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Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'
BBC ^ | 27 June, 2004

Posted on 06/27/2004 10:34:03 AM PDT by traumer

An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body.

While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.

It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.

The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children.

The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise genetic and anatomic tests.

But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue."

Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.

One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany.

When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy, but found no evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.


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To: nuconvert
"Can't talk now. I'm stuck at home with pollywogs!"
121 posted on 06/27/2004 4:26:50 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet but found the solution)
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To: Lady Jag
I'm not dark meat. The sun makes me brown very quickly. Within a day you can see a difference.

"What's with the radar crawl, you get a charge out of that?"

I love it, because it is complex. There are 3 mathematical and physics functions to keep in mind while boresighting a missile radar.

122 posted on 06/27/2004 4:56:10 PM PDT by BobS
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To: BobS

You aim them? Calibrate tracking? I'm NRA and trying to relate "boresighti; I'm mean, you're talking about parabolas and stuff here, right?


123 posted on 06/27/2004 5:09:27 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet but found the solution)
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To: traumer

124 posted on 06/27/2004 5:18:03 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
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To: traumer
Muhammad reborn! Allahu akbar.
125 posted on 06/27/2004 5:20:49 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: Lady Jag
No. Aiming a gun at a target is very easy. Aiming a missile radar requires knowledge about boresight shift over frequency and temp. Null depth between azimuth and elevation channels of the radar. RF gain prior to the preamp is very imortant due to weak signals through bad weather if circular polarization is inoperative. Interesting job. Want one? I need help!

Or just a little date?:):)

126 posted on 06/27/2004 5:58:49 PM PDT by BobS
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To: BobS
Oh, more like a telescope with more radio?

I was looking at some photos the other day and one showed four separate structures that look like skateboard ramps turned up on the fat end. The tag said it was part of an abandoned radar installation. If so, what was their purpose?

127 posted on 06/27/2004 6:20:31 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet but found the solution)
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To: traumer

Those Damned French


128 posted on 06/27/2004 6:22:56 PM PDT by clamper1797 (This Vietnam Vet ain't Fonda Kerry)
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To: Lady Jag

That was most likely a low frequency radar. You must remember- the higher the frequency of the carrier wave, the shorter the wavelength, and the smaller the cross-section of the antenna. The modulation doesn't matter. The carrier wave freq is the only determinant.


129 posted on 06/27/2004 6:30:07 PM PDT by BobS
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To: Unknown Freeper

"Ma-ma"


Miss Piggy FINALLY bedded Kermie!!!


130 posted on 06/27/2004 6:32:12 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Ron Reagan has slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God.)
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To: Hildy

'She registered at Petco.'

you made me giggle.


131 posted on 06/27/2004 7:21:00 PM PDT by bitt ("I am sick and tired of it and I am not going to take it anymore.")
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To: traumer
I don't think she was ready for motherhood.


132 posted on 06/28/2004 2:17:10 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Starve The Beast
this backs up something Mark Steyn pointed out a few months ago; people in the Arab world believe all kinds of wacky things.

I wonder if this could be explained by the fact that they believe that Allah wills both good and evil. If that were true, then anything really could happen.

133 posted on 06/28/2004 8:56:07 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: DainBramage

LOLOLOLOL - FABulous Post!!!!!


134 posted on 06/28/2004 9:21:30 AM PDT by NordP (The terrorists aren’t bullies on a playground; they’re hard core, “24” TV, head-sawing TERRORISTS!)
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To: BulletBobCo

OMG... He looks just like Ted Kennedy!!!
ROTFL!


135 posted on 06/28/2004 11:45:14 AM PDT by dangus
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To: traumer; Happy2BMe; devolve
Chirac's baby ???

How'd I miss this ? I just saw this on Brit Hume's Special Report .....


136 posted on 06/28/2004 3:38:34 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
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To: MeekOneGOP; devolve

It could be Chriacs I guess. Kerry doesn't claim any french does he?


137 posted on 06/28/2004 7:05:16 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: Happy2BMe
haha! Jean Keri ????

138 posted on 06/29/2004 2:43:18 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
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To: traumer
This is such a funny thread! Slow scrolling highly recommended.
139 posted on 06/30/2004 8:09:25 AM PDT by YaYa123 (@"Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggie".com)
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To: traumer

I just saw a movie about this - FROG-G-G!. Who says truth is stranger than fiction!


140 posted on 06/30/2004 11:45:11 AM PDT by Drive-In Ray
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