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Tilikum (c. December 1981 [1] – 6 January 2017), nicknamed Tilly, [2] was a captive male orca who spent most of his life at SeaWorld Orlando in Florida. He was captured in Iceland in 1983; about a year later, he was transferred to Sealand of the Pacific near Victoria, British Columbia , Canada. [ 3 ]
As of February 2019, captive orcas reside at facilities in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The first North Eastern Pacific orca, Wanda, was captured in November 1961 by a collecting crew from Marineland of the Pacific , and over the next 15 years, around 60 to 70 orcas were taken from Pacific waters for this purpose. [ 2 ]
Tilikum v. Sea World ( Tilikum et al. v. Sea World Parks & Entertainment Inc. , 842 F. Supp. 2d 1259 (S.D. Cal. 2012)) was a legal case heard in the US Federal Court in 2012 concerning the constitutional standing of an orca .
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Syrian territory captured by Israel in 1967 (the Six-Day War), and unilaterally annexed by Israel in 1981. In 2008, a plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly voted by 161–1 in favor of a motion on the "occupied Syrian Golan" that reaffirmed support for UN Resolution 497; United Nations, December 5, 2008).
A map of the voyage of the Tilikum A sketch of the Tilikum in 1901, just before the voyage Plaque commemorating the voyage of the Tilikum. Tilikum was a 38-foot (12 m) dugout canoe that was used in an effort to circumnavigate the globe starting in 1901.
Sample of the design of the reverse side of a stater coin, which purportedly presents evidence of a map of the Mediterranean, Europe and the Americas below the horse. In 1996, McMenamin proposed that Phoenician sailors discovered the New World c. 350 BC. [13]
Timur captured and destroyed Erevan in the end this disaster resulted in 500 people were killed [23] [24].In 1394, he again captured eastern provinces which were taken by Georgians during Tokhtamysh–Timur wars. [25] In 1395 the desperate Georgians allied themselves with Sidi Ali of Shekki and captured the Jalayirid prince, Tahir. This event ...