Remember the hilarious "Crocodile Dundee" movies? Among all the scenes of Paul Hogan wrestling crocs and shaking up the big city with his Outback style, you may have forgotten the part where the character is actually from Latvia! Or, so claim the good people of Dundaga, in Western Latvia. One Arvīds Blūmentāls, born in Dundaga, later made Australia home and became (relatively) well known for opal mining and reptile tormenting, apparently. It is therefore claimed that Mr. Blumentals was the "inspiration" for the Crocodile Dundee character. I have no compelling evidence to disprove this claim, which is prominently written on a tourist information sign in Dundaga. Therefore, it must be true, and therefore there is no reason to find anything odd about this monumental sculpture of a crocodile facing the highway as you enter town.
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You Americans don't know what it's like to live in a small country that eagerly embraces any citizen that manages to achieve a modicum of international recognition. Go Uri Geller!!!!!!
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