August 3, 2006


If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses






Holler!
Half a pound
For half a dollar
Isn't that
A cheerful earful?
Burma Shave
1937


The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty
. Nelson Rockefeller




GEOGRAPHY
Part 3 of 16
  • Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  • Europe has no deserts - it is the only continent without one.
  • Forty-six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean; that's around 6 sextillion gallons of water. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
  • French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first city in the US to put fluoride in their water.
  • Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.



    • A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
    Samuel Johnson



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Herbert Hoover From his youth he was known as Bert to friends
    Herbert Hoover 1929-1933



    >What can fill a room but takes up no space?



    I had a great idea this morning, but I didn't like it.



    An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    Bill Vaughn



    Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.