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

January history 3 - Alaska admitted as the 49th U.S. state (1959) 7 - Patent issued for the first typewriter (1714) 21 - USS Nautilus, world's first nuclear powered submarine, launched (1954) 23 - Elizabeth Blackwell awarded her M.D., becoming America's first woman doctor (1849) 24 - California gold rush begins (1848) 25 - King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (1533) 27 - Russian army liberates Auschwitz death camp (1945)

January holidays: 1-New Year ~ 21-Squirrel Appreciation Day

January Birthdays 1 Betsy Ross 6 Joan of Arc 7 Nicolas Cage 8 Elvis Presley 14 Andy Rooney 14 Albert Schweitzer 17 Muhammad Ali 17 Betty White 19 Dolly Parton 24 Neil Diamond 27 Lewis Carroll 30 Franklin D. Roosevelt