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Thanks for stopping by Please take a moment and sign the Guestbook by clicking on this message 73 and Thanks. D. atisfaction after setbacks LAST LAUGH3. D. owboy star with a bullwhip LASH LARUEBills time 5m 0. Astronomy Logbook Software' title='Astronomy Logbook Software' />Bills errors 0. Todays Wiki est, Amazonian Googlies. Across. 1. 5. Plant used in tequila production AGAVE. Tequila is a city in Mexico that is located about 4. Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. The city is the birthplace of the drink called tequila. Local people made a variety of a drink called mezcal by fermenting the heart of the blue agave plant that is native to the area surrounding Tequila. It was the Spanish who introduced the distillation process to the mescal, giving us what we now know as tequila. Spencer of Good Morning America LARA. Lara Spencer has been co anchor of Good Morning America since 2. Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. Back in 2. 00. 42. PBS viewers will have seen Spencer hosting the hit show Antiques Roadshow. Arbor Day month APRIL. Arbor Day is a holiday each year in which people traditionally plant and care for trees. The first Arbor Day was held way back in 1. Spy org. created under Truman CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency CIA is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services OSS formed during WWII. The CIA was chartered by the National Security Act of 1. Prefix with centric or caching GEO. Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian of Greek ethnicity who lived in the days when Egypt was ruled by Ancient Rome. Ptolemy was, among other things, a mathematician and astronomer. He published a famous treatise on astronomy called Almagest which included a list of 4. The Ptolemaic system described the cosmos geocentrically, with the Earth at the center and other celestial bodies orbiting. Ptolemy also wrote a work titled Geography, which compiled much of the geographical knowledge of the Roman Empire at that time. Centuries after Ptolemy died, Christopher Columbus used the maps in Geography to aid him on his voyages of discovery. Geocaching is a game rather like hide and seek that is played outdoors using hi tech equipment. The idea is that someone places a waterproof container in a specific location with known GPS coordinates. The container has a logbook inside, so that players who find the cache can record their discovery along with any notes of interest. The location of the container is listed on special sites on the Internet for anyone to access. You can check out caches near you at www. You will probably be surprised at how many there are I know I was 4. Believe singer CHER. When Cher recorded the 1. Believe, the audio engineers routinely corrected the sound of Chers voice to ensure that all notes were sung with perfect pitch all singers cheat, it seems. The software that does this pitch correction is called Auto Tune. Then, for a bit of fun, the same engineers played with the Auto Tune software and created a special effect in her voice that she so liked it was left in the final release. You can easily detect the strange effect if you listen to the song. The process is now called the Cher Effect and is used by other artists in their recordings. Deep blue gemstone LAPIS LAZULI. Lapis lazuli is a blue, semi precious stone mined mainly in Afghanistan. Lapis Lazuli is Latin for stone of Lazhward, referring to the Persian name for the location where the stone was mined. Our word azure, a shade of blue, has the same root. Dreadlocks wearer RASTA. I must admit that I dont really know much about Rastafarianism. I do know that a Rasta, like Bob Marley, is a follower of the movement. Some say that Rastafarianism is a religion, some not. I also know that it involves the worship of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. Dreadlocks are matted coils of hair nowadays usually formed intentionally, although if one lets hair grow out without grooming then it naturally forms twisted and matted dreadlocks. The hairstyle is associated with the Rastafarian movement in which dread is a very positive term meaning fear of the Lord. Douce IRMA. Irma la Douce is a wonderful Billy Wilder movie that was released in 1. It stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Mac. Laine. Lemmon plays a maligned Parisian policeman, and Mac. Laine is the popular prostitute Irma la Douce literally Irma the Sweet. Dont let the adult themes throw you, as its a very entertaining movie 6. Essential point CRUX. Crux is the Latin word for cross. The term came into English meaning a central difficulty in the early 1. Mortimer on Bergens knee SNERD. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergens most famous character was Charlie Mc. Carthy, but Bergen also worked with Mortimer Snerd. Down1. Picasso who painted Gertrude Stein PABLO. The artist Pablo Picassos full name was Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, a name he was given right from birth. Got that Gertrude Stein was a great American writer who spent most of her life in France. Gertrude Stein met Alice B. Toklas in Paris in 1. Stein died in 1. 94. Cleverly, Stein published her own memoirs in 1. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. It was to become her best selling title. Arctic or Indian OCEAN. The Arctic Ocean is in the north polar region, and is almost completely covered by sea ice in the winter. I think its common knowledge that the amount of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean during the summer has been dropping in recent times as a consequence of climate change. The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the worlds oceans, and was named for the country of India that forms much of its northern boundary. Sumatran ape ORANG. Ubisoft Game Launcher Error Code 3 Far Cry 3 there. Orangutans also orangs are arboreal creatures, in fact the largest arboreal animals known to man. They are native to Indonesia and Malaysia, living in the rain forests. Like most species in rain forests these days, orangutans are endangered, with only two species surviving. The word orangutan is Malay, meaning man of the forest. Sumatra is a very large island in western Indonesia, the sixth largest island in the world and home to 2. Superboys girlfriend LANA LANG. Smallville, Kansas is the town on Earth in which Superman grew up as Clark Kent. One of Clarks best friends in Smallville, and the romantic interest of his youth, was Lana Lang. Ming museum piece VASE. The Ming Dynasty lasted in China from 1. The Ming Dynasty oversaw tremendous innovation in so many areas, including the manufacture of ceramics. Late in the Ming period, a shift towards a market economy in China led to the export of porcelain on an unprecedented scale, perhaps explaining why we tend to hear more about Ming vases than we do about porcelain from any other Chinese dynasty. Hometown of St. Teresa AVILA. Avila is famous for the walled defenses around the old city, which date back to 1. They were constructed out of brown granite, and are still in excellent repair. There are nine gateways and eighty towers in all. Even the cathedral built between the 1. Astronomy Software Public Domain, Freeware Shareware. Astronomy software, such as the free Stellarium program, can you help plan nights of observation. This frame shows Venus and the thin crescent Moon framing comet 2. PEncke. Map Bob King, Source Stellarium. Dozens of free or inexpensive computer programs can aid your observing or simply allow you to explore the sky, with options available for Mac, PC, and Unix. For those interested in exploration, take a look at the many planetarium programs on the market today. But thats only the beginning theres astronomy software out there that can help you calculate information for lunar occultations, stack astrophotos, or solve the N body problem. Browse the list below to find software that suits your needs.