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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. the ancestors of the Canadian Inuit
  2. the northernmost location of the ancient world

In medieval times, the term (Ultima) Thule was used to mean a mythical place in the extreme northern reaches of the continent.

On the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, it is shown as Tile located to the north west of the Orkney Islands, with a "monster, seen in 1537", a whale ("balena"), and an orca nearby.


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