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Well, you've sent me down the rabbit hole. The island pictured here is named Kiritimati, but it's pronounced "Christmas." The "ti" in the Gilbertese language is pronounced "s". The English call it Christmas Island, not to be confused with Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, which is where the famous crab march happens.

The island was first permanently populated as a coconut plantation. The village of Poland was named in honor of one of the plantation managers, who was from Poland. There's a lot more interesting stuff at Wikipedia.
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I went fishing one morning but after a short time I ran out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. Frogs are good bass bait.
Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.
Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit. So, I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. His eyes rolled back, he went limp. I released him into the lake without incident and carried on fishing using the frog.
A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot. It was that darned snake, with two more frogs.
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The "loud budgeting" in the image means the trend of foregoing social engagements because they are too expensive, and being honest with whoever invited you about the reason you are declining. Yes, I looked it up.

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From the linked article: "But since the Antarctic Treaty of 1961 has effectively frozen all territorial claims in Antarctica, that decipoint at the bottom of the world is a decidedly theoretical one."
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One thing you won't read at the linked article is that the picture of Erdős with two colleagues at the top was taken in 1941 when they were all arrested for acting suspiciously! I looked it up. The cops thought they were spies, but they were just weirdos. Still, the FBI kept an eye on Erdős for decades afterward.
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