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Taken: Circa 1925
Caption: "What the Kaiser?" - Scott and Polly Postcard View
Additional Description: "For around 40 years, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was associated with an African grey parrot named Polly. The popularity of Polly was perhaps down to her ability to speak obscenities, with "f**k the Kaiser" being a rumoured favourite. The fame of the parrot was such that on its death in 1926 around 200 newspapers across the world wrote an obituary..." - Wikipedia
Submitted: December 12, 2017, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p408042
File Size: 0.183 Megabytes

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