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The museum contains exhibits from Sumer and the city of Akkad, with monuments such as the Prince of Lagash's Stele of the Vultures from 2, 450 BC and the stele erected by Naram-Sin, King of Akkad, to celebrate a victory over barbarians in the Zagros Mountains.
* The Jungle Book: Baloo, King Louie, Kaa, Shere Khan, the 4 Vultures, Mowgli, Bagheera, The Monkeys, Shanti, Colonel Hathi, Akela, Winifred, and Colonel Hathi's Son.
Exhibits in and around the Bird House include " Crane Line " ( home to Stanley, Whooping and Wattled Cranes ), a large, outdoor flight cage housing Mandarin Ducks, Wood Ducks, Indian Peafowl, Double-crested Cormorants, Hooded Merganser and several others, the " South American Run " ( which includes large South American birds such as King Vultures, Roseate Spoonbills and Scarlet Ibis ), and outdoor exhibits for Greater Rhea, Spectacled Owls, Barred Owls, Flamingos, Blue-billed Curassow, Double-wattled Cassowary and many others.
King Vultures have been known to live for up to 30 years in captivity.
King Vultures were popular figures in the Mayan codices as well as in local folklore and medicine.
The fossil record, though scant, supports the theory that the ancestral King Vultures and South American Condors separated at least some 5 mya.
Such behavior is typical of caracaras, but the larger and shorter-legged King Vultures are not well adapted for walking.
King Vultures have lived up to 30 years in captivity, though their lifespan in the wild is unknown.
Animals in the exhibit include Rodriguez Fruit Bats, Straw-Colored Fruit Bats, Egyptian Fruit Bats, King Colobus Monkey, Allen's Swamp Monkey, Red Flanked Duiker, Hadada Ibis, Saddle-billed Stork, White-Faced Whistling Ducks, Slender-snouted Crocodile, Nile Monitor Lizard, Lungfish, Cichlids, and Hooded Vultures.
The Tomb King army also fields other large Undead constructs assembled from bone, marble and ancient statues these include gigantic undead scorpions, carrion Vultures of the desert and even the animated skeletons of ancient giants.
Aruṇa is also believed to be the father of Jatayu and Sampati ( King of the Vultures ), who are both mentioned in the Ramayana.

King and generally
Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.
Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.
It was generally agreed that the charges were false, but Clement sent King Philip IV of France a written request for assistance in the investigation.
As this funerary monument was erected before the traditional date given for the death of King Midas in the early 7th century BC, it is now generally thought to have covered the burial of his father.
In practice, Magna Carta in the medieval period did not generally limit the power of kings, but by the time of the English Civil War it had become an important symbol for those who wished to show that the King was bound by the law.
* Control of the " holy " city of Nippur and its temple priesthood generally meant hegemony over most of Sumer, as listed on the Sumerian King List ; at one point, the Nippur priesthood conferred the title of queen of Sumer on Kugbau, a popular taverness from nearby Kish ( who was later deified as Kubaba ).
Although Abu Ma ' shar al-Balkhi | Abu Ma ' shar believed Ptolemy to be one of the Ptolemaic dynasty | Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after the conquest of Alexander the Great | Alexander the title ‘ King Ptolemy ’ is generally viewed as a mark of respect for Ptolemy's elevated standing in science.
His encroachments upon the rights of the English Church during the reign of King Henry III of England are well known ; similar attempts against the liberties of the national church of France were supposedly the occasion of the Pragmatic Sanction of King Louis IX of France, now generally thought to be a 14th-century forgery.
Wayne Smith's " Under Me Sleng Teng " was produced by King Jammy in 1985 on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer, and is generally recognized as the seminal ragga song.
Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game ( 1993 ), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written.
It is generally accepted that much of the earthwork can be attributed to Offa, King of Mercia from 757 to 796.
On 15 September the King dismissed Bernstorff, and two days later Struensee became maître des requêtes ( privy counsellor ), consolidating his power, and starting the 16 month period generally referred to as the " Time of Struensee ".
A dual Premiership Captain at North Melbourne, four time North Melbourne Best & Fairest and seven time All-Australian, Carey, nicknamed " The King ", is generally considered to be one of the greatest players to have ever played Australian Football.
Before the Norman conquest of England, the most powerful Welsh ruler at any given time was generally known as King of the Britons.
The letters and diaries of working-class people and ex-servicemen generally demonstrate support for the King, while those from the middle and upper classes tend to express indignation and distaste.
The most revered actor of the second half of the twentieth century in Poland is generally considered to be Tadeusz Łomnicki, who died in 1992 of a heart attack while rehearsing King Lear.
His successor, King Harald Hardrada attempted the invasion of England in 1066, but was beaten and killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, an event which is generally considered the end of the Viking Age.
* in ancient China,( hóu ) was the second of five noble ranks created by King Wu of Zhou and is generally translated as marquess or marquis.
The memoir underlines the fact that while King Baudouin of Belgium generally did not like the people who were opposed to his father at the time of the Royal question, de Staercke had become a friend of his.
Despite making up the bulk of Bowser's ( known as " King Koopa " in Japan ) army, known as the " Koopa Troop ", Koopas as a species are generally known to be peaceful, some even teaming up with Mario such as Kooper from Paper Mario.
Instead, he remained south of the Loire River, where he was still able to exert some small amount of power, maintaining an itinerant court in the Loire Valley at castles such as Chinon, being customarily known as " Dauphin " still, or derisively as " King of Bourges " ( named after the town where he generally lived ), periodically considering flight to the Iberian Peninsula, and allowing the English to advance in power.
Although early records of Hampstead can be found in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St. Peter ’ s at Westminster ( AD 986 ) and it is referred to in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), the history of Hampstead is generally traced back to the 17th century.
It is generally accepted that the etymology of Vauxhall is from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area which was referred to as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall.
Guy has also appeared in a number of historical novels, including Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown, and Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, generally as a good-looking but weak and foolish young man.

King and do
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.
The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.
He obtains Ahasuerus ' permission to execute this plan, against payment of ten thousand talents of silver ( which the King declines to accept and rather allows him to execute his plan on principle ), and he casts lots to choose the date on which to do this — the thirteenth of the month of Adar.
*" Cajun spice " blends such as Tony Chachere's and REX King of Spice are sometimes used in Acadiana kitchens, but do not suit every cook's style because Cajun-style seasoning is often achieved from scratch, even by taste.
* 1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
The traditional subscription to the epistle, translated in the King James Bible, states that this epistle was written at Philippi, perhaps arising from a misinterpretation of 16: 5, " For I do pass through Macedonia ", as meaning, " I am passing through Macedonia ".
About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
His father, despite being a mighty Dragon King, was unable to do anything while his son was on land.
The other major change in the scene is that the renamed Knights no longer demand another shrubbery, but this time that King Arthur put on a musical and take it to Broadway ( on the slight condition that it doesn't have anything to do with Andrew Lloyd Webber ).
" During the negotiations with the King, he manifested a fixed resolution to do all that could be done to make the best of the opportunity the country then enjoyed, of securing to itself the blessings of liberty.
While the witches do not tell Macbeth directly to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king.
According to Gilbert Burnet, however, Mary convinced her husband that she did not care for political power, and told him " she would be no more but his wife, and that she would do all that lay in her power to make him King for life ".
This traditional view, that the Epistola represents a contradiction of the letter to Æthelberht, has been challenged by the historian and theologian George Demacopoulos, who argues that the letter to Æthelberht was mainly meant to encourage the King in spiritual matters, while the Epistola was sent to deal with purely practical matters, and thus the two do not contradict each other.
If he did visit the English court, he was the first reigning King of Scots to do so in more than eighty years.
" However, following the People's Power revolution in April 2006, the 1990 constitution has been replaced by an interim constitution which has removed the King from anything to do with the army.
Thus, in the story " Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks ", the Time Patrol's resident agents in the Tyre of King Hiram are a twentieth century Israeli couple, who express their wish to help the ancient Tyrians " in order to compensate a bit for what our country is going to do here.
our constitutional practices do not derive their validity and sanction from any Bill which has received the formal assent of the King, Lords and Commons.
Trudeau said he was willing to fight during World War II, but he believed that to do so would be to turn his back on the population of Quebec that he believed had been betrayed by the government of William Mackenzie King.
However, Flori and Gillingham are nevertheless in agreement that contemporaneous accounts do not support the suggestion that Richard had a sexual relationship with King Philip II of France, as suggested by some modern authors.
When asked why he writes, King responds: " The answer to that is fairly simple — there was nothing else I was made to do.
In 1986, he moved to Oxford, England to do research for The Pendragon Cycle, a reinterpretation of the legend of King Arthur in a Celtic setting combined with elements of Atlantis.
A verse in the Book of Isaiah is interpreted in the King James Bible as " I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things .".
In his nomination Dr. King said, " I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of prize than this gentle monk from Vietnam.

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