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Professional Pusher
Japan employes people to push others onto trains so that everybody is on time for work!
Deodorant Tester
These people smell other people's armpits to test the powers of deodorants.
Furniture Tester
You have to sit, wriggle and sleep on the furniture to determine its comfort.
Water Slide Tester
Water Slide Testers have to make sure these rides are totally safe.
Professional Sleeper
Professional Sleepers SLEEP permitting scientists the investigation of sleep disorders.
Shark Tank Cleaner
Window cleaning with sharks) while simultaneously being watched by a people,..
LEGO Sculptor
LEGO has a number of certified professionals who work creating sets and build models in Legoland Discovery Centres around the world. But the job is difficult to obtain: there are only between 9 and 30 worldwide!!!
Dog surfing instructors
You can find these professionals at certain ocean resorts: they teach you and your dog to surf and there are some locations with classes just for dogs!
Incredible People in London: Dynamo The Magician
Levitating over the Shard building
London double decker bus
Across the river Thames
Mock TurtLe Soup: A Victorian Recipe
This is an English soup that was created in the middle of the 18th century as a cheaper imitation of green turtle soup.
It uses brains, calf's head or a calf's foot to duplicate the texture and taste of the real turtle meat.
Canned...
German...
The Mock TurtLe &The Gryphon
Illustrated by A.L Bowley
Illustrated by A.E Jackson
Illustrated by Milo Winter
The gryphon/griffon/griffin/gryphus/ is a legendary beast with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle and an eagle's talons as its front feet.
Because the lion was traditionally the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds, the griffin was considered to be a formidable and magnificent creature.
The griffin was also thought of as king of all creatures
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"The Dodo" by Hilaire Belloc
Oxford Museum in the background
he Dodo used to walk around,
- And take the sun and air.
- The sun yet warms his native ground—
- The Dodo is not there!
- The voice which used to squawk and squeak
- Is now forever dumb—
- Yet may you see his bones and beak
- All in the Mu-se-um.
- From "The Bad Child´s Book Of Beasts", 1896
Dodo Bird (Raphus cucullatus)
- This animal was about 3.3 feet (1 meter) tall.
- The bird´s average weight was between 22 and 40 pounds (10 to 18 kilograms).
- It couldn´t fly or swim!
- Most descriptions of the Dodo say that it was was grey or brown and that it had lighter, curly feathers on its tail.
- It had a beak that was green, black, and yellow.
- Its face was gray.
- It had short yellow muscular legs with black claws.
- This bird was endemic (restricted) to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, approximately 700 miles ( 1126.5408 km) east of Madagascar.
- Dutch sailors and settlers to Mauritius in 1598 were probably the first humans to see these birds.
- The Dodo Birds main food source was believed to be fruit.
- Before the appearance of humans on the island of Mauritius the Dodo bird prospered; its habitat had no predators, plenty of food sources, and a mild climate.
- Having no predators before humans arrived, these birds had no fear of the people who came to their island to kill them.
- Contributing to the Dodo bird's rapid extiction is the fact that the females laid one egg at a time and that the settlers of Mauritius along with the animals they brought with them, especially the pig, used the eggs as a food source.
- This
flightlessbird was native to the island of Mauritius near Madagascar.
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