New Jersey
About New Jersey
New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area. According to a 2025 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, it is the 11th-most populous state, with over 9.5 million residents, its highest estimated count ever. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau. It is the most densely populated U.S. state.
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After the American Revolution, for three decades in New Jersey, women and men had exactly the same voting rights, and women were allowed to vote — not in national elections, but in New Jersey they could, and they did vote.
from 336: No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad, 2020-08-28 at 00:30:23 · read transcript
Other times New Jersey came up
Before they came along, there were nine species of dinosaur had been discovered and named, and between the two of them, by the time they both died, they'd named 136 species between them, including all the ones you've heard of, all the big ones, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Triceratops, all those guys. They kind of liked each other at first. They met in 1867, and they named species after one another. A giant serpent from New Jersey was called Mosasaurus copianus after Cope and vice versa. But I'm not sure that was because they liked him because it actually is Cope anus, copianus. Is it?
30: No Such Thing As A Song In The Sound Of Music, 2014-10-11 · listen
Set of rules we have they're called the knickerbocker rules they were written in New York and but the thing was the teams were from New York but there wasn't much room to play in New York so they always played in New Jersey and so if you have to schlep all the way over the river to New Jersey obviously you don't want people turning up half an hour later an hour later whatever so that's why that was the first rule it was.
403: No Such Thing As The Buckingham Palace All-Day Breakfast, 2021-12-10 · listen
Founded by a yachtsman called David Lachford. It is for people who have massively screwed up sailing their ships or yachts. He pranged a boy. He won't? A B-U-O-Y, a boy. A boy. You have to say it in the New Jersey accent. A boy. He pranged a boy. It was very embarrassing. It was broad daylight. You're not meant to bump into the boys. So he did that.
No Such Thing As Catherine Of Croydon, 2024-10-31 · listen
That was in the Constitution. The phrase, we the people of the United States. In an earlier draft, it was, we the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. He said, I think we've got an edit in here. He came up with that lovely phrase.
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336: No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad put 2 places on the map.
- Rosetta · Egypt
Coordinates: 40.0000, -74.5000