Turtle
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"Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flaneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them."--The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire (1938) by Walter Benjamin |
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Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonii or Testudines characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.
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