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And studies have shown there are about 20 advanced Klingon speakers in the world as well. It depends on the popularity of the show at the time. If another season of “Star Trek: Discovery” comes out, you will have more people learning Klingon. We definitely see that with Na’vi. It ...
The Ojibwe and Tlingit Bear Moon, refer to the time when bear cubs are born March: Worm Moon The Worm Moon is associated with the month of March. It was originally thought that the name was given to this month to signal the transition from winter to spring in North America. During ...
This word, popular among bootleggers during Prohibition, first came into use duringthe late 1860s, shortly after the land that is now Alaska was sold from Russia to the U.S. It is short for hoochinoo, a word used by the Tlingit (an indigenous people from Alaska) to refer to a fermen...
must cure outdoors for three years. Thereafter, the planks are dried for a few more weeks in a massive kiln — essentially, “a giant dehumidifier,” Lamp says. Once the moisture level in the planks hits 6%, it’s ready for woodworking. “If you don’t do that right, then [the wood...
In fact, in such art it is often important that the creatures depicted are not too realistic, so that they can have a quality of strangeness about them that marks them out as supernatural beings. For this is no ordinary raven – Tlingit myth credits this creature with the creation (or ...
Harbor seals resting on “burgy bits” in front of South Sawyer Glacier The Tracey Arm fjord is also dramatically beautiful. From the ship, we watched mountain goats precariously climb steep terrains that keep them safe from predators like bears. There are binoculars all over the ship that you...