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One animal no less hideous, which I encountered several times, was the enormous crab that Mr. Darwin observed, to which nature has given the instinct and requisite strength to eat coconuts; it scrambles up trees on the beach and sends the coconuts tumbling; they fracture in their fall and are opened by its powerful pincers.

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I woke up, they opened the door, I went out to get some fresh air, and I looked, and there was a man running across the runway.

The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.

So what's the problem, why has this chasm opened up, and what can we do to fix it?

I can look at the skull structure, and I can see that, okay, this is where they opened up the skull on this woman, and that's where they went in.

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