var addthis_brand = "NETSTATE.COM"; function open_newwin(PAGE) { newwin=window.open(PAGE,"thewindow","scrollbars=yes,menubar=yes,toolbar=yes,width=620,height=350,resizable=yes"); } var months = new Array(13); months[1] = "January"; months[2] = "February"; months[3] = "March"; months[4] = "April"; months[5] = "May"; months[6] = "June"; months[7] = "July"; months[8] = "August"; months[9] = "September"; months[10] = "October"; months[11] = "November"; months[12] = "December"; var dateObj = new Date(document.lastModified) var lmonth = months[dateObj.getMonth() + 1] var nmonth = [dateObj.getMonth() + 1] var fyear = dateObj.getYear() if (fyear < 1900) { fyear = fyear + 1900} var date = dateObj.getDate() Comment = new Array( "It was the final day until my state report was due and I had no other websites to check. Good thing Netstate was here to help!", "Great site. Especially useful for us Brits doing the NY Times crossword! ", "Thanks for the very informational web-site on our US states. It will be very easy for our students to access for our Parade of States project ", "You guys have THE MOST information on states on the net!!! I just luv your site. ", "Thanx this really hepled me on my report on Texas! I just love the way you give your info! It gave the state bird, state seal,and tree and eveything ! It is great! love ya'll! (as they say in Texas)", "I come from Germany and I'm 15 years old. And now I have many informations about California. Thanx.", "Hey! This website is great for my state report. I live in California and am doing a report on Pennsylvania and i got a lot of info from here so thx! My whole class should come here!", "My 10 yr. old son found it difficult to get the information that he needed as he isn't fluent in computer.... I helped him and found your sight most helpful. The information is in easily read and understood form. Thank you. I'm glad to find sites that are informative as well as educational instead of all of the 'playing' sites. Thanks again ... a mom", "Your site is very easy to navigate! Thanks for the help!", "Thanks for the great help with my state project on West Virginia. I am only getting started, but we have to complete a 7 part project that includes paper maps, clay maps and written reports. It is great to have your site as a reference.", "My son (8)had a project on Hawaii and after searching the net we finally found a link to Netstate. WOW!!! We couldn't believe all of the info in one website. We had printed pictures of state flags that were tiny and the state flower, but the pics on NETSTATE were larger and the information much more detailed. Best of all, simple enough for a 3rd grade student to search through and find what he was looking for. GREAT SITE. You got me to Bookmark it, and I usually don't bother to use my bookmark, but I know we will be back :-)!!", "Thanks for all the useful information on your website to help me with my state project of Arizona for school.", "Hey, your site is great. It's so easy to find stuff I need. I got every thing I need for a report on Utah. I like it a lot!!!!! ....", "Great Site. A bookmark must site.", "This site is great. I especially like the news feature which allows me to keep up with the places I've lived. Now I don't have to get a USA Today on a weekly basis just to read old news. And there is much more here also. GREAT!! Thanks so much for the work on this site and drive on.", "This is an awesome site. You guys have done a great job. Very useful, informative and easy to navigate. Alot of interesting info can be found in here. Keep up the good work !!!!!!!!!!!", "this page rocks", "...... I team teach 73 4th and 5th graders in ......., CA. We are a small rural school with few local resources. Fortunately, we do have a computer lab with 20 computers linked to the internet. My students, who have very little experience on the internet, stumbled upon your site through Yahooligans. They were so excited to find such a wealth of information. I can't thank you enough. You not only made their day, but made researchers (and readers) of my wonderful students. Thanks again for giving them this success.", "Thanks for this great site! I was stuck on a crossword puzzle clue (Arkansas's motto) and your site helped me solve it. By the way, it was the first result in the search I did for 'state mottoes' in Netscape! I hope you're able to keep up your very helpful resource.", "I liked this site a lot- I think you should get it out more so people will know about it! It was very informational and helped a lot in my project I was doing on Texas. Thanks for the site-", "Great webstite now I can go to the 5th grade.", "i was working on my report for my mean teacher i am in the 7 th grade and my mean geography teacher gave me a project and i didnt know what to do so i was pulling anything up for info then i saw netstate on the screen and it has every thing i needed i was so happy it was like i had the project done before any one else now every time i have a project i pull up netstate and i am like so happy cause i have a dependable website to rely on for info I BACK U UP ALL THE WAY NETSTATE I LUV U GUYS", "hi i love your website its really cool.it helps me a lot and i come here every time i need to do a report. Last time i was here i had to do a report on Massachuttes and i got an a+.Now i have to do a report on Alabama. Thanks ", "Hi again last time I was here I was doing a report on Massachusetts and I came to this web-site and now I am doing a report on Alabama and I came right over to this web-site!!!! I like it a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh ya I got an A+ on my Massachusetts report I will come back and tell you how I do on my Alabama report!!!!!!", "This is one of the best and most comprehensive website.The website has been able to provide immense knowledge and material for my presentation.Thanx a lot guys !!!!! ", "Im going for a 4 (great score) And we have to do a poster,game,note book and outhers I think ill get it arizona is mine I got 10 of 10 YAY on the quiz.", "Thanks for your great site it really is good. With all the Info and pictures it helps a lot! I want to live in Massachusetts when I grow-up. I took tha quizz and got 10 out of 10!! Again you have a great web site! You also have GREAT info. Thanks a lot. Your Web-site fan, Lizzie.", "Darn it! Now, if that ain't just right up my asile. I recken ya'll got the best information on any state. Thank ya! Bobby Joe from West Virginia.", "This website was so cool I think every kid should go to this site!!!!!!!!", "Awesome Site!!! Thanks for sharing the Aloha of these beautiful islands with the world. It truely is a wonderful service you are providing.", "Your site has helped me so much on a state report for Hawaii. This site helped me so much I was doing a 300 point assignment in college. to come to this site! I'm telling all my friends to use this site.", "Thanks for such a wonderful site!!!!!!! I could not find out any info about Massacusetts and it was the last day to work on our project and when my teacher told me to go www.netstate.com i found out everything i needed to know and more!! My teacher called out my grade and it was a A+!!! thanks agian for a wonderful site.", "Hi! Your web makes me smiling - because it is shown in a very pleasantly way. My respect. Wish you all the best and a happy new year! Yours truly ... Tom", "When the child that I babysit for told me that he had to do a project on Kentucky, I didn't know where to start. When I found your website I was very thankfull that it had everything that he needed on it. You guys are great. I even found out some interesting things about the state that I live in. (Michigan) Thank you!", "hi i have to do a project on south carolina and this web site has been very very helpful to me! I will make sure that i will come to this web page next time!", "I'm almost done with nifty fifty ,thanx", "From Laurel Delaware here in the Good ole' (Slower Delaware) Nice job on the WEB site.", "hi i have to do a project on south carolina and this web site has been very very helpful to me! I will make sure that i will come to this web page next time!", "Thanks for a great site. Many of my students are using this site for their 'States Project'. I am using the site to correct their projects!! Thanks again from Wilmington High School in the Bay State.", "This is a great website. It's helping me find a ton of information on my state Pennsylvania. Thanks for helping me on my state report!", "I just wanted to thank you all for making this site. It has helped me successfully achieve an A+ on my state report! Everything about this site is pure bliss!!!", "I am studying American Culture at University and I needed to do a paper work about some states, and I found almost everything in this site. I'd like to sugest you also to include agricultural and industrial information about the states. But any way this site is GREAT!!! Cláudia - State: Santa Catarina - Country: Brazil", "I'm doing a project in school on Hawaii.i'm in grade 7.This sight was very helpful about getting info on Hawaii. Thanks!! :)", "Thank you. You really helped me with my project on Georgia great site!!!!!!!!!!!;)", "This website is awsome I got all the information I needed on Alabama!", "This is a wonderful site! I am moving from teaching Special Education for 6 years into general education where I will be teaching 4th grade. We teach Texas History at this age and this site will be extremely helpful. I have had a great time searching and playing around with the many things offered. Thank you!", "I have just got to let you know that I am an Instructional Aide for special needs children who have slight learning disabilities. Our 4th graders have been doing research on the states, just by accident I stumbled on your site. This has been the best thing that has happened to these children. It has been so difficult for them to do the research and when we discovered this site, well, it just made everyone's life a little easier. Anything the students were looking for could be obtained from your site. Thank you very, very much.", "I think this site is A++++++++ I love it! I do so many state reports and I caome right over here this sit helped me a lot! With all the good information and all the great pictures! Thank you! I repet THANK YOU! So very much for creating this site! I will totally come back here for my next stse porject! Gotta Go! Lizzie", "i have used this website for two years and it is very helpful thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "Thanks for the great site. I will be visiting your great state [Texas] before years end and if what I have read about your state and the friendship of your people I am sure I will have a time to remember The state of Texas fits into the state in Australia where I live 2 times so we all have one thing in common. All things large. Sincere regards from Australia. ", "All I can say is...Netstate saved my neck on my Illinois report! It was due in 3 days and I finished it just in time with all the info! Thanks!", "We have been learning about state flags and the history behind them. This sight has been very helpful in attempts to teach about cultural diversity, as Mississippi has a very rich and colorful history. Thanks a lot, Girl Scout Troop 230, Thomaston, Ga. 30286", "Good Morning, I am an EFL/ESL English Teacher here in North Japan. I teach 1st through 6th grade students at four different schools through out the week. I am currently teaching state flags as a form of vocabulary and also a bit of geography to help the students see the different aspects of America. I have been using the NETSTATE website for all of my teaching material on line and I must say that my children love learning the different things about our great country America. At the end of our studies (all 50 states) we will have a relay game to see who can find the state the fastest. This is a fun time. I will have a Digital video made so I can post it on the web for all to see when this happens. Keep up the great work guys and gals. You are making teaching in Japan a little more fun each day. Mark", "This a wonderful resource for students. I have a second grade class and we are doing state reports, the kids really love your site and I do too! 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