Astonishing Facts....
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SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
When a new dictionary is published, they will insert about 5 or 6 mountweazels. A mountweazel is a made up word, inserted into a dictionary to stop other dictionary makers from just copying your work. If you suspect your dictionary has been copied, the presence of the same mountweazels will prove it, and enable you to sue.
Cartographers do the same thing by including one or more features in their maps that aren’t really there.SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
When a new dictionary is published, they will insert about 5 or 6 mountweazels. A mountweazel is a made up word, inserted into a dictionary to stop other dictionary makers from just copying your work. If you suspect your dictionary has been copied, the presence of the same mountweazels will prove it, and enable you to sue.
Cartographers do the same thing by including one or more features in their maps that aren’t really there.Which has just made this wonder... do they still produce the AtoZ?
wiggy001 said:
SpeckledJim said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
When a new dictionary is published, they will insert about 5 or 6 mountweazels. A mountweazel is a made up word, inserted into a dictionary to stop other dictionary makers from just copying your work. If you suspect your dictionary has been copied, the presence of the same mountweazels will prove it, and enable you to sue.
Cartographers do the same thing by including one or more features in their maps that aren’t really there.Which has just made this wonder... do they still produce the AtoZ?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/06/andrewc...
In a similar vain, the concept of the Canary Trap allows leaks to be traced through subtle changes in language.
Not only used in spying circles, also used in corporates for some sensitive documents.
Not only used in spying circles, also used in corporates for some sensitive documents.
Thesprucegoose said:
Moonhawk said:
A Owl?
Rare in this country but more frequent in the US.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabo...
'"I was crossing the car park, heading for the Masonic Club with a group of people when we noticed the owl. It was very large, around 2ft tall.
"The others went into the club ahead of me as I had to make a phone call and then that's when it happened."''
6 of the World's Most Dangerous Birds
https://www.britannica.com/list/6-of-the-worlds-mo...
The Owl is up there..
Twit Twoo them owls are out to get you.
Edited by Thesprucegoose on Sunday 17th June 21:59
Fastchas said:
Can you elaborate please? I can think of two...
Dry
&
Slushy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#PhasesDry
&
Slushy
Vaud said:
In a similar vain, the concept of the Canary Trap allows leaks to be traced through subtle changes in language.
Not only used in spying circles, also used in corporates for some sensitive documents.
And in another similar, but different, vein, the precise examination of a few very individual terms of speech and structure of language were used to track down the unabomber.Not only used in spying circles, also used in corporates for some sensitive documents.
Apparently, it's extraordinarily difficult to write a passage of prose of any length without including a lot of clues as to who you are. Phrases and words, and structures, that you might think are absolutely vanilla English, are actually very unusual and specific to you, especially when used in combination, and can be used to identify you. There were a handful of written 'ticks' in the Unabomber Manifesto which on first examination didn't stand out at all, but the FBI found them.
(yes, I watched Manhunter recently!)
Timmy45 said:
Stan the Bat said:
bobfather said:
Humans are not the top of their food chain, the grizzly bear holds top spot
Polar bears are pretty mean too.Who would win ...........................fight
The male Amur tiger will predate Asiatic black bears and sub adult and female brown bears. According to telemetry data on tigers from 1992-2003, half the attacks on brown bears occur during hibernation but no males were killed despite their vulnerable state of hibernation.. According to former Russian biologist S.P. Kucherenko & early Naturalist N.A. Baikov tigers will only attack bears of similar or smaller size which translates to female and sub adult bears, not the larger male brown bear.
There has been no record of male brown bears killed by tigers but there are records of male Amur tigers killed by brown bears & some of them were cannibalized.
According to Russian biologists I.V. Seryodkin, N.A. Raikov, & Park Manager G.F. Gorokhov, adult Usurri female brown bear are not easy prey for dominant male Amur tigers either - some of the larger female brown bears have inflicted severe injury to the victorious but bloodied tiger.
Adult male Far Eastern brown bears often use and also usurp Amur tiger carrion which sometimes include multiple tigers in the form a mother tiger and her 2-3 year old large adult size offspring.
SO THE ANSWER IS, tigers may kill adult males bears while hibernating or via ambush, but on face-to-face encounters, a male brown bear (specially the large far eastern brown bear) could kill even the largest siberian tiger.....................................................................
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