Amanda Beard

In November 24, 2004 Amanda Beard appeared in FOX's Quintuplets. Other minor league sports teams:. A NASCAR fan, Beard now dates Nextel Cup Series driver Carl Edwards. The Minor League baseball teams are:. Beard dated South African swimmer Ryk Neethling for nearly six years, but that relationship ended in the Spring of 2005. The religious affiliations of Idaho are as follows:. She also won silver in the 200-meter individual medley and finished fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke. Idaho is also the only state to have large numbers of both Mormons and non-Mormon Christians.

Olympic Swim Trials and competed in the 2004 Olympic Games, where she won gold in the 200-meter breaststroke, her first individual gold medal. As with many other western states, the percentage of non-religious people in Idaho is fairly high when compared to the percentage of non-religious in the nation as a whole. She made a good showing at the 2004 U.S. The five largest ancestries in the state are: German (18.9%), English (18.1%), Irish (10%), American (8.4%), Norwegian (3.6%). In 2003 she became the world champion and world record holder for the 200m breaststroke. The racial makeup of Idaho is:. She won a bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2000 Games. As of 2003, the population of Idaho was 1,366,332.

Her childlike manner captured the imagination of the media, and she was often photographed clutching her teddy bear, Harold, who joined her on the medal stand. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a government lab for nuclear energy research, is also an important part of the eastern Idaho economy. She won silver medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes, and a gold in the medley relay. Important industries in Idaho are food processing, lumber and wood products, machinery, chemical products, paper products, electronics manufacturing, silver and other mining, and tourism. Born in Newport Beach, California, Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 games at the age of 14. Other important agricultral products are beans, lentils, sugar beets, cattle, dairy products, wheat, and barley. Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981) is an American Olympic swimmer. Idaho is an important agricultural state, producing nearly one third of the potatoes grown in the United States.

The Per Capita Income for 2003 was $25,902. The state's gross product for 2003 was $40 billion. Idaho's lowest point is in Lewiston, where the Clearwater River joins the Snake River and continues into Washington. Idaho's highest point is Borah Peak in the Lost River Mountains north of Mackay.

Other significant rivers include the Boise River and the Payette River. The major rivers in Idaho are the Snake River, the Clearwater River and the Salmon River. Shoshone Falls plunges down rugged cliffs from a height greater than that of Niagara Falls. The churning waters of Snake River rush through Hells Canyon, which is deeper than the Grand Canyon.

Idaho has towering, snow-capped mountain ranges, swirling white rapids, peaceful lakes and steep canyons. Idaho has a rugged landscape with some of the largest unspoiled natural areas in the country. Idaho is a Rocky Mountains state with exciting scenery and enormous natural resources. Idaho borders Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and the Canadian province of British Columbia (the Idaho-BC border which is 48 miles long). See: List of Idaho counties.

House of Representatives: Idaho has two House Representatives. United States Senators:. Idaho has a bicameral legislature, elected from 35 legislative districts, each represented by one Senator and two Representatives. The constitution of Idaho provides for 3 branches of government: the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

See: List of Idaho Governors. The current Governor of Idaho is Dirk Kempthorne (Republican), re-elected in 2002. In 2002 the Aryan Nations compound, which had been located in Hayden Lake, Idaho, was confiscated as a result of a court case, and the organization moved out of state. Boise recently installed an impressive stone Human Rights Memorial featuring quotations from Anne Frank and many other writers extolling human freedom and equality.

Although Idaho is a conservative state politically, the vast majority of its residents reject such hateful ideologies. These groups are most heavily concentrated in the northern part of the state, particularly in the vicinity of Coeur d'Alene, a resort town. A troubling recent development in the Idaho panhandle region has been the location therein of a few right-wing extremist and "survivalist" political groups, most notably one holding Neo-Nazi views, the Aryan Nations. Hewlett-Packard has operated a large plant in Boise, in southwestern Idaho, since the 1970s, devoted primarily to Laserjet printers.[1] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar04.html).

manufacturer of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. Boise is the home of Micron Technology Inc., the only U.S. Since in the late 1970s Boise has emerged as a center of semiconductor manufacturing. Today, Idaho's industrial economy is growing, as plants are built to process the state's rich agricultural and natural resources.

Although Idaho's dependence on mining has decreased, the state remains a top producer of silver and lead. By the 1890s, for example, Idaho exported more lead than any other state. As Idaho approached statehood, mining and other extractive industries became increasingly important to her economy. Idaho still operates under its original (1889) state constitution.

Sectionalism in early Idaho was abated by moving the University of Idaho from its planned location in Eagle Rock (near Idaho Falls) to Moscow in northern Idaho. An interesting fact is that Idaho almost never became a state - in 1887, President Grover Cleveland refused to sign a bill that would have combined southern Idaho with Nevada and northern Idaho with the Washington Territory. state on July 3, 1890, the population was 88,548. When President Benjamin Harrison signed the law admitting Idaho as a U.S.

The 1861 discovery of gold in Idaho and the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1869 brought many new people to the territory, including Chinese laborers who came to work the mines. In 1865, Boise replaced Lewiston as capital. Almost immediately, a public school system was created, stage coach lines were established and a newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, began publication. The political stability of the territorial period encouraged settlement.

On March 4, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act creating Idaho Territory. When organized as a territory in 1863, Idaho's total population was under 17,000. While thousands passed through Idaho during the California gold rush of 1849, few people settled there. The first organized town in Idaho was Franklin, settled in 1860 by Mormon pioneers. Idaho was subsequently part of Oregon Territory and later Washington Territory, fur trading and missionary work attracting the first settlers to the region.

At that time, approximately 8,000 Native Americans lived in the region. The Lewis and Clark expedition entered present-day Idaho on August 12, 1805, at the Lemhi Pass. Eventually the controversy was forgotten, and modern-day Idaho was given the made-up name when the Idaho Territory was formally created in 1863. Willing suggested "Idaho," an Indian term he claimed meant "gem of the mountains." It was later revealed Willing had made up the name himself, and the original Idaho territory was re-named Colorado because of it.

When a name was being selected for new territory, eccentric lobbyist George M. Idaho is perhaps the only state to be named as the result of a hoax. The USS Idaho was named in honor of this state. postal abbreviation is ID.

Its capital is Boise and the U.S. Idaho is a state located in the northwestern United States. See Category:People from Idaho. Idaho Steelheads.

Idaho Stampede. Idaho Falls Chukars. Boise Hawks. Non-Religious — 20%.

Non-Christian Religions — 0%. Mormon — 16%. Catholic — 16%. Other Protestants/general Protestants — 22%.

Presbyterian — 3%. Lutheran — 3%. Methodist — 10%. Baptist — 10%.

Protestant — 48%