No, Babar the Elephant and his family are not featured on the Disneyworld Paris ads on television, but the glitzy-sparkly commercials are certainly in overdrive on French television.
#Elephant escapes circus, roams streets of Montana - https://wapo.st/3U2sPgr (free link) disgusting that such intelligent creatures are still being abused in #circuses for "entertainment". shut them down.
Ok #AtoZChallenge people, I did it again - here is a bonus "L" coin! This time featuring beautiful African scenes from an altruistically-founded country, which answers the question: "Did the USA have any African colonies?"
I hope you enjoy this piece, the information and the coin:
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but as a taste of the complexity of the issue, in the late Victorian British Empire, you had: Crown colonies, Dominions, chartered corporate colonies, protectorates, protected states, Cyprus (legally not a colony but governed as one), Egypt (legally not a protectorate but treated as one), India (sui generis but technically not a colony), etc., all with distinct constitutional statuses but broadly treated as British possessions @CoinOfNote@histodons@numismatics
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and 19C theorists (Dilke and IIRC Seeley) argued that ‘colony’ only properly refered to places of white settlement, contrary to what would become official usage in the Empire @CoinOfNote@histodons@numismatics
#Babar author #Laurent de #Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an #elephant-#king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98.