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The largest bear ever killed in North America was from Kodiak Island with a total skull size of 78. 1 cm ( 30. 75 in ), and 8 of the top 10 brown bears listed in the Boone and Crockett record book are from Kodiak.
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Adult bears generally weigh between and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.
It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size.
It is the third largest land carnivore ( behind only the Polar bear and the Brown bear ).
The largest carnivore is the Formosan black bear, a rare and endangered species.
The wolverine, pronounced, Gulo gulo ( Gulo is Latin for " glutton "), also referred to as glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae ( weasels ).
The largest one-day percentage gain in the index, 15. 34 %, happened on March 15, 1933, in the depths of the 1930s bear market.
At Kotzebue Sound was recorded the largest polar bear sighted in history, a male weighing 2209 pounds.
The earliest occupants of what is now the town of Tuxedo were the Lenni-Lenape Indians, who named the largest lake in the town " Tucseto ," meaning either " place of the bear " or " clear flowing water.
The largest living forms are the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), with a body weight of up to, and the similarly sized Kodiak bear ( Ursus arctos middendorffi ), again consistent with Bergmann's rule.
Arctotherium augustans, an extinct short-faced bear from South America, was the largest predatory land mammal ever with an estimated average weight of.
* Many towns and villages bear an Asbury United Methodist Church, including the fourth largest United Methodist Church in the denomination, located in Tulsa, OK ( www. asburytulsa. org ).
The largest numbers of cave bear remains have been found in Austria, Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Italy, northern Spain, Croatia, Hungary, and Romania.
The largest southernmost and northernmost islands are inhabited by brown bear, foxes, and martens.
Even large mammals are recorded as eating insects ; the sloth bear is perhaps the largest insectivore.
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`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??
The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly.
This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.
He had obtained and provisioned a veteran ship called the Discovery and had recruited a crew of twenty-one, the largest he had ever commanded.
I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.
Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.
Certainly not the largest afternoon audience Newport has ever had at a jazz concert and the most attentive and quiet.
The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
At 2. 5 troy oz ( 78 g ) gold, this is the largest ( by weight ) coin ever produced by the U. S. Mint.
Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($ 24 billion ), ever made by any nation in peacetime.
His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.
Antonov An-225, the largest aeroplane ever built.
* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.
The AWG-9 radar system carried by the F-111B and F-14 Tomcat was one of largest and most powerful ever fitted to a fighter.
It provides investment products and services and attracts the majority of the corporate business deals in The Bahamas, most recently acting as financial advisor and placement agent for the largest Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) ever in The Bahamas with the IPO of Commonwealth Brewery, a Heineken subsidiary.
* Model 34 Twin-Quad Prototype small airliner ; the largest aircraft ever built by Beechcraft
At in length and or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed.
Shipbuilding peaked in the 1850s, marked in 1851 by the full rigged ship Lord Clarendon, the largest wooden ship ever built in Cape Breton.
By area of extent, it was one of the largest empires ever in history.
With over 1800 participants, the 2011 Oxford University " Cuppers " ( inter-college ) tournament claimed to be not only the largest croquet tournament ever, but the largest sporting event in the University.
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In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.
The Ma ' alot massacre of 1974, an attack on Israeli school in which 27 people were killed, was the group's largest attack.
The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.
Earth's largest extinction killed 57 % of all families and 83 % of all genera ( 53 % of marine families, 84 % of marine genera, about 96 % of all marine species and an estimated 70 % of land species ) including insects.
A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
The era began in the wake of the Permian-Triassic event, the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, and ended with the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, another mass extinction which is known for having killed off non-avian dinosaurs, as well as other plant and animal species.
In 1793, one of the largest yellow fever epidemics in U. S. history killed as many as
** Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles ( his killers have not yet been identified ).
On 15 July, at the Battle of Grunwald ( also known as Battle of Tannenberg ) after one of the largest and most ferocious battles of the Middle Ages, the allies won a victory so overwhelming that the Teutonic Order's army was virtually annihilated, with most of its key commanders killed in combat, including Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen and Grand Marshal Friedrich von Wallenrode.
In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.
In 1793, the largest yellow fever epidemics in U. S. history killed at least 4, 000 and up to 5, 000 people in Philadelphia, roughly 10 % of the city's population.
One of the largest mass extinction to have affected life on Earth was in the Permian-Triassic, which ended the Permian period 250 million years ago and killed off 90 % of all species ; life on Earth took 30 million years to recover.
Two days later, four residents of the Jabalya refugee camp — the largest of the eight refugee camps in the Gaza Strip — were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli trucker.
The largest death toll was on 3 March 1991 when the UVF killed IRA members John Quinn, Dwayne O ' Donnell and Malcolm Nugent, and civilian Thomas Armstrong in the car park next to Boyle's Bar, Cappagh.
Though the park effectively killed the then-lagging industry in the late 1930s, it spurred the development of one of the largest tourist resorts in the United States of America, as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now the most visited national park in the country.
The Piccadilly line bomb resulted in the largest number of fatalities, with 26 people reported killed.
The largest alligator ever killed in Arkansas was harpooned near Gillett on September 19, 2010.
It is estimated 1, 500 soldiers and crew were killed, the largest loss of life in a maritime accident in US history.
On November 28, 1729, the Natchez Indians killed a total of 229 French colonists: 138 men, 35 women, and 56 children ( the largest death toll by an Indian attack in Mississippi's history ).
The largest loss of life caused by fire occurred on February 12, 1936 when the Victoria Mansion Hotel located on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and Seventh Street was destroyed and 16 people killed.
The largest structure fire in department history occurred on March 29, 1967, when the block long Laurel in the Pines Hotel was leveled by a suspicious fire that also killed three people.
The largest list of those killed at the battle comes from the Annals of Clonmacnoise and names several kings and princes.
Sixty-two dams, the largest of which was the Banqiao Dam in Biyang County collapsed ; catastrophic flooding, spread over several counties throughout Zhumadian Prefecture and further downstream, killed at least 26, 000 people.
As the largest section moved towards the parliament building, gunmen shot and killed two young women in the crowd, Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić.
Approximately 300 aircraft were lost, 237 pilots killed, missing, or captured, and 18 pilots wounded — the largest single-day loss for the Luftwaffe.
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