Odds & Ends Information Just for Fun Weekly Journal CREW volunteer reference Demotivation 1 Quotations Wildlife Profiles Demotivation 2 Thoughts Ferns of South Florida Demotivation 3 Daisy's Holiday Greetings Big Cypress Fox Squirrels Tips for Swamp Hikers Green Treefrogs Uncommon Southwest Florida birds  Photographs  Pig Frogs What Birds Think Orchids ~ Wading birds OGWIT book Identifying lights in the sky Mammals ~ Spiders Invasive Reptiles & Amphibians Warped cartoons Turtles ~ Snakes Collective names for wildlife

May history 2 - U.S. Special Operations Forces kill Osama bin Laden (2011) 6 - The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flames in New Jersey (1937) 7 - British passenger ship Lusitania topedoed by a German submmarine (1915) 10 - Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways linked at Promontory Point, Utah (1869) 17 - New York Stock Exchange established (1792) 18 - Mount St. Helens volcano erupts in Washington state (1980) 20 - Charles Lindenbergh takes off in the Spirit of St. Louis (1917) 20 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932) 21 - American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton (1861)

May holidays: 12-Mother's Day ~ May 31-Memorial Day

May Birthdays 3 Golda Meir 7 Johannes Brahms 8 Harry S Truman 11 Irving Berlin 12 Florence Nightingale 18 Pope John Paul II 21 Raymond Burr 22 Richard Wagner 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 Vincent Price 30 Benny Goodman