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 Big Cypress Fox Squirrels Demotivation 4
Green Treefrogs Tips for Swamp Hikers
 Identifing photograph  Pig Frogs Uncommon Southwest Florida birds
Orchids ~ Wading birds OGWIT book What Birds Think
Mammals ~ Spiders Invasive Reptiles & Amphibians Identifying lights in the sky

Turtles ~ Snakes

Collective names for wildlife

Improbable wildlife

 

December history

1 - Rosa Parks arrested in Montgomery, Alabama (1955)

7 - Delaware first state to adopt the new constitution of the United States (1787)

14 - Roald Amundsen first person to reach the South Pole (1911)

15 - Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments) became effective with ratification by Virginia (1791)

23 - Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear during a fit of depression (1888)

25 - William the Conqueror crowned King of England (1066)

27 - Charles Darwin sets sail aboard the HMS Beagle for a five-year journey (1831)


December holidays: 21-Winter Solstice ~ 25-Christmas

 

December Birthdays

1 Bette Midler
5 Walt Disney
8 James Thurber
9 Emmett Kelly
10 Emily Dickinson
12 Dionne Warwick
16 Ludwig van Beethoven
18 Betty Grable
25 Humphrey Bogart
27 Marlene Dietrich