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The Rain City Superhero Movement, a former group of real life super heroes in Seattle. The group includes Buster Doe, No Name, Troop, Penelope, and Phoenix Jones. [89] [90] Central Florida News 13 did a story on Team Justice, a group of costumed superheroes giving Christmas gifts to the homeless.
Honoré de Balzac. Honoré de Balzac ( / ˈbælzæk / BAL-zak, [2] more commonly US: / ˈbɔːl -/ BAWL-, [3] [4] [5] French: [ɔnɔʁe d (ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; [1] 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post- Napoleonic French life ...
Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, 6 April 1944) is a serial killer, fraudster, and thief who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his ...
Description. Kingsnakes vary widely in size and coloration. They can be as small as 24" (61 cm) or as long as 60" (152 cm). [ 2] Some kingsnakes are colored in muted browns to black, while others are brightly marked in white, reds, yellows, grays, and lavenders that form rings, longitudinal stripes, speckles, and saddle-shaped bands. [ 3]
The desert kingsnake ( Lampropeltis splendida) is a species of kingsnake native to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, United States. It is not venomous, colored yellow and black. The desert kingsnake's diet consists of rodents, lizards, and smaller snakes, including rattlesnakes. They normally grow 3–4 ft long, but have been known to grow up to ...
Ali Khan Samsudin, (January 3, 1958 – December 1, 2006 in Kuala Lumpur) was a snake charmer known as Malaysia 's "Snake King". He earned the title after living with 400 cobras, for 12 hours a day for 40 days, in a small room in the early 1990s. He also earned the title of "Scorpion King" after his feat of living in a glass enclosure with ...
Constantine John Philip Ionides (1901–1968), nicknamed "Bobby" and then "Iodine", [1] was a British-born naturalist and herpetologist known as the Snake Man of British East Africa. [2] His decades as game warden ( conservation officer) led to him being described as the father of the Selous Game Reserve in what is now Tanzania.
Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye (Old Norse: Sigurðr ormr í auga) or Sigurd Ragnarsson was a semi-legendary Viking warrior and Danish king active from the mid to late 9th century. According to multiple saga sources and Scandinavian histories from the 12th century and later, he is one of the sons of the legendary Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and Áslaug . [ 1 ]