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Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 [1] – 26 October 2010) was a common octopus who predicted the results of international association football matches. Accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup brought him worldwide attention as an animal oracle .
19 cze 2024 · It is this feature that bestows on these mosaics their sophisticated self-reflexivity, which doubtless contributed to their appeal. On the one hand, by depicting the octopus strangling the crayfish, the mosaics picture the fatal result of the octopus’ successful deception.
13 lip 2010 · Paul is a two-and-a-half-year-old octopus. He has eight arms, nine brains and three hearts. An animal with such 'interior values' might after all really have soothsaying qualities. Two years ago,...
9 lip 2010 · This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: combined two images in PS . The original can be viewed here: WM-Behälter des Oktopus-Orakels Paul.JPG : .
World Cup prognosticators don't get more famous than Paul the psychic octopus. Now he has his own memorial at the aquarium in Germany where he lived.
20 sty 2011 · Paul, the German octopus famous for correctly predicting each of Germany's 2010 World Cup matches, has been given his own permanent memorial, three months after his death at the Sea Life aquarium...
13 lip 2010 · Paul the Octopus is now a TV news star: he has today more than 200,000 Google entries and more than 170,000 Facebook friends; he has received both death threats and commercial offers, and so on. On July 12, Paul’s owners presented him with a replica World Cup trophy and announced that “he won’t give any more oracle predictions – either ...
