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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

 

April history

3 - Pony Express service begins (1860)

6 - first Olympics of the modern era held in Athens, Greece (1896)

8 - 17th Amendment ratified requiring direct popular election of U.S. senators (1913)

11 - Civil Rights Act signed into law by President Johnnson (1968)

15 - Titanic sinks (1912)

19 - Revolutionary War in America begins (1775)

21 - Battle of San Jacinto happens; Texans defeat the Mexican forces and achieve indpendence

28 - Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against Captain Bligh on the ship Bounty (1789)

30 - George Washington becomes the first U.S. President (1789)


April holidays: 20-Easter ~ 22-Earth Day

 

April Birthdays

1 Debbie Reynolds
4 Gil Hodges
5 Spencer Tracy
7 William Wordsworth
9 W.C. Fields
15 Leonardo da Vinci
19 Eliot Ness
21 Queen Elizabeth II
23 Roy Orbison
26 Carol Burnett
29 Duke Ellington