Little-known Dinotopia fact: The character named “Orchardwine” who Arthur Denison meets at the hatchery looks a lot like Richard Owen, the British scientist who coined the word “Dinosaur” in 1841. The names are anagrams.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Orchardwine = Richard Owen
Little-known Dinotopia fact: The character named “Orchardwine” who Arthur Denison meets at the hatchery looks a lot like Richard Owen, the British scientist who coined the word “Dinosaur” in 1841. The names are anagrams.
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A little piece of nice trivia right there! : )
Neat!
My Rune Jig,
I hope someone deduced this before now. Waiting 17 years to let everyone in on such ingenuity shows more self control than I ever muster. If people fail to "get" my attempts at cleverness after 24 hours I make sure it gets explained. Once again, your modesty is admirable.
Elves Got Wiz
Hah! Well I'll be. I'm sure Rich woulda been honored.
Wow, that's cool. I love the Hatchery. But I think I'd rather live in Waterfall City.
Merry Christmas!!
This is a great fact :D I love it!
I also want to tell you that I asked for your new book for christmas and I've got it! I've already been looking through it and you give some great tips there!
Thank you!!
Yup that's Owen alright.
He was also a critict of Darwin's ideas to. Apparently it hurt his career.
One of my friends also pointed out that Lyell (Mr. Old Earth) makes an apperance as well.
That was me by the way Jim.
-Stephen James.
Little known to some perhaps!
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