February 2018 - A To Z Posting Contest

H When HIPPOS are upset, their sweat turns red.

I - Indigenous People are those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived. The new arrivals later became dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means. Among the indigenous peoples are those of the Americas (for example, the Lakota in the USA, the Mayas in Guatemala or the Aymaras in Bolivia).

J The City and Borough of JUNEAU, commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.

K...KERMIT THE FROG, WAS ORIGINALLY MADE OUT OF AN OLD COAT!

L LAUGHING lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

N - November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar and has retained its name from the Latin novem meaning nine.

O OCTOBER is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the sixth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans

P - Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary, and starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman.

Q QUEBEC is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger.

R...RACCOONS CAN BE FOUND IN ALL 49 OF THE 50 STATES OF THE USA
EXCEPT ALASKA. THE ALASKA DEPT OF FISH AND GAME NOTES
THAT ATTEMPTS WERE MADE IN THE 1930s, TO TRANSPLANT THE ANIMALS THERE,
BUT WERE UNSUCCESSFUL....I WONDER WHY ?

Raccoon is a repeat from the 2nd round

S The SOUND you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

T...TREADMILLS, WERE CREATED TO PUNISH ENGLISH PRISONERS IN 1818.

U The UNITED Kingdom is described as a set of countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) within a country (United Kingdom). To add to the confusion, the term Britain is often used instead of United Kingdom.

V - Vikings is the name of the professional NFL team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

W WOMEN blink nearly twice as much as men.