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97LONOMIA OBLIQUA: The Killer Caterpillar
LONOMIA, the Killer Caterpillar We have known for ages many caterpillars can cause irritation by discharging body hairs, or can defend themselves by releasing vile-smelling secretions. Some are even know to...
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79PIRANHA!
Piranha! The name of no other fresh water creature, excepting perhaps the anaconda, strikes more dread into the explorers of the Amazon and its tributaries than the piranha, or pirana, (pronounced...
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76Shakespeare: More of a Ghost Than Hamlet's Father?
I have never really been a fan of Shakespeare. I have never lived anywhere near where his plays have been staged until the last 6 years and have not read in their entirety most of the sonnets. The latter I do...
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83Ann Summer's Party Sends Vibrations Through My Village
Ann Summers has captured the sex-toys market by aggressive marketing - at least, in my village! Now I’m finally convinced I am a dinosaur as far as keeping up with modern trends is concerned. I am no...
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67Seaweed: Bounty from the Oceans
Strange how useful plants that grow in salt and fresh water are collectively known as weeds. A land plant receiving that disparaging sobriquet is, often mistakenly, seen as useless and to be destroyed....
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72Free Food for the Taking
How on earth does a working family with two or three kids, a substantial mortgage and a few thousand more on credit make it these days? I imagine it’s by the loan amount - the credit card balance - being...
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66A Murderous Moment of Madness in Mexico
The tragic waste of a life My home was once, as other hubs evidence, in a little mining village in El Triunfo (The Triumph) situated on the Transpeninsula Highway, some way south of La Paz in Baja...
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77LIOPLEURODON RULED THE OCEANS
The Scariest Marine Predator Ever! Great White Sharks, the Crocodilians and their kin notwithstanding, the oceans and seas occupying three-fifths of the world’s surface are a relatively benign place in...
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68Fossilized Facts of Life
The Writer as a Living Fossil! This grizzled old hack is rapidly approaching the age of becoming a fossil himself. Once, that would not have been so, not because we didn’t live as long, and I would...
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79TARANTULAS
Family Theraphosidae And the Lycosa Tarantula, progenitor of the Tarantella Dance. Belt Buckles; key fobs, arachnid abuse. Another creature suffering from the image of giant, man-eating arachnids...
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