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| | Desert Tortoise wildlife information - DesertUSA |
 | | The Desert Tortoise is an herbivore that may attain a length of 9 to 15 inches in upper shell (carapace) length. | | | Much of the tortoise’s water intake comes from moisture in the grasses and wildflowers they consume in the spring. | | | The tortoise is able to live where ground temperature may exceed 140 degrees F because of its ability to dig underground burrows and escape the heat. |
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http://www.desertusa.com/june96/du_tort.html
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| | Gopher Tortoise |
| | Tortoises living on proposed development sites are sometimes moved (or "relocated") to another area; however, this can result in the spread of disease and may disrupt resident tortoise populations. | | | Therefore, the tortoise is able to turn around at any point within the burrow, and consequently, burrow width is a good indicator of the size (and approximate age) of the tortoise. | | | Gopher tortoise burrows are usually easy to spot in the landscape because of the characteristic mound of loose sand at the burrow entrance (called the "apron"). |
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http://www.gophertortoisecouncil.org/tortoise.htm
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| | Gopher Tortoise |
| | One of the gopher tortoise's important roles in the ecosystem is to spread the seeds of many plants in its droppings. | | | URTD is spread between populations by the introduction of a diseased tortoise into a healthy population. | | | Gopher tortoises are often called wildlife landlords because their burrows are essential to the lives and well-being of many other wildlife species. |
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http://www.nbbd.com/godo/ef/gtortoise
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| | Disease and Desert Tortoise Demographics |
| | Captive tortoises are implicated in the spread of this disease to wild populations of both desert and gopher tortoises, G. | | | The tortoises were tested during late winter, spring, summer, and fall and were in a study area immediately adjacent to the long-term plot. | | | The field-worker should use a separate pair of disposable gloves for each tortoise; sterilize equipment (e.g., calipers, scales) after use with each animal; sterilize probes used to measure or view burrows after use at each burrow; and ensure that the tortoise does not touch or contaminate the field worker’s clothing, day pack, or other equipment. |
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http://www.tortoise-tracks.org/publications/berry1.html
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| | California Turtle and Tortoise Club's Desert Tortoise Care Sheet |
| | Tortoises have a high calcium requirement: occasionally sprinkle the food with calcium carbonate or offer a calcium-rich source such as boiled chicken eggshells or cuttlefish bone for them to eat. | | | It is important that a tortoise be plump and in good health before hibernating; otherwise, it may not survive the winter. | | | Because growth varies with food availability and other conditions and tortoises grow faster in captivity it is impossible to determine the exact age of an adult tortoise. |
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http://www.tortoise.org/general/descare.html
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| | CTTC - Speckled Tortoise, Homopus signatus, by Mike Palmer |
| | While parrot-beaked tortoises can stand a lot of rain and need lots of grass and plants in their pen, speckled tortoises are dry weather animals that can't stand much rain and need little vegetation in their pen to avoid raising the humidity. | | | On September 24, 1992, a cool 65° F spring day, at 6:00 pm she dug a hole in the sand under a rock that is in the sun most of the afternoon. | | | This is the smallest tortoise in the world but they lay the largest egg for their size. |
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http://www.tortoise.org/archives/speckled.html
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| | Tortoise Group |
| | The place the tortoise chooses to dig may not be safe or healthy, such as where the soil is damp, against a fence, or under a woodpile that may collapse. | | | For a tortoise 6 3/4" or longer, leave 12"of the ramp as the rear shelf for the plywood. | | | If the burrow is flooded or muddy, remove the tortoise and expose the interior of the burrow to dry, winter or summer. |
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http://www.tortoisegroup.org/yard.html
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| | San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Turtle & Tortoise |
| | Most turtles and tortoises are omnivores, so they will eat both plants and animal food of various kinds, like fish, snails, worms, or insects. | | | If a tortoise needs medicine, the keepers often put it in a tomato because they are sure the tortoise will eat it. | | | Our land tortoises are fed a variety of vegetables and leafy greens, along with occasional treats like hibiscus flowers, melons, cactus pads, and tomatoes. |
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http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-turtle.html
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| | Radiated Tortoises |
| | Radiated tortoises are among the world's rarer tortoises, although they are not as rare as the closely related Madagascar tortoise Geochelone yniphora, or "Angonoka", of which there may be only a few dozen surviving in the wild. | | | Their carapaces are brightly colored, with a white or an off-white shade to the light regions, in contrast to the more yellow shade of the adults. | | | Unlike some tortoises, such as the Star tortoise, the center of each scute is not raised up in the Radiated tortoise. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~dtkirkpa/stuff/radiated.html
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| | Galapagos Tortoise |
| | The Galapagos tortoise is a generalized herbivore feeding on grasses, vines, cactus fruit, and other vegetation. | | | Those that feed on higher growing cactus have a curved shell front to allow their longer neck to reach the pads. | | | The male has concave underside, which facilitates mating. |
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http://www.honoluluzoo.org/galapagos_tortoise.htm
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| | Russian Tortoise, Agriomemys horsfieldi (Testudo horsfieldi) |
| | Russian tortoises are rarely found in dense grassy areas or cultivated fields (Paraskiv,1956; Kuzmin, 2001). | | | It is most active in the early morning and early evening, retreating to its burrows during the hottest portion of the day. | | | It is most commonly found in sand and clay deserts with sparse grasses and bushes. |
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http://www.russiantortoise.org
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| | Desert tortoise information from the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee |
| | Tortoise populations grow slowly because of their low reproductive potential. | | | Useful links to off-site desert tortoise information can be found in the box on the lower right. | | | Within the desert's fragile ecosystem, tortoise populations are rapidly diminishing; in some places they have disappeared. |
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http://www.tortoise-tracks.org/gopherus.html
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| | Tortoise Overview |
| | Tortoise is a usenet news server that supports transit (feeding) and readers. | | | Feed queuing for tortoise is done in a subdirectory per outgoing feed. | | | The feeding system will be significantly more efficient if operated in a real-time mode and the majority of the fed hosts are not consistently fed from a backlog. |
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http://tortoise.maxwell.syr.edu/docs/overview.htm
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| | San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Galápagos Tortoise |
| | In arid areas, the tortoises also have longer legs to reach food growing up high, and the ability to climb a little. | | | Galápagos tortoises can retain a great amount of water, which allows them to survive the long dry season on the islands. | | | When giant tortoises reach maturity, they begin to think about mating. |
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http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-galapagos_tortoise.html
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| | Tortoise Trust Web - Start Page |
| | As a field-worker she was a bundle of energy, with an amazing and acute eye for natural history detail. | | | TORTOISE TRUST ONLINE COURSE IN for Beginner to Advanced keepers | | | She was a tireless worker for tortoises and turtles. |
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http://www.tortoisetrust.org
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| | Digital Dream Machine: Slow and steady... |
| | I don't think you're supposed to let your tortoise eat suburban grown vegetation because of pesticide hazards. | | | If you run into him again let him know to add more hays and grasses with a calcium supplement to the tortoise diet and cut back on the fruits and vegetables. | | | The tortoise is a herbivore, meaning he eats fruits and vegetables. |
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http://digitaldreammachine.blogspot.com/2005/08/slow-and-steady.html
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| | Ploughshare (Angonoka) Tortoise Printout- EnchantedLearning.com |
| | The Ploughshare (Angonoka) tortoise is an endangered species of tortoise that lives in tropical grasslands and dry scrub forests of northwestern Madagascar. | | | She covers the eggs with soil, then abandons them. | | | Anatomy: The Angonoka tortoise has a hard, brown, highly-domed upper shell (the carapace) which is up to about 17 inches (43 cm) long. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/turtle/Ploughshare.shtml
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| | Desert Tortoise Page |
| | 9 eggs, of which few survive), and reach sexual maturity around 8 - 15 years old, desert tortoise populations can easily become threatened or extinct. | | | Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. | | | The desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, is a vegetarian and can even eat some species of cacti. |
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http://muirmaid.home.sprynet.com/tortoise.htm
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| | Home Page |
| | It is built to easily keep up with today's Usenet volume. | | | Very tolerant of suck feeds (though it does not support NEWNEWS) | | | Check out our Public Reader Box running tortoise. |
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http://tortoise.maxwell.syr.edu
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| | The Talkative Tortoise: Folktales of Type 225A |
| | "Behold, on clouds the great Queen Tortoise rises!" | | | And making the tortoise bite hold of a stick, they themselves took the two ends in their teeth, and flew up into the air. | | | So they had their last dinner, a specially sumptuous one, and early next morning said good-bye to their home. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0225a.html
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| | Tortoise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tortoises can vary in size from a few centimetres to two meters. | | | Most land tortoises are herbivorous in the wild. | | | Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea from Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise
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| | Tortoise |
| | turtle: Generally a tortoise is the term for the animal that lives exclusively on land. | | | These became four animals: To the North, ruling over winter, is a Black Tortoise referred to as The Black Warrior. | | | Tortoise shell is a very durable substance - the first plastic, we could say. |
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http://www.khandro.net/animal_tortoise.htm
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| | Thrill Jockey Records - Artists |
| | Tortoise are one of the only bands of their size and status who have always produced their own records, and it largely because of this that they are able to achieve and maintain such a distinct and precise sound. | | | The band's extensive knowledge of the studio's equipment allows them to use it for composing, editing, and coloring their compositions. | | | Throughout their 10-year history, Tortoise have been one of the most singularly dynamic bands in modern music. |
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http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/?id=10048
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| | The History of Rock Music. Tortoise: biography, discography, reviews, links |
| | If Tortoise is "post-rock", then Isotope 217 is "post-jazz". | | | As with Soft Machine and Can, the price to be paid is a certain coldness and frigidity, which are not easily reconciled with the "cruder" tastes of the rock audience. | | | Just like them, Tortoise are able to transfer those creative itches into a format that is (more or less) rock and are capable of blending the various sources into a tight and harmonious sonic flux. |
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http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/tortoise.html
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| | Tortoise (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years. | | | Their first single was issued in 1993, and their self-titled debut album followed a year later. | | | 2001 led to Standards, where Tortoise incorporated more electronic sounds and post-production into its music than in previous works. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise_(band)
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| | TORTOISE |
| | John McEntire is on the cover of this month's issue of The Wire magazine from the UK. | | | The Tortoise contribution is their version of "Didjeridoo." The disc is currently exclusive through amazon.com. | | | Tortoise are also scheduled to appear on August 1st at the Avant Festival Fuengirola in Spain along with Hood, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Lamb, U.N.K.L.E. and others. |
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http://brainwashed.com/tortoise
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| | Untitled |
| | They're doing it with their heads down, too, ensconced in a world where they can experiment, learn and unlearn at their own pace. | | | It's subtle, but their more mathematical designs mask a kind of soul which makes Tortoise worth keeping. | | | It's a testament to this achievement that so many other bands have taken their methods to heart, and ending up sounding like...Tortoise. |
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http://www.inkblotmagazine.com/Interviews/int_tortoise.htm
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| | Adventure Travel with the Green Tortoise Bus Company |
| | Traveling by Tortoise: about our food and sleeper coaches | | | Green Tortoise Adventure Travel began over 30 years ago, with one sturdy bus and the realization that beautiful places, great food, and sociable people were the only essentials for gratifying travel experiences. | | | Adventure Travel with the Green Tortoise Bus Company |
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http://www.greentortoise.com
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| | Tortoise: Standards: Pitchfork Review |
| | Appropriately, Standards kicks off with a bang: the unrestrained, gorgeous blast of noise that opens its first track, "Seneca." As John McEntire wails on his drumkit even more aggressively than he did in his wild Bastro days, Jeff Parker's guitar intones a simple, highly melodic riff. | | | As the fucked up American flag on the record's cover suggests, Tortoise has taken this record as an opportunity to revisit an entire history of American music-- from jazz through dance and electronica-- and reshape it into an permutation of their own. | | | But what makes this album truly impressive is the depth with which the five members of Tortoise approach the amalgamation of these complex sources. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/t/tortoise/standards.shtml
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| | village voice > music > Tortoise, It's All Around You by Jeff Chang |
| | But now that "post-rock" has been drained of meaning and bleeding-edge cachet, haters have hardened those descriptors into a roundhouse dis. | | | Tortoise may be the only band that can match the everything-mashup steez, sonic skills, conceptual ambition, and breakbeat heat of the Roots. | | | But if the Roots make a virtue of versatility over the course of a full-length record, Tortoise's all-hearing curiosity rolls out within the unity of a composition. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/chang.php
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| | Splendid E-zine reviews: Tortoise |
| | The band has accumulated so much non-musical baggage that it's difficult to sit down and listen to one of their records without sifting through a pile of non-essential peripheral information. | | | A few years ago, Tortoise's DNA became irrevocably mixed with Stereolab, which is why we can never be entirely free of bossa-nova-inspired tracks like "Six Pack". | | | After a simple and melodic introduction, the piece explodes with the sort of jazzy urgency that characterizes the best Tortoise pieces, always remaining on the near side of the Stereolab divide. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/reviews/feb-19-01/tortoise.html
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| | tortoise care information - Tortoise Group |
| | It is in color and dated May 2003. | | | MegaDiet is also sold at Tortoise Group meetings. | | | Contributing in efforts to protect the wild desert tortoise and its |
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| | www.myspace.com/trts |
| | Despite the band's growing reliance on studio engineering, Tortoise began re-emphasizing their instrumentalist bent in 1998 for third album, TNT. | | | Parker's connection to the fertile Chicago free jazz community (he's a member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians)) served as a signpost to the group's new direction: growing instrumental prowess and an emphasis on straight-ahead, occasionally improvisational, indie rock. | | | Mo' Wax heroes U.N.K.L.E. recorded a remix of "Djed" on the first of what became a four-volume series, with later interpretations coming from Oval, Jim O'Rourke and Bedouin Ascent, Spring Heel Jack, and Luke Vibert, among others. |
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| | The Gopher Tortoise Organization |
| | The Gopher Tortoise Organization, Inc. is a non-profit foundation created to contribute toward the conservation, protection and management of the Gopher Tortoise (gopherus polyphemus), commensals and their habitat. | | | e impact on development projects while maximizing the conservation and long term survival needs of the gopher tortoise. | | | provides developers, land managers and individuals of sites affected by the presence of the gopher tortoise with cost effective solutions, that minimize th |
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http://www.gophertortoise.org
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| | ULTRA * WWW Magazine * 1996: interview with Tortoise |
| | But I think there are definitely things on this new record that are progressions or advancements on the ideas that we had for the first record, but they're mainly extensions of those ideas, not so much new ideas. | | | It's not out of the question, but I didn't even realize they were going to be in Europe at the same time. | | | big difference between the British so-called post-rock bands and Tortoise may be that you like to play live. |
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http://www.dma.be/p/ultra/1996/tortoise.htm
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| | Tortoise |
| | That's what makes Tortoise to me, it's the ideas that each of us has for each other... | | | Tortoise's instrumental music, which represents one of the most important chapters in today's rock music, originates from a movement that took off from Kentucky and spawned bands such as Squirrel Bait, Slint, Bastro, Bitch Magnet. | | | Sometimes, instead of playing a sampled horn part, we adapt that to play it on guitar, or sometimes, when we are on tour with Isotope, we can have their horn player to play with us. |
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http://www.scaruffi.com/interv/tortoise.html
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| | Amazon.com: Millions Now Living Will Never Die: Music: Tortoise |
| | Tortoise's sophomore release, Millions Now Living Will Never Die shows off an unlikely blossoming of talent. | | | But Tortoise demonstrate their singular vision, one that would spawn many more all-instrumental alt-rock visions. | | | From the beginning to the end, Tortoise takes you through many moods. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000004B2T?v=glance
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| | TORTOISE BIOGRAPHY |
| | Occasionally appears live with Tortoise and contributes to studio sessions in several ways, sometimes just by leaving the door unlocked. | | | He has also played in New Horizons Ensemble, Chicago Underground Orchestra, and is an Isotope 217 and Toe 2000 member along with other Tortoise band mates. | | | Has released at least one excellent recording under the name Slowpoke and has recently been pursuing Directions in Music. |
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http://www.brainwashed.com/tortoise/bio.html
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| | American Tortoise Rescue |
| | Special needs turtles and tortoises that cannot be adopted remain in the care of American Tortoise Rescue for the remainder of their lives. | | | American Tortoise Rescue is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that provides for the rescue, rehabilitation, protection, and adoption of all species of tortoise and turtle. | | | We need your help and support to keep the sanctuary open and to continue saving injured and abandoned turtles and tortoises. |
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http://www.tortoise.com
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| | Amazon.ca: Tortoise: Search Results Books |
| | Tortoise the Trickster and Other Folktales from Cameroon | | | LA Liebre Y LA Tortuga/the Hare and the Tortoise | | | La Liebre Y La Tortuga / Tortoise and the Hare |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=bookstore0e86-20&keyword=Tortoise&mode=books
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| | Tortoise Chronicles |
| | Yes, Iron Tortoise -- strange cyclist from another consciousness with powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary riders. | | | In over a decade of auto-free living, the Iron Tortoise has traveled on his trusty steed, seeking adventure, and sometimes adventure found him. | | | It's the Iron Tortoise on his funny-looking bike. |
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http://www.zzapp.org/rileygea/tortoise/tortoise.htm
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| | tortoisesvn.tigris.org |
| | Just follow the link to download the binaries, the zipped source is there too. | | | Note: we don't provide direct links to our repository to reduce the load a little. | | | Check out a working copy using TortoiseSVN - just click on the Tortoise! |
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http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org
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| | Seattle Hostel - The Green Tortoise Hostel, cheap accommodation Seattle WA! |
| | Wanna see where in the world the Green Tortoise is? | | | We also sell discounted tickets for movies, the Experience Music Project, and a combo ticket that gets you up the Space Needle, into the EMP and roundtrip fare on the Monorail. | | | You can find out who else is by clicking on the logo to the left. |
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http://www.greentortoise.net
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| | Tortoise Country |
| | Our sponsor for Tortoise Country, please check out their web site, you will find them to have the lowest priced quality products on the web. | | | Copyright © 1998 - 2005 Help-U-Compute Please read our Privacy Policy |
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