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unusual facts about Tsavo Man-Eaters


Tsavo Man-Eaters

The plot of the Willard Price book Lion Adventure (1967) was inspired by the man-eaters of Tsavo, wherein Hal and Roger Hunt are hired to deal with a man-eating lion that's preying on railroad workers.


August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Blason populaire

For example, for the town of Amiens the blason is chés Maqueus d'gueugues d'Anmien ('the Eaters of Walnuts of Amiens').

Butter pie

The butter pie can be found in most areas of the historic boundaries of Lancashire, including Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Lancaster, Preston and Wigan (whose residents are some times known by the nickname, pie-eaters).

David O'Karma

In April 2006 Jason Fagone's book on competitive eating, Horsemen of the Esophagus, featured Coondog as one of three competitive eaters profiled in the book.

ESPN Baseball Tonight

Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc. got involved with the development of the game, seeing marketing synergy between baseball fans and pizza eaters.

Geleen Eaters

The Geleen Smoke Eaters, named after the Trail Smoke Eaters, played their first game against Amsterdam on November 2, 1968.

Historieätarna

Historieätarna ("The history eaters") was an infotainment series that appeared on Sveriges Television during the fall and winter of 2012, produced by Karin af Klintberg, starring Erik Haag and Lotta Lundgren as the reporters.

Ruby Records

Chris D. also produced The Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses and some tracks on The Gun Club's Fire of Love, as well as the two Flesh Eaters albums released by Ruby.

Si-Te-Cah

"Si-Te-Cah" literally means “tule-eaters” in the language of the Paiute Indians.

The Dirt Eaters EP

"The Dirt Eaters" contains a sample of Jack Nicholson from the movie Ironweed: "I'd eat all the dirt in this yard for you. And all the weeds. And all the dog bones too, if you asked me." A later 4AD compilation called ...and dog bones too, which featured "The Dirt Eaters", was named after this part of the song.

The Fire-Eaters

Bobby Burns, who lives in a quiet coal-mining town near Keely Bay in Northumberland, has had a wonderful summer.

The Longlight Legacy

The Longlight Legacy is a trilogy of fantasy/science fiction books by Dennis Foon, which consists of The Dirt Eaters, Freewalker, and The Keeper's Shadow.

Tsavo lion

Two of these lions are known as the Tsavo man-eaters; they attacked workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1898.

Tsavo males have been known as man-eaters, particularly involving an incident during the building of the Uganda Railway in the late 19th century.

William Lowndes Yancey Law Office

As one of the leading Southern Fire-Eaters, he gained national influence as an aggressive advocate of Slavery and States' Rights and exacerbated sectional differences that led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union.


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