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Philip Gustafson
Des Moines Christian High School
Urbandale, Iowa

I run Windows Vista on an Gateway MX6453 laptop, and use Internet Explorer 7. I hope to someday become an administrator. I'm reachable by email, but please limit it to conversations which must be kept private, or if you cannot communicate via my talk page. Thanks!

The River Parrett flows through the counties of Dorset and Somerset in South West England. Arising from its source in the Thorney Mills springs in the hills around Chedington, Dorset, it flows northwest through the Somerset Levels to its mouth at Burnham-on-Sea, into the nature reserve at Bridgwater Bay on the Bristol Channel, draining about 50 per cent of Somerset's land area. The 37-mile-long (60 km) river is tidal for 27 miles (43 km) up to Oath. During the Roman era, the Parrett was crossed by a ford, and in Anglo-Saxon times formed a boundary between Wessex and Dumnonia. From the medieval period, the river served the Port of Bridgwater, enabling cargoes to be transported inland. The arrival of the railways led to a decline and now commercial shipping only docks at Dunball. Along with its connected waterways and network of drains, the Parrett supports an ecosystem that includes several rare species of flora and fauna. The River Parrett Trail has been established along the banks of the river. (Full article...)

Rika Nakagawa

• ... that Rika Nakagawa (pictured) won a national debate competition as an active tarento?
• ... that in 1989 the Barcelona women's second football team was knocked out of the Catalan Cup in the same round as the Barcelona women's first team?
• ... that Tuhi Martukaw led youth delegations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for ten years in a row?
• ... that unused placeholder sounds from Smash Hit were reused in Teardown?
• ... that announcers at a Virginia radio station were warned that playing more than three rap songs an hour could get them fired?
• ... that of the 16 aircraft which took part in the Doolittle Raid, only the one piloted by Edward J. York landed intact?
• ... that "Bed Chem" and "Juno" are the "horniest" tracks on Short n' Sweet, according to one critic?
• ... that Moses Benjamin Wulff founded a printing press that reprinted The Guide for the Perplexed for the first time in centuries?
• ... that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure?