Reindeer hunting in Greenland: Facts

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Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear?
internet hunting is the practice of hunting via remotely controlled firearms that can be aimed and shot using online webcams?
St Briavels Castle, once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England, later became a notorious debtors' prison?
The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting?
The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?

anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth?
Dane Erik Holtved was the first university-trained ethnologist to study Greenland's Inughuit?
aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland, Canada, the United States, Russia and several Caribbean island communities?
Alanngorsuaq, a mountain in Greenland, has reservoirs providing 882,000 m³ of water?
ice calving (pictured) in Greenland results in over 12,000 icebergs each year?
reindeer hunting provides an important staple food for many households in Greenland?
Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
Sisimiut (pictured) is the second-largest town in Greenland?
Viedma Glacier (pictured) is part of the huge Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest expanse of continental ice after Greenland and Antarctica?

Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish, which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme?
Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers?
a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food?
in the Philippines, double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of disease, which is sold for human consumption?
like many desert rodents, kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food?
the fictional character Axel Brass is able to go without sleep or sustenance for years?
the Cucuteni-Trypillian people experienced a considerable abundance of food, which contributed to why they had no evidence of war throughout their entire existence?
the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning, but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?

anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals?
Kalaallit Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson was Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Studies before she became the first woman and first Inuk Executive Director at the Arctic Institute of North America?
Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
a trading post was set up in Kangirsuk, Quebec, in 1921 but the Inuit did not settle there permanently until the 1960s?
in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron, Labrador, Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
in Inuit lore the Adlet are mythical creatures, half-man and half-dog, but the term may also denote inland natives?
now-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Taptuna was a participant in the first and only Inuit drilling crew on the Beaufort Sea?

19th-century politician Søren Jaabæk (pictured) is the longest-serving member of parliament in the history of Norway?
22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten?
29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
television chef Ingrid Espelid Hovig is considered the "culinary mother" of Norway?
1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo, Norway?
Prince Carl of Denmark landed at Vippetangen when he arrived in Norway to assume the throne in 1905?
Henrich Krummedige's 1502 murder of Knut Alvsson ended the feud started by their fathers, Hartvig Krummedige and Alv Knutsson, as well as Knut's leadership of the rebellion against King Hans' rule over Norway?
musicologist Olav Gurvin co-edited the first Norwegian music encyclopedia in 1949?
Norway's first tank was a Landsverk L-120 with an improvised turret and make-shift armour?
Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?

the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf (pictured), a form of the Gray Wolf that used to live primarily in Yellowstone National Park, was court ordered to be re-listed under Endangered Species Act protections on August 6, 2010?

Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?
perfluorononanoic acid, an environmental contaminant, has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion?
Siward, the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear?
after calling for a polar bear, Disneyland and palm trees to be brought to Reykjavik in Iceland, The Best Party won the most seats in the 2010 Reykjavik City Council election?
at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut"?
the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
while serving aboard HMS Carcass as a midshipman on an Arctic expedition, a young Horatio Nelson is reported to have chased a polar bear?