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Someone named Kurt Saxon has posted the entire text of this cheesy old garage sale paperback, from the 1950s, which nevertheless is based on actual records modern and ancient:

Those About To Die
Chapter XI
by Daniel P. Mannix

There were also man-sized apes called tityrus with round faces, reddish color and whiskers. Pictures of them appear on vases and they were apparently orangutans, imported from Indonesia. As far as I know, the Romans never exhibited gorillas although these biggest of all apes were known to the Phoenicians, who gave them their present name which means "hairy savage."

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Ancient Crash, Epic Wave
NY Times | November 14, 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE
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Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami?
NYT | Nov 14 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739396/posts