Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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Even in these days of mass global communication when you can buy pretty well anything you are looking for, there is still place for the old-fashioned bookshop. However, sometimes you cannot find what you are looking for.
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This reminds me of a few names of horses. Now, whilst many a horse will likely answer to (and even believe that its given name is) "Yer daft sod", in the field of racing and other equestrian events, a horse can usually only have one name throughout its career, to make tracking said career easier. In racing, the organisation Weatherby's exists as a way of monitoring these names, but occasionally they do mess up.
"Norfolk In Way" and "Norfolk In Chance" were two Irish horses registered in the UK; their owners must've been amazed that these names were approved, but approved they were to the consternation of many a commentator.
A Mr Goode and a Mr Novak were also recorded to have named a horse "Novak and Goode", and were perhaps somewhat relieved when it failed to achieve fame and fortune.
Finally, the showjumper Harvey Smith once decided to exact a terrible revenge on a friend and sometime enemy of his, a commentator of the show rings, by naming a horse "Pheasant Plucker".
I understand that the bookshops name when translated, says - Blackwells
This has nothing to do with bookshops either, but in Copenhagen we have a karaoke bar owned by an oriental gentleman who proudly displays his name out front:
Xing A. Long
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