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Stuff the British Stole

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The Tiger, a Life Size Wooden Tiger

The tiger has a name, tippo's tiger, named after a very real indian ruler by the of tippe sultan. The tiger was his personal symbol, and a bad ass one at that. It survives in this very weird way because people don't think it's valuable enough. And they say they'regoing to send it to london to be put on display. Ah, so it's got this very weird history once it comes to the u. K. Now it's in the victoria and albert museum, which is a design museum,. A fainting in horror was the exact moment i decided that even with the rapidly closing window to get to he

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