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The Canadian death metal band Ex Deo has a song titled "Pollice Verso (Damnatio ad Bestia)" on the album Caligvla. The British black metal band Cradle of Filth has a song titled "You will know the Lion by his Claw" and uses this line in its lyrics. The Hungarian black metal band Harloch [55] has an album Damnatio ad bestias. [56] [57]
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda [2] under the title "Mbube", [3] through South African Gallo Record Company. In 1961, a version adapted into English by the doo-wop group the Tokens became a number-one hit in the United States.
Elsa. Elsa the lioness (c. 28 January 1956 – 24 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old.
Othniel Margalith points out the fact that in other occurrences of the motif of the defeating of a lion in the Bible, and in the ancient Near East in general, the hero hunts the lion and does not kill him bare-handed as in the Samson story. On the other hand, this detail of killing the lion bare-handed is widespread in Greek sources.
"The lion went to leap again, but [Miles] held him just long enough around the waist to confuse him and that gave me time to get into the ocean. Right before the wave came, [the lion] did get on ...
Of adult male lions that were tagged inside the park, 72% were killed through sport hunting on areas near the park. [19] During 2013, 49 hunted lion carcasses were exported from Zimbabwe as trophies; [6] the 2005–2008 Zimbabwe hunt "off-take" (licensed kills) average was 42 lions per year. [22]
The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths. While the terrors of man-eating lions were not new in the British public perception, the Tsavo Man-Eaters became one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway.
The Detroit Lions' team song, "Gridiron Heroes," has been the team song since 1938 and was written by a Wayne State professor. ... People 'The Voice' alum Ryan Whyte Maloney's cause of death ...