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The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, also known as the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, [1] located in Torrington, Alberta, features 77 stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople in 44 intricately designed dioramas. [2] [3] [4] Roughly 7–10,000 people visit the museum every year. While it is open primarily ...
These are the "true" gophers, but several ground squirrels in the distantly related family Sciuridae are often called "gophers", as well. The origin of the word "gopher" is uncertain; the French gaufre , meaning waffle , has been suggested, on account of the gopher tunnels resembling the honeycomb -like pattern of holes in a waffle; [ 5 ...
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum is a 2015 Canadian short documentary film directed by Chelsea McMullan and Douglas Nayler. [1] The film centres on the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta, [2] a museum in which stuffed gophers are posed in various anthropomorphic situations.
The thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), also known as the striped gopher, leopard ground squirrel, and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of Audubon), is a species of hibernating ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.
Gopher client functionality was quickly duplicated by the early Mosaic web browser, which subsumed its protocol. Gopher has a more rigid structure than the free-form HyperText Markup Language of the Web. Every Gopher document has a defined format and type, and the typical user navigates through a single server-defined menu system to get to a ...
The Hole previously served as the office for the International wing of Scientology, the team David Miscavige allegedly wanted gone. "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath"/A&E.
According to the company, the center hole of a Cheez-It cracker is called the “docker hole.” The reason behind the docker hole is to release air and moisture as the crackers bake.
Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii), also known as the dakrat or flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus.Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called prairie dogs or gophers, though the latter name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae, and the former to members of the genus Cynomys.