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Dragons in Canada
My good friend and fellow writer Joe Nigg recently delivered a fascinating lecture on Dragons at Canada’s Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta. Such events are not typically covered by local media when they occur in the U.S. (at least not in my part of the U.S.), but this one was complemented by a newspaper interview with Joe that is unusually well written.Read More
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“Simblins” Update (**Updated!**)
Thanks to William Michaelian’s recent blog post, I did some follow-up Googling for “simblins” information in the hope of fleshing out the Mark Twain quote I posted earlier. Here some tidbits I found. An entry in his journal by Private Joseph Whitehouse, a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, on his travels through the Rickoree nation. The entry is dated Saturday, September 29, 1804: Saturday 29th Sept. 1804. we Set off eairly. proceeded on passed bluffs on S. S.Read More