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• Although black bears are common in the eastern Canadian province of Labrador, grizzly bears .
  often similar in color, but much larger . were believed to exist only in the western provinces....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands had become extinct.
  Yet humans cannot have been a factor in the species' extinctions, because there is no evidence that the humans had any significant contact with the mammals....
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of an archaeological magazine.
  "Archaeologists excavated a cave that had been inhabited by prehistoric people for thousands of years....
• The cable had passed us by; the dish was the only hope, and eventually we were all forced to turn to it.
  By the summer of '85, the valley had more satellite dishes per capita than an Eskimo village on the north slope of Alaska....
• Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how the Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.
  Since archeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, to create these statues....
• I was terrible at history. I could never see the point of learning what people thought back when people were a lot stupider.
  For instance, the ancient Phoenicians believed that the sun was carried across the sky on the back of an enormous snake....
• I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egyp
  on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later....