Snowflake in the same micro-environment does not guarantee that each arm grow the same; indeed, for some crystal forms it does not because the underlying crystal growth mechanism also affects how fast each surface region of a crystal grows. Empirical studies suggest less than 0.1% of snowflakes exhibit the ideal six-fold symmetric shape. Very occasionally twelve branched snowflakes are observed; they maintain the six-fold symmetry. Snowflakes form in a wide variety of intricate shapes, leading to the notion that "no two are alike". Although nearly-identical snowflakes have been made in laboratory, they are very unlikely to be found in nature. Initial
Do They Miss Me At Home? as a homesick girl away from home at school, readily translated to the plight of the soldiers on both sides, and was among the songs soldiers would sing. The song generated a number of responses, as well as a parody titled "Do They Miss Me In The Trenches?" Poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote of its lasting popularity in an 1885 poem titled, "A Old-Played Out Song". Do They Miss Me At Home? Do They Miss Me At Home? is a song composed by S.M. Grannis with lyrics by Caroline Atherton Mason. The song was published in 1852 and enjoyed great