" Tucker's studio produced the posters for Hugh Hudson's Pirelli-sponsored film The Tortoise & The Hare ( 1967 ), for which Fulcher designed the poster lettering on a freelance basis.

In Chinese astronomy some of them are located in the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ), while the rest were placed among the Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ) by Xu Guangqi, based on knowledge of western star charts.

The music on the TV series is accompanied at the beginning and end of each episode by a Tortoise.

Other independent bands such as Tortoise, Broadcast, and Labradford would also release material on Duophonic.

John McEntire of the band Tortoise assisted with production and played on Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

They have released tracks by and toured with post-rock band Tortoise, while John McEntire of Tortoise has in turn worked on several Stereolab albums.

File: Tortoise closeup. jpg | Young, 20-year old Tanzanian Leopard Tortoise feeding on grass

* Robert Clive's pet Aldabra Giant Tortoise died on Thursday, 23 March 2006 in the Kolkata zoo.

After some recording for Crooklyn Dub Consortium and Wordsound, " Interpretive Belief System ", HiM settled on a lineup of Scharin with Bundy K. Brown, Rob Mazurek and Jeff Parker, members or occasional members of Tortoise and Isotope 217.

" Tortoise and Hare ", created by the artist Nancy Schön and installed on May 19, 1993 by the Friends of Copley Square as a tribute to the runners who have participated in the Boston Marathon

His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise ( now in the Louvre ), which also procured for him the important commission for all the sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

Tortoise records on the Thrill Jockey label.

Brown left and was replaced by David Pajo ( formerly of Slint ) for 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, which showed up on many year-end best of lists, and the 20 minute Djed was described by critic John Bush as proof that " Tortoise made experimental rock do double duty as evocative, beautiful music.

In 2006, Tortoise collaborated with Bonnie ' Prince ' Billy on an album of covers entitled The Brave and the Bold, and released A Lazarus Taxon, a box set containing two CDs of single tracks and remixes, a third CD with an expanded Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters ( long out of print ) and a DVD of videos and film of live performances.

Tortoise released their latest album Beacons of Ancestorship on June 23, 2009.

As the western part of Santo Domingo was neglected by the Spanish authorities, French buccaneers settled there, first on the Ile de la Tortue ( Tortuga, Tortoise ), then on Grande Terre ( mainland ).

Artists such as Stereolab, John Frusciante, The Mars Volta, Deerhunter, Wilco, Laika, Mouse on Mars, Bowery Electric, I Am Spoonbender, Tortoise, and Fujiya & Miyagi working under the post-rock and electronica rubrics have often cited bands in the krautrock canon as being among their more significant influences.

Will Oldham and Tortoise covered "( Some Say ) I Got Devil " on their 2006 covers album The Brave and the Bold.

* 1994: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, as " Mbube ( The Lion Sleeps Tonight )", on Gift of the Tortoise

* Rainbow Dash and Tortoise on a skateboard

A Green Tortoise tour group on a break, December 1993

Green Tortoise buses are customized so that passengers can lounge around informally or sleep on bunk beds while the bus is moving.

*" Seneca ", a song by the band Tortoise from 2001's Standards ( Tortoise album )

* TNT ( Tortoise album ), a 1998 album by Tortoise

* Zeno's Paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise by Jon McLoone, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

* 1013 – The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, a Chinese encyclopedia, is completed by a team of scholars including Wang Qinruo.

The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by Lewis Carroll in " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ".

" ( Tortoise Wins by a Hare, 1943 ), and " Is that you, Myrt?

Most realizations of the piece have long titles, such as The Tortoise Recalling the Drone of the Holy Numbers as they were Revealed in the Dreams of the Whirlwind and the Obsidian Gong, Illuminated by the Sawmill, the Green Sawtooth Ocelot and the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer.

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

Adwaita ( sometimes spelled with two d's ) was an Aldabra Giant Tortoise brought to India by Lord Wellesley who handed it over to the Alipur Zoological Gardens in 1875 when the zoo was set up.

Tortoise shells were used by ancient Chinese as Oracle Bones to make predictions.

The work of Talk Talk and Slint helped inspire post-rock ( an experimental style influenced by jazz and electronic music, pioneered by Bark Psychosis and taken up by acts such as Tortoise, Stereolab, and Laika ), as well as leading to more dense and complex, guitar-based math rock, developed by acts like Polvo and Chavez.

" What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ", written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief dialogue which problematises the foundations of logic.

Hofstadter's Tortoise is of the male sex, though the Tortoise's sex is never specified by Carroll.

Its name is composed by the words " Blast " and " Tortoise " and is also a pun as " Blast Toys ".

100 % Collègues, Add N to ( X ), Bebel Gilberto, Bertrand Burgalat, Bob Log III, Disiz la Peste, Fear Factory, Fun Lovin ' Criminals, Goldfrapp, Henri Salvador, Isolée, IV My People, Keren Ann, Le son du peuple, Muse, Placebo, Pole, Sigur Rós, Sawt El Atlas, The Divine Comedy, Tom Tom Club, Tortoise.

There are usually opportunities for camping during a Tortoise trip.

This event was attended by Scott Thomson ( the researcher on Harriet's history ), three generations of the Fleay family, Robin Stewart ( author of Darwin's Tortoise ), and many hundreds of others who knew this tortoise during the latter part of her life.

The A39 Tortoise being towed on a trailer during trials in British Army of the Rhine | BAOR, 1948

A captive male Sonoran Desert Tortoise with visible Chin Glands eats some strawberries. Males will circle around females, biting the shells of the females in the process, and then will proceed to climb upon the female and insert his penis ( a white organ, usually only seen upon careful inspection during mating, as it is hidden inside the male and can only be coaxed out with sexual implication ) into the vagina of a female.

Zinsou premiered La Torque qui Chante ( The Singing Tortoise ) in 1966 during the Francophone Summit in Lomé in a production that was later performed in France at the 1987 Limoges Festival.