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Cameras also caught Ellis trying to unplug the surveil- lance system. He told inves- tigators that he put cleaning solution in the drink to get back at the co-worker, who he said was difficult to work with.
Zookeepers said along with the mane, Zuri has become extremely feisty — growling, snarling and roar- ing more than she ever had before.
But a photograph of Mondrian’s studio shows the same piece on an ea- sel — with the “bottom” at the top. However, Susanne Meyer-Buser, curator of the North Rhine-Westphalia’s art collection, said it will continue to be displayed upside down.
The 38-year-old from Cir- cle Pines was carrying the gun legally, and it discharged when he bent over to retrieve the kernel. Police said the gun did not have a safety; the owner wasn’t charged.
After an hour and a half of being heels-over-head, the man was lowered to the ground and was unhurt. His advice: “Use a harness. It was in my truck. I just got complacent.”
Beresford, of Worces- tershire, said he focuses on “slices of English life that nobody else does. I don’t create your normal conven- tional calendars. It’s sexy being dull.”
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A female lion at the Tope- ka Zoo in Kansas has grown a mane, The Topeka Capi- tol-Journal reported on Oct.
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“It’s nothing like the mane you would see on a fully sexually mature male lion,” said Zuri’s curator, Shanna Simpson. “She looks like a teenaged male lion.”
A man who stopped in a corn maze in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Oct. 22 to get a corn kernel out of his shoe accidentally shot himself in the leg, according to KM- SP-TV.
“We had the Spurger Vol- unteer Fire Department, DPS, Texas Parks and Wild- life on the way, all trying to help,” LeBlanc said.
“She feels like she needs to protect her pride, so her testosterone increases,” Simpson said.
“The adhesive tapes are already extremely loose and hanging by a thread,” she said. “And it’s now part of the work’s story.”
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Tyler County (Texas) Dep- uty Cory LeBlanc and other first responders undertook an unusual assignment on Oct. 31, KFDM-TV reported. An unnamed man who was bow hunting for deer from a tree stand called 911 around 4:25
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On Oct. 25, the victim set down a can of Pepsi and went to the restroom. When he returned, he took a drink of the soda and noticed it tasted like cleaning supplies. Sure enough, video surveil- lance cameras revealed that Ellis had poured bleach into the Pepsi can, wiped it off, then spit in it.
23. Zuri, 18, who lost her mate, Avus, in 2020, started producing more testosterone after his death, and that has resulted in the male look.
has been found to have been hanging upside down in var- ious museums for 75 years, The Guardian reported. One could be forgiven for the mistake; the piece fea- tures interlaced red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tape strips that subtly thicken at the bottom.
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p.m. to report that he had fallen from his perch and was stuck upside down, 18 feet above the ground. The man’s ankle had become lodged in the framework of the stand.
best parking lots, The Dai- ly Record reported. Beres- ford traveled the country from one end to the other, photographing parking lots and later compiling his fa- vorites into a 12-month cal- endar. His personal favorite was Trinity Street car park in Birmingham, featuring walls made of crushed cars and adorned with street art.
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