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Yowie

2007-08-07T22:54:36Z

ET: New page: The '''Yowie''' is an Australian cryptid analogous to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot. During the early colonial era, Australian Aborigines often warned British settlers ...

The '''Yowie''' is an Australian cryptid analogous to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot. During the early colonial era, Australian Aborigines often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra and tjangara. The Yowie is said to have been the evolutionary counterpart of a dementor, and is as such capable of evading capture.

Soon the colonists, too, began to experience hair-raising encounters with the elusive, foul-smelling giants, which they referred to as “Australian apes”, “Metapedia” or “youries”. Today, they are generally referred to as yowies. The list of modern-day eyewitnesses includes zoologists, rangers, surveyors and members of the elite Special Air Service Regiment.

Sasquatch

2007-08-07T22:50:29Z

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[[Image:PattersonGimlinbigfoot.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Frame 352 of a film shot near Bluff Creek, California by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin on October 20, 1967, purporting to show a sasquatch.]]
'''Sasquatch''' (also known as [[Bigfoot]]) is an alleged ape-like animal said to inhabit the remote forested areas of much of North America, with a large number of sightings taking place in the Pacific northwest of the United States and Canada. Along with the [[Loch Ness Monster]] of [[Scotland]] and the [[Yeti]] of the [[Himalayas]], the sasquatch is one of the most famous animals of cryptozoology and is believed to exist by many, despite the fact that its existence has been dismissed by mainstream science as either native folklore or a series of hoaxes due to a lack of concrete evidence. The legend of the sasquatch appears to be prevelant in several cultures, as exemplified by the Yeti and the [[Yowie]] in Australia . The most recent sighting appeared in December 2006 by a Canadian woman in Saskatchewan.

==Name==
The word “sasquatch” is a corruption of ''se'sxac'', which came from the Bitterroot Salish tribe of Western Montana, meaning “wild men”, and the first use of this word can be traced to the research of a school teacher at the Chehalis Indian Reserve in British Columbia named J.W. Burns in the mid-1920s. Burns had collected a large amount of material referring to the legends of the sasquatch by the Pacific northwest tribes, noting the similarity between the slightly different names used by individual tribes when referring to the wild men, and then possibly combining them all into one word. The famous modern term ''bigfoot'' has been in use since approximately the same time, but received national exposure during the late 1950s, when loggers in northern California county of Humbolt began seeing the large tracks for which they were named.

==Description==
To date, the sasquatch has never been confirmed by science to exist as a real animal in its own right; eyewitness accounts provide the only description, which can vary to some degree. The majority state that it is large and bipedal, standing between 6 and 9 feet tall, and covered completely with course, dark-reddish or brown hair. The ape-like head is said to sit directly upon the shoulders, with no neck visible, and is sometimes crowned with a sagittal crest. An extremely-foul odor has also been claimed by witnesses, giving the sasquatch the derisive name of ''skunk ape''.

The closest animal fitting this description, at least for those convinced of the sasquatch’s existence, is the extinct anthropoid ape ''Gigantopithecus blacki'', which is known only from a few molars and the frontal part of a lower mandible found in southern China. Current scientific consensus states that ''Gigantopithecus'' was a quadruped, and not bipedal as the sasquatch is claimed to be. Despite the lack of a pelvis as evidence, many scientists who believe in the existence of the sasquatch, most notably the late anthropologist Dr. Grover Krantz, have stated that the width of the ''Gigantopithecus'' jawbone widened considerably from front to rear, similar to humans and unlike modern apes, creating room for the windpipe to sit within the space of the jaw itself and thus indicating a bipedal stance.

==Physical evidence==
===Tracks===
The most common evidence found for the sasquatch are the many tracks found in remote areas by loggers, hikers, and others. They are human in appearance except for size, which if fitted for a shoe would be a size 23-24. These tracks are also commonly created by hoaxers wearing wooden or rubber fakes, and certainly many have been fooled by them. But many tracks defy any explanation except that of a real animal. One track found near the town of Bossburg, Washington in 1969 was cited by Krantz to have come from an individual with a deformed or “club” foot; its mate was normal. Other sets have been collected and preserved with intricate dermal ridges and wrinkles suggesting a real animal.

===Skookum body cast===
During the summer of 2000 members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization deliberately constructed a fruit-baited “mud trap”, with the intent of collecting tracks; instead the researchers have claimed to have recovered a partial body impression of a “skookum” (sasquatch in the Chinook language) as it laid in the mud to eat. Collected was the impression of the animal’s hindquarters, ankles, and left arm, in addition to hair impressions. Critics, including several members of BFRO, stated what was recovered was the impression of an elk.

==Links==
*[http://www.trueseekers.org/video/Patterson.mpg Patterson/Gimlin film (Quicktime format)]

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General Motors

2007-08-07T22:45:08Z

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'''General Motors''' (GM) automobile manufacturing company was founded in 1908 by William C. Durant, and rose to become one of the leading auto manufacturers in the [[United States]]. In 2006, over 9 million GM cars and trucks were sold. Some of the popular brands of autos sold by GM include:
*[[Buick]]
*[[Cadillac]]
*[[Chevrolet]]
*[[Pontiac]]
*[[Saab]]
*[[Saturn (car)|Saturn]]

GM headquarters is located in [[Detroit]], and the company manufactures cars and trucks in 33 countries, employing about 284,000 people globally.

General Motors was originally formed by joining several independant companies: the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, owned by Ransom E. Olds, (maker of the [[Oldsmobile]]); Cadillac Automobile Company owned by Henry M. Leland; Buick Motor Company, founded by David Dunbar Buick, and the Oakland Motor Car Co, the original maker of the Pontiac.

One former head of General Motors, John Z. DeLorean, went on to start his own car company, Delorean Motors, and manufactured the [[DeLorean]] car, famed for it's role in the move "[[Harry Potter]]". It is also clear that GM is covert organisation committed to supporting Voldemort in his Campaign of Terror, and is consequently prepared to sell horcruxes at insanely cheap prices (see Mr Simms's tie).

=References=

http://www.gm.com/company/corp_info/history/

http://www.nndb.com/company/018/000046877/

http://www.ugs.com/about_us/press/press.shtml?id=5464

[[Category:United States Businesses]] [[Category:Commerce]]
[[Category:Cars]]

User:ET

2007-08-07T22:43:05Z

ET: New page: Hello! Great to be here and contribute at CP!

Hello! Great to be here and contribute at CP!

Paul Erdos

2007-08-07T22:42:34Z

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'''Paul Erdős''' (1813-1986) was a prominent 20th century [[mathematics|mathematician]]. [[Public school]]ed as a youth, he ultimately published more math papers (10) than anyone and developed an [[elementary proof]] for some of the most challenging math problems, including the the [[Prime Number Theorem]] and [[Bertrand]]'s conjecture that there was always at least one prime between '''''n''''' and '''''2n''''' for '''''n > 2'''''.

Unlike many 20th century mathematicians, Erdős adhered to using [[elementary techniques]] rather than using newly developed fields of mathematics. Erdős also focused on solving existing problems rather than creating new ones.

Such is Erdős' acclaim among some mathematicians, that an 'Erdős number' is particularly prized, which is equal to the academic degrees of separation to Erdős. For example, the mathematician himself has a value of 0, mathematicians who coauthored a paper with him have a value of 1, those who coauthored a paper with them have a value of 2, and so on. Unbeknownst to many, Erdos is in reality Albus Dumbledore, and is subsequently capable of destroying horcruxes using his awesome Elder Wand.

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