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  World War II - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The six months following the collapse of Poland is often referred to as the ‘phoney war’ and the only serious fighting in this period was at sea, where the German U-boat campaign began on 3 September, the day war was declared, with the sinking of the liner Athenia without warning.
The Allies' most conspicuous success at sea in this phase of the war was the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939 which led to the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) under Field Marshal Gort was sent to the aid of the French army and took over a section of the French-Belgian frontier with its headquarters at Arras.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /World+War+II   (7298 words)

  
 Timeline of evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest fossils of footprints ever found on land hint that animals may have beaten plants out of the primordial seas.
Lobster-sized, centipede-like animals made the prints wading out of the ocean and scuttling over sand dunes about 530 million years ago.
Previous fossils indicated that animals didn't take this step until 40 million years later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_evolution   (6721 words)

  
 OCEANS ENTERPRISES - CAVE DIVING BOOKS - UNDERWATER BOOKS, DIVING BOOKS.
It was here that the German's performed the greatest act of self destruction in the scuttling of their fleet in 1919.
This book tells of the base itself and does not dwell on the single event of the German scuttling.
It compliments such books as The Grand Scuttle, and From Jutland to Junkyard.
www.oceans.com.au /oeoutp.html   (12594 words)

  
 Charlie is My Darwin
It’s those Trilobites you keep going on about — mean little critters, a bit like giant aquatic woodlice, I suppose, but much tougher and bigger.
Don’t you understand, G-man? Those little fellas were constantly scuttling about on the Pre-Cambrian strata — then, Bob’s your uncle, a few millions years flash by and before you know it they have cleaned the lot out, simply ate up every single one of their ancestors.
A bit cannibalistic, I suppose, and of course they’d need pretty good teeth.
www.creationfoundation.co.uk /Evolution/e1.html   (6296 words)

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