Amanda Beard

In November 24, 2004 Amanda Beard appeared in FOX's Quintuplets. The three largest Protestant denominations in Arkansas are: Baptist (42% of the total state population), Methodist (9%), Pentecostal (6%). A NASCAR fan, Beard now dates Nextel Cup Series driver Carl Edwards. The religious affiliations of the people are as follows:. Beard dated South African swimmer Ryk Neethling for nearly six years, but that relationship ended in the Spring of 2005. Arkansas, like most other southern states, is overwhelmingly Protestant. She also won silver in the 200-meter individual medley and finished fourth in the 100-meter breaststroke. The five largest ancestry groups in the state are: American (15.9%), African American (15.7%), Irish (9.5%), German (9.3%), English (7.9%).

Olympic Swim Trials and competed in the 2004 Olympic Games, where she won gold in the 200-meter breaststroke, her first individual gold medal. Racially, Arkansas is:. She made a good showing at the 2004 U.S. 48.8% is male, and 51.2% is female. In 2003 she became the world champion and world record holder for the 200m breaststroke.
As of 2003, the state's population was 2,725,714 according to Census Bureau estimates. She won a bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2000 Games. See also: List of people from Arkansas.

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. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium. She won silver medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes, and a gold in the medley relay. The state's argiculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Born in Newport Beach, California, Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 games at the age of 14. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2003 was $24,384, 50^th in the nation. Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981) is an American Olympic swimmer. The state's total gross state product for 2003 was $76 billion.

Hot Springs National Park and the Buffalo National River can also be found within its borders. Arkansas is home to many caves, such as Blanchard Springs Caverns. Both are fertile agricultural areas and home to much of the crop agriculture in the state. The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion of the state and consists of a more undulating landscape.

It gets this name from the formation of its rich alluvial soils formed from the flooding of the mighty Mississippi. The land along the Mississippi river is referred to as the "Delta" of Arkansas. The so called Lowlands are better known as the Delta and the Grand Prairie. Northwest Arkansas is part of the Ozark Plateau including the Boston Mountains, to the south are the Ouachita Mountains and these regions are divided by the Arkansas River; the southern and eastern parts of Arkansas are called the Lowlands.

Arkansas is a beautiful land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Tennessee and Mississippi, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma. The eastern Arkansas border is the Mississippi River. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally.

The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships.. See: List of Arkansas Governors. Each office's term is four years long.

In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party. This arrangement is extremely rare in the modern South, were a majority of state and local offices are held by Republicans. The State Legislature is overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, and a majority of Statewide offices are held by Democrats. Three seats are held by Democrats Marion Berry (District 1), Vic Snyder (District 2), Michael Avery Ross (District 4), and one by Republican John Boozman (District 3).

The state has four congressional districts. Senators are Democrats Blanche L. Lincoln and Mark Pryor. Arkansas' two U.S. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a result of Clinton's election to the presidency.

This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the Whitewater Scandal. The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. The traditional form "arkanSAW" was made official by the state legislature in 1881.

The state is the only one with an official pronunciation. Under the Military Reconstruction Act, Congress, by June 1868, had readmitted Arkansas, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861 during the American Civil War. On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state.

Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo and Osage Nation. The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. It was admitted in 1836.

postal abbreviation is AR, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Ark. Its U.S. The population according to the 2000 census was 2,673,400. Arkansas (pronounced [ˈɑrkənˌsɔ]) is a southern state in the southern United States.

Williams Baptist College. University of the Ozarks. University of Central Arkansas. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

University of Arkansas at Monticello. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.

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