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100-Year-Old Tortoise Who Defied Hitler Comes Back From Dead
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| Fri, 19 Apr
Posted on 04/21/2013 10:58:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A tortoise, who has been named after Adolf Hitler in honour of surviving the Blitz, is back from the dead -71 years after he survived a Nazi bomb attack in the Second World War.
Carey and David Miller feared their dear pet was dead after he was found lifeless in their garden during a late snowfall while they were abroad, the Daily Express reported.
The couple's grandson took Adolf, who is thought to be at least 100 years old, indoors but for the following month the reptile showed no sign of life.
Carey, a children's author by profession, said that during last Sunday's sunshine, they put the turtle in the garden of their home in Muswell Hill, north London and found that the tortoise head gradually came out.
The Millers had been told Adolf was found in a crater caused by one of Hitler's bombs in 1942.
TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: hitler; tortoise
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To: Slings and Arrows
This tortoise survived London being shelled?
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/21/2013 11:00:20 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: nickcarraway
They can live a long time.
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posted on
04/21/2013 11:00:47 AM PDT
by
Frapster
(There you go again...)
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/21/2013 11:10:04 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
To: nickcarraway
The couple's grandson took Adolf, who is thought to be at least 100 years old, indoors but for the following month the reptile showed no sign of life.We have a large semi-aquatic turtle. (Nasty thing. Our daughter brought it home from a friends house when she was 5. She's now in her 20's).
It hibernates during the winter. I don't know what kind of turtle Adolf was, or if it would hibernate, but maybe that's what happened?
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To: Larry Lucido
To: nickcarraway
“Hitler finds out...” video in 3...2...
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posted on
04/21/2013 11:16:43 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: nickcarraway
The Millers had been told Adolf was found in a crater caused by one of Hitler's bombs in 1942.
How do we actually know the turtle was anti-Nazi -- and not some testudinal Rudolf Hess parachuted in by the enemy?
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posted on
04/21/2013 11:23:16 AM PDT
by
x
To: nickcarraway
Bombed. Although the Germans actually did shell the British coast wiith long range guns on the French coast, and the brits fired back with their own guns.
To: nickcarraway
Dolf turtled-up, just restin’ ‘e was—pinin’ fer the fjords, mos’ likely.
Pullin’ a Yertle, yah? A daft old tortoise, reg’lar gaffer ‘e is. Blimey.
And they say we can’t speak English. Heh.
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posted on
04/21/2013 12:13:38 PM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
>It’s a miracle!
Let’s not snap to any conclusion.
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posted on
04/21/2013 12:16:29 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
To: concerned about politics
Cold turtles and tortoises hibernate, they are reptiles.
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posted on
04/21/2013 12:25:52 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: nickcarraway
There’s a lot of furor over this hibernating turtle.
The tortoise wouldn’t turn turtle for the Nazis.
Built-in fuhrerbunker.
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posted on
04/21/2013 12:26:14 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
To: nickcarraway
Took a verrry long nap, is all!
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posted on
04/21/2013 12:41:02 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
LOL! Slow and deady wins the race!
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posted on
04/21/2013 1:12:56 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: nickcarraway
He was simply shell shocked.
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posted on
04/21/2013 2:00:17 PM PDT
by
nomad
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