You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State. But its nickname is the Centennial State.

你可能会认为科罗拉多州应该会因落基山脉而被人们了解。

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Searching for nuggets of gold and silver was important in a Rocky Mountain state where even today mining plays a significant role in the economy.

在这个洛基山区的州中，对天然金矿银矿的寻找曾经非常重要，即使是在今天，矿业仍在该州的经济中起着重要作用。

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You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State.

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And now a new partnership in Colorado is poised to leverage space and energy technologies to bring down-to-Earth economic benefits to the Rocky Mountain State.

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They formally formed Rocky Mountain in 2005 when Rodgers decided he wanted to leave Los Angeles for his home state of Utah.

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In Colorado, meanwhile, wildfires threatened some of the state's most popular summer tourist destinations over the weekend, demolishing nearly two dozen homes near Rocky Mountain National Park and emptying hotels and campgrounds, according to the Associated Press.

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