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Dam Busters | Hakai Magazine

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Dam Busters | Hakai Magazine A nascent environmental movement is liberating rivers and freeing fish.

Dude Finds An Alligator Chilling In The Sewer Outside His House

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Dude Finds An Alligator Chilling In The Sewer Outside His House

smell a rat: Word of the day for April 5, 2017

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Word of the day is smell a rat : (idiomatic) To sense something suspicious. To celebrate April Fools' Day, we are featuring a series of terms associated with animals. Enjoy!

Dude Finds An Alligator Chilling In The Sewer Outside His House

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Dude Finds An Alligator Chilling In The Sewer Outside His House Just when you thought you'd seen everything, you see the two terrifying, glowing eyes of an alligator staring back at you from inside the sewer outside your house. April 4, 2017 at 05:00PM

Article of the day for April 5, 2017

The Article of the day for April 5, 2017 is Shackleton–Rowett Expedition . The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The venture, with vaguely defined geographic and scientific objectives, was financed by John Quiller Rowett, and is otherwise known as the Quest Expedition after its ship Quest, a converted Norwegian sealer. Shackleton had originally intended to go to the Arctic and explore the Beaufort Sea, but abandoned this plan when the Canadian government withheld financial support. Shortly after Quest's arrival at South Georgia, Shackleton died of a heart attack, aged 47. The expedition continued under the leadership of Frank Wild, with a three-month cruise to the eastern Antarctic, but the shortcomings of Quest as a polar vessel kept it from proceeding further than longitude 20°E, or from penetrating southward through the pack ice. After returning to Sout...

Article of the day for April 5, 2017

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Article of the day is Shackleton–Rowett Expedition. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

smell a rat: Word of the day for April 5, 2017

smell a rat , v : (idiomatic) To sense something suspicious. To celebrate April Fools' Day, we are featuring a series of terms associated with animals. Enjoy!