Was Alvin “Spike” Rhiando really Archibald Stansfeld Belaney? Well, the answer is no, but if you haven’t got anything else to do for the next twelve hours you could find some good entertainment by Googling both those names and taking a trip into fantasy land…it’s worth the trouble. Belaney turned out to be the real name of a man who came to the UK in the 1930s as Grey Owl, a member of the Canadian Ojibwe tribe, and gave many…

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