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FUN FACT: Ocepechelon was just one of 2 GIANT, highly-specialized from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco. Meet Alienochelys, the "yin" to Ocepechelon's "yang"

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2018-12-12


Irving Penn (16 Jun 1917 - 7 Oct 2009), American photographer.

"In 1950 he began photographing 'Worlds in a Small Room.' Initially portraits of tradespeople in Paris, London, & NY but later included gypsies & peoples of Dahomey, Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, & Morocco."

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2018-06-17

Alcione was recently found in a treasure trove of fossils in Morocco. https://t.co/f1r95xrP2L

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2018-03-23

As late as the mid-nineteenth century merchant shipping was still being captured by Barbary pirates off the Riff coast of Morocco. Daring rescue and retaliation efforts by the Royal Navy in 1848 and 1851 depended on use of paddle sloops. Click: https://t.co/eC7tNqpc8N

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2018-03-17

These should be to your taste. I love Jaques Majorelle`s paintings. From Morocco. Died in 1962. YSL then bought his villa in Marrakech.

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2017-06-04