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ccb
SS Quizmaster
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 Posted - 01/02/2009 : 06:29:00
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| If Cyrus Barlow (a) had been real and (b) could have lived to see this day in 1975, why would he have been thrilled? |
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Double Take
SS novice field agent
USA
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Posted - 01/02/2009 : 08:28:56
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This took some looking and I will not deny that I googled butterflies. January 2, 1975 it was discovered where the noble Monarch butterfly (one of my personal favorites) winters in Mexico.
ccb, where on earth did you find this fact? It wasn't listed on today in history. |
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orrin cobb
SS novice field agent
USA
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Posted - 01/02/2009 : 09:24:37
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Originally posted by Double Take
This took some looking and I will not deny that I googled butterflies. January 2, 1975 it was discovered where the noble Monarch butterfly (one of my personal favorites) winters in Mexico.
ccb, where on earth did you find this fact? It wasn't listed on today in history.
Quick work, DT! |
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California gal
SS senior field agent
USA
5376 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 09:40:32
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Good work, DT. Don't feel bad about googling. I had started to but got interrupted. And I never thought about the butterfly connection. Couldn't quite remember who Cyrus Barlow was to be honest!
I too want to know where ccb came up with this obscure connection!  |
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Artiespet
SS senior field agent
USA
5076 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 10:30:59
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Originally posted by California gal
I too want to know where ccb came up with this obscure connection!
I think he lays awake nights thinking of ways to stump us |
Agents! Ya can't live with them. And Admin takes a rather dim view to ya blowing em up. |
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ccb
SS Quizmaster
2845 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 14:11:14
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From today's edition of Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac:
It's an important anniversary for lepidopterists — people who study, collect, or observe butterflies and moths. On this day in 1975, an amateur naturalist, Kenneth Brugger, discovered where monarch butterflies from North America spend the winter. Scientists had been studying monarch migration for more than 30 years, and they had found out almost everything about the butterflies, except where they spent their winters.
Kenneth Brugger was an American textile engineer living in Mexico City. He remembered driving through a storm of monarchs once on a vacation, in the mountains west of Mexico City. He went back there, but he couldn't find anything, and the local farmers wouldn't give him any information. Then he brought his Mexican wife Catalina, and the locals warmed up. A farmer led them up the side of a remote mountain, up to 10,000 feet, and suddenly the fir trees were so thick with butterflies that they looked orange instead of green. Scientists estimated that there were 4 million butterflies per acre.
Brugger was elated, but he couldn't fully appreciate what he was seeing — he was colorblind.
And no, Pet, I don't lie awake nights thinking of stumpers. I just lie awake. |
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Artiespet
SS senior field agent
USA
5076 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 14:27:59
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And no, Pet, I don't lie awake nights thinking of stumpers. I just lie awake.
Oh I see it's just a lack of sleep well sheesh sir turn the brain cell off and get some shut eye |
Agents! Ya can't live with them. And Admin takes a rather dim view to ya blowing em up. |
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nittanyapple
SS senior field agent
USA
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Posted - 01/02/2009 : 16:30:41
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| Aw, insomnia. So sorry ccb. I have my days and nights mixed up myself. |
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Artiespet
SS senior field agent
USA
5076 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2009 : 19:16:39
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Originally posted by nittanyapple
Aw, insomnia. So sorry ccb. I have my days and nights mixed up myself.
Just do what I do. Take a three hour nap in the middle of the night and you're good to go all day |
Agents! Ya can't live with them. And Admin takes a rather dim view to ya blowing em up. |
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