Alapacas?

Subject: Alpaca Information File

Alpacas: Just the Facts
by Phil Switzer

Background Basics:

     Alpacas are members of the camel (camelid) family.  Camelids originated on the central plains of North America.  3 million years ago, the ancestral camelids migrated to South America.  By the end of  the last ice age, camelids became extinct in North America.  The  ancestral camelid developed into the present day wild vicuna and wild  guanaco of the Andean highlands (Peru, Bolivia, and Chile) of South  America.  About 5,000 to 6,000 years ago the natives began the domestication of the vicuna into the present day alpaca as a fiber producing animal.  They developed in the aplaca the following characteristics:

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Tres de Mayo

Feeling rather punchy in the elevator this morning, I suggested to my car-mates that we should begin celebrating Cinco de Mayo starting with Uno de Mayo and working our way up to the Fifth. I got one chuckle and another blank look. I thought it was funny and repeated my idea throughout the week as often as I could: Dos de Mayo, Tres de Mayo, etc. My wife, Amanda, found my silliness humorous, and since I take pleasure in my wife delighting in something, I resolved to continue my work. On the third of May I sent an email to the lab with the greeting, "Happy Tres de Mayo". Since I was not sure of the spelling of the words and wanted to get it right I Binged it ... Lo and behold, the spelling netted me an actual Wiki hit. And then I read the content of the article: