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At one point, it's lower jaw was injured. It looks like it was cut just in the way one cuts along the tongue in order to pull the gills and guts out. Maybe this one got away during cleaning and survived.
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Face it. The lake is doomed. Utah's population has risen from 1 million in 1970 to well over 3 million in 2019. The vas majority live along the Wasatch Front in a 100 mile strip running from Ogden to Provo. All the rivers and streams that flowed into the lake and the local aquifer have been diverted away from the lake. Not enough water is flowing in to replace the water evaporating out of the lake. Maybe they will change the name of the capitol to Salt Flat City
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There was an attempt to confirm the bodies of two bandits buried in Bolivia were Butch and Sundance. Forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow exhumed the bodies and DNA tests confirmed they were not. Lula Parker Betenson's book Butch Cassidy, My Brother clearly argues that he died in the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s.
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Nope. I didn't buy any of the other ten. I carry a cell phone for one reason only. To make and receive phone calls. My 2010 Samsung Rugby II works fine for phone calls, texting, and voice mail. All I need.
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Same old story. Universities always overbook for their first semester or quarter. They also sell more parking permits than they have spaces.Many universities also require their first year students to live in the dorms, unless they are locals. By the end of the first term, there will be plenty of room. Maybe a third of the incoming class will flunk out or decide college isn't for them.
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Pretty funny. Reminds me of all those "Ausfahrt" signs in Germany. That thing in the picture is not a speed control gauge. It is an an engine order telegraph or E.O.T. from a ship. It is used to relay engine speed commands from the bridge to the engine room. Locomotives would not need one--they have a throttle in the cab. The brass topped barrel-like items next to it are binnacles which are protective housings for a ship's compass. Apparently that train museum has some maritime displays too.
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It seems there are plenty of grammar Nazis in the UK too.Some of their complaints I can see. Others are just the whining of cranky old pedants. “Deplane,” Does anyone "deship" after a sea voyage? Transportation vs transport. Around here, the first is a noun; the second is a verb. “My bad” It means the same as "I am sorry"--except at a funeral (long story)."Bi-weekly" VS "fortnightly" occurring every two weeks or twice a week depending on context, I suppose.'Fortnight"derives from the Anglo-Saxon fēowertyne niht, meaning "fourteen nights". Who speaks Anglo Saxon these days? Except that philologist who likes to recite Beowulf when drunk.“That’ll learn you” Don't blame the Americans for that one. The first time I heard it was in a pub brawl in Tralee, Ireland. Z as “zee.” Both zee and zed were interchangeable in British and American English until the mid nineteenth century. The Brits coined the Zee. It first appeared in print in a British language textbook— Thomas Lyle's New Spelling-book—in 1677. They also used a variety of other names for Z: izzard, uzzard, zad, shard and, ezod.. They have a lot of room to complain there.
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