Short Takes and Permafrost Facts
Short Takes explains the origin of the phrase to pull the wool over one's eyes through a wig pulling highwayman practice. Permafrost notes depth reached 1,330 feet near Point Barrow Alaska and deepest known 2,850 feet in Eastern Siberia.
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Point Barrow
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Siberia
Reggies Ramblings From a Canadian Observer
A collage of notes and quips on Canadian politics culture and media includes Pierre Trudeau inflation remedies Reform Party contempt humor about 350 pound pie fillers and a call for televised legislature with a $2 million install cost and $800000 yearly operating price plus snippets from Winnipeg and Ottawa observers about publicity and public figures.
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Janes Whitcomb Riley
Confucius
Battlin
Tommy Douglas
Ccf-Ndp
USA
Seattle
Winnipeg
S. J. Harris
Pierre Berton
Canada
Berton
Ontario Commission On the Legislature
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Toews
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McNeill
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Reform Party
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Reform”’ Party
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Eddie
Mel Nowosad
Bee-Clean”’ Janitorial CO. Ltd
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Beth Edema
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Metrique
Cosen
Virden
Stan Jewer
Beulah
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