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tortoise

tawr tuhs

  • n  usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

  • Pritchard shares observations with celebrity tortoise lovers like Britain's Queen Elizabeth II; helps South American Indians raise chickens so they won't hunt turtles; and uses his .
  • The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed .
  • A picture released by Israel's Antiquity Authority shows some of the 50 tortoise shells alongside a 12,000-year-old skeleton of a female shaman during excavations in the Galilee .
News & Articles

  • Rainbow returns home
    MICHIGAN CITY — Rainbow the Leopard Tortoise was very lost – but made it home Friday, thanks to a Good Samaritan.
    June 12, 2013 - The Michigan City News-Dispatch
  • Tortoise Energy Capital Fund's Series C Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares Ex-Dividend Reminder
    On 6/12/13, Tortoise Energy Capital Fund's 3.95% Series C Mandatory Redeemable Preferred Shares (NYSE: TYY.PRC) will trade ex-dividend, for its monthly dividend of $0.0329, payable on 7/1/13. As a percentage of TYY.PRC's recent share price of $10.12, this dividend works out to approximately 0.33%. On an annualized basis, the current yield is approximately 3.90%, which compares to an average ...
    June 10, 2013 - Forbes
  • Tortoise and Hare 5K set for Sunday
    FREEPORT — The fourth annual Bow Street Market Tortoise and Hare 5K is set to be held Sunday at 9 a.m. on Bow Street. Prizes will be awared to the top finsishers and the person who can predict his or her time. Age divisions are 12- and-under, 13-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70-andover male and female. read more
    June 8, 2013 - The Times Record
Quotes

  • Saeb Erekat in Telegraph.co.uk
    Negotiator Saeb Erekat said: "The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."
  • Damon Hill in Mibz (blog)
    They have two totally different approaches. You've got a Senna-esque driver and a Prost-like driver. It is a bit like the tortoise and the hare,Hill also said, even though it's a odd compare the F1 drivers with the tortoise.
  • Sam Brownback in FOXNews
    I'm the tortoise in the race and I don't like how that race starts but I like how it finishes,Brownback said.

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