[Daffynition]

Get off my lawn!

[FlingWingFlyer]

The North-West Passage – the sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally perilously clogged with thick ice – is nearly ice-free for the first time since records began.

Obviously they weren't keeping "records" when the Vikings were sailing through it.

[Argus]

Spencer Tracy vindicated!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Reuters gets that sinking feeling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879303/posts

News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic....

[muawiyah]

The SS MANHATTAN successfully opened the Northwest Passage to commercial traffic in 1969.

[Sherman Logan]

The Dorsett culture (pre-Eskimo) focused on hunting the whales that migrated through the NW passage. As the climate worsened, the whales stopped migrating and the Dorset disappeared, replaced by the Thule Inuit. This occurred approximately 1200 AD.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1888019/posts?page=2#2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1888019/posts?page=8#8

[SunkenCiv]

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