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Topic Started: May 8 2010, 12:28 PM (1,827 Views)
Holben
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Why just mine? I reckon there are internet procedures designed specially to find things i write and... i wax lyrical.

Nice enough. But links are good.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Yours wasn't caps (the first letters of each word).

Anyway, I'm putting the portal block now.
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Holben
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Caps. Caps.

Oh yeah.
So they weren't.

After a hyphen, they don't have to be caps.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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bioluminescence- where organisms produce light.
carbon/nitrogen/etc. cycle- the proicesses through which integral elemnts are recycled in the earth so not wasted.
demersal- living near the sea floor
infauna- animals that live in sediments such as sand or mud.
nekton- animals that can swim freely in the ocean currents.
plankton- animals which float freely in the ocean currents.
osmolarity- the amount of dissolved ions in a liquid.
sporophyte- a plant which produces spores.
zooxanthellae- algae that live symbiotically in the tissues of animals.
protandrous- born male then changing to female
protogynous- born female then changing to male
simultaneous hermaphrodites- animals which are both male and female at the same time.

None of those words had caps Holben...
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Holben
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They did in my memory.

I may have had some artificially induced memories.

I may have written a draft lift first, which doesn't need caps, then added defintions without editing.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Any more words? Because this definitely isn't full...
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There are hundreds of words i could add, but it wouldn't be advisable. Unless we have subdivisions.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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