Michael Phelps

In April 11, 2005 Phelps was a guest judge in the Miss USA beauty pageant. Other minor league sports teams:. Phelps cannot swim for the team, however, because his endorsement deal with Speedo has caused him to forfeit his amateur status. The Minor League baseball teams are:. Phelps is also serving as a volunteer assistant coach and is taking classes, intending to major in sports marketing or sports management. The religious affiliations of Idaho are as follows:. Phelps is following his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who left Phelps' previous swim team to become the head swimming coach of the University of Michigan varsity swim team. Idaho is also the only state to have large numbers of both Mormons and non-Mormon Christians.

As of 2005, Phelps is attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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. He was also fined $250, required to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting, and to give speeches to students at three high schools by June 1, 2005. The five largest ancestries in the state are: German (18.9%), English (18.1%), Irish (10%), American (8.4%), Norwegian (3.6%). On December 29, 2004, Phelps was sentenced to 18 months of probation. The racial makeup of Idaho is:. Phelps pled guilty to driving while impaired, avoiding charges of driving under the influence, underage drinking and failure to stop at a stop sign. As of 2003, the population of Idaho was 1,366,332.

His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a government lab for nuclear energy research, is also an important part of the eastern Idaho economy. 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. Important industries in Idaho are food processing, lumber and wood products, machinery, chemical products, paper products, electronics manufacturing, silver and other mining, and tourism. 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. Other important agricultral products are beans, lentils, sugar beets, cattle, dairy products, wheat, and barley. Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004. Idaho is an important agricultural state, producing nearly one third of the potatoes grown in the United States.

See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The Per Capita Income for 2003 was $25,902. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. The state's gross product for 2003 was $40 billion. 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. Idaho's lowest point is in Lewiston, where the Clearwater River joins the Snake River and continues into Washington. Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay. Idaho's highest point is Borah Peak in the Lost River Mountains north of Mackay.

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. Other significant rivers include the Boise River and the Payette River. On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). The major rivers in Idaho are the Snake River, the Clearwater River and the Salmon River. 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. Shoshone Falls plunges down rugged cliffs from a height greater than that of Niagara Falls. 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. The churning waters of Snake River rush through Hells Canyon, which is deeper than the Grand Canyon.

4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. Idaho has towering, snow-capped mountain ranges, swirling white rapids, peaceful lakes and steep canyons. and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. 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. Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. Idaho borders Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming and the Canadian province of British Columbia (the Idaho-BC border which is 48 miles long). Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo. See: List of Idaho 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. House of Representatives: Idaho has two House Representatives. 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. United States Senators:. 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. Idaho has a bicameral legislature, elected from 35 legislative districts, each represented by one Senator and two Representatives. Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record. The constitution of Idaho provides for 3 branches of government: the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. See: List of Idaho Governors. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The current Governor of Idaho is Dirk Kempthorne (Republican), re-elected in 2002. Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. 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. 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). Boise recently installed an impressive stone Human Rights Memorial featuring quotations from Anne Frank and many other writers extolling human freedom and equality.

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. Although Idaho is a conservative state politically, the vast majority of its residents reject such hateful ideologies. 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). These groups are most heavily concentrated in the northern part of the state, particularly in the vicinity of Coeur d'Alene, a resort town. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. 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. 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. 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).

Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). 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%