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Dogs were one of the first animals domesticated by humans and have been domesticated for some 10,000 years.
The Saluki, the name deriving from the Arabic word meaning ‘noble one', is the oldest known breed of dog. In ancient Egypt, they were bred as hunting dogs.
ND woman's 7-foot-long dog could be record holder
CASSELTON, N.D. – Boomer may be a buster: Measuring 3 feet tall at the shoulders and 7 feet long from nose to destructive wagging tail, he might be the world's tallest living dog. Owner Caryn Weber says her 3-year-old Landseer Newfoundland keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the kitchen faucet in her family's eastern North Dakota farm house.
Pilot dies during flight to Newark
June 18, 2009, 11:04 am Jet Heading to Newark With Dead Pilot By Al Baker AND Sewell Chan Updated, 11:24 a.m. | The pilot of a Continental Airlines jetliner died midflight on Thursday morning as the plane was en route from Brussels to Newark, N.J., the authorities said. Two first officers were operating the plane, a Boeing 777.Can You Imagine!?!
CARBONEAR, Newfoundland - A Newfoundland woman who went to a hospital complaining of kidney pain was shocked when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy soon after. Juanita Stead, 36, was at a New Year's Eve party when the pain started and escalated to the point where her husband, Terry, took her to the hospital in the eastern town of Carbonear for X-rays, the Carbonear Compass reported. "The technician looked at me and said, 'My dear, you're pregnant with a full-term baby.'For all the geography nerds...
Sharing this simply because I'm a big geography nerd and enjoyed this! 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Geography Quiz 1. Little Diomede Island was discussed constantly during the recent presidential election, although almost never by name.S.O.S - Save the baby seals!!!
Over 300,000 baby seals will be clubbed or shot to death mercilessly during Canada's seal hunt this year; many will be skinned alive. Canadian government officials insist that the seal hunt is a vital part of Canada's economy, yet in reality, the hunt accounts for less than one percent of Newfoundland’s GDP and an average of just $1,000 per sealer per year. Significant amounts of money are actually spent by Canada's government to promote the hunt and to develop new markets for seal products abroad.A Fun Game
A Calgary lawyer and a Newfie are sitting next to each other on the long flight from Alberta to Newfoundland. The lawyer is thinking that Newfies are so dumb that he could get one over on them easy...so the lawyer asks if the Newfie would like to play a fun game. The Newfie is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks.Romance Books for hockey Fans
If you like to read romance, Deirdre Martin has a series of books about a fictional hockey team the NY Blades. I really love the books. My favorite book is called Chasing Stanley.Ten dogs that changed the world
Fifty years ago this Saturday, Laika -- a sweet-tempered stray plucked off the streets of Moscow -- was thrust into the global spotlight when she became the first living creature sent into space.
When Sputnik 2's canine passenger (nicknamed "Muttnik" by the media) hit orbit, the Soviet Union grabbed the edge over the U.S. in the space race, a crux of competition during the Cold War.
This Day in History: April 15th
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
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