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I am not a man, I am Cantona

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You must trust your teammates. When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. 

Lovely Lake Baikal, one of our summer destinations

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Lake Baikal, Siberia is the largest lake that’s in all the world for it is very great. Found in south Siberia it is a Russian lake, near Mongolia which also does partake. About 400 miles long it is crescent-shaped— Pearl of Siberia— as they do relate. People also know it as the Sacred Sea and this frigid water is a mile deep. The lake is formed by faults that are within the rocks and is the deepest lake on earth before it ever stops. Since 25 million years ago when Baikal began, 4 miles of sediment settled under land. The deepest lake in all the world and the largest too, holds more water than Great Lakes all combined would do. Quakes occur all thru the day but most of them are small. You do not notice them or feel them at all. A quake in 1861 was enormous tho, sank miles of river delta in the lake below. It is a natural laboratory for ecology with millions of years of species evolving very slowly. Endemic to this lake are thous