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fun 4

name the lakes! brush up on your geography too
(link to image without animation at NASA, four times larger than the one below)

Hover mouse pointer over the image for labels of some landmarks.
[Approximate labelling only.]
Lake Michigan Lake Superior Lake Erie Lake Ontario Lake St Clair Lake Winnebago Lake Simcoe Great Bay St Lawrence River Lake Huron Saginau Bay Georgian Bay North Channel Illinois Winsconsin Winsconsin Iowa Indiana Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania New York Niagara Falls Minnesota Ontario Quebec
Image .A2003100.1830 courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

[Animation produced by abelard.org © abelard.org, 2003. All rights reserved.]

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14.04.2003



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cooking a.i.d.s.—is this russian-south african quackery, or a business deal?

“British defence giant BAE Systems is backing human trials in South Africa of a Russian-designed radiation machine touted as a radical new treatment for HIV/Aids.”

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06.04.2003

gullibility—hoaxes and unhoaxes
with some useful related links.

Here are two sites which provide further examples, and will keep you up-to-date on such spoofs:
Urban Legends Zeitgeist
Urban Legends Reference
(links from bigboard)

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updated
05.04.2003

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