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New Hampshire

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State

The Resume

    (June 21, 1788- )
    9th state to join
    First explored by Martin Pring (1603)
    First settlement was at Odiorne Point (1623)
    Nickname: Granite State
    Capital: Concord
    Size: 9,304 square miles (ranks 44th)
    Motto: Live Free Or Die
    Bird: Purple Finch
    Flower: Purple Lilac
    Tree: Paper (White) Birch
    Song: Old New Hampshire (unofficial)

Why New Hampshire might be annoying:

    They allow thirteen year old girls to marry with parental consent.
    Temperature ranges from -46ºF (January 28, 1925) to 106ºF (July 4, 1911).
    It has the shortest coastline of any state on the Atlantic (13 miles).

Why New Hampshire might not be annoying:

    The New Hampshire Primary is usually the first test for Presidential candidates.
    They have the highest ratio of representatives to people of any state legislature.
    The Pine Tree Riot and the capture of the British Fort William and Mary was prior to the Boston Tea Party and eventual American Revolution.
    They were the first colony to adopt a constitution claiming complete independence from England (January 5, 1776).
    They were the ninth state to ratify the US Constitution, completing the two-thirds majority needed to make it law.
    A granite stone took a natural formation that gave it the name 'The Old Man in the Mountain.'
    It is the home of Dartmouth College.
    The TV series 'Willy' was set in New Hampshire.
    Robert Frost's 'New Hampshire' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (May 11, 1924).

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 149 Votes: 67.79% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 23 Votes: 13.04% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 49 Votes: 59.18% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 24 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 30 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 128 Votes: 82.03% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 75 Votes: 61.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 37 Votes: 64.86% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 37 Votes: 45.95% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 74 Votes: 78.38% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 31 Votes: 58.06% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 94 Votes: 61.70% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 57 Votes: 38.60% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 92 Votes: 42.39% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 107 Votes: 53.27% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 271 Votes: 44.65% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 237 Votes: 53.59% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 306 Votes: 49.02% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 941 Votes: 61.11% Annoying