"You should where more sweaters"
Yowzers
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Posted on 01/28/2006 7:17:17 PM PST by alfa6
"You should where more sweaters"
Yowzers
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Experiencing a little Oregon sunshine, snip? :-)
I've been here just a few weeks short of two years and this is the worst stretch of no sunshine and pouring rain I've experienced. The yard is a mud swamp and the only one enjoying it is Sarge!
Wow, Mrs. Newhart certainly qualifies!
I can say I'm at least thankful it isn't snow but it is a bit tiresome. Good to see you ct.
Good evening PE.
We had the warmest January in 140 years.
1. The Cataldo mission is the oldest building in the state.
2. American Falls is unique from most communities because the entire town was moved in the mid-1920s when the original American Falls Dam was constructed.
3. Rexburg is home to Ricks College, the largest private two-year college in the nation.
4. Elk River is the home of the Idaho Champion Western Red Cedar Tree, the largest tree in the state. Estimated to be over 3000 years old this giant is more than 18 feet in diameter and stands 177 feet tall.
5. Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell was founded as the College of Idaho in 1891 and is the state's oldest four-year institution of higher learning.
6. Perched at 9,500 feet on Trinity Mountain is the highest fire lookout in the Boise National Forest.
7. In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
8. The city of Grace in the Gem Valley is most famous for their certified seed potatoes.
9. Blackfoot is home of the Eastern Idaho State Fair.
10. The Dworshak Reservoir is over 50 miles long. The Dworshak Dam is in Orofino.
11. Grangeville is located in north central Idaho. The community is considered the getaway to five wilderness areas and four national forests totaling 5 1/2 million acres. The total is second only to Alaska in designated wilderness area.
12. In 1896 Council Valley shortened its name to Council.
13. The Lewis & Clark Highway (United State Highway 12) is the shortest route from the midwest to the Pacific Coast and the longest highway within a national forest in the nation.
14. The elevation of Cambridge is 2,650 feet above sea level with the surrounding mountains reaching elevations around 8000 feet and plummeting to around 1500 feet in Hells Canyon.
15. The economy of Idaho City originally developed around gold mining in the 1860s.
16. Heyburn, originally named Riverton, is the fourth oldest community in the Mini-Cassia area and the second frontier town to be settled in what is now the county of Minidoka.
17. Bruneau Dunes State Park contains North America's tallest single structured sand dune. It stands 470 feet high.
18. Bruneau Canyon Overlook offers a view into a 1,200 foot-deep, 800-foot-wide river canyon.
19. Downey's first mercantile store, the W. A. Hyde Co., was built in 1894.
20. The Kamiah Valley is rich in the heritage and legends of the Nez Perce. It was here, among the ancestors of the present day Nez Perce, the Appaloosa horse was first bred, primarily for use as a war animal.
21. In 1973, the Sawtooth Recreation Area opened its doors north of Ketchum, making the community the gateway to the Sawtooths.
22. On August 8, 1905, Kimberly auctioned city lots for prices ranging from $100 to $750.
23. Idaho's world famous hot springs are located in Lava Hot Springs.
24. Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in America.
25. Shoshone Falls, The Niagara of the West, spills over a 212-foot drop near Twin Falls.
26. Kuna is known as the Gateway City to the Birds of Prey Natural Area.
27. Birds of Prey Wildlife Area is home to the world's most dense population of nesting eagles, hawks, and falcons.
28. At 5897 feet elevation, Mackay calls itself the Top of Idaho because it is the nearest city to Mt. Borah, the highest mountain in Idaho.
29. Soda Springs boasts the largest man-made geyser in the world.
30. Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. The elevation is 738 feet above sea level.
31. The Treasure Valley area around Nampa is known as Idaho's Banana Belt.
32. During the 1860s an Oregon Shoreline Railroad base camp called Boomerang was constructed in Payette.
33. Pocatello is home to Idaho State University.
34. Post Falls is known as Idaho's River City.
35. Saint Stanislaus Church, in Rathdrum, is the oldest brick church in the state of Idaho.
36. Rigby is known as the birthplace of television since it is Philo T. Farnsworth's hometown. Farnsworth pioneered television technology.
37. Under Idaho law only two forms of city government are allowed: a mayor/councilor or a council/manager form.
38. Shelley has been the home of the Idaho Annual Spud Day since 1927.
39. Sun Valley is recognized as the home of America's first destination ski resort.
40. Weiser is Home of the National Old Time Fiddlers Contest.
41. The "Idaho Enterprise" published its first issue on June 6, 1879 and is one of the oldest weekly publications in Idaho.
42. President Theodore Roosevelt established the Caribou National Forest in 1907. The area now covers more than 1 million acres in southeast Idaho.
43. In 1924 local McCall resident and Olympic ski champion, Cory Engen, started the celebration known as the Winter Carnival to help curb the boredom of the long McCall winters.
44. Meridian is named for the Boise Meridian, the Idaho land surveyor's north-south line running through Initial Point, located 16 miles due south of the city.
45. Annually Mountain Home Air Force Appreciation Day boasts presenting the largest parade in Idaho.
46. Idaho ghost towns include Silver City, Yankee Fork, Gold Dredge, and the Sierra Silver Mine.
47. Sawtooth Mountain/Sawtooth National Recreational Area was named for its jagged profile.
48. Anderson Dam is known for its blue-ribbon fly-fishing.
49. Idaho's first territorial prison was opened in 1872. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was converted into a public facility after the last prisoners were removed in 1974.
50. Seven Devils' Peaks, one of the highest mountain ranges in Idaho, Includes Heaven's Gate Lookout, where sightseers can look into four states
Alaska claims "The Great Gorge" at Mt. McKinley at 9,000 feet. http://www.gi.alaska.edu/InfoOffice/gorge.html (Of course, the bottom is stuffed with snow and ice. So an argument can be made either way, but Alaska is sure to win when global warming kicks in.)
Hell's Canyon is 7900 feet.
I'll throw in a rant for free.
American Falls is unique from most communities< rant > Something is either unique or it isn't. If there is anther one like it, it can't be unique, it can only be rare. It can't be unique from most communities (which is questionable grammar for other reasons) to be unique there can't be any other communities to which that happened (and there were, where the TVA built its lakes). < /rant >
I do appreciate these posts from you. This is about the most fun that I've had since people started to refuse to play Trivial Pursuit with me.
Hump Day Teaser Pic
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
mornin. We are all at various stages of under the weather here. PE and bittygirl are still in bed. I am sucking on a cough drop. Karateboy is trying to get out of doing school today.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on February 01:
1552 Sir Edward Coke England, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1603 Michael Trumper composer
1605 Isaac Aboab de Fonseca Portuguese/Netherlands rabbi/mystic
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Fonseca.html
1659 Jacob Roggeveen Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
1757 John P Kemble England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1763 Thomas Campbell founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1791 Charles J Sax Belgian music instrument builder
1801 Thomas Cole US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1805 Auguste Blanqui France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1807 William Bowen Campbell Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1810 Charles Lenox Remond Salem MA, famous black
1819 Henry Lawrence Eustis Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1827 Alphonse de Rothschild French banker
1829 John Potts Slough Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1833 Henry McNeal Turner black methodist bishop
1841 William H H Davenport Buffalo, stage medium
1844 Granville Stanley Hall US, psychologist
1844 Eduard Adolf Strasburger German botanist (Angiospermen)
1872 Paul Fort French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1873 Clara Butt Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1885 Camille Chautemps premier France
1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, Southern Arabia)
1895 John Ford Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1896 Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza General/President of Nicaragua (1937-56)
1897 Denise Robins London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
1901 Clark Gable Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind)
1902 Langston Hughes poet/translator (The Weary Blues)
1904 S J Perelman Brooklyn NY, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1906 Hildegarde Adell WI, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You)
1908 Albie Booth collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1908 George Pal Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1910 Michael Kanin Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
1913 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill Test pilot
http://www.gdg18.dial.pipex.com/betweenwars.htm
1914 Hans Zülig Swiss dancer
1918 Muriel Spark Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1920 Pierre Jonquéres d'Oriola France, equestrian jumper (Olympics-gold-1952, 64)
1922 Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski professor of Cushtic Languages
1926 Stuart Whitman San Francisco CA, actor (Captain Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip, Revenge)
1931 Boris Yeltsin Ural Mountains USSR, president of Russian SSR
1934 Bob Shane vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 Ruth Clarke Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1937 Don Everly Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 Ray Sawyer [Dr Hook] Alabama, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 Garrett Morris New Orleans LA, actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, Martin, Carwash)
1938 Jimmy Carl Black rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1939 Del McCoury bluegrass singer/musician
1941 Anatoliy Firssov USSR, ice hockey play (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1943 Tina Sloan New York, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1952 Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1954 Billy Mumy California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1961 Daniel M Tani Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1967 Laura E Dern Los Angeles CA, actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1968 George Quigley Jr Cincinnati OH, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson Memphis TN, (Elvis' daughter)
1968 Pauly Shore Hollywood, comedian(Or so I'm told) (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
1971 Tommy Salo Surahammar Sweden, NHL goalie (Team Sweden, New York Islanders)
1980 Courtney Hamilton Miss Arizona Teen-USA (1996)
Karateboy is trying to get out of doing school today.
Good luck! I'm pullin for ya.
As for "The Great Gorge", are we talking about continental US again? ;^)
Rant all you want, I'm beginning to enjoy your analysis more than the actual trivia lists.
7. In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Is that a rare law or is it unique?
Sure. But was it a dry day?
That qualification would have worked.
The entry on Farnsworth isn't really incorrect, but if I hadn't hit it lucky with the gorge question, I'd have contextualized his invention. (Again, it should have qualified him as the father of electronic television.)
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