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	Flores - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia.
		Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor Archipelago.
		Flores is almost entirely Catholic and represents one of the "religious borders" created by the Catholic expansion in the Pacific and the spread of Islam from the west across Indonesia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores (716 words)

	Flores Island
		Flores, a long island located between Sumbawa and Timor, is strewn with volcanoes in a mountain chain dividing it into several regions with distinctive languages and traditions, scenic beauty, good beaches, and natural wonders.
		Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an Island arc with an estimated area of 14,300-km_ extending east from Java island of Indonesia.
		Flores is almost all Catholic and represents one of the "religious borders" created by the Catholic expansion in the Pacific and the spread of Islam from the west across Indonesia.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /east-nusa-tenggara/flores_island.html (744 words)

	Flores Giant Rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Flores Giant Rat (Papagomys armandvillei) occurs on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
		Analysis of the teeth of the Flores Giant Rat suggests that the rat has a diet of leaves, buds, fruit, and certain kinds of insect as inferred by large hypsodont teeth.
		Musser, G.G. The Giant Rat of Flores and its Relatives East of Borneo and Bali.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flores_Giant_Rat (243 words)

	Elsa Flores Oral History Interview Conducted by Jeffrey Rangel for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...
		ELSA FLORES: So my mom never took on any lovers or boyfriends that I knew of, and I don't think she would have had any time to, because she was just at home with the kids.
		ELSA FLORES: I don't know what the truth was, because there was a lot of real territorial old-gang stuff that all the guys from Los Tres-like the major players from Los Tres like the Rodríguez family and all those guys-there was still a lot of barrio attitude and almost kind of gang-oriented.
		ELSA FLORES: And I'd pictures of them and stuff, and Harry was like this very romantic-looking, like huge head of hair, all curly, and I thought he was cute, and I wanted to be with them, but it was quite obvious that.
	www.aaa.si.edu /collections/oralhistories/transcripts/flores97.htm (19282 words)

	NOVA \| scienceNOW \| Little People of Flores: Ask the Expert \| PBS
		Hence the Flores giant rat, which is about the size of a large rabbit.
		Certainly, as far as the Flores hobbit is concerned, the skeletal evidence shows that they were very different from modern humans, so it would seem very unlikely indeed that our ancestors and theirs chose to have sex.
		Remember, they were the incumbents on Flores, they had been living on the island for many, many millennia and would have known the lay of the land intimately, they had brains that could probably carry out very advanced cognitive functions, and they were slaying (Komodo) dragons and half-ton elephants.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/01-ask.html (5605 words)

	Hobbit-Like Human Ancestor Found in Asia
		LB1 shared its island with a golden retriever-sized rat, giant tortoises and huge lizards - including Komodo dragons - and a pony-sized dwarf elephant called Stegodon which the Hobbits probably hunted.
		Homo erectus may have arrived on Flores about one million years ago, evolving its tiny physique in the isolation provided by the island.
		Even more intriguing is the fact that Flores' inhabitants have incredibly detailed legends about the existence of little people on the island they call Ebu Gogo.
	www.ufodigest.com /floreshobbit.html (689 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Flores Giant Rat, a rat that grew to a large size on the island of Flores
		Giant hutias, a group of rodents once found in the West Indies
		The above taxonomy uses the shape of the lower jaw (sciurognath or hystricognath) as the primary character.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Rodent (922 words)

	TROPIC ISLANDS EXPEDITION, Lombok Tour,Lombok Island, Rinjani Trekking,Rinjani Trek,Komodo Diving,Komodo Safari,Komodo ...
		Flores island is one of the island on East Nusa Tenggara province.
		Flores becomes one of the biggest island on the territory of East Nusa Tenggara or NTT which comprises 566 islands, including many smaller islands which are not in-habitated and unnamed.
		Flores is the volcanic island and has unique and spectacular attractions.
	www.lombokmarine.com /tropic.php?id=flores (900 words)

	New Find is Homo Floresiensis
		Homo floresiensis was a one-metre- (3ft) tall species which lived on Flores Island (near Java) from between 95,000 to at least 12,000 years ago.
		Homo erectus may have arrived on Flores about one million years ago, evolving its tiny physique in the isolation provided by the island in response to the local scarcity of resources.
		Even more intriguing is the fact that Flores' modern inhabitants have incredibly detailed legends about the existence of little people on the island they call Ebu Gogo.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesAfrica/HominidFloresiensis1.htm (637 words)

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		They made stone tools with which they speared giant rats, clubbed sleeping dragons, and hunted the packs of pygmy elephants that roamed their lost world.
		The island of Flores is very isolated and, before modern times, was inhabited only by a select group of animals that managed to reach it.
		The carnivorous lizards that reached Flores, perhaps on natural rafts, became giant-sized and still survive, though now confined mostly to the nearby island of Komodo; they are called Komodo dragons.
	www.missouri.edu /~chemrg/current_news/Article_Little_People.html (1014 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features - Honolulu Lite
		It's appropriate on this Halloween Day that we consider the recent discovery of a tiny species of human that lived on an Indonesian island along with rats the size of dogs, lizards the size of alligators and elephants the size of ponies.
		Some suspect that Flores island was a repository for God's early attempts at making animals.
		It is possible that menehune are descendants of the Flores little people who sailed to Hawaii in double-hulled canoes the size of golf carts.
	starbulletin.com /2004/10/31/features/memminger.html (560 words)

	Indonesian IBAs lack protection
		All four are globally threatened including the endangered Flores Monarch Monarcha sacerdotum and the endangered Flores Scops-owl Otus alfredi which has only been recorded a few times in one small area over the last 150 years.
		Unprotected IBAs on Flores are also home to populations of the globally threatened Flores Giant-rat Papagomys armandvellei and Komodo Dragon Varanus komodoensi.
		The area supports important populations of the endangered Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus and endangered Flores Crow Corvus florensis the principal population of the Flores Monarch and is the richest area for restricted-range species on the island.
	www.birdlife.org /print.html?url=/news/news/2003/09/nusa.html (640 words)

	MELANESIA ORIGINS 1
		The story suggests that there may be a grain of truth to the idea that they were still living on Flores up and until the Dutch arrived in the 1500s.
		The isolated Flores was a fascinating lost world which was home to a range of exotic creatures extinct everywhere and often morphed into giant or dwarf forms through lack of genetic diversity.
		These included a giant form of the primitive elephant stegodon, giant rats, Komodo dragons and even larger species of giant lizards.
	www.janesoceania.com /melanesia_origins/index1.htm (434 words)

	Hi-Yah
		I flipped Rockshard Elemental and killed him with a giant double-striker.
		Unlike Bone Dancer, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni gets to pick which creature she will be stealing, and still gets in for a quarter of the opponent's life total; I'm pretty sure Jamie would like the 5/4 reprint even more than the original.
		A certain Rat Ninja can suddenly produce an instant blocker – right from the opponent's own ranks – which will many times be joined by whoever helped her into play in the first place.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mf25 (1712 words)

	: : : CLSA at SFSU : : :
		Anaconda, a giant boa constrictor, who in her youth participated in an uprising of snakes against men (the subject of an earlier story as mentioned previously) is now seen at thirty years old and at the height of her power.
		The giant boa travels down the flooding river on an uprooted cedar tree, to witness the conquest she hopes the flood will bring, blocking the Paraná with so much plant life that it will be impassable.
		As her raft arrives in the Misiones area, it unexpectedly runs against "a floating island" on which she discovers a straw hut under which a man is lying, "pero enseñaba una larga herida en la garganta, y estaba muriendo" (21) [But he displayed a large wound in the throat, and he was dying].
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~clsa/portals/2006/rodgers.html (7667 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		Second, they note that even though Flores is a large island, it wouldn't support a very large population at typical human hunter-gatherer population densities.
		Many of the post-cranial features described for the Flores remains (Brown et al., 2004; Morwood et al., 2005) are consistent with those found in human populations that have undergone stature reduction by way of a modification of the GH-IGF-I axis.
		Kate is still writing about Flores papers at the AAPA meetings, a post dedicated to Ralph Holloway's study of the endocast.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/flores (16788 words)

	Scientists find prehistoric dwarf skeleton - Science - MSNBC.com
		She is the best example of a trove of fragmented bones that account for as many as seven of these primitive individuals that lived on the equatorial island of Flores, located east of Java and northwest of Australia.
		Millennia ago, Flores was a kind of a looking-glass world, a real-life Middle-earth inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures like giant tortoises, elephants as small as ponies and rats as big as hunting dogs.
		Researchers suspect that Flores Man probably is a descendant of Homo erectus that was squeezed by the pressures of natural selection.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6346939 (1413 words)

	Susceptibility of Rat-Derived Cells to Replication by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 -- Keppler et al. 75 (17): ...
		rat cells or that viral transcription in rat cells is relatively
		HIV-1 gene expression was assessed in spleen-derived lymphocytes and macrophages from different rat strains relative to comparable human control cultures as described in the legend to Fig.
		Primary rat T lymphocytes were found to harbor a major posttranscriptional block to HIV-1 replication.
	jvi.asm.org /cgi/content/full/75/17/8063 (7645 words)

	Identification of a Placental-Specific Enhancer in the Rat Placental Lactogen II Gene That Contains Binding Sites for ...
		giant cells in the labyrinth region of the chorioallantoic placenta
		the 5'-flanking sequences of the homologs of the rat and mouse
		Wasylyk B, Wasylyk C, Flores P, Begue A, Leprince D, Stehelin D 1990 The c-ets proto-oncogenes encode transcription factors that cooperate with c-Fos and c-Jun for transcriptional activation.
	mend.endojournals.org /cgi/content/full/13/3/385 (8796 words)

	ScienceDaily: Skeleton Reveals Lost World Of 'Little People'
		The Flores 'Hobbit', as it has been nicknamed, is carrying a giant rat slumped over its shoulder which was one of the prey it hunted.
		Now the Flores "Hobbit" is set to make her mark in our understanding of human evolution.
		The discovery of the remains of similar hobbit-sized individuals in other parts of Liang Bua, also showed that she was a member of a population of little hominins.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/10/041028144857.htm (2372 words)

	The Evolution of the Dragon - - science news articles online technology magazine articles The Evolution of the Dragon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		That’s because it takes a population of many individuals of species B to support a few individuals of species A, if A eats B. For example, Yellowstone National Park supports far fewer grizzly bears than elk, while elk biomass is in turn dwarfed by the biomass of the plants on which elk feed.
		In the light of this argument, any problems that tigers might have had in swimming to Flores wouldn’t be the sole reason--perhaps not even the main reason--that Flores now supports dragons instead of tigers.
		That’s why Flores (and possibly Timor) evolved the Komodo monitor; why Celebes today supports man-eating snakes; and why Australia, with its equally tasty giant kangaroos, evolved an even larger monitor along with all those big snakes and crocodiles.
	www.discover.com /issues/dec-92/features/theevolutionofth160 (3980 words)

	First Mariners
		900,000 years ago, Flores was populated by pygmy stegodon (a dwarf elephant species), Komodo dragons, and giant tortoise.
		Mata Menge, however, produced a small number of stone tools, including some made of nonlocal chert, as well as remains of large stegodon, crocodile, giant rat, freshwater molluscs, and plants.
		Unlike Java, which was periodically connected to mainland Asia and accessible to early humans on foot, Flores could be reached only by crossing an 11.4-mile-wide strait, even at times of lowest sea level.
	www.archaeology.org /9805/newsbriefs/mariners.html (386 words)

	Two-thirds of most important biodiversity sites on Indonesia’s holiday islands lack protection
		Of the 43 IBAs in the provinces, three, containing half of the total IBA land area of West Nusa Tenggara, have no protection, and 24 sites, comprising two-thirds of East Nusa Tenggara’s total IBA area, are unprotected.
		[6] Unprotected IBAs on Flores are also home to populations of the globally threatened Flores Giant-rat Papagomys armandvellei and Komodo Dragon Varanus komodoensi.
		Eleven bird species are endemic to the island of Timor, encompassing the Indonesian western half and the independent eastern half, while Sumba has seven endemic to the island.
	www.birdlife.org /news/pr/2003/09/nusa.html (1114 words)

	News for a Synergic Earth :
		BBC Science -- Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world.
		The three-foot (one-metre) tall species - dubbed "the Hobbit" - lived on Flores island until at least 12,000 years ago.
		The remains of the partial skeleton were found at a depth of 5.9m.
	news.synearth.net /2004/10/28 (344 words)

	pleistocene
		Examples of such treatment of evidence according to disciplinary preconceptions, which constitute a kind of knowledge filtering, can be drawn from the most recent archeological discoveries, as well as discoveries recorded in the archeological literature of the past one hundred and fifty years.
		The stone tools were found in situ, along with animal bones (Stegodon, crocodile, giant rat), in primary stratified deposits of tuffaceous sandstone, with only slight signs of subsequent reworking.
		But just as in the case of the Flores finds, we could upgrade the anatomical level of the Middle Pleistocene inhabitants of northern Europe to the level of modern humans.
	www.mcremo.com /pleistocene.html (4943 words)

	Growth hormone-mediated alteration of fuel metabolism in the aged rat as determined from transcript profiles -- ...
		Growth hormone-mediated alteration of fuel metabolism in the aged rat as determined from transcript profiles -- Tollet-Egnell et al.
		Growth hormone-mediated alteration of fuel metabolism in the aged rat as determined from transcript profiles
		In vivo insulin-dependent glucose uptake of specific tissues is decreased during aging of mature Wistar rats.
	physiolgenomics.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/16/2/261 (4911 words)

	MAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The 1 m tall species, dubbed "the Hobbit", lived on Flores island until at least 12,000 years ago.
		LB1 shared its island with a golden retriever-sized rat, giant tortoises and huge lizards, including Komodo dragons, and a pony-sized dwarf elephant called Stegodon which the "hobbits" probably hunted.
		There is no evidence of modern humans reaching Flores before 11,000 years ago, so it is unknown whether H.
	www.il-st-acad-sci.org /mammals/mami1003.html (596 words)

	Science Museum \| Hobbit-sized 'human' discovered \| Painting the past
		To bring the past to life, Peter Brown and his colleagues hired an artist to paint an impression of our long-lost relative.
		The painting shows an adult male Homo floresiensis returning from the hunt with his prize - a giant rat.
		These rats still live on Flores today, but they are an endangered species because of hunting by modern humans.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /antenna/flores/129.asp (80 words)

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