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Medieval Animals

You're Dead to Me

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I Offer a Partridge's Heart to a Hawk

In the middle ages, knights on horseback fighting bulls. There would be animal versus animals for cock fighting and bear baiting. A man called the abbot of ben allegedly constructed a pig piano in France. And then when you pushed the keys on the keyboard, the spike poked each pig to make it squeal.

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