Mr.Jackson converted a rustic red barn into a herpetarium with displays for a dozen exotic and venomous snakes, including a Burmese python and a monocled cobra.
Wilder insisted that conditions like cyclopia and diprosopia should not be considered deformations, but rather "symmetrical anomalies on either side of a normal being".
In 25 BC, so the writer Strabo tells us, an invading army from the Sudanese kingdom of Meroe, led by the fierce one-eyed queen Candace, captured a series of Roman forts and towns in southern Egypt.