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THE FLAG

On a cobalt blue background in the upper left quarter is a five–pointed silver star between 2 sprays sagebrush crossed to form a half wreath ;accross the top^of the wreath is a golden scroll with the words ,in bnlack letters, " BATTLE BORN ".The name " Nevada " is beneath the star in, gold letters. The current Nevada state flag design was adopted march 26 1929,and revised in 1991.

HISTORY

The northeastern Nevada has been occupied by native Americans for a least the past 10.000 years.

The first western Europeans entered the area in the early in the 19th scentury. At the beginning of the 1860’s the mountain cities were the scene of a number of mining " boom "with such communities as Placerville,Cornupia,Goldcreek. Other similar mountain cities survived serveral boom and brist cycles and remain viable communities today.

ABOUT VIRGINIA CITY

History of Nevada is that of Ghost Towns.There is Virginia City, which was the silver king of Nevada. Now Virginia City is a Ghost Town and many tourists go and visit it with a little train which travels in the desert.

SPORTS :IRL

In Nevada there is IRL, which is a spectaculary race where cars drive very fast and where there are many accidents. In Nevada, the Speedway is called " Las Vegas motor Speedway ". For example, on the field of the Vegas.com 500 Indy Racing League a race was diverted around the wrecked car of Dennie Beechler's on Sunday,september 26th 1999 on the Las Vagas Motor Speedway.The race was plagued with 11 flags, resulting in70 laps run under caution.

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