When I was 5 or so, Mom went to work for Senator Byrd. One of my earliest childhood memories is of this elephant.
"Daddy, what's you favorite animal?" This one.
OH HAI NOM NOM
Terrible lizards and their successors mingle.
My fave dinosaur at NatHis (just now made that abrev up) is this very big fish. He ate another slightly smaller but still very big fish.
Yum. Wow. Urrp.
Enormous ancient blue sapphires. Like 90% of all gemstones on display in Western museums, these were obtained (robbed) from India. They cut, drilled and set these gems by hand . Feeling down? Compare your lot to an Agra diamond driller's, sitting 10 hours a day cross-legged on the ground, under the balmy Bharat sun.
Not all the world's diamonds come from India, of course - only the world's most magnificent.
