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'''Washington''', often referred to as Washington State, is the forty-second state to enter into the Union. The state is named after the first president [[George Washington]]. Its capital is Olympia, and its largest city is Seattle.
==Notable people from Washington==
Bob Barker, host of the long-running game show ''The Price is Right'', was born in Darrington.
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the influential grunge band Nirvana, was from Aberdeen.
[[Bill Gates]], co-founder of [[Microsoft]] and the world's richest man as of 2007, lives in Redmond.
[[Jimi Hendrix]], an influential rock guitarist of the late 1960s, was botn in Seattle.
Gary Larson, cartoonist known for his strip ''The Far Side'', was born in Tacoma.
[[Bill Nye]], engineer best known for his children's television series ''Bill Nye the Science Guy'', studied at Washington State University in Pullman.
[[Chief Seattle]], a Native American leader who converted to Roman Catholicism, lent his name to the city of Seattle.
John Stockton, the all-time NBA leader in assists and steals, was born and raised in Spokane.
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