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.
The Bible references below (from the King James Version, translated in 1611) contain the English idiom apple of my eye.. However the Hebrew literally says, little man of the eye.. The Hebrew idiom also refers to the pupil, and has the same meaning, but does not parallel the English use of apple..The earliest appearance of the word is found in King Aelfred's writing in ninth century.owever the Hebrew literally says, little man of the eye.. The Hebrew idiom also refers to the pupil, and has the same meaning, but does not parallel the English use of apple.. The earliest appearance of the word is found in King Aelfred's writing in ninth century.