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