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  1. Jeff Tracy

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    :eek::eek::eek: The only president who was also an executioner was Grover Cleveland. As sheriff of Erie County, New York, he hanged a murderer.
     
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    Cleveland was a big guy. He wasn’t called Big Steve, as one of his political nicknames, for nothing. At 250 pounds, he was the second-heaviest President after William Howard Taft. Fitness Magazine named him as the least-healthiest President, because of his penchant for beer drinking and cigar smoking.
     
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  3. Steve North

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    The Mackenzie River is the longest in Canada.. The river is 4,241 km in length.. It is also the second longest river in North America, the longest is the Mississippi River..
     
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    Yeah well he was no saint either....trust me.
     
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    Those are river "systems". The longest river in the USA, is the Missouri River.
     
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    fun fact:
    k17ljmq.jpg A flock of flamingos can devour a T Rex in a half hour

     
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    I’d give up my electric/manual wheelchair for one of these. Cowboy boots, hat, and the pink western shirt too. Evertbody here in Texas has a stack of jeans.

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    Greetings from Aeioungland , this is how we Limeys see Texas ...
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    :DThat's how Texans see themselves, too.
     
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    Located in the Northwest Territories, Great Bear Lake is the largest non Great Lake in Canada.. It's 31,153 square kilometres.. According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, Its the forth largest in North America and the eighth largest in the world..............
     
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    One strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto
     
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    Greetings from Aeioungland - This must be a Yeto then ?
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    Jeff............

    THAT'S YOU ???? ............................................. Hmmmmmmm !!!!!
    Nice pic ....
     
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    Greetings from Aeioungland ... Nah - that's my Gramps looking for his whisky ...
     
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    The singular of opera is opus.
     
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