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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

 

June history

2 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-day winning streak on Jeopardy (2004)

6 - The YMCA is founded in London, England (1844)

8 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun (452)

12 - Philippines decalres independence fropm Spain (1898)

15 - King John seals the Magna Carta (1215)

16 - Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space in the Vostok 6 (1963)

18 - Sally Ride is the first American woman in space in the Challenger (1983)

20 - The movie "Jaws" is released (1975)

24 - Soviet Russia begins the Berlin blockade (1948)

26 - United Nations charter signed in San Francisco by 50 nations (1945)

28 - Archduke Ferdinand assassinated, beginning World War I (1914)

30 - 26th Amendment to the Constitution enacted, lowering the voting age to 18 (1971)


June holidays: 14-Flag Day ~ 21-Summer Solstice

 

June Birthdays

1 Morgan Freeman
7 Rocky Graaziano
8 Frank Lloyd Wright
9 Cole Porter
10 Judy Garland
11 Jacques Cousteau
11 Vince Lombardi
12 Anne Frank
17 Dean Martin
18 Paul McCartney
19 Lou Gehrig
25 George Orwell
28 Mel Brooks