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Martha Jane Harrison
"Martha"
Musical Accompaniment:
Jan. 2004; Because of her interest in nature, conservancy & animals I'm going with:
"The Fairy Woods", by Bjorn Lynne
(www.lynnemusic.com) & (www.lynnemusic.com/midi.html)
South Carolina
Lake
Martha feeding the wildlife
Stream In The Colorado Mountains
Born December 22, 1970
Galveston, Texas
Capricorn
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science Degree: Biology, Minors: History and Chemistry, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC, May 1995
Masters Degree: Environmental Toxicology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 1997
PROFESSION:
Scientist: Environmental Toxicologist
May, 2004: Industrial Project Manager Engineering Laboratories
OTHER OCCUPATIONS:
Conservationist; Landscape Design
MAIN INTERESTS:
(Some of the sand & salty water must have
gotten in her blood after she was born on the small Texas island of
Galveston)
Loves all things about the beach (except the tourists)
Loves All Coastal Activities Or Being Near Any Body Of Water
HOBBIES:
Shelling
Scuba Diving
South Carolina Beach
OTHER INTERESTS:
Conservation Landscaping & General Landscaping Design
&
Travel
Her Cats:
Luna and Neptune
Also:
Archaeology, History, Celtic Designs, & Yoga
GOALS:
"To get out of debt and have a life at the same time."
PREFERENCES:
Prefers lemon meringue pie for her birthday instead of cake.
M. J. blowing out her candle on her birthday pie
"Angel Oak"
Ancient Oak Tree In
Charleston, SC
James & Martha Jane
Trip to Alaska September 2001
Jeannie Summers & Martha Jane
BBQ
Anchorage, Alaska, September 2001
Jeannie Summers & Martha Jane Harrison
(Bride: Mrs. Damian Walters)
Millennium Hotel
Race Headquarters for the Iditarod Sled
Races
Anchorage, Alaska, September 22, 2001
Pieces from the Portage Glacier, Alaska, September 2001
Anchorage, Alaska, September 2001
Meeting a New Friend, Part Wolf, Outside of a Store
Alaska Grizzly
September, 2001
Yoga Enthusiast
FAMILY BACKGROUND
Father: James Loyd Harrison; Occ.: Biochemist; Chemist; Nuclear Power Plant
Employee; Teacher: College Level Biology & Environmental Science
Born: Marietta, Georgia
Paternal Family Names: Harrison & Harvey; English names; Occ., Farmers
Maternal Family Names: Hicks & Adams; English names; Occ., Farmers &
Ministers
Religion: All Baptists
Mother: Billie Lynn Fazakerly, Occ.: Nurse
Born: Memphis, Tennessee
Paternal Family Names: Fazakerly & Weick & Sullivan; English, German,
Irish names; Occ., Policemen; Dairymen; Carpenters
Maternal Family Names: Finch & Meshew & Hinkle; English, French, & German names;
Occ., Farmers; Doctors; Teachers; Artists
Religion: Catholics & Methodists
Martha Jane's Name: Named after her maternal grandmother, Martha Louise
Finch and her great, great, great grandmother, Martha Elizabeth White Meshew
(mother of Dr. Joshua White Meshew of Kentucky). Also
named after her father's sister, Martha Harrison, and after his cousin, Jane
Hicks.
Intelligence: Takes after her father, James Harrison, who has a Ph.D. in
Biochemistry. This kid has looks and brains!
Looks: Looks very much like her grandmother, Martha Louise Finch. High
cheekbones, beautiful face, thick brown hair with lots of highlights. The
Fazakerly, Weick, Sullivan & Harrison women were attractive, but not as beautiful as
some of the Finch and Meshew women.
Creative Talent: Probably from the Fazakerly (original ideas) or Meshew
(artistic) side of the family.
Multiple and diverse interests.
Personality & Temperament: Organized, determined, adventurous; not easily intimidated;
clever, creative, takes things seriously, not " laid back", very sensitive to environmental and animal
issues, "prickly" at times, has a
"green thumb".
Organizational Skills: Probably from her mother, Billie, and her grandmother,
Martha, and definitely from the
German side of the family. Also a strong Capricorn trait.
Religious Affiliation: Non-Denominational
Note from Mom: Oct. 2002 I injured my right knee badly and on a weekend recently after that happened, we went to see M. J. in Charleston. She saw that my knee was swollen and wanted to help in some way. She didn't have any ice at the time or any baggies to put ice in, so she got a bag of frozen okra and wrapped it in a rag and put it on my knee. It felt so good to my poor knee. This sweet gesture touched me to the core. I'm sure this one of a kind treatment had a miraculous effect on my knee--I know it certainly lifted my spirits! BFH
Humorous Story
The Physics of Christmas
As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research
help from that renowned scientific journal SPY Magazine, I am
pleased to present this scientific inquiry into the existence of
Santa Claus.
1) No known species of reindeer can fly, but there are 300,000
species of organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these
are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying
reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. 2) There are 2 billion children (defined as persons under 18) in the
world; However, since Santa doesn't appear to handle Muslim, Hindu,
Jewish, or Buddhist children, that reduces the workload down to 15%
of the original total - 378 million according to the Population
Reference Bureau. At an average census rate of 3.5 children per
household, that's only 91.8 million homes. One presumes that there
is at least one good child in each. 3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the
different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he
travels east to west. This works out to 822.6 visits per second.
That is to say that for each Christian household with good children,
Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump
down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining
presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get
back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh, and move on to the
next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are
evenly distributed around the earth (which we know to be false but
will accept for the purpose of these calculations), we are talking
about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles,
not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every
31 hours, plus eating, etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second,
3000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the
fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky
27.4 miles per second. A conventional reindeer can run 15 miles per
hour at the most.4) The payload on the sleigh add another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-size set of Lego building blocks (about 2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that flying reindeer exist (see point 1), can fly very quickly (see point 2), and can pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine, reindeer. We would need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth 2.
5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous
air resistance. This would heat the reindeer up in the same fashion
as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of
reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second.
Each. In short, they would burst into flame almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them, and creating deafening sonic
booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized
within .00426 seconds. Santa, meanwhile, would be subjected to
forces 17,500 times greater than normal gravity. A 250-pound Santa
(which seems slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by
4,315,015 pounds of force.In conclusion, if Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5034/text.html Dimestore's animation gifs & jokes
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