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

October history 1 - Model T car goes on sale for the first time (1908) 4 - East and West Germany are united as the Republic of Germany (1990) 6 - The Jazz Singer, first full-length "talkie" film, opens (1927) 8 - The Great Fire of Chicago erupts (1871) 20 - U.S. & Britain set US-Canadian border at the 49th parallel (1818) 24 - Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in jail for income tax evasion (1931) 26 - Shootout at the O.K. Corral between the Clanton and Earp families happens (1861) 27 - NYC subway begins operating, the first underground rail system in the world (1904) 31 - Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to Wittenberg's alace church

October holidays: 16-World Food Day ~ 31-Halloween

October Birthdays 1 Julie Andrews 2 Groucho Marx 4 Frederic Remington 9 John Lennon 10 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 11 Eleanor Roosevelt 14 Dwight D. Eisenhower 16 Angela Lansbury 20 Bela Lugosi 23 Johnny Carson 25 Johann Strauss 31 Dan Rather