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The Thing in the Sky There is a reason the Milky Way features so prominently in my book and as a symbol for everything I do. To me, it represents not only wonder but also everything that is wrong with the modern world. On January 17th, 1994, a massive earthquake struck Los Angeles, plunging the city into darkness. With the power grid down, the night sky revealed itself in full. The 911 lines were flooded with calls reporting a strange silver streak overhead. Many believed it

A short history of Newfoundland  Hard evidence of early inhabitants of the area of Newfoundland and its surroundings is very sparse, sometimes just a single burial of a few caches of stone tools. We have an idea that there was some habitation for at least 7,000 to 9,000 years. There was a constant list of one group of indigenous inhabitants being replaced by another.  A succession of groups inhabited the region: Paleo-Eskimos, followed by Maritime Archaic Indians, then Dorset