Canada has a history magazine called "The Beaver". It was first published in 1920 by Hudson's Bay Company, and is currently published by Canada's National History Society. It recently had to undergo a name change to "Canada's History" because of internet filters.
To be more precise, the title was doomed by a vulgar alternative meaning that causes web filters at schools and junk mail filters in e-mail programs to block access to material containing the magazine's name. "It's only been in the last two years or so that it's been a problem," said Deborah Morrison, the president and chief executive of the history society, which is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "'Beaver' is one of those key words students are denied access to on the internet."

"Canada's history: Formerly the beaver. Now dick." -- I think that was Canada's centennial slogan...
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