Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know
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Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/1
- ... that Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds that receive significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
- ... that Aaron Lopez was denied citizenship in Colonial Rhode Island because he was Jewish, but he later became Newport's wealthiest resident?
- ... that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/2
- ... that Maschaug Pond in Rhode Island is considered particularly vulnerable to storm surge due to certain environmental conditions?
- ...that the U.S. Navy's Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island grants Master of Arts degrees?
- ...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?
Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/3
- ... that Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
- ...that the anti-smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775 provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the Sloop of War Providence, the first warship in what became the United States Navy?
- ...that Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/4
- ... that in 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements?
- ... that the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island?
- ... that Newport, Rhode Island's historic Hunter House had been scheduled for demolition before Ralph Carpenter's restoration, which has been called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?
Portal:Rhode Island/Did you know/5
- ... that Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
- ... that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
- ... that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?