Poll
(B insisted I include the platypus.)

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Half a million chickens every day? Can that really be right?

(...and the report itself, located by GDR.)

“They just sit there swearing at each other now.”

“…hardly a single Saracen remained alive to carry the dreadful news back to Palermo. As things turned out, however, this proved unnecessary. Among the prizes of battle, and just as intriguing to Roger [de Hauteville] as the camels seized at Cerami, the Normans had carried off several baskets of carrier pigeons. […] It is unlikely that Roger ever ( Read more... )

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