Missing completely is of course something about CowboyNeal.

Or, sickening as it may be, "None of your business where I put my hands!" is the CowboyNeal option.

When farming was established, that left humans with free time. It's with that free time that we did all the myriad things we've achieved - from maths and the arts to social structure in modern Western society.

Um, no. hunter-gatherers have much more free time than farmers. What farming gives you is a surplus of food, allowing a larger population and specialization.

staying there over winter

It may be cold at the South Pole, but it's Summer there.

"Tourists to Swindon are no longer able to find a route there on the map; all three of them are very disappointed"

Three? Ah, so tourism to Swindon is up this year.

Lets try it.

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Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron First Female Fedora Project Leader<esc>

:s/First Female/Robyn Bergeron as/

Hmm, I get:

Red Hat Appoints Robyn Bergeron Robyn Bergeron as Fedora Project Leader

Perhaps you should try

:s/First Female/as/

t can be located above the '4' key on most keyboards...

Well, on my Dell keyboards it's the F4 key (slightly offset), but on my HP and Sun keyboards it's F3.

Chinese, Jewish, or other lunar-based date

Except the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, that is, there is both a lunar and solar component. The Chinese calendar throws in leap years to keep in sync with the seasons. Islam, on the other hand, uses a (mostly) lunar calendar so the dates of events such as Ramadan drift compared to the seasons.

The summary reads like an angry teenager implying that they could do better.

Because they can do better. Starting from the Soviet Union days, the Soyez launch systems had an amazing success record. All the problems they've recently point to a falling of standards. From the bottom of the page:

But as a space launcher, the R-7, with upper stages, became the most successful in history. By the year 2000 over 1,628 had been launched with a success rate of 97.5% for production models.

The MiG-25 was obtained by the West after a Russian pilot defected, aircraft and all. It had nothing to do with a Soviet aircraft being in airspace without permission.

Umm, how do you defect without leaving Soviet airspace? I somehow doubt he had permission to be in Japanese airspace.