There is nothing else along this road. Just the giraffe and a bench.
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Here for pictures of the tall ones.
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Flat Giraffersbefore the battery is a very specific cutoff
Historical Sightings says they have not found a photograph from before the battery. People reply with paintings, which are a different kind of thing.
I want to separate the claim that a picture is old from the claim that it shows an independent encounter. A date printed under a later reproduction does not establish either on its own.
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Before photography would give you no photographs of anything. The question has to include which battery and which photographic process.
Big Zoohow is the giraffe supposed to change an election?
I had remembered The Democratic Party as a claim about a party inventing an animal. The actual paragraph has a more specific mechanism: opponents go hunting “instead of voting”. That is a claim about taking voters away, not winning their agreement.
There is a difference between persuading somebody that an animal exists and persuading them that antagonizing the other party is more urgent than the election. Which part are people defending?
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The second part. A distraction does not have to make you like the people arranging it. It can make you dislike them enough to spend the day doing something else.
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Then the day matters. A hunting trip at any other time does not replace a vote.
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Collapse or expand reply by brickwork
So would planning the trip. The paragraph is describing where the opponents put their effort, not necessarily one morning with everyone leaving at once.
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Collapse or expand reply by teaspoon
The animal-rights part explains the provocation. If the opponents go after the animal to make a point, they have let the other party choose what the point is about.
Collapse or expand reply by metricsea
I would still need numbers before accepting the electoral result. How many people have to choose the hunt, and where are their votes being lost?
Side Questswhoever had this before me went through it with a pen
Found this in a box of books. Someone's marked the cover with a pen. No idea who had it first.
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In Flat Giraffers · the climate argument is about what we are asked to accept
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The preceding habitat argument matters here. This paragraph takes that objection as established; it does not start by proving it again.
In Big Zoo · the park shut in 1998. this was filmed last week.
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Closure notice. Says the animals were being transferred
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I'd sit at the other end.