he island of Jamaica. The
following account is from the Jamaica "Morning Journal" of April 13,
1846: "The anxiety of the fishermen in this little village was aroused
on the 30th of last month by the track of a huge sea-monster, called a
trunk-turtle, which came on the sea-beach for the purpose of laying her
eggs. A search was made, when a hole in the sand was discovered, about
four feet deep and as wide as the mouth of a half-barrel, whence five or
six dozen white eggs were taken out; the eggs were of different sizes,
the largest the size of a duck's egg. On the morning of the 10th of this
month, at half-past five o'clock, she was discovered by Mr. Crow, on the
beach, near the spot where she first came up; he gave the alarm, when
all the neighbors assembled and got her turned on her back. She took
twelve men to haul her about two hundred yards. I went and measured her,
and found her dimensions as follows: from head to tail, six feet six
inches; from the outer part of her fore fin to the other end" (to the
tip of the other?), "nine feet two inches; the circumference round her
back and chest, seven feet nine inches; circumference of her neck, three
feet three inches; the widest part of her fore fins, eighteen inches;
her hind fins, two feet four inches in length. Her back is formed like a
round top of a trunk, with small white bumps in straight lines,
resembling the nails on a trunk; her color is variegated like the
rainbow" (probably the living skin displayed opaline reflections);
"there is no shell on her back, but a thick skin, like pump-leather."

Some years since, a gigantic specimen came ashore at Lynn beach, where
for a long time it formed an object of the greatest curiosity. It was
over eight feet in length, and weighed nearly twenty-two hundred pounds.
Instead of definite scales, as in other turtles, it had a shell
composed of six plates, which formed longitudinal ridges extending from
the head to the tail; the eye-openings were up and down, instead of
lengthwise; the bill was

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469 July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian. His scholarly name Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus comprises the following three elements: the Latin noun desiderium (longing or desire; the name being a genuine Late Latin name); the Greek adjective (erasmios) meaning beloved, and, in the form Erasmus, also the name of a saint; and the Latinized adjectival form for the city of Rotterdam (Roterodamus = of Rotterdam).

Anonymous may refer to: Anonymus, the Latin spelling, may refer to:

Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2003. The group blends samples, acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and singing from a revolving cast of vocalists. Its members, Adam and Ian, purposefully give very little information about the group or themselves, and tend to do little in the way of self-promotion.[1] Nevertheless, the group began winning critical acclaim with its single releases in 2005 and 2006.[2] Their full-length for XL, The World is Gone, arrived in July of 2006.[3][4][5][6][7] They have released a large number of vinyl EPs and 7 records, as well as digital exclusives for Rough Trade, iTunes, and Boomkat.[8]