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the text P hasianus Colchicus Torquatus - Latin for the name of the species
Poster with a motif of a man on cross-country skis
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All the illustrations in the magazine were done by the French artist and illustrator Jules David (1808-1892)
The song is based on a real event from the year 1850 when the 1 year and 7 month old boy Jon Ersson met a female bear with two cubs in Dalarna
The motor spirit is coming
In the foreground we see Slottsbacken and the so-called Lion Ball
It seems to depict something otherwise missing from the painting: gondolas and the choppy waters of Venice's famous canals
orange or yellow hat with white dots
The intersection we see in the photo - located a few minutes from the Saint-Lazare train station - represents the changing urban environment of Paris from the late 19th century
In Aristotle's book Historia Animalium he describes that the bird inside its body carries a stone
At the time he was 42 and she was 22
