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  • Located in Monroe, Wisconsin, Homestead boasts a healthy and happy flock of 92 sheep and a couple of alpacas and great pyrenees that help protect the sheep.

    Yearn Worthy Yarn: Homestead Wool 2009

  • I took the subway every day from “la 6ieme” until “la terminale” from metro pyrenees (ligne 11) to St Placide (ligne 4) … basically a 45 minute trek across Paris every morning and every night.

    métrétiquette 2004

  • The Alpine plants, for example, of Scotland, as remarked by Mr H.C. Watson, and those of the pyrenees, as remarked by Ramond, are more especially allied to the plants of northern Scandinavia; those of the United States to Labrador,; those of the mountains of Siberia to the arctic regions of that country.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • But I do not doubt that some temperate productions entered and crossed even the lowlands of the tropics at the period when the cold was most intense, -- when arctic forms had migrated some twenty-five degrees of latitude from their native country and covered the land at the foot of the pyrenees.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • By the time that the cold had reached its maximum, we should have a uniform arctic fauna and flora, covering the central parts of Europe, as far south as the Alps and pyrenees, and even stretching into Spain.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • Bob Zeiss of new City, N.Y. pets Maxwell Smart, a great pyrenees from LeRoy, N.Y. in the backstage area at the 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in New York.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2012

  • A great pyrenees is groomed in the judging ring during the second day of the 135th Westminster Dog Show, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • Bob Zeiss of new City, N.Y. pets Maxwell Smart, a great pyrenees from LeRoy, N.Y. in the backstage area at the 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in New York.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2012

  • Belle & Sebastian (litte boy & giant white dog set in the pyrenees)

    RA News 2009

  • That pod is actually the six shell bubble house, or "Bulle a six coques" by jean maneval, only 30 or so were made and scattered in the foothills of the french pyrenees.

    doggdot.us 2009

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