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.
Eyeglasses History. The first vision aid, called a reading stone, was invented around 1000 AD. The reading stone was a glass sphere that was laid on top of the reading material to magnify the letters. The first wearable eye glasses were invented around 1284 in Italy. It is thought that Salvino D'Armate was their inventor.