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It is my birthday... Here are a few bits of trivia from the year I was born.
* The Planet Pluto was discovered as the 9th planet.
* The first woman Flight Attendant began working for United Airlines.
* The comic strip first appeared in newspapers. Blondie started out as a pretty girl romance and became the most widely read strip in comic art history.
* Babe Ruth was given a two year contract worth $160,000
* Snickers Candy Bars were introduced by Mars, Inc.
* Hostess Twinkies were introduced by Continental Baking.
* New York City rejected the use of "amber" colored traffic lights and started installing "red" lights on a test basis.
* Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label.
* Toll House Cookies were invented by Ruth Wakefield.
* Dry Ice was introduced commercially in the United States for keeping ice cream.
* Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong and Sean Connery were born.
* The Veterans Administration was created to help America's veterans.
* Grant Woods completed "American Gothic."
* L-T-L was born in Meadville Pennsylvania :-)
It was an interesting year! Some might even say a good year!
Animal Facts & Trivia - TURKEYS!
Rikki's Refuge, Rapidan, VA.
1. Turkeys are intelligent and sensitive animals that are highly social. They create lasting social bonds with each other and are very affectionate; similar to dogs.
2. The modern domesticated turkey descends from the wild turkey.
3. Turkeys are known to exhibit over 20 distinct vocalisations. Including a distinctive gobble, produced by males, which can be heard a mile away. Individual turkeys have unique voices. This is how turkeys recognise each other.
4. Turkeys have 5000 to 6000 feathers.
5. The area of bare skin on a turkey’s throat and head vary in colour depending on its level of excitement and stress.When excited, a male turkey's head turns blue, when ready to fight it turns red. The long fleshy object over a male's beak is called a snood.
6. The male is substantially larger than the female, and his feathers have areas of red, purple, green, copper, bronze, and gold iridescence. Female feathers are duller overall, in shades of brown and grey.
7.Turkeys have outstanding geography skills. They have the ability to learn the precise details of an area over 1,000 acres in size.
Victory for Team Condor Sharp!
First prize was a very nice double-walled vacuum water bottle (with the Techhive logo) and a $50 gift card to Best Buy. Gosh, if I'd known the prizes were so good, I might have actually stormed to the front of the room and argued the "first digital camera" answer...
Okay, folks, you know the drill. Today's prize is ... um ... I dunno. We'll figure that out later, since I never did get those granola bars to Burl that one time.
Only hint is that it's within two miles of the square.
GO.
Most of the time, there was quick consensus on answers. Or at least consensus on the wrong answers. It was all tech trivia, naturally.
Kerri was able to make two greater contributions than I. First, she has a quicker mind. Second, she was willing to actually walk back and forth to the front of the room to get our answers checked.
As the angle of most of these photos indicate, I wasn't even really willing to get out of my chair to take pictures.
Incidentally: the event reminded me I'd chosen very, very well when I bought this Panasonic GX1. Trivia was held in a dark bar, which normally would defy all attempts at casual photography. An SLR and a bag of gear can provide a solution to any problem. But what about a camera that you stuck in your pocket on your way out of the house, almost as an afterthought? You normally just take what you can get (or give up entirely).
The GX1 came right through. Lens wide open at f1.7 to get some light in from the background, ISO set to 3200, built-in flash locked into upright position to bounce straight down off of the ceiling. I freaking love this camera. I'm getting much better pictures with it now that it's my daily shooter and I'm starting to know its features intuitively.
Trivia night! We hadn't been doing big group trivia nights in a while because Andrea left the country, but now she's back, so we went to trivia. Unfortunately, the new trivia we're going to has a team size limit which we were afraid of hitting, so we cleaved the party in twain. The subteam I was on ended up getting second place, and I helped with two answers. Hurray!