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...However, among these Alaskan tribes, reciprocity is highly practiced,” Capone says. The tribe that reclaimed the totem pole gave the museum a cedar tree, and the museum in turn commissioned Nathan Jackson, an artist from that community, to carve the tree into a different totem pole...
James Cameron: nature filmmaker? It's a title even the director himself - a self-described tree hugger - might not have expected. After all, in his budget-busting moviemaking career, Cameron has engineered a planet-killing nuclear holocaust (The Terminator), created acid-blooded extraterrestrials (Aliens) and made a villain out of an iceberg (Titanic). His latest film, Avatar, the record-setting sci-fi epic filmed mostly with motion-capture cameras and computer graphics, is about as unnatural as a movie...
Greek mythology tells of King Erysicthon, the ‘Earth-tearer’ who offends Demeter by felling a tree sacred to the goddess. As punishment, Demeter orders Famine to inhabit Erysicthon’s stomach. Cursed with a voracious hunger, the king sells all of his possessions—and his daughter—for food. Eventually, wrought with despair, Erysicthon devours himself...
...wrote "Poland," crossed it out and then wrote "Austria." These are countries that don't even border each other. I come from stupid people. You know how I know that? Because I had to look up whether those countries border each other. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...Kudrow really wanted me to call my cousin, at which point I admitted that I think people like her and Carol are massive dorks. (See pictures of John McCain's family tree...