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  2. Timeline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.

  3. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Native American) called a Thunderbird, but has many dissimilarities to the usual kind. This being is the pet of a local storm god, who rides him through the skies during hurricanes. Lives beneath the Gulf of Mexico.

  4. Wolf - Wikipedia

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    The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.

  5. Revelation Space series - Wikipedia

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    The Greenfly began to subsume most of human space, with all efforts to stop them failing, due to the Greenfly having assimilated both aspects of the Melding Plague and Inhibitor technology. The storyline of the Revelation Space universe thus far concludes with humanity leaving the Milky Way galaxy in an attempt to set up a new civilisation ...

  6. Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    The treatment given to wolves differed from the treatment meted out to other large predators. The Romans generally seem to have refrained from intentionally harming wolves. For instance, they were not hunted for pleasure (but only in order to protect herds that were out at pasture), and not displayed in the venationes, either. The special ...

  7. North America's Forgotten Past - Wikipedia

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    North America's Forgotten Past (occasionally called "First North Americans") is a series of historical fiction novels published by Tor and written by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. The series, which began with 1990's People of the Wolf, explores various civilizations and cultures in prehistoric North America.

  8. Never Cry Wolf - Wikipedia

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    Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience [1] observing wolves in subarctic Canada [2] by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983.

  9. Northwestern wolf - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern wolves are one of the largest subspecies of wolves. In British Columbia, Canada, five adult females averaged 42.5 kg or 93.6 lbs with a range of 85 lbs to 100 lbs (38.6 - 45.4 kg) and ten adult males averaged 112.2 lbs or 51.7 kg with a range of 105 lbs to 135 lbs (47.6 - 61.2 kg), with a weight range for all adults of 38.6 kg to 61.2 kg (85 – 135 lbs). [9]