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The 'OMG Vital Update!!!' is a common marketing technique, I recently read a book on Internet SEO and marketing and the such and a common technique is to create a sense of urgency to swoop people up, 'to get what no other person can offer you', i wouldn't be surprised if there is 'always' going to be a vital update prior to some seminar/trip/holiday/consult etc....
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[size="3"]According to legend and the epic classic, The Saga of Erik the Red, upon returning home from his banishment from Iceland, Erik the Red came up with a clever ruse to convince his cohorts to follow him to a land that he had become familiar with during his time away. This land was barren, mostly ice covered, featured strong winds, cold temperatures, and stood hundreds of miles to the west (a treacherous journey for longboats). In order to manipulate his people into following him, Erik the Red, one heck of a salesman, understood "Men will desire much the more to go there if the land has a good name." Therefore, he misled his loyal constituency and told them they should go with him to the land that sounded better and actually was a lot nicer than where they lived, Iceland, to a place he cleverly misnamed Greenland. By doing so, Erik the Red pulled off the most misleading climate yarn of all time.
Within few decades their whole colony died out because of cold and harsh climate. Only survived the son of Eric the Red who had left for the America. He became the first Viking to reach the land of America.
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Wasnt it Gwar that wants to destroy humanity, so the punguins could become the new leading specie of this planet?
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Diogenes, thanks for the extra info.
You should contact Stewart, he is still busy to write a book about vikings moving to America that time. Probably, your personal info from Denmark is accurate for it.
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That is common knowledge, so he should know it.
And the text above about greenland is not that bad, southern greenland was green but only during the warmer months.
P.s I am not the biggest fan of swerdlow.
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