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The presentation based on project 3 by Lufan IS IT REAL???
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Big Big Monster—— The loch ness Legend
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Origins The term "monster" was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part- time journalist, in a report in The Inverness Courier.water bailiffLoch NessThe Inverness Courier The earliest report of a monster associated with the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the 7th centuryLife of St. ColumbaAdomnán …(http://www.nessie.co.uk/htm/the_evidence/sight.html)http://www.nessie.co.uk/htm/the_evidence/sight.html
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Description Huge? Long Neck? Eat human? Attack local Animals? Night animals? …
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Why still people do not believe it exist? Since there are many “eyehit” evidences & descriptions? No official proof! In 1993 Discovery Communications began to research the ecology of the loch. The study did not focus entirely on the monster, but on the loch's nematodes (of which a new species was discovered) and fish. Expecting to find a small fish population, the researchers caught twenty fish in one catch, increasing previous estimates of the loch's fish population about ninefoldDiscovery Communicationsnematodes In 2003, the BBC sponsored a full search of the Loch using 600 separate sonar beams and satellite tracking. The search had enough resolution to pick up a small buoy. No animal of any substantial size was found whatsoever and despite high hopes, the scientists involved in the expedition admitted that this essentially proved the Loch Ness monster was only a myth.
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Ok.. Let’s think more deeply Do you ever think about why people so interested in finding the Loch Ness Monster? Why do people keep talking about the topic since many official organizations organized many times of searching with find nothing? It exists because people can not proof it do not? ….
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Reference The Sun 27 November 1975: I'm the man who first coined the word "monster" for the creature. ^ Jump up to: a b c R. Binns The Loch Ness Mystery Solved pp 11–12Jump up to: a b c Jump up^ Inverness Courier 2 May 1933 "Loch Ness has for generations been credited with being the home of a fearsome-looking monster" Jump up^ George Spicer, 1933 “George Spicer claimed to see a huge…” [Web Log Post]. http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurcontroversies/a/10-Facts-About-The-Loch-Ness-Monster.htm http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurcontroversies/a/10-Facts-About-The-Loch-Ness-Monster.htm Chris Spurling, 1934 [Web Log Post] Retrieved from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825102/Is- Nessie-emerging-deep-Monster-s-head-pictured-surface-choppy-Loch-Ness.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825102/Is- Nessie-emerging-deep-Monster-s-head-pictured-surface-choppy-Loch-Ness.html "BBC 'proves' Nessie does not exist". BBC News. 27 July 2003. Retrieved 4 April 2010."BBC 'proves' Nessie does not exist"
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