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Dennis Collins
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Post Number:
1840
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 02:48 am: |   |
I think it was either Collier's Magazine or The Saturday Evening Post but some magazine had a regular feature that went something like... "Things I discovered while looking up something else." Doing research sometimes yields some quite unexpected fallout.
Now I live on the shore of what is technically considered Saginaw Bay, one of the larger bays in the Great Lakes. The water is relatively shallow and the sandy bottom makes a great solar reflector and so the bay is somewhat warmer than the major part of the lakes.
Can't remember what I was looking up but I stumbled across an article about Bull Sharks. Seems that these eight foot predators are one of the most common sharks involved in attacks on humans because they seem to enjoy cruising in extremely shallow (often 2 ft. or less) water.
Now here's the good part... They seem to be quite adaptable to fresh water environments and have been found over a thousand miles from the ocean up the Amazon River and in Lake Venezuela. There is some speculation that they can even breed in fresh water.
I've ordered some books so that I can do some real research and put together my blockbuster novel...
HEADLINES: Four swimmers attacked and killed by some sort of large fish off the shore of Bay City, Michigan.
Remember... you read it here first
Dennis Collins
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Tom Elkins
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
426
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 07:18 am: | |
I used to marvel that at some point, way back there, some people got together and divvied up the world into 24 time zones...but I never dug into it. Recently I had occasion to include in something I was writing the early history of petroleum development in this country, which took me to Standard Oil Company, and right there on the opposite page was "standard time zones" with a description of the event, when and where it happened, etc.
Now I don't marvel anymore. (Yes I do. I still wonder how those guys from different nations, different ethnicities, different languages, etc., agreed on anything.)
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2647
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 23, 2006 - 10:01 am: | |
Dennis,
sounds like a blockbuster of a book, can't wait for the movie, should rival Jaws.......
Tom,
I wonder to, how anyone group can get together with any other group and agree on premise to make something a standard, world over, especially like the time zone thing or daylight savings time for the whole nation, except Arizona and Hawaii and four territories who didn't agree. Kind of mind-boogling.
Claudia
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