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Polar Bear
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Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard a missionary describe the extraordinary difficulty he had found in translating the Bible into Eskimo. It was useless to talk of corn or wine to a people who did not know even what they meant, so he had to use equivalents within their powers of comprehension. Thus in the Eskimo version of the Scriptures the miracle of Cana of Galilee is described as turning the water into blubber; the 8th verse of the 5th chapter of the First Epistle of St. Peter ran: ‘Your adversa
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― The Days Before Yesterday
― The Days Before Yesterday
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The female does not lie prone in the den. Most of the time she reclines, in the position of an ailing Victorian dowager propped up in bed to receive visitors for tea.
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― Polar Dance: Born of the North Wind
― Polar Dance: Born of the North Wind
Two polar bears travel the world in global warming is the book of all polar bear books, an adven…more
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