Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium
Version was a malformed brute made out of a co-opted gorilla suit, but ground sloths and carnivory have been brought together before. Thomas Jefferson, polymath and third president of the United States, even identified isolated parts of a ground sloth as bearing the hallmarks of a carnivore, but that was before he really knew what he was looking at.On February 10, 1797, Thomas Jefferson sent “A memoir on the discovery of certain bones of a quadruped of the clawed kind in the western parts of Virginia” to his colleagues in the American Philosophical Society. The animal in question had clearly been a terrifying beast. In addition to part of a femur, two lower arm bones, and several foot bones, three large claws had been sent for Jefferson’s inspection, and these weapons indicated that the animal was a predator larger than a lion. “I will venture to refer to him by the name of the Great-Claw or Megalonyx,” Jefferson decided, “to which he seems sufficiently entitled by the distinguished size of that member.”
Jefferson took great pride in the fact that the animal had been found in his home state of Virginia. French naturalists – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon foremost among them – believed that the Americas were impoverished lands where life degenerated rather than thrived. The proof was in the lack of large animals – the New World had nothing to match the elephants, giraffes, hippos, and other behemoths of the Old World. But the discovery of Megalonyx was clearly larger in every respect, Jefferson affirmed, and “he stood as preeminently at the head of the column of clawed animals as the mammoth stood at that of the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus: and that he may have been as formidable an antagonist to the mammoth as the lion to the elephant.” Perhaps, Jefferson speculated, such beasts were still roaming the uncharted American interior, and he used everything from Native American rock carvings to the tall-tales of hunters to back up this idea. “[T]he bones exist: therefore the animal has existed”, Jefferson said, and he concluded:
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train.
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The acting's bad, the effects are bad, and, well, just look at the movie's rendition of Megatherium: That's right folks – it's a giant, man-eating ground sloth come to snack on Unknown Island's lecherous captain before going on to beat the stuffing out
Most original: "Ghost & Darkness" (The names given to the two man-eating lions that terrorized Kenya turn of the century). Noted others: Detroit Pride, Blue Thunder, Motor City Maulers, Motown Madmen, Motor City Mayhem, Detroit Muscle, Uncaged Rage,
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In addition, the battery boasts enough charge to do a typical safari trip three times over, avoiding the terrifyingly exciting prospect of having to navigate the man-eating lions and stampeding elephants on the walk back to the lodge.
"Most original: "Ghost & Darkness." Names given to the man-eating lions that terrorized Kenya at the turn of the century. It also was a Michael Douglas movie. But those lions are currently stuffed in the Field Museum, near Soldier Field.
From the Lions of Tsavo to the Lion of Judah - Voice of Revolution
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This is the story of a remarkable Christian Zionist who did so much for the cause of Zion in the early years of the 20th century.
John Henry Patterson was the product of an Anglo-Irish family. He was born on November 10, 1867 in Ireland to a Protestant family and died in 1947 – one year before the rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel. Following the family’s military tradition, he joined the British army and served with the 16th Lancers in Lucknow, India. He was sent in 1898 to East Africa where he was engaged in building a railway bridge at Tsavo. The African workers were being terrorized by man eating lions and Patterson was successful in restoring order and killing the marauding lions. He later wrote a book about his exploits titled, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo .
According to the writer, Ami Isseroff, Patterson served in South Africa during the Boer War and retired from the army in 1911. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he rejoined the army, saw service in Flanders and was subsequently sent to Egypt. It was while he was visiting Alexandria that he met the two men who would transform his life and make him a lifelong passionate and ardent Zionist.
Yosef Trumpeldor and Ze’ev Jabotinsky, two Jews who had earlier left Russia were attempting in 1915 to form a Jewish brigade to fight with the British and Anzac Forces against the Ottoman Turks. They were meeting constant obstacles and refusals by high ranking officers of the British High Command who were often anti-Jewish and did everything in their power to prevent a Jewish military unit from seeing active duty. Turkey, which had allied itself with Germany at the outset of World War I, ruled Mesopotamia and vast swathes of the Middle East, including the geographical territory known as Palestine, and was resisting allied pressure to oust them from their 400 year old occupation of the region.
Jabotinsky, arguably the greatest Zionist leader of his time, had sought to revive the same long dormant Jewish fighting spirit that had led the Maccabees to victory over the Greek-Syrian invaders of Judea 2,200 years earlier. He and Trumpeldor met Patterson and they immediately became firm friends, sharing the same longing for a rebirth in its ancestral and biblical homeland of a reconstituted Jewish state. Indeed, Patterson was to become the commander of the Zion Mule Corps with the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
On March 31, 1915, Lt. Colonel Patterson officiated at the swearing in ceremony of the new Jewish volunteers for the Mule Corps. He invited the soldiers to pray with him that he should, “not only, as Moses, behold Canaan from afar, but be divinely permitted to lead you into the Promised Land.” He wrote in his diary about the military training camp that, “ … never since the days of Judah Maccabee had such sights and sounds been seen and heard in a military camp – with the drilling of uniformed soldiers in the Hebrew language.” Jabotinsky had made it a personal mission to help revive the ancient language of the synagogue liturgy into the new vibrant functional language of a revived and hoped for Jewish state.
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The lions of Tsavo, exploring the legacy of Africa's notorious man-eaters
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Though man-eating lions are rare, they do exist. Learn where man-eating lions live and what drives Tsavo lions to snack on human populations.