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  • The yale is the size of a horse, but has the tail of an elephant and the jaws of a boar, and is black.

    Don't stop thinking about WMAM 2007

  • The yale is the size of a horse, but has the tail of an elephant and the jaws of a boar, and is black.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • I want to know more about why one governmental wing is asking another to dismiss the case of Geronimos bones being returned to his family, from whom they have been stolen by the yale society kennedy was killed for speaking out against, you know the one that bush and his "opponent" kerry are members of.

    High court rules in voting rights dispute 2009

  • Mr. Shiller keeps data going back to the late 19th century on his website, at www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm .

    Is the Market Overvalued? E.S. Browning 2011

  • In the meantime you can see the cover on the Yale University Press site yalepress. yale.edu/yupbooks/book. asp? isbn = 9780300117554.

    2008 October 29 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008

  • Link go and find rose and talk about order. go and find rose and talk about yale.

    you got to lift up every stone now sister colomon 2008

  • You can read more about the Sustainable Food Project at www. yale.edu/sustainablefood or find the YSFP on Facebook here.

    Melina Shannon-DiPietro: The Season for Sustainability Melina Shannon-DiPietro 2010

  • “Carbon plan in Ecuador would leave jungle oil reserves untapped,” Yale Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • You can read more about the Sustainable Food Project at www. yale.edu/sustainablefood or find the YSFP on Facebook here.

    Melina Shannon-DiPietro: The Season for Sustainability 2010

  • “Carbon plan in Ecuador would leave jungle oil reserves untapped,” Yale Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • A manuscript from St Petersburg contains a picture of a yale, a creature described by Pliny as a kind of antelope ‘the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant’s tail ... the jaws of a boar, and moveable horns more than a cubit in length ... presented to the attack or sloped backward in turn as policy directs’.

    Tom Shippey · Throw your testicles: Medieval Bestiaries Tom Shippey 2019

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  • Mythological Bestiary -- The yale is as large as a horse, is black, has an elephant's tail and the jaws of a wild boar. Its horns are long and mobile: one can fold backwards while the other fights.

    January 29, 2009

  • Sounds like a handy beast to have on the farm.

    January 29, 2009