Any sign of Yvsa?

MauiRob

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Has anybody heard from Yvsa lately? Its been awhile since he posted (that I know of), and I started to worry... Miss your great posts Yvsa, and hope everything is ok.

Rob
 
There was a loss in his wife's family last week. It was a good time for the person to go, but difficult for his wife.

I'm at the age when there are too many family in and out of the hospitals, and Yvsa's family is older yet.
 
And I am at the age when many friends, family and acquaintances have graduated from hospital to graveyard or crematorium.

Whoever said this was the "golden" age had a different definition of golden than I do.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
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Thanks Rob.
I have made some hit and run posts now and again, but nothin' up to my normal stuff.

Barb's sister Joan walked west and Barb had to make a trip to PA with her brother and family.
Things are slowly gettin' back to normal around here at last.

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>>>>---¥vsa---->®

The hardy adventurer just drank from a stream he thought was pure glacier fed water not knowing that upstream was being used by a herd of yaks as a giant bidet.

I said he was hardy, not smart.:-)

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Yvsa,

My condolences to you and your wife. Like Uncle said, first things first. I shoulda known better than to bug ya--if you weren't posting there had to be a good reason. Anyway, we miss you and can't wait till things get back to normal for you and yours.

best wishes,

Rob
 
¥vsa, my condolences to you , your wife and your family. Hope to see you back online soon.

Harry
 
Hurry up back Yzsa! -- A lot of family and friends are disappearing on me too. ---Changes of the cycle of life.---
 
Sent him a message last night he responded to: there are three kind of bison -

1) plains
2) wood
3) polack
http://ciesin.ci.uw.edu.pl/poland/orbis/fold_4.htm#Bufflo

aka Weisent or aurochs

( ps - I can make fun of polacks - my relatives were named ( in turkic ) ten arrows. Ongarian. Hunky. Magyar. My mom's sis ters were born there. Their husbands in Transylvania. Incidentally, Harry, the magyars came into the area around what used to be armenia, mixed with the khabars ( khybers) , khazars, kazakhs ( cossacks ), and a jewish tribe, converting to judaism. Read Arthur Koestler's "The 13th tribe" some time.)

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 05-12-2000).]
 
Sorry, Rusty,

Polish bison are not aurochs. Aurochs are quite a different critter and have been extinct for several hundred years now. The Polish bison are the last surviving remnant herd of a once more widespread European bison subspecies.

The Polish bison, as you can see from the link, look a lot like the American bison, but do seem less "robust", whether that's from their diet and the fact that they have to co-exist with domestic animals in a relatively populated area or genetic, I don't know. Their current home range is practically on the Polish border with whatever former Soviet country it is there. (I forget.
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I've actually been there. It took most of the day (or night) on the train from Poznan, in western Poland, where I was living at the time. Poland is really a wonderful country for the tourist who loves history.
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Most Americans don't really know much about it, but it's every bit as interesting as the better known countries of Western Europe and the historical preservation and reconstruction is fantastic.


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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
 
Paul, with regard to the location of the bison, its probably at the area where the Polish -Belorus(White Russia) border is, east to northeast of Warsaw.

I would also agree that it is nice country and loaded with history.

Rusty, as for the intermingling of the various peoples in that area, it has been the scene of some of the bloodiest battles in history with all sorts of armies going through.


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Harry

Toujours l'audacite!

[This message has been edited by Kozak (edited 05-12-2000).]
 
Yeah, Harry, Belorus sounds about right. I just couldn't remember if it was Belorus there or Ukraine. Thanks.

It certainly has been a busy and bloody part of the world. Michener's Poland is a little dated now, as far as purportedly "current" events, but it's still a good read and pretty good for giving a feel for the culture and [simplified] history. Poland being between Germany and Russia has been seriously squeezed.


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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
 
Paul, thanks for straightening me out there.

As far as I know, what I say is all true. It's just that sometimes some of it is truer than others.

I've been beating my head to remember where I heard of the aurochs before, and it MAY have finally come to me.

James Mattis, where are you? My copy of the Tanakh is on loan and I need someone familiar with hebrew. I have this wild hair that where I've heard of the aurochs is as the biblical unicorn.

References are: ( singular ) Nu 23:22. 24:28, Job 39:9, 39:10, Ps 29:6, 92:10 ( plural ) De 33:17, PS 22:21, Isa 34:7

Hebrew referents using the european alphabet refer to it as: ( sorry I can't put in the pronunciation marks let alone the hebrew characters )

rem ( reh-ame )
reym ( reh-ame )
reym ( rame )
rem ( rame ).

Yaks, dzo, gangetic dolphins, yetis, and now unicorns. The forum's been too quiet too long. Time for some more ghorapani.

*****UNICORNS***** ROTFLMAO ( and I can't get up! Maybe we'll discuss the Paiute belief in water babies next week. This is sasquatchyeti@bigfoot.com ( or is that bigmouth.com? ) signing off

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Some people are alive simply because it is illegal to kill them.
 
Update after checking dictionatry:

Aurochs:
1) european bison
2) extinct eupropean wild ox, recently become exttint.
 
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