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

September history 2 - Great Fire of London begins (1666) 4 - Manhattan discovered by Henry Hudson (1609) 7 - Brazil declares independence from Portugal (1822) 13 - U.S. Congress chooses New York as the Federal Capital (1788) 16 - General Motors founded in Flint, Michigan (1908) 19 - New Zealand first country to grant women the right to vote (1893) 26 - first televised presidential debate (Kennedy-Nixon, 1960) 28 - Norman conquest of England begins (1066) 29 - Congress creates the United States Army (1780)

September holidays: Sept. 1 - Labor Day ~ Sept. 22 - National Ice Cream Cone Day

September Birthdays 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs 5 - Bob Newhart 8 - Peter Sellers 12 - Jesse Owens 13 - Mel Torme 15 - Agatha Christie 18 - Greta Garbo 21 - H.G. Wells 24 - Jim Henson 26 - T.S. Eliot 26 - George Gershwin 28 - Michelangelo