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name the lakes! brush up on your geography too
(link to image without animation at NASA, four times larger than the one below)

Hover mouse pointer over the image for labels of some landmarks.
[Approximate labelling only.]

Image .A2003100.1830 courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov

[Animation produced by abelard.org © abelard.org, 2003. All rights reserved.]

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cooking a.i.d.s.—is this russian-south african quackery, or a business deal?

“British defence giant BAE Systems is backing human trials in South Africa of a Russian-designed radiation machine touted as a radical new treatment for HIV/Aids.”

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gullibility—hoaxes and unhoaxes
with some useful related links.

Here are two sites which provide further examples, and will keep you up-to-date on such spoofs:
Urban Legends Zeitgeist
Urban Legends Reference
(links from bigboard)

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