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Barbary lions were part of medieval Tower of London zoo
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 3-25-2008
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 03/27/2008 2:15:35 PM PDT by blam
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03/27/2008 2:15:36 PM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/27/2008 2:17:17 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
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posted on
03/27/2008 2:24:06 PM PDT
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Bahbah
To: Bahbah
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posted on
03/27/2008 2:37:45 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam; Bahbah
What a beautiful, majestic animal.
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posted on
03/27/2008 2:41:44 PM PDT
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Allegra
(Tehran delenda est)
To: blam
Thanks, blam. The bigger, the better.
I don’t know how to resize images.
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03/27/2008 2:50:57 PM PDT
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Bahbah
To: Allegra
I love the face.
I am not dumb enough to think they wouldn’t eat me.
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posted on
03/27/2008 2:51:48 PM PDT
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Bahbah
To: blam
Infamous as a place of torture and executions, and home to the Crown Jewels, the Tower was also home to lionsNow let me guess what the lions were fed?
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03/27/2008 3:11:47 PM PDT
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fso301
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
03/27/2008 4:02:01 PM PDT
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MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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03/28/2008 8:15:18 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
“Both the lions were males, as they have longer skulls and larger canine teeth than females, and three to four years old.”
Probably a short miserable life in the hands of zoological novices.
Sad.
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posted on
03/28/2008 12:10:30 PM PDT
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ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: ZULU
"Probably a short miserable life in the hands of zoological novices." I thought the same.
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posted on
03/28/2008 1:11:17 PM PDT
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Who's lookin' for the unicorn?
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posted on
03/28/2008 6:22:01 PM PDT
by
bannie
(clintons CHEAT! It's their only weapon.)
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