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I know one of Hitler's cars was in the Harrah Collection in Las Vegas for many years. As the US got more and more Politically Correct, they posted a sign next it declaring it to be an interesting car, and not a glorification of the Nazis. I haven't checked, they may have sold it. Mercedes made several limos for Hitler, as he liked to have one always 'on call'.

Oh, political correctness. I remember when Ronald Reagan got a lot of s**t for honouring some dead SS men at a visit to West Germany in 1985 or so. Today he'd probably would have been fired from office for doing so.

It's a pain in the arse ! !! The museum got people complaining that by exhibiting the Mercedes, they were promoting Nazism ! ! It's just a car, people, repeat, it's just a car!! !

I don't know for sure, but I suspect the car in Canada came from the Las Vegas collection. I looked, and couldn't find it. On the other hand, it might be in 'permanent storage.'

Ahem, at least on of the armored Mercedes built for Der Fuhrer had a 'self-destruct' switch on the dashboard. If the car was surrounded by enemies, rather than capture Hitler, the driver would push the button which would actuate a spark plug (!) in the gas tank, and ker-blooom ! !!

Based on recent analysis, Tyrannosaurus Rex's "puny" front limbs could apparently curl 180lbs. There is also evidence that this dinosaur was both a hunter and a scavenger, as well as a cannibal - the fossil record has shown fragments of tyrannosaur bones in preserved T.Rex dung, and hadrosaur bones have been found with tyrannosaur teeth marks in them, around which the bone has healed (which indicates the dinosaur had the good fortune to get away while it was still alive and kicking). Also, evidence suggests that far from being the solitary killer that it had previously been characterised as, T.Rex travelled in small groups, like a pride of lions.

It would seem that some fossils give the lie to 'evolution'. The shark, the cockroach, the horseshoe crab, and the common honeybee are all identical to their 'million year old fossils'. Surely, all things evolve? How could some reach a summit and stop? Not to mention the Coelacanth, once known only in the fossil record, but now known to be alive and well. If a fish can do it, why not the T Rex??

Umm... One million years is not so long for most species' evolution. (Humans', yes. But many of the species you mention are over 100 million years old.) Besides, 65 million years ago (the time of the great impact) crocodiles were three times bigger than modern day salties (ie, the bigger ones) and before the age of the dinosaurs, insects etc would grow to a length of three or four feet.

Neanderthal man had a bigger brain than Cro Magnon man. And Neanderthal flint knives have been found with a blade width of one molecule, which is five times sharper than a surgeon's scalpel.

Supposedly, the meteor that killed the dinosaurs landed in what is now the Gulf of Mexico. The Bay of Campeche, which separates mainland Mexico from the Yucatan peninsula, was supposedly formed by said meteor.

Tim

The latin above the pyramid on the dollar bill Annuit Coeptis means God has favored our undertaking. The latin below the pyramid Novas Ordo Seclorum means a new order has began.

Both Phil Hartman (SNL, Simpsons) and Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead) once worked as roadies for Jimi Hendrix.
In addition, Phil once painted album covers for Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Wal-Mart is the world's largest corporation. Last year its total income was $246.5 billion, a sum larger or close to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Sweden, Austria or Norway and Denmark. It is said to be the 19th largest economy in the world.

The longest continually family owned business in the world is the Beretta Firearms, still owned by the Beretta family. The company dates back to when they made cannons.

A group of flightless Papua New Guinea birds known as Cassowaries communicate through the dense foliage of the jungle by means of extra-low frequency sound waves - partly below the range of hearing of humans. People near a Cassowarie calling in their lowest register, would feel, rather than hear the sound - much like the low-frequency calls of elephants, which can be heard up to 80 kms (50 miles) away. Cassowaries are among the world's most dangerous birds: weighing up to 125 pounds (56 kg), they kick when fighting, and have a "spike" on their feet which can rip a person open, with sometimes fatal results. They are also nearly extinct, due to poaching and hunting by loggers and increasing populations of some native peoples in the region.

"Emyigfothf" is an anagram of "OMG TEH YIFF".

Not necessarily. Evolution occurs because a species needs to adapt in order to survive, or because of environmental issues - for instance, sharks haven't evolved because they are superbly-constructed killing machines with no natural predators (true, when the sea was full of giant marine animals like Liopleuridon, the largest aquatic reptile to have ever lived, sharks were the hunted, not the hunter - but today, you won't find anything that has sharks as its primary food source).

Cockroaches, meanwhile, have a shell so well-adapted that it's essentially a portable fallout shelter, and can subsist on virtually anything that they can eat. If the bomb dropped tomorrow, cockroaches and rats would be the only things that could really survive the nuclear winter that followed - cockroaches would survive because their shell would protect them, and rats would endure because they breed so fast.

Bottom line is, if a species is so well-adapted to its environment that there is no real reason for it to change, then it won't change. If something isn't broken, why fix it?

Aaaaaahh, but wouldn't you say the chimp is perfect for it's environment? Why would it evolve? Why improve perfection? To evolve into humans would be a step backward, we take to long to grow up, we get cold too easy, not as strong as a chimp, and so on...

I would add dragonflies, which were huge umpteen million years ago, but identical to today's miniscule variety. Also the Platypus, which is so odd, how could it have evolved from something else?

I must remember to have a spark plug in my tank as well, just in case Dr. NT would try to capture me.

Hitler was the first politician flying to political meetings, even before American president candidates did so.