Shimano make great fishing tackle especially reels, from applying their expert gear-engineering skills from bicycle manufacturing, plus is an outdoor sport.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...
Perhaps the lion was also looted and brought to Constantinople originally which would fit with pre Marco Polo's travels.
"In 1982, Ruth Durlacher hypothesised that Chios was Christopher Columbus's birthplace.[64] Columbus himself said he was from the Republic of Genoa, which included the island of Chios at the time. Columbus was friendly with a number of Chian Genoese families, referenced Chios in his writings and used the Greek language for some of his notes.[65] 'Columbus' remains a common surname on Chios. Other common Greek spellings are: Kouloumbis and Couloumbis."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios
"A New Theory Clarifying the Identity OF Christopher Columbus: A Byzantine Prince from Chios, Greece. by Ruth G Durlacher-Wolper 1982(Published by The New World Museum, San Salvador, Bahamas"
https://www.geraceresearchcentre.com/pdfs/1stColumbus/13_Dur...
https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska/deadliest-catch-ret...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-doubt-the...
"However, there is now direct evidence that some of the so-called chemical ‘building blocks’ of life – organic molecules – can be found in comets."
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-...
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/03/us-dru...