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A popular Oran legend tells that in the period around 900 BC, there were sightings of lions in the area. The two last felines were killed in a mountain near the city of Oran, which is now known as La montagne des Lions ("The Mountain of Lions"). In fact, there are two giant lion statues in front of Oran's city hall, hence the twin lions ...
Budget cuts had already seen the strip switch to reprints in 1967, and these continued in Lion. The repeats aborted the end of the "Rogue Planet" storyline which had been running in the last Eagle to start the stint in Lion from the beginning of "Reign of the Robots". In contrast to its original colour format, the art was rendered in greyscale.
Although many modern zoos are more selective about their exhibits, [224] there are more than 1,000 African and 100 Asiatic lions in zoos and wildlife parks around the world. They are considered an ambassador species and are kept for tourism, education and conservation purposes. [ 225 ]
The first recognized example of sticker art in the USA is Andre the giant has a posse by Shepard Fairey, created in 1989. [5] The first European (and non-American) sticker art project is that by Piermario Ciani, initially started in the 1980s within the Trax project and more intensely starting from 1991, [6] as also documented by a catalogue published in that year. [7]
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The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.