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Christian the lion (12 August 1969 - ?) was a lion born in captivity and purchased by Australian John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke from Harrods department store in London in 1969.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: Animal Planet, £sd, Bill Travers, Born Free, Born Free Foundation, Conservation movement, Elsa the lioness, George Adamson, Guinea (coin), Harrods, Ilfracombe, Joy Adamson, Justin Richardson, Kora National Park, Meru National Park, MSNBC, Peter Parnell, Snopes, Sony Pictures, Tana River (Kenya), Today (American TV program), Viral video, Virginia McKenna, YouTube, Zoo, 23rd Lambda Literary Awards.

  2. 1969 animal births
  3. Harrods
  4. Individual lions
  5. Lions and humans

Animal Planet

Animal Planet (stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American multinational pay television channel, and associated AnimalPlanet.com website content, owned by the Warner Bros.

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£sd

Rochester illustrates the conversion between pence and shillings and shillings and pounds. Old till in Ireland, with "shortcut" keys in various £sd denominations (lower numbers) and their "new pence" equivalent (upper numbers) Toy coin, which teaches children the value of a shilling £sd (occasionally written Lsd), spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence", is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe.

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Bill Travers

William Inglis Lindon Travers (3 January 1922 – 29 March 1994) was a British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist.

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Born Free

Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.

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Born Free Foundation

The Born Free Foundation is an international wildlife charity that campaigns to "Keep Wildlife in the Wild".

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Elsa the lioness

Elsa the lioness (28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Christian the lion and Elsa the lioness are Individual lions and lions and humans.

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George Adamson

George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE (3 February 1906 – 20 August 1989), also known as the Baba ya Simba ("Father of Lions" in Swahili), was a British wildlife conservationist and author based in Kenya.

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Guinea (coin)

The guinea (commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural) was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.

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Harrods

Harrods is a British luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England.

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Ilfracombe

Ilfracombe is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with a small harbour surrounded by cliffs.

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Joy Adamson

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author.

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Justin Richardson

Justin Richardson (born 1963) is an American author and psychiatrist best known for co-authoring And Tango Makes Three with Peter Parnell.

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Kora National Park

Kora National Park is located in Tana River County, Kenya.

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Meru National Park

Meru National Park is a Kenyan national park located east of Meru, from Nairobi.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Peter Parnell

Peter Parnell (born 1953) is an American Broadway and Off-Broadway playwright, television writer, and children's book author.

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Snopes

Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website.

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Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.

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Tana River (Kenya)

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Today (American TV program)

Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.

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Viral video

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email.

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Virginia McKenna

Dame Virginia Anne McKenna (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.

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23rd Lambda Literary Awards

The 23rd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2011, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2010.

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See also

1969 animal births

Harrods

Individual lions

Lions and humans

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion

Also known as A Lion Called Christian, Christian (lion), John Rendall.