounding effect of underlying rock; however, this land rise was not strong enough to eliminate all the effect of the rising sea level and its invasion of some former land features. More prosaic geologists describe this type of landscape as a drowned coast, where a rising sea level has invaded former land features, creating bays out of valleys and islands out of mountain tops. Vincent Millay of Rockland and Camden, Maine in "Renascence":. This visual contrast of forested slopes sweeping down to the sea has been aptly summed up by American poetess Edna St.

Just inland, by contrast, is the view of sparkling lakes, rushing rivers, green forests and towering mountains. Jagged rocks and cliffs and thousands of bays and inlets add to the rugged beauty of Maine's coast. Along the famous rock-bound coast of Maine are lighthouses, sandy beaches, quiet fishing villages and thousands of offshore islands, including the Isles of Shoals, which straddles the New Hampshire border. West Quoddy Head is the country's easternmost piece of land.

Maine is equally well known for its dramatic ocean scenery. For example, the Northwest Aroostook, Maine "territory" in the far north is listed as having an area of 2,668 square miles and a population of 27, or one person for every 100 square miles. In the forested areas of the interior there is much uninhabited land, some of which does not even have formal political organization into local units. It is appropriately called the Pine Tree State, as 90 percent of its land is forest.

Maine is the most sparsely populated state east of the Mississippi River, owing in part to its huge relative size—its land mass exceeds that of all other New England states combined. Also in this easternmost area is the Old Sow, the largest tidal whirlpool in the world. Machias Seal Island, off its easternmost point, is claimed by both the USA and Canada and is the only portion of all US boundaries still in dispute with respect to sovereignty. Maine also has several unique geographical features.

Its largest lake is Moosehead Lake, and its highest mountain is Mt. Katahdin, which is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. It is the only state that borders exactly one other state. Maine is the northernmost state in the New England region and the easternmost state in the country (the easternmost city in the United States is Eastport, Maine), bordered on the west by New Hampshire. The Canadian province of Quebec is to the northwest.

To the south and east is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the northeast is New Brunswick, a province of Canada. See:. Senators from Maine, List of Maine State Senators, As Maine goes, so goes Vermont. See also: List of Governors of Maine, U.S.

Mitchell, Olympia Snowe, and Hannibal Hamlin.
Famous politicians from Maine include James Blaine, Edmund Muskie, Margaret Chase Smith, William Cohen, George J. The other two go to the highest vote-winner in each of the state's two congressional districts. Since 1969, two of Maine's four electoral votes are awarded based on the winner of the statewide election.

Maine politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, are noted for having more moderate views than many in their party. The Green Party also elected John Eder to the office of State Representative in Maine, its highest elected official nationwide. The Green Party candidate won 9 percent of the vote in the 2002 gubernatorial election, more than in any election for a statewide office for that party. The Reform Party of Ross Perot achieved a great deal of success in Maine in the 1992 and 1996 Presidential elections: in 1992 Perot came in second in Maine to Bill Clinton, despite the longtime presence of the Bush family summer home in Kennebunkport, and in 1996, Maine was again Perot's best state.

Longley from 1975 to 1979 and Angus King from 1995 to 2003). Maine has had two independent Governors recently (James B. Maine voters tend to accept independent and third-party candidates more frequently than most states. Maine has since become a left-leaning swing state, but has voted Democratic in four straight elections, casting its votes for Bill Clinton twice, Al Gore in 2000, and John Kerry in 2004.

In 1968, Hubert Humphrey became the first Democrat in half a century to carry Maine (sans for the 1964 landslide victory of Lyndon Johnson), thanks to the presence of his running mate, Maine Senator Edmund Muskie. Beginning in the 1960s, Maine began to lean toward the Democrats. Roosevelt received the Electoral Votes of every state other than Maine and Vermont. In the 1936 presidential election, Franklin D.

In the 1930s, it was one of very few states which remained dominated by the Republican Party. Maine's politics are notable for several reasons, and it is dramatic. senators are Susan Collins (Republican) and Olympia Snowe (Republican). Its two U.S.

The capital of Maine is Augusta and its governor is John Baldacci (Democrat). Maine's original capital was Portland until 1832, when it was moved to the more geographically central city of Augusta. This has become known as the Missouri Compromise because admitting both states into the union kept the balance between slave and free states. Because it was physically separated from the rest of Massachusetts and was growing in population at a rapid rate, it became the 23rd state along with Missouri on March 15, 1820.

The province within its current boundaries became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1652, and was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when the United States was formed. Eastern Maine north of the Kennebec River was more sparsely settled and was known in the 17th century as the Territory of Sagadahock. Originally settled in 1607 by the Plymouth Company, the coastal areas of western Maine first became the Province of Maine in 1622 land patent. The state is chilly, with moderately warm summers but very few actual hot days.

Four U.S. Navy ships were named USS Maine in honor of the state. postal abbreviation is ME. Its U.S. Another possibility for the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used to speak of going to the mainland as 'going over to the Main".

It is probably named after the French province of Maine. Maine is a state of the United States. State soft drink: Moxie. State cat: Maine Coon.

State song: State of Maine Song. State fish: Atlantic salmon. State insect: Honeybee. State mammal: Moose.

State tree: White Pine. State flower: White Pinecone and Tassel. State bird: Chickadee. Lewiston MAINEiacs, minor league hockey, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Bangor Lumberjacks, minor league baseball, Can-Am League. Portland Pirates, minor league hockey, American Hockey League. baseball). Portland Sea Dogs, minor league baseball, Eastern League (U.S.

Non-Religious – 11%. Other Religions – 1%. Other Christian – 1%. Roman Catholic – 31%.

Protestant – 52%. 1% Mixed race. 0.6% American Indian. 0.5% Black.

0.7% Asian. 0.7% Hispanic. 96.5% White non-Hispanic. List of Maine rivers.

List of Maine counties.