Most Recent Updates

9 July 2023

Crawford, Jane Montgomery  b. 13 January 1809, d. 18 April 1899

Martin, Ellen E  b. 28 December 1847, d. 27 February 1910

Martin, James C  b. 9 August 1803, d. 28 May 1889

Mills, Frederick D  b. 1845, d. 16 September 1906

15 January 2023

Spaun, Theon Eloyce  b. 1 July 1931, d. 2 January 2023

26 December 2022

Plants, Lyla Rose

2 April 2022

Pittenger, Martha Elizabeth  b. 5 September 1923, d. 19 May 1983

Pittenger, Richard Patterson  b. 29 April 1889, d. 26 June 1953

26 March 2022

Challiss, Catharine Clair  b. 23 June 1930, d. 26 March 2022

24 March 2022

Bernard, Margaret Wayne

Tonsing, Richard

7 January 2022

Degnan, Cecelia Ann

Tonsing, Michael John Jr

9 October 2021

(?), Emmanuel

Plants, Katelyn Irene

Plants, Nora James

20 August 2021

Martin, John David  b. 25 September 1946, d. 5 August 2021

Martin, Ruth Margaret  b. 19 September 1918, d. 11 September 1988

12 August 2021

(?), Karen M  b. 5 January 1930, d. 21 January 2008

Brown, Art

Brown, Judy Anita

Brown, Kathy Kim Kibler

Brown, Mike Ray

Daniel, Elbert Pittenger  b. 3 December 1927, d. 17 October 2007

Daniel, Gladys Marguerite

Daniel, John

Daniel, Karen

Daniel, Mabel Nell

Daniel, Mary Ruth

Daniel, Ora Leo  b. 23 July 1889, d. 12 June 1942

Daniel, Paul

Hurley, Dale Edward  b. 12 March 1920

Hurley, Daniel Jay

Hurley, Edward Francis

Hurley, Patricia Joanne

Hurley, Phyllis Kathleen

Hurley, Robert Dale

Murray, Charles Bernard

Pickard, Cherry Elizabeth

Pickard, Harold Leon  b. 21 January 1918, d. 21 January 1995

Pittenger, Cherry Jane  b. 2 February 1919, d. 1 May 1995

Pittenger, Mabel Alice  b. 18 August 1887, d. October 1978

Trujillo, Alan James

Trujillo, Alanna Kay

Trujillo, Lance James

8 August 2021

Copenhaven, Catharine  b. 16 September 1819, d. 4 May 1904

Daniel, George Leo  b. 18 July 1922, d. 13 January 1989

Daniel, Myra Elizabeth  b. 9 January 1921, d. 30 September 2007

Farmer, Martha Cherokee  b. 21 August 1894, d. 31 March 1967

Hunter, Willie May  b. 22 June 1887, d. 2 December 1965

Patterson, Allie Mae  b. 27 July 1859, d. 1 December 1950

Patterson, Samuel W  b. 12 July 1862, d. 21 August 1938

Pittenger, Alice Louise  b. 4 January 1913, d. 29 October 2000

Pittenger, Henry C  b. 15 August 1844, d. 27 December 1927

Pittenger, Jesse Byron  b. 28 December 1885, d. 31 July 1935

Pittenger, Jesse Stem  b. 30 May 1850, d. 6 September 1918

Pittenger, Jessie Katherine  b. 26 January 1911, d. 31 January 2005

Pittenger, John P  b. 28 February 1818, d. 4 February 1902

Pittenger, John William  b. 1855, d. 1 October 1883

Pittenger, Nell Catherine  b. 24 June 1895, d. 27 June 1926

Pittenger, Robert Mcd  b. 28 February 1847, d. 5 January 1902

Pittenger, Sarah Catherine  b. 18 April 1853, d. 4 October 1940

Trent, Charles B  b. circa 1913, d. 20 March 1962

19 July 2021

Sawyer, James Ray

Tonsing, Nancy Jane

Webb, Roberta Joann

5 April 2021

(?), (?)  b. circa 1612, d. between 1646 and 1667

(?), (?)  b. circa 1590

(?), (?)  b. circa 1782

(?), (?)  b. circa 1855, d. between 1880 and 1919

(?), (?)  b. circa 1861, d. between 1898 and 1930

(?), (?)  b. circa 1809, d. 12 August 1863

(?), (?)  b. circa 1791

(?), (?)  b. circa 1808

(?), (?)  b. circa 1781

(?), (?)  b. circa 1812

(?), (?)  b. circa 1848

(?), (?)  b. circa 1825

(?), (?)  b. circa 1825

(?), (?)  b. circa 1856, d. between 1871 and 1880

(?), (?)  b. circa 1850, d. between 1885 and 1920

(?), (?)  b. circa 1862, d. before 1957

(?), (?)  b. circa 1835

(?), (?)  b. circa 1858

(?), (?)  b. circa 1898

(?), (?)  b. circa 1920

(?), (?)  b. circa 1866, d. before 1910

(?), (?)  b. circa 1891

(?), (?)  b. circa 1895, d. before 1978

(?), (?)  b. circa 1830, d. 1860

(?), (?) (Countess) of Orkney  b. circa 990

(?), (?) (Countess) of Rennes  b. circa 837

(?), (?) (Negro)  b. circa 1779

(?), Abby  b. say December 1779

(?), Abigail  b. circa 1671

(?), Adalolf  b. circa 913, d. 933?

(?), Adela  b. circa 903

(?), Adela of Normandy  b. between 1060 and 1064, d. 8 March 1137?

(?), Adela of Vermandois  b. circa 899

(?), Adelaide  b. circa 799

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 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: Chaos will Reign.

• 31.69 nHz = once a year.
• A bristlecone pine is just a fire's way of making another fire.
• A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
• A red sign on the door of a physics professor: 'If this sign is blue, you're going too fast.'
• A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go.
• Actually officer, if you factor in the earth's rotation, we were all speeding.
• All that glitters has a high refractive index.
• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Einstein
• Barium: What you do with dead chemists.
• Be careful with water -- it's full of hydrogen and oxygen!
• Biology grows on you.
• Black holes suck.
• Color... it's just a pigment of your imagination.
• Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said: God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly wrong. The quantum effects of black holes suggests that not only does God play dice, He sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
  
  — Steven Hawking
• Entropy - it's a tough job, but somebody's got to undo it.
• Entropy isn't what it used to be.
• Entropy: Not just a fad, it's the future!
• Geologists rock your world.
• Geology: Subduction leads to Orogeny.
• Gravity isn't MY fault--I voted for velcro!
• Gravity... not just a good idea: It's the law.
• If it doesn't work, it's physics.
• If it's 0 degrees today, and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow...how cold will it be?
• If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology.
• If it stinks, it's chemistry.
• "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
  
  — Thomas Alva Edison
• I like angles, but only to a degree.
• If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup, then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.
• If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
• In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
• It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak...
• May the torque be about you.
• Nature abhors a vacuum. So does my sister's dog.
• Particle physicists are always trying to hold a meeting, but whenever they decide on a place, the time changes.
• Photons have mass!? I didn't even know they were Catholic...
• "Push to test." (click) "Release to detonate."
• Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
• Resolving a transformation is like cleaning a barn - it's hard to get started, but when you're good and dirty, you might as well keep going.
• Scientists have discovered that time is not real, that we only live in the current moment. But then according to that, they haven't done the research, and don't have anything to back them up.
• Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. The tallest ones, anyway.
• Snackmosphere: The 95% air inside a bag of chips.
• That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. - Calvin (& Hobbes)
• The Benoit/Blamey Theory of Thermo-Sock-Dynamics: Why bother to do laundry, when the inevitable loss of a sock will just increase entropy and contribute to the eventual heat death of the universe anyway?
• The law of gravity says, "no fair jumping without coming down"
• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."' - Isaac Asimov
• There is no gravity. Earth sucks!
• The square root of three equals two for large values of three. - found in a bathroom in the Cornell Physics department
• The Three Laws Of Thermodynamics First Law: You can't win. Second Law: You can't break even. Third Law: You can't even get out of the game.
• "Today, everybody remembers Galileo. How many can name the bishops and professors who refused to look through his telescope?"
  
  — James Hogan, Mind Matters
• To most people solutions mean finding the answers but to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up...
• Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
• What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
  
  — Dave Barry
• When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
• When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.