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

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