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Dina Sanichar (1860 or 1861–1895) was a feral boy. A group of hunters discovered him among wolves in a cave in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India in February 1867, [1] around the age of six. [2][3][4][5] Sanichar was sent to the Secundra orphanage at Agra, where he lived among other humans for over twenty years.
Print. The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children, the story was popular for more than half a century. Contemporary critics observed that Bannerman ...
Walking the Amazon was an expedition conceived and successfully completed by British explorer Ed Stafford. It was the first recorded time anyone had journeyed the entire length of the Amazon River from source to sea on foot [citation needed] and was recognised as an official Guinness World Record. Walking the Amazon is also a book of the ...
Yossi Ghinsberg speaking in 2016. Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg (Hebrew: יוסי גינסברג; born 5 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. [1] Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for ...
Little Amal is a 3.5-metre (11 ft) manually operated, partly-animatronic giant puppet and is the centrepiece of the performance art project called The Walk. The project was created by the British production companies The Walk Productions and Good Chance in collaboration with the South African Handspring Puppet Company .
The Lion Sleeps Tonight. " The Lion Sleeps Tonight " is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda [2] under the title " Mbube ", [3] through South African Gallo Record Company. Lyrics of Linda's original version were written in Zulu, while those of the English one were later written by George David Weiss.
Socratea exorrhiza. (Mart.) H.Wendl. Socratea exorrhiza, the walking palm or cashapona, is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America. It can grow to 25 metres in height, with a stem diameter of up to 16 cm, [1] but is more typically 15–20 m tall and 12 cm in diameter. [2] It has unusual stilt roots, the function of ...
Richard M. Sherman. Robert B. Sherman. " I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) " is a song from Walt Disney 's 1967 film The Jungle Book. The song was written by songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman, [1] and was performed by singer and musician Louis Prima as King Louie, with Phil Harris providing additional vocals as Baloo the bear.