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The Versailles menagerie during the reign of Louis XIV. A menagerie is a collection of captive animals, frequently exotic, kept for display; or the place where such a collection is kept, a precursor to the modern zoo or zoological garden. [1] The term was first used in 17th-century France, referring to the management of household or domestic stock.
For example, in the team's first year, she angrily refuses to comply with Warner's order that she and her siblings stay in Tower City to protect it after she learned of her father's kidnapping. [ 8 ] Neil Lewis was kidnapped by the former employers of an assassin named Lionel Barstow.
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In comics, Menagerie may refer to: Menagerie (DC Comics) , two DC Comics characters connected with the Elite and Justice League Elite Menagerie (Image Comics) , an Image Comics character and member of Dynamo 5
The menagerie was built between 1662 and 1664, [2] at the southern end of the future Grand Canal, along the road between Versailles and Saint-Cyr, [2] but was not fully completed until 1668. [3] View and perspective of the Menagerie of Versailles from the Porte Royale, engraving by Adam Pérelle after Nicolas de Poilly (17th century).
The Glass Menagerie [2] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.
In his production notes, Williams says, "Being a 'memory play', The Glass Menagerie can be presented with unusual freedom of convention." [ 1 ] In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter 's plays Old Times , No Man's Land and Betrayal are memory plays, where "memory becomes a weapon".
Avibase – the World Bird Database [4] Birds, distribution, taxonomy X Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more