Why the hippocrite (sp?)?
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The Catholic Church did as much as it could at that time.  Some of the parish priests even gave their own monies.  This was a horrible time and it was before modern technology.  And, all the advances that we have today.  \n\nWhy don't you check this website out:\nhttp://www.vincenter.org/97/kerr.html\n\nBTW, Didn't Jesus say "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR", wasn't that a COMMANDMENT or something?  What, did Jesus say to just love those people you like...or love whenever you feel like it unless it goes against your beliefs? NO, he said to even love your enemy.  I believe that defination is pretty broad.
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It was the tooth of a Peccary, a pig like creature that was mistaken for a human tooth.  It isn't actually that interesting.\n\nCreationists try to use this as evidence of a young earth, but they mis-read the situation as usual...
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That is too funny. Yes it would be an excellent pitch. But why aren't hemmorhoids called asteroids?
505804
Actually there was such a device according to Mythology. She was called Medusa. She had hair of slithering snakes, she was so hideous that anyone who looked at her turned to stone. Look it up to find out how someone was finally able to kill her while many others tried and failed!
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er, here we go (and this is straight off the top of my head)\n\nNo skeleton (endo or exo)means that they cannot self support. (neg)\nNo real means of self propulsion (neg)\nMostly translucent (pos) (from a prey point of view)\nSome have stingers (pos) for food capture and defense\n\nand thats all i've got. It's been too many years since school. sorry
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I think the horn on the forehead originated from Ray Harryhausen's special effects in the 1958 film "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad". I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any depictions of horned Cyclopes, (that's the plural - I checked), from before then. The mythical versions of Cyclopes are usually referred to as giants, so the elephant skull theory would make a lot of sense, but there's no reason why the stories couldn't also have originated from people with cyclopia. It may even explain why the elephant's nasal cavity was assumed to be an eye socket in the first place.\nHowever, it's quite easy to see why people may have come to that conclusion :\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/cyclops02.htm\n\n\nMORE STUFF  \n\nThe cyclops isn't the only mythological creature to have similarities with people with genetic abnormalities. Mermaids for instance :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenomelia\nQuite a lot of these legendary creatures probably have some basis in fact. Tales of dragons may be based on early discoveries of dinosaur fossils (as well as living reptiles), and unicorns may have been based on travellers' descriptions of a rhinocerous.
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i would say it's the shape of the pelvic bone.  gives stability to their body shape and movement.
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It comes from Hermes' caduceus, which has long been a sign of medical symbology representing thus medicine... Its a staff with two snakes, sometimes one encircling it to the top... it may even look like a double helix...
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You should rent the movie "Stargate" if you haven't already.  They have an interesting point about the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian.  Anyway, I think you are going in the right direction.  I think Chritianity stemmed from Osirus and Isis.  Also remember that one pharoah who caused a ruckus by claiming there was only one god, instead of multiple gods.  He was one of the first monotheists.  Wasn't he Amun-Ra?  Start your religion. Good luck.
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well for a start, insects have 6 limbs, an exo skeloton (or skeloton on the OUTSIDE of their body) Which means they can only grow so big before gravity crushes them, and also more people are scared of insects and arachnids then any other animal... weird huh?
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http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_project_dictionary/Hippopotomonstroses\n\nthere you go, enjoy your 15 syllable word!  Oddly enough it says that it is the fear of long words.
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Oddly, usually they don't.  Usually, a piece of bone is found protruding from the ground already, and that's how dinosaur skeletons are found.
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from the Greek Hippus - means Horse and Potamus - River
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Yes;\n\n'Hippopotamus' means 'river horse', which is what Greeks called this powerful beast. Ancient Egyptians, guessing more correctly, called it 'river pig'\n\nThe artiodactyls are even-toed placental mammals with hooves. Within this group, pigs, peccaries and hippopotamuses make up the suborder Suiformes (from the Greek: with the shape of a pig). The hippopotamus is genetically related to the pig.
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The stegosaurus, the one with the spikes running up and down its back. Archaeologists found there was a big enlargement in the stegosaurus's spinal cord at the point where it passed through the pelvis. Since the stegosaurus had a pretty poor excuse for a brain in its head--the thing was about the size of a walnut, only 1/20th the size of the mysterious butt organ--speculation arose that the giant reptile needed some auxiliary gray matter to mind its rump while the forward brain handled business up front. Alas, Later scholars decided that the putative afterbrain was just a neural junction where a lot of nerves happened to enter the spinal cord. Such junctions are found in many lizards, as well as in the ostrich. \n\nSo, the answer is no.
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have you ever heard of the bombadier bettle? they are a small bug that sprays liquid at temperatures of 212 degrees Fahrenheit out of its rear by mixing two chemicals. \n\nok so now have you heard of Pachycephalsaurus (i don't know if i spelled that right!) its a dinosaur that has chambers in its  crest. these chambers are similiar to the bombadier beetles chambers. they are conected to its nose and mouth though instead of its butt. its possible that dragon myths were started from these or other now extinct animals
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Yes because they are reptiles.\n\nI could wax lyrical for pages and pages (see above) and you raise an excellent point about vertebrae, however thay are reptiles.