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The Last 100 Days: A-parasitic-hairworm-named-Obama edition
Yahoo News ^ | 09 September 2016 | Olivier Knox

Posted on 09/09/2016 12:11:11 PM PDT by mountn man

President Obama has more than 130 days left before he leaves office, but already his name adorns a dozen schools, at least eight streets in the United States, one avenue in Tanzania and a mountain in Aruba. If most of those seem tediously conventional, consider that his name is also attached to a parasitic hairworm that afflicts crickets, an Amazonian puffbird and a footlong carnivorous lizard that went extinct roughly 66 million years ago.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: obama; parasite
The author got the location of the mountain wrong. It's Antigua not Aruba.

Apropos for Bathouse Barry, it's named ...
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Mount Obama


1 posted on 09/09/2016 12:11:12 PM PDT by mountn man
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To: mountn man
President Obama has more than 130 days left before he leaves office

Ain't that a shame...that he won't be gone tomorrow!!

2 posted on 09/09/2016 12:19:38 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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I’m sure he’s proudest of the street in Tanzania.


3 posted on 09/09/2016 12:22:45 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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ewwwwww...


4 posted on 09/09/2016 12:45:10 PM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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Re>The author got the location of the mountain wrong

It's Yahoo News. You are lucky they got the hemisphere right.

5 posted on 09/09/2016 12:58:57 PM PDT by IC Ken
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The hairworm will make the cover of Newsweek as Parasite of the Year.
6 posted on 09/09/2016 7:37:44 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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