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...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...
...said the National Defense Department, a small Canadian Army force, probably as few as 45 highly trained officers and men, plus some hand-picked observers from other nations, would start out from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox...
Purpose of "Operation Musk-Ox," said National Defense, is to study "winter operations generally in the Arctic weather zone," to assess "the mobility of oversnow vehicles." But everyone knew that any foreseeable war would not be won-or even fought-with tracked motor vehicles. What soldiers knew was that the polar icecap was no longer an impenetrable natural defense on Canada's topside. So "certain technical research projects in Arctic air and ground warfare will [also] be studied. . . . The expedition is expected to obtain information of immense value...
...Joshua as a war criminal. His version of what happened at the siege of Jericho differed from standard Biblical texts. Ibn Saud had Joshua commanding: "Burn ye all that is in the city and slay with the edge of the sword both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep, and burn the city with fire and all that is therein...
...gentleman got up in the morning and tried to put on a small boy's pantaloons. He wakened the house with a roar: "What's the matter? Why, can't you see what's the matter? I'm swelled as big as an ox. I cannot get my big toe into my pantaloons...