February 2018 - A To Z Posting Contest

I...INSOMNIA , PETS AND BUGS CAN ALSO SUFFER FROM INSOMNIA!

J JAMAICA is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning 10,990 square kilometres in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the fourth-largest island country in the Caribbean.

K - The Knights of the Round Table were characters in the legends about King Arthur. They were the best knights in the kingdom, and lived in King Arthur's castle, Camelot. They were called the Knights of the Round Table because of a special table in Camelot, that was round instead of rectangular. This meant that everyone who sat around it was seen as equal.

L When the LINCOLN Memorial project was revived in the early 20th century, there were still opponents of its construction—mainly, Speaker of the House Joe Cannon. Staunch conservative “Uncle Joe” had a number of problems with the project (including his aversion to big government spending), but Cannon’s main complaint involved the proposed design and location for the monument, which he felt were unworthy of his hero Lincoln. “So long as I live,” he once told Secretary of War Elihu Root, “I'll never let a memorial to Abraham Lincoln be erected in that g-------d swamp,” referring to the marshy terrain and proclivity for producing discarded dead bodies.

N A nickel, in American usage, is a five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint. Composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel, the piece has been issued since 1866.

O...OVERMORROW, IS THE ACTUAL WORD FOR... THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

P PITTSBURGH is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a total population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S.[2][5] The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania (behind Philadelphia), and the 26th-largest in the U.S.

Q...A QUOTE, I WOULD LIKE SHARE WITH YOU

"REMEMBER, TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY"
DALE CARNEGIE

R If you are RIGHT handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side

S - Smallville - Clark Kent was raised and grew up in this town. The character of Clark Kent, was first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the alternate identity of Superman.

T A TRUST is a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries. Trusts can be arranged in may ...

U...UNDERGROUND, IS THE ONLY WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT
BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE LETTER "UND."

V- Vienna sausages are made in the same way as hot dogs, seasoned the same but smaller and sold in cans.

W George WASHINGTON (February 22, 1732[b][c] – December 14, 1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

X - X Games 17 marked the first time the event took place in a single location in L.A. It previously had events in Carson and at the Los Angeles Coliseum, but this past year it was all in downtown Los Angeles.