For generations of children, the Vikings have been both wild savages (thanks to Anglo Saxon monastic chroniclers, and Horrible Histories) and emblematic of mythical forces, thanks to Tolkien and Pullman.
Only about 25,000 rhinos are left in the wild, and thanks to poaching the species is critically endangered.
He's also an unabashed noisenik, who likes nothing better than embellishing his tunes with lashings of wild noise, thanks to his vast collection of thrift-store effects pedals and echo machines.
Edmund, who is 18 and ranked 385th, earned his wild card thanks in part to winning the boys' doubles title at the French Open in June and at last year's United States Open.
The BFI and Curzon cinemas have added viewer warnings to their home cinema listings of Wild Tales, thanks to the film's eerie similarity to the Germanwings plane crash.
The stereotype of the rugged, self-reliant frontiersmen and women who tamed the inhospitable Wild West, thanks in large part to their own ingenuity and the hard work of migrant laborers, is being replaced.
After receiving a wild card thanks to Roger Federer, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland; defeating lucky loser Tobias Clemens in the first round and George Bastl in the second round, before losing to the eventual runner-up Fernando González in three sets.
Due to a lack of study, we do not know how many pangolins are left in the wild, but thanks to trafficking and habitat loss we are fairly sure that the Chinese and Sunda (two of eight species) are critically endangered.
I've been doing okay with the yardage markers and sprinkler heads on the golf course but maybe someday when I retire — rich beyond my wildest dreams thanks to blogging – I'll be able to work on my game to get to the point where I need to know the exact distance to the pin.
