TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE QUOTE: "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." HINT: (1853-1937), American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. RANDOM TIDBITS The back of the New Hampshire state quarter depicts The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural rock formation that resembled the face of an elderly male and served as the state's emblem. We say "resembled" and "served" because, sadly, the formation collapsed off the side of Cannon Mountain on May 3, 2003. The Prudential Insurance Company began using the slogan "We have the strength of Gibraltar" back in 1896 and has employed an image of the Rock of Gibraltar as its logo ever since. The oldest rocks found on the earth's surface are located near the Great Slave Lake in the Northwestern Territories of Canada. Dating methods have estimated the age of some of the zircon crystal...
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