to the dark tower came and the bull(?) of the sun

Jeffery Wilson clueland.com · 20 Aug 2014, 16:54 · from 2014-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeffery Wilson clueland.com)
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:54:16 -0500
Subject: (urth) : to the dark tower came and the bull(?) of the sun
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On 8/20/2014 1:45 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>   Can we safely
> call a bison a bull?  They are definitely bovines like cattle, but might
> not be a valid Taurus. (Tarus is a species name for cows)

As long as they are not obviously female, a honed bison makes a fine 
bull. Perhaps  even an Ethiopian bull, to Hellenize the difference in 
appearance.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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