Snowiest location ranked by highest average annual snowfall: Thompson Pass, southeastern Alaska, 551.5. State precipitation record for 24 hours - Angoon, southeastern Alaska, 10/12/1982, 15.20. State precipitation record for 1 year - MacLeod Harbor, southern Alaska, 1976, 332.29.
Origin. 'The apple of my eye' is exceedingly old and first appears in Old English in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, AD 885, titled Gregory's Pastoral Care.he phrase was known from those early sources but became more widely used in the general population when Sir Walter Scott included it in the popular novel Old Mortality, 1816: Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye.. See also-phrases coined by Sir Walter Scott.
All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea. Throughout history they have been the eyes that are prized. Frank Sinatra's were legendary, Paul Newman's melted a million hearts while Cameron Diaz's dazzle in modern Hollywood. But how - and why - blue eyes arose has always been something of a genetic mystery. Until now