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13/04/2006 01:17:26
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>>3) .T. or .F., Canary Island is named so because of type of birds that migrate there each winter.
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>>Is this an island called "Canary" or the "Canary Isles" (inc. Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote) in the Atlantic, part of Spain?
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>Ancient Romans named it. Latin "Canaria" - meaning wild and "isula" meaning dogs so wild dogs for the island was inhabited by bunch wild dogs, much like the Australian dingo dogs.

Except the bad Latin. "Canaria" - from canis, dog - and "insula" - island.

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the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
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