Send feedback to the web designers

KAMP - student radio...

Fast facts: Whispering causes more wear on the voice than a normal speaking tone. Whispering and shouting stretch the vocal cords. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids. The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica at 128.6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Priests in ancient Egyptian temples plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

 

On this date: In 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution. In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colo. In 1869, free postal delivery was formally inaugurated. In 1884, New York's Samuel Sidney McClure started the first newspaper chain. In 1901, Miller Reese of New York patented the first hearing aid. Unlike the hearing aids that we know today, the original model was not portable.

 

Quotable... "We deeply regret that our actions over the last eight weeks have not been as sharply focused as the American public wants or the victims of this tragedy deserve." - Red Cross interim CEO Harold Decker at a news conference yesterday, announcing the allocation of Liberty Fund monies to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.