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Saturday, March 17, 2007

 
too much!

RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA POST

BACTRIA/BACTRIANA-ancient country of central asia. hmm, may have to check internets.

BADAKHSHAN-mentions tajiks. tajikstan? pakistan?

BADGER -3 snippits worth repeating. the jaw has troysycyse condyle(sp?). locked in a cavity to make it's grip extremely strong. it's a very old species. giant badgers harrassing cavemen!, and the american badger is far more carnivorous than the other kinds.

BADIA Y LEBLICH, Domingo-Ali Bey 1765-1818 arab scholar/speaker. spent lots of time with arabs.

is there any point to repeating BADIUS, Jodoch, a printer from 1462-1535? BAGGESON, Jens Emmanuel 1765-1826 a danish writer? or was that last one to ask my danish friend about?

Comments:
Bactria - that's where you get your Bactrian camels from. The kind with two (2) humps. Not the same as the Arabian camel aka dromedary.
 
later in the EB it mentions camels and dromedaries. as if they are different species, or don't call the 2 humpers camels.
ppoo
 
They are a different species. Maybe for the purists it's the same as don't call a bison a buffalo.

Did you know that the African and Indian elephants are of different Genus?
 
didn't know they 'seperated' them.
odd the way critters are seperated.
jeez, they look similar to me.
that's all i knows.
ppoo
 
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