It’s Tuesday and you know what that means at Statesman Ties. Time to hear some fun facts about our featured country this week: Hong Kong, the country that inspired our Hong Kong tie. Fun Fact 1: The Sleeping Beauty Castle at Hong Kong Disneyland is the only one to feature natural mountains in the background [...]
MY CALIFORNIA DREAM: HOW I MET MY HUSBAND Recently the company Statesman Ties reached out to me about their unique ties. Eric chose the California tie right away, and we had our amazing friend Erin from Erin K. Photo take some pictures for us. This weekend he’s out of town camping, which has made me miss him a WHOLE lot. I’m asked [...]
Welcome back to Fun Fact Tuesday at Statesman Ties. This week we’re talking about Honduras, the country that inspired our Honduras tie. Fun Fact 1: Copan is a Mayan city built between 400 and 800 B.C.E. It is considered one of the most spectacular cities created by the Mayans and is the most important site [...]
Welcome back to Fun Fact Tuesday at Statesman Ties. This week we’re talking about Ghana, the country that inspired our Ghana tie. Fun Fact 1: Lake Volta is the largest man-made lake in the entire world. It’s so big that it can be seen from space! The lake covers nearly 4% of Ghana’s area. It [...]
Welcome back to Fun Fact Tuesday at Statesman Ties. This week we’re talking about a dreamy Mediterranean country, Greece, which inspired our Greece tie. Fun Fact 1: The Monasteries in Meteora are the second most important site in Greece (the first is the Acropolis!). They’re one of the only UNESCO World Heritage sites to qualify [...]
This week at Statesman Ties we’re discussing Ecuador, the country named after the equator line! This is the county that inspired our Ecuador tie. Fun Fact 1: As we already hinted at, Ecuador is along the equatorial bulge, which means that Ecuador’s highest mountain, Mount Chimborazo, is the point on Earth that is closest to [...]
Welcome back to Fun Fact Tuesday at Statesman Ties. This week we’re talking about Germany, the country that inspired our Germany tie. Fun Fact 1: Germany is a land of inventors. Germans invented the light bulb, calculator, car, insulin, clarinet, pocket watch, television, paraffin, gasoline and diesel engines, motorcycle, jet engine, LCD screens, and even [...]
We’re back this week at Statesman Ties to talk about the cultural heavyweight, France, the county that inspired our France tie. Fun Fact 1: The shortest reigning king in history was Louis XIX, who ruled France for a mere 20 minutes before he abdicated himself in favor of his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux. Good [...]
This week at Statesman Ties we’re talking about Finland, the land of saunas. This is the county that inspired our Finland tie. Fun Fact 1: October 13th is Finland’s annual Day of For Failure. Finland takes a pretty optimistic view of failure, citing that it takes failure to finally become successful. Either way, we think [...]
This week here on Fun Fact Tuesday at Statesman Ties we’re going to be talking about The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is the country that inspired our Congo tie. Fun Fact 1: Congo is an incredibly diverse nation with over 200 ethnic groups represented and nearly 250 languages spoken within its borders. Kinshasa, the [...]