Anonymous ID: 54913b Jan. 10, 2024, 8:34 p.m. No.20223679   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

The gator legend was elevated further by Teddy May, a New York City sewer official who reported spotting the animals in the 1930s.

In a 1959 book, the author Robert Daley wrote that Mr. May was dubious when his crew first reported seeing a big albino alligator and various gator colonies in the sewers. So, he ventured down himself to โ€œprove to youse guys that there ainโ€™t no alligators in my sewers,โ€ the book recounts.

After seeing the gators himself, Mr. May had his men take up rifles and hunt them down, he claimed.

His feat was also noted in a 1954 column by Meyer Berger, a Pulitzer-winning reporter for The Times, and in Mr. Mayโ€™s 1960 obituary in The Times, which credited him with having โ€œled a squad in clearing the sewers of a number of live alligators that, discarded in the sewers as tiny pets, had survived and grown large.โ€

Anonymous ID: 54913b Jan. 10, 2024, 9:50 p.m. No.20224009   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4027

Due to its prominent position in the incense trade, Yemen attracted settlers from the Fertile Crescent.

The frankincense and myrrh trees were crucial to the economy of Yemen and were recognized as a source of wealth by its rulers.

Anonymous ID: 54913b Jan. 10, 2024, 9:54 p.m. No.20224027   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>20224009

>The frankincense and myrrh trees were crucial to the economy of Yemen

Several centuries after the demise of the incense trade, coffee was responsible for bringing back Yemen to international commerce via the Red Sea port of al-Mocha.