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...often that colleague. Currently he is working on describing a species found on the Island of Krakatau, where the environment was destroyed by a volcanic eruption about 100 years ago. He suspects that the species now inhabiting the island emigrated from one of the neighboring islands, such as Java or Sumatra...
...also destroyed a blue Java motor scooter and knocked a traffic signal post several feet down the sidewalk. The Chevy continued into the Crimson Travel building, leaving paint chips on the building wall...
...while I thought I might have a story on the the subject of the world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...
Some Victorian scientists viewed the discoveries as evidence of a primordial flood, possibly Noah's. A few linked extinctions to the fury of volcanoes; their conjecture was based on the extraordinary explosion in 1883 of Krakatoa, a volcano between Java and Sumatra, which darkened the skies and triggered a giant tidal wave that drowned 36,000 people...
...group that was directly ancestral to man and is known to have used fire and lived in caves as well as on the plains of Africa. Members of the species migrated as far as Asia, where the cranium of the so-called Java Man was discovered in 1891 and the Peking...