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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Large man-eating Nile crocodile in Burundi Gustave A photograph of Gustave for National Geographic, taken by Martin Best Species Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile) Sex Male Hatched c. 1955 (age 69–70) Known for Allegedly killing up to 300 people Residence Ruzizi River and Lake ...
Saint Jean d'Acre ('Saint John of Acre') or the Italian equivalent San Giovanni d'Acri (and Acone) may refer to: the city Acre, Israel, notably during the Crusader Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (later shifting its capital to Acre) a former Latin Catholic Diocese of Acre with see there, later a titular see
Rusizi National Park is a national park in Burundi, next to the Rusizi River. [3] It is 15 km north of the city of Bujumbura and home to hippopotamuses and sitatungas. [4] Gustave, a Nile crocodile, is rumored to have killed 300 people here.
Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275–1291. Princeton University Press. Folda, Jaroslav (2005). Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre. Cambridge University Press. Guadagnini, Elisa, ed. (2009). La “Rectorique de Cyceron” tradotta da Jean d'Antioche. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale.
The Hospitaller commandery of Saint-Jean-d'Acre is a monumental complex founded by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as the Knights Hospitallers. It is located in the city of Saint-Jean-d'Acre (now Acre in Israel). In the 13th century, the commandery became the headquarters of the Order until the fall of the city in 1291. [1]
Primeval is a 2007 American action-adventure horror film directed by Michael Katleman and starring Dominic Purcell, Orlando Jones, and Brooke Langton.Inspired partially by the true story of Gustave, a 20 ft (6.1 m), 2,000 pounds (910 kg; 0.91 t) giant, man-eating Nile Crocodile in Burundi, [1] the film centers on a team of American journalists who travel to Burundi to film and capture him.
The editors of this collection have chosen to consider 1291 as the end date of the Crusades, since the fall of Saint-Jean-d'Acre completed the ruin of Christian institutions in Palestine. So historians posterior to the middle of the fourteenth century are not included.
After the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, the seat of the patriarch moved to Tyre and then to St-Jean d'Acre in 1191; the patriarch returned to Jerusalem in 1229, when the city was returned to the crusaders, then back to St-Jean d'Acre in 1244. St-Jean d'Acre had its own bishop until 1263, when the patriarchs of Jerusalem administered it until the ...