Michael Phelps

His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. Nebraska is also the name of a 1982 album by Bruce Springsteen, widely considered one of his best. Phelps, who was 19 at the time (21 is the legal drinking age in the U.S.), was arrested and cited for driving under the influence of alcohol. The USS Nebraska was named in honor of this State. On November 4, 2004, Phelps was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland for driving under the influence after being pulled over for running a stop sign in his 2005 Land Rover with two friends. State Song: Beautiful Nebraska. Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004. It is located on the edge of Tornado Alley.

See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Nebraska generally has cold winters and warm summers. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. The religious affiliations of the people of Nebraska are:. This gave Phelps an automatic entry into the medley relay, but as he was exhausted from the many races he had competed in over the preceding week, he gave up the butterfly leg to Crocker. The American medley team went on to win the event in world record time, and since he had raced in a preliminary heat of the medley relay, Phelps was also awarded a gold medal along with the team members that competed in the final. The five largest ancestry groups in Nebraska are: German (38.6%), Irish (12.4%), English (9.6%), Swedish (4.9%), Czech (4.9%). Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay. The racial makeup of the state is:.

On August 20, in the 100m butterfly final, Phelps defeated American teammate Ian Crocker (who holds the world record in the event) by just 0.04 seconds. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of Nebraska was 1,739,291. On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). Nebraska is known for its agriculture, especially beef and corn (aka maize). The episode only made it yet more clear that Phelps's participation in at least some of the relay events would depend solely on his performance in the individual events. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Nebraska's total state product in 2003 was $66 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $30,179, 24^th in the nation. They claimed that Phelps is not a top swimmer in the event and his presence could compromise the US team's performance in the name of what was called a "media circus" for Phelps to win eight gold medals. Nebraska is one of the six states of the Frontier Strip.

4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. Indeed, one of Nebraska's mottos is "Where the West begins", and a local legend even has it that the West begins precisely at the intersection of 13th and O Streets in Lincoln (where it is marked by a red brick star). and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. The eastern portion of the State could be considered part of the "Midwest", while the western and central portions are part of the "West", although the distinction between these regions is somewhat fluid. Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. In regional terms, Nebraska is located in the Great Plains, at the westernmost extent of the Grain Belt. Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo. The state has 93 counties; see List of Nebraska counties.

However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Aleksandr Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. The largest city in Nebraska is Omaha, and the capital is Lincoln. As his 4x100m freestyle relay team only won a bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200m freestyle, he fell just short of that record. Nebraska is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa and Missouri to the east, across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwest, and Wyoming to the west. Phelps had the chance to break that record in 2004 by competing in eight swimming events: the 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, the 200m individual medley, the 400m individual medley, the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. See List of Nebraska Governors. Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record. For the last four elections, Republicans have won all of Nebraska's electoral votes, and no Democrat has carried the state since Lyndon Johnson.

He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. Since 1991, two of Nebraska's five electoral votes are awarded based on the winner of the statewide election; the other three go to the highest vote-getter in each of the state's three congressional districts. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. In effect, the Assembly (the house) was abolished; as noted, today's Nebraska state legislators are referred to (especially by themselves) as "Senators". Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. Finally in 1934, due in part to the budgetary pressure of the Great Depression, Nebraska's unicameral legislature was put in place by a state initiative. In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200m individual medley (1:56.04). Nebraska's unicameral legislature today has rules that bills can contain only one subject, and must be given at least five days of consideration.

At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400m individual medley and set American marks in the 100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. Votes in these committees were secretive, and would sometimes add provisions to bills that neither house had approved. Five months after Sydney, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly and then broke his own record again at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54.58). Unicameral supporters also argued that a bicameral legislature had a significant undemocratic feature in the committees that reconciled Assembly and Senate legislation. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. Norris argued. Michael Phelps appeared at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15. For years, United States Senator George Norris and other Nebraskans encouraged the unicameral referendum.

Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). The Nebraska legislature can also override a governor's veto with a 3/5ths majority, in contrast to the 2/3rds majority required in some other states. The senators are elected with no party affiliation next to their names on the ballot, and the speaker and committee chairs are chosen at large, so that members of any party can be (and often are) chosen for these positions. Nebraska's Legislature is also the only one in the United States that is nonpartisan. Although this house is known simply as the "Legislature", its members still call themselves "senators".

Nebraska is the only state in the United States with a unicameral legislature, that is a legislature with only one house. As an example in Nebraska, Monowi, which in the 1930s had a population of 150, now (2005) has a population of one. "Rural flight" as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers. Between 1996 and 2004 almost half a million people, nearly half with college degrees, left the six states.

89% of the total number of cities in those states have fewer than 3000 people; hundreds have fewer than than 1000. Nebraska, in common with five other Mid-West states (Kansas, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota and Iowa), is feeling the brunt of falling populations. [1] (http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Journals/HPR/Vol06/nhrv06pc.html). The adoption of national prohibition in 1918 with Nebraska as the thirty-sixth state necessary to make prohibition a part of our constitution.

The National Arbor Day Foundation is still headquartered in Nebraska City. Arbor Day began in Nebraska. At that time, the capital was moved from Omaha to Lancaster, later renamed Lincoln after the recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867, shortly after the Civil War.

Many of the first farm settlers built their homes out of sod because they found so few trees on the grassy land. In the 1860s, the first great wave of homesteaders poured into Nebraska to claim free land granted by the federal government. The territorial capital of Nebraska was Omaha. The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law on May 30, 1854 which established the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

Much of the history of the State is the story of the impact of the Nebraska farmer. Nebraskans have practiced scientific farming to turn the Nebraska prairie into a land of ranches and farms. Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now a leading farming state. Nebraska a midwestern State of the United States, Nebraska gets its name from a Native American (Oto) word meaning "flat water", after the Platte River that flows through the State.

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Lincoln Saltdogs, minor league baseball. Omaha Royals, minor league baseball. Nebraska Cornhuskers, college football. Columbus area.

Norfolk area. Scottsbluff-Gering area. North Platte area. Hastings area.

Fremont area. Kearney area. Grand Island area. Lincoln metropolitan area.

Omaha metropolitan area (including Bellevue, Papillion, and La Vista). Interstate 680 (North Omaha loop). Interstate 480 (Metro Omaha loop). Interstate 180 (Lincoln spur).

Interstate 129. Interstate 76. Interstate 80. No Religion – 9%.

Non-Christian Religions – 1%. Other Christian – 1%. Roman Catholic – 28%. Other Protestants/general Protestant – 21%.

Presbyterian – 4%. Baptist – 9%. Methodist – 11%. Lutheran – 16%.

Protestant – 61%