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Post by pim on Oct 18, 2018 0:28:22 GMT 10
That's Jeanne d'Arc or Joan of Arc.
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Post by pim on Nov 3, 2018 17:30:48 GMT 10
Another cheap trolling religion-bashing shot from Trickles who has nothing of interest to contribute on any subject whatsoever.
Your bigotry regarding Christianity is no different from the hostility towards Muslims and Islam trolled by others.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 3, 2018 20:54:00 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Nov 8, 2018 22:20:39 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 11, 2018 0:09:50 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Nov 11, 2018 10:45:06 GMT 10
Maori legend of man-eating bird is trueBy PAUL ROGERS - The New Zealand Herald | 9:58AM - Monday, September 14, 2009An artist's impression of a Haast's Eagle attacking moa. — Image: John Megahan in the PLoS Biology.A MAORI LEGEND about a giant, man-eating bird has been confirmed by scientists.
Te Hokioi was a huge black-and-white predator with a red crest and yellow-green tinged wingtips, in an account given to Sir George Gray, an early governor of New Zealand.
It was said to be named after its cry and to have "raced the hawk to the heavens".
Scientists now think the stories handed down by word of mouth and depicted in rock drawings refer to Haast's Eagle, a raptor that became extinct just 500 years ago, shows their study in The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Haast's Eagle (Harpagornis moorei) was discovered in swamp deposits by Sir Julius von Haast in the 1870s.
It was at first thought to be a scavenger because its bill was similar to a vulture's with hoods over its nostrils to stop flesh blocking its air passages as it rooted around inside carcasses.
But a re-examination of skeletons using modern technology, including CAT scans, by researchers at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch and the University of New South Wales in Australia showed it had a strong enough pelvis to support a killing blow as it dived at speeds of up to 80km/h.
With a wingspan of up to three metres and weighing 18kg, the female was twice as big as the largest living eagle, the Steller's sea eagle.
And the bird's talons were as big as a tiger's claws.
"It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a child," said Paul Scofield, the curator of vertebrate zoology at the Canterbury Museum.
"They had the ability to not only strike with their talons but to close the talons and put them through quite solid objects such as a pelvis. It was designed as a killing machine."
Its main prey would have been moa, flightless birds which grew to as much as 250kg and 2.5 metres tall.
"In some fossil sites, moa bones have been found with signs of eagle predation," Dr Scofield said.
New Zealand has no native land mammals because it became isolated from other continents in the Cretaceous, more than 65 million years ago.
As a result, birds filled niches usually populated by large mammals such as deer and cattle.
"Haast's Eagle wasn't just the equivalent of a giant predatory bird," said Dr Scofield. "It was the equivalent of a lion."
The eagle is thought to have died out after the arrival, 1000 years ago, of humans, who exterminated the giant moa.
The latest study shows it was a recent immigrant to the islands, related to the little eagle (Aquila morphnoides) an Australian bird weighing less than 1kg.
Remains of Haast's Eagles are rare because there never were many.
They lived only on the South Island, with probably not more than 1000 breeding pairs at any one time.www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10597177
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Post by KTJ on Nov 11, 2018 10:52:23 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 11, 2018 23:08:50 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Nov 12, 2018 9:24:28 GMT 10
Oh, dear ... the Canadian religious idiot is getting desperate.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 12, 2018 11:02:53 GMT 10
Oh, dear ... the Canadian religious idiot is getting desperate. New Zealand citizenship test: If you just got an erection, you passed.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 12, 2018 11:39:39 GMT 10
Still showing how desperate you are to get a “win”.
IDIOT!!
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 12, 2018 12:45:19 GMT 10
Still showing how desperate you are to get a “win”. IDIOT!!
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Post by KTJ on Nov 12, 2018 13:02:57 GMT 10
You just proved my point ... yet again!!
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Post by pim on Nov 12, 2018 15:02:56 GMT 10
No, you proved his. And the more you bite, the more you go on proving it.
My advice - gratuitous and unasked but you're getting it anyway - is to quit while you're behind.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 13, 2018 21:02:58 GMT 10
I'll just take my win and go.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 14, 2018 1:13:49 GMT 10
What win? Just because your sole cheerleader at this group says you had a win?
You're as stupid and delusional and narcissistic as Donald J. Trump.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 14, 2018 2:30:31 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Nov 14, 2018 4:44:26 GMT 10
KTJ thinks he's making some sort of clever point, but he's obviously never heard of John 13:34
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 14, 2018 10:05:06 GMT 10
KTJ thinks he's making some sort of clever point, but he's obviously never heard of John 13:34 Really? I doubt that he's ever even read the Bible.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 14, 2018 10:16:55 GMT 10
What win? Just because your sole cheerleader at this group says you had a win? You're as stupid and delusional and narcissistic as Donald J. Trump. Not to Ram the point, but I refuse to pull the wool over your eyes You got fleeced from any sort of victory here. Don't feel too Baa'd about it. 🐑
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Post by KTJ on Nov 14, 2018 14:04:56 GMT 10
Guess what? I don't continually claim, without any proof whatsoever, that an imaginary friend inside my mind is a supernatural god. And you talk about logic? Your god delusions should be funny. In fact, to logical, intelligent people, such delusion in a so-called mature, grown man is just plain pathetic. Faaaaaaaaaaaaark!!!
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Post by Occam's Spork on Nov 15, 2018 0:55:45 GMT 10
Guess what? I don't continually claim, without any proof whatsoever, that an imaginary friend inside my mind is a supernatural god. And you talk about logic? Your god delusions should be funny. In fact, to logical, intelligent people, such delusion in a so-called mature, grown man is just plain pathetic. Faaaaaaaaaaaaark!!! ...And he's so confident in his position he quickly changes the subject hoping to score a point on another front. But let's talk about logic, shall we? Is it logical to posture ones own opinion as fact? What if there really is no Creator? Where does that leave KTJ and his claims of superior logic? Completely baseless on an ocean of random circumstance. It's more logical to postulate ones own intellect is the product of design, than to suggest the universe simply had gas one day and puked up a rational mind.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 24, 2018 14:49:38 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Nov 24, 2018 18:11:56 GMT 10
What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with an atheist? Someone who knocks on your door for no apparent reason.
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Post by KTJ on Nov 25, 2018 15:45:52 GMT 10
So … now other people may end up endangering their lives in an attempt to recover the body of the stupid American fundy who got himself killed because he was attempting to spread his christian bullshit about his god delusion to people who were perfectly happy living without all that delusional garbage. Faaaaaaaaark … what a dumb, selfish twat this fundy-mental theist turned out to be.from The New York Times…• Retrieving Body of Missionary Killed on Remote Indian Island Is a Struggle
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