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at 7900 feet, is the deepest canyon in North America, deeper even than the Grand Canyon?

Indiana was the name given to the Indiana Territory by the United States Congress. It means?

The state of Kansas was named after the river?

This state makes your heart pound and your senses tingle. The celebration of it symbolizes the intensity of spirit of Louisiana?

Louisiana is another state, that bears the mark of Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle. The first European to descend the Mississippi River to the delta, this French explorer named the area La Louisianne after who in 1682?