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Hägar wrote:
> 
> "The Starmaker"  wrote in message news:595E7E98.377A@ix.netcom.com...
> 
> https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/07/06/an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica/
> 
> What's a delaware????
> 
> What does "about to" mean?
> 
> What is  an antarctica??
> 
> i just have trouble understanding the headline...
> 
> *** They did indeed drop you on your noggin ... but I digress:
> The Antarctic has been "calving" ice sheets since time
> immemorial.  When glaciers, a common phenomena in
> the Antarctic, spill out into the sea, they eventually break
> off from the progenitor ice mass, sort of like bending a
> beer can tab to and fro, until it breaks off.  It is nature's
> way of getting rid of the grown up children.  The floes,
> or ice bergs, as they are otherwise known, then go on
> hunting trip for such unsinkable behemoths as the Titanic.


i didn't know the titanic was...unsinkable, didn't it sink?