data.base updates - archeologist, hunter, shark

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@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ apple
        and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
        when.
                [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
+archeologist
+       Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...] 
+       So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, 
+       and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried 
+       treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
+               [ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]
 archon
        Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens.
        However unusual their appearance, they are not generally
@@ -1743,6 +1749,16 @@ player
        resent the intrusion of such beasts.  They are capable of
        using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the
        Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.
+hunter
+       What of the hunting, hunter bold?
+       Brother, the watch was long and cold.
+       What of the quarry ye went to kill?
+       Brother, he crops in the jungle still.
+       Where is the power that made your pride?
+       Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
+       Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
+       Brother, I go to my lair to die.
+               [ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ]
 ice devil
        Ice devils are large semi-insectoid creatures, who are
        equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,
@@ -3333,6 +3349,22 @@ shan*lai*ching
        seas - which deals with the monster Kung Kung trying to
        seize power from Yao, the fourth emperor.
                [ Spectrum Atlas van de Mythologie ]
+shark
+       As the shark moved, its dark top reflected virtually no
+       light.  The denticles on its skin muted the whoosh of its
+       movements as the shark rose, driven by the power of the
+       great tail sweeping from side to side, like a scythe.  
+       The fish exploded upward.
+       Charles Bruder felt a slight vacuum tug in the motion of
+       the sea, noted it as a passing current, the pull of a wave,
+       the tickle of undertow.  He could not have heard the faint
+       sucking rush of water not far beneath him.  He couldn't
+       have seen or heard what was hurtling from the murk at
+       astonishing speed, jaws unhinging, widening, for the
+       enormous first bite.  It was the classic attack
+       that no other creature in nature could make -- a bomb from
+       the depths.
+               [ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ]
 shito
        A Japanese stabbing knife.
 shrieker