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  2. Cultural depictions of turtles - Wikipedia

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    Turtles are also used as marketing tools to give products the appearance of being environmentally friendly. [3] One of the most famous rescued sea turtles was "Allie", a 250 lb (113 kg), 50-year-old female loggerhead sea turtle rescued by a local commercial fisherman at Alligator Point, Florida, on May 15, 2012.

  3. World Turtle - Wikipedia

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    The World Turtle in Hindu mythology is known as Akūpāra (Sanskrit: अकूपार), or sometimes Chukwa.An example of a reference to the World Turtle in Hindu literature is found in Jñānarāja (the author of Siddhantasundara, writing c. 1500): "A vulture, whichever has only little strength, rests in the sky holding a snake in its beak for a prahara [three hours].

  4. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Should a family journey, the women and children would ride the asses, attended by the father (Exodus 4:20). This mode of traveling has been popularized by Christian painters, who copied the eastern customs in their representations of the Holy Family's flight to Egypt. Scores of passages in the Bible allude to asses carrying burdens.

  5. Christine Figgener - Wikipedia

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    Christine Figgener (born October 30, 1983) is a German marine conservation biologist, author, science communicator, and ocean advocate recognized for her work in sea turtle conservation, the fight against plastic pollution, and the empowerment of women in STEM.

  6. Lot's wife - Wikipedia

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    A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4] A second one is shown to tourists across the Dead Sea, in Jordan, not far from the ruins of the Byzantine Monastery of St Lot. [5] The Talmud states that a blessing should be said at the place where the pillar of salt is.

  7. Woman caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles from US into ... - AOL

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    A woman was busted for trying to sneak 29 protected turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada via kayak. Woman caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles from US into Canada by kayak, faces 10 years in ...

  8. Turtle - Wikipedia

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    [109] [110] The oldest known soft-shelled turtles and sea turtles appeared during the Early Cretaceous. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] Tortoises originated in Asia during the Eocene . [ 113 ] A late surviving group of stem-turtles, the Meiolaniidae , survived in Australasia into the Pleistocene and Holocene .

  9. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.