Cracked Egg Trivia

1. No two zebras look the same. Their stripes are all different, and can be used for identification almost like a persons fingerprints. Their stripes are useful too, when the herd is standing close to one another the combined stripes confuse predators and make it hard for them pick out one of the zebras to chase. Scientists also think that the stripes may help cool the zebras down. Their theory is that air moves faster over their black stripes and slows down over their white stripes, that would create a convection current around the zebra, and would cool it down. 2. They have really good eyesight. In fact, we think that their eyesight in the dark is almost as good as that of an owl. This trait comes in handy for them because even at night their predators are lurking. Herds will actually set one zebra as a watchman to guard them when they sleep. 3. Not all zebras travel in herds. Grevy's zebra stallions wander alone and establish territories, females come into their terri

 Rachel Donelson was born on on June 15, 1767, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Her father, Colonel John Donelson, was a co-founder of Nashville, Tennessee. Her mother was Rachel Stockley Donelson. At the age of 12 Rachel moved with her family to Tennessee when her father led about 600 people from Fort Patrick Henry to Fort Nashborough, her family were some of the first white settlers in Tennessee. Later the family moved to Kentucky after threats to the settlers from the Indians in the area. Rachel was married to Lewis Robards on March 1, 1785, in Kentucky. Their marriage was not a happy one, Andrew Jackson and Rachel later said that she had been abused, and they separated in 1790 although they were not officially divorced until later. The divorce and the drama surrounding it would ultimately cause Rachel to be labeled an adulterer. She met Andrew Jackson after she had separated with Robards, and the two became close and soon married, but there was a problem. According to them th