TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I hope that everyone is making it through the week. I am just glad that I am off this Friday - finally, a much-needed vacation day! I should work on school work with this extra time, but instead I am going to the Chicago Cubs game with my friends. It's the first big outing since two of my friends had their babies, so it is going to be a fun time! I just hope the Cubs can actually pull off a win!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."

HINT: (1817-1862), American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska, is larger than nine states and covers an area of more than 13,000 square miles. Alaska is also home to the next three largest National Parks in the country: Gates of the Arctic, Denali, and Katmai.

One of the nation's newest national parks is also its smallest. Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia, designated a national park in 2003, is only one fifth of a square mile in size. It's known as the first National Park for the Performing Arts.

There is one Glacier National Park along the British Columbia border in Montana, and another Glacier National Park in British Columbia itself. The two parks have about 250 miles of land between them.

At Yosemite National Park, bears that cause run-ins with visitors are usually "relocated" to remote areas of the park. Unfortunately, because bears are territorial, the tactic works only about 20 percent of the time. The creatures will often return to the easiest known source of nutrition: human food.

The first state to ratify the Constitution, Delaware, also happens to be the last state without a unit of the National Park Service. Every other state is home to 1 of 388 NPS-designated sites, including National Memorials, National Monuments, and National Historic Parks.

While Yellowstone is popularly known as the first national park, it was really the second. Congress proclaimed Arkansas's Hot Springs Reservation a "national park" back in 1832, and it was officially added to the NPS list in 1921.


VIDEO CLIP
Yosemite - Kingdom of the West
John Muir called this valley nature's grandest creation. This is legendary Yosemite Valley, tucked into California's Sierra Nevada Mountains and home to some of the most spectacular natural vistas in the United States.

Watch It Now: Yosemite - Kingdom of the West


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."

ANSWER: Henry David Thoreau.

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