Leeds er en by i West Yorkshire i den nordlige delen av England. Byen er Englands tredje største etter London og Birmingham. Leeds har i henhold til folketelling i 2011, med dens utbygde boligområder (built-up area), en befolkning på 474 632 innbyggere. Den er en del av City of Leeds' storbykommune (metropolitan borough) som har en beregnet befolkning på 757 700 innbygger… In a 1906 museum guidebook, the curator Henry Crowther wrote that the original Bengal tiger "destroyed forty bullocks in six weeks and was considered so formidable that no native dare venture into the jungle where this noble beast reigned supreme". There does not seem to be any contemporary evidence for this but the myth was perpetuated by its 1950s label: "This magnificent man-e…

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Leeds Myths

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