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  • Oh, and a girl was persecuted for dressing up for a red-carpet challenge as though it were a pageant (even though the winner of said challenge was eventually named Miss Paris), the plus-size girl got kicked off for basically being bigger than the rest and the other girl that got booted ( "Bowhead") cursed at Paris when she was let go.

    Wild, colorful and fun, but slightly tragic 2009

  • Oh, and a girl was persecuted for dressing up for a red-carpet challenge as though it were a pageant (even though the winner of said challenge was eventually named Miss Paris), the plus-size girl got kicked off for basically being bigger than the rest and the other girl that got booted ( "Bowhead") cursed at Paris when she was let go.

    fourfour: 2009

  • Oh, and a girl was persecuted for dressing up for a red-carpet challenge as though it were a pageant (even though the winner of said challenge was eventually named Miss Paris), the plus-size girl got kicked off for basically being bigger than the rest and the other girl that got booted ( "Bowhead") cursed at Paris when she was let go.

    fourfour 2009

  • For animals like endangered Bowhead whales and threatened polar bears there is no border -- they migrate freely through both seas.

    Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011

  • To substantiate their demand the letter states, The proposed activity threatens a number of significant effects, including effects to endangered Bowhead whales from drilling and ice-breaking noise, effects from a very large oil spill, and cumulative effects, and has the potential to harm subsistence activities that are of central cultural significance to Arctic coastal communities.

    Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011

  • Room eight-seven, Clay street, the Bowhead Lodging House, you know the place, entrance just around the corner from the Bowhead Saloon.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • And before he went to his late lunch, Doctor Emory was away in his machine and down into the Barbary Coast to the door of the Bowhead Lodging House.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • This could harm the population, particularly mothers and young calves, and could affect Alaska Native communities that rely on the Bowhead whale and other species to sustain their subsistence way of life.

    Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011

  • The Inuit of Point Barrow AK (Inupiats?) don't have access to the food sources people in the lower 48 take for granted, Without a Bowhead whale or two there is no muktuk (whale blubber, a staple) for the kids and the people go hungry. b

    On Canadian Seal Hunting 2009

  • The Inuit of Point Barrow AK (Inupiats?) don't have access to the food sources people in the lower 48 take for granted, Without a Bowhead whale or two there is no muktuk (whale blubber, a staple) for the kids and the people go hungry. b

    On Canadian Seal Hunting 2009

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