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High up in the tower there lives the Kealing house
To all our rivals the mustache will douse
Blood and blood and pain pain pain
And Hightower will rise up in fame fame fame
And all our enimies will die in shame

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owl
leg lamp from christmas story
king kong
chickens from chicken run
shawn the sheep
retired guy from florida

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Invisibility, Electricity, Flying

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TOWER OF POWER!

Hightower Power, Hightower Power!

We bring the power, we bring the fire, and all you're good at is being a coward!

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Hightower Power
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Hightower of Power
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Tower of Terror!

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Blood Red and Off White
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Burnt Yellow and Navy Blue

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Blue and silver, the colors of wisdom.

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From Noam:  The ability to have any power you want at anytime, even fake or obscure powers.

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From Noam:  The ability to have any power you want at anytime, even fake or obscure powers.

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Okay so first of all this category is title House Change but when I was checking the other House Padlets, this category was titled House Chants. For now, I'll assume that it's chants. I don't have many ideas and I'm not a poet by trade, but maybe this one might work.

Hightower, Hightower,
We never cower.
Hightower, Hightower,
We have the power.
Hightower, Hightower,
We tower over them all.

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Hightower has an AMAZING mustache. I very dapper and refined mustache would be a great mascot/icon in our opinion!

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A dot

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Hightower is best to question about that. Hightower ain't the rest, it better than the best.

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We should make flags and carry them around the school!
-Erica

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idk

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Lavender Purple and Rose Gold!

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yellow, black, silver

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put mustache posters all over the school

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put mustache posters all over the school

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We should slap a photo of Hightower on the peak of the arch in the front of the school.

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2017 STAAR Passing Rates

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Academic Achievement: Math
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When every you talk at the end of your sentence add mustache

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Having a very beautiful mustache

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The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion ( Panthera leo) and a female tiger ( Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid called the tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines. They enjoy swimming, which is a characteristic of tigers, and are very sociable like lions. Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species, unlike tigons.

The history of lion-tiger hybrids dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and a tiger. The portmanteau "liger" was coined by the 1930s. "Ligress" is used to refer to a female liger, on the model of "tigress".

In 1825, G. B. Whittaker made an engraving of liger cubs born in 1824. The parents and their three liger offspring are also depicted with their trainer in a 19th-century painting in the naïve style.

Two liger cubs born in 1837 were exhibited to King William IV and to his successor Queen Victoria. On 14 December 1900 and on 31 May 1901, Carl Hagenbeck wrote to zoologist James Cossar Ewart with details and photographs of ligers born at the Hagenbeck's Tierpark in Hamburg in 1897.

In Animal Life and the World of Nature (1902-1903), A. H. Bryden described Hagenbeck's "lion-tiger" hybrids:

It has remained for one of the most enterprising collectors and naturalists of our time, Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, not only to breed but to bring successfully to a healthy maturity, specimens of this rare alliance between those two great and formidable Felidae, the lion and tiger. The illustrations will indicate sufficiently how fortunate Mr. Hagenbeck has been in his efforts to produce these hybrids. The oldest and biggest of the animals shown is a hybrid born on the 11th May 1897. This fine beast, now more than five years old, equals and even excels in his proportions a well-grown lion, measuring as he does from nose tip to tail 10 ft 2 inches in length, and standing only three inches less than 4 ft at the shoulder. A good big lion will weigh about 400 lb [...] the hybrid in question, weighing as it does no less than 467 lb, is certainly the superior of the most well-grown lions, whether wild-bred or born in a menagerie. This animal shows faint striping and mottling, and, in its characteristics, exhibits strong traces of both its parents. It has a somewhat lion-like head, and the tail is more like that of a lion than of a tiger. On the other hand, it has no trace of mane. It is a huge and very powerful beast.

In 1935, four ligers from two litters were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa. Three of them, a male and two females, were still living in 1953. The male weighed 340 kg (750 lb) and stood a foot and a half (45 cm) taller than a full grown male lion at the shoulder.

Although ligers are more commonly found than tigons today, in At Home in the Zoo (1961), Gerald Iles wrote "For the record I must say that I have never seen a liger, a hybrid obtained by crossing a lion with a tigress. They seem to be even rarer than tigons."

Appearance

The liger has a faint tiger-like striped pattern upon a lionesque tawny background. In addition, it may inherit rosettes from the lion parent (lion cubs are rosetted and some adults retain faint markings). These markings may be black, dark brown or sandy. The background color may be correspondingly tawny, sandy or golden. In common with tigers, as an example of countershading, the underparts are pale. The specific pattern and color depend upon which subspecies the parents were and how the genes interact in the offspring.

White tigers have been crossed with lions to produce "white" (actually pale golden) ligers. In theory, white tigers could be crossed with white lions to produce white, very pale or even stripeless ligers. There are no black ligers. Very few melanistic tigers have ever been recorded, most being due to excessive markings (pseudo-melanism or abundism) rather than true melanism; no reports of black lions have ever been substantiated. As blue or Maltese tigers probably no longer exist, gray or blue ligers are exceedingly improbable. It is not impossible for a liger to be white, but it is very rare. The first known white ligers were born in December 2013 at Myrtle Beach Safari in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to a white male lion and a white female tiger.

Size and growth

The liger is often believed to be the largest known cat in the world. Males reach a total length of 3 to 3.6 m (9.8 to 11.8 ft), which means that they rival even large male lions and tigers in length. Imprinted genes may be a factor contributing to the large size of ligers. These are genes that may or may not be expressed on the parent they are inherited from, and that occasionally play a role in issues of hybrid growth. For example, in some dog breed crosses, genes that are expressed only when maternally-inherited cause the young to grow larger than is typical for either parent breed. This growth is not seen in the paternal breeds, as such genes are normally "counteracted" by genes inherited from the female of the appropriate breed.

Other big cat hybrids can reach similar sizes; the litigon, a rare hybrid of a male lion and a female tigon, is roughly the same size as the liger, with a male named Cubanacan (at the Alipore Zoo in India) reaching 363 kg (800 lb). The extreme rarity of these second-generation hybrids may make it difficult to ascertain whether they are larger or smaller, on average, than the liger.

It is sometimes wrongly believed that ligers continue to grow throughout their lives due to hormonal issues. It may be that they simply grow far more during their growing years and take longer to reach their full adult size. Further growth in shoulder height and body length is not seen in ligers over six years old, as in both lions and tigers. Male ligers also have the same levels of testosterone on average as an adult male lion, yet are azoospermic in accordance with Haldane's rule. In addition, female ligers may also attain great size, weighing approximately 320 kg (705 lb) and reaching 3.05 m (10 ft) long on average, and are often fertile. In contrast, pumapards (hybrids between pumas and leopards) tend to exhibit dwarfism.

Ligers are about the same size as the prehistoric Smilodon populator and American lion.

Hercules, the largest non-obese liger, is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest living cat on Earth, weighing 418.2 kg (922 lb). Hercules was featured on the , Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360, Inside Edition, and in a article in 2005, when he was only three years old and already weighed 408.25 kg (900 lb).

The Valley of the Kings Animal Sanctuary in Wisconsin had a male liger named Nook who weighed over 550 kg (1,213 lb).

To compare, the records for the lion and tiger in captivity are under 1,100 pounds (500 kg).

Health and longevity

Though ligers typically have a life expectancy of between 13 and 18 years, they are occasionally known to live into their 20s. A ligress named Shasta was born at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City on 14 May 1948 and died in 1972 at age 24. Nook died in 2007, at 21 years old. Hobbs, a male liger at the Sierra Safari Zoo in Reno, Nevada, lived to almost 15 years of age before succumbing to liver failure, and weighed 450 kg (992 lb).

Panthera hybrids tend to experience a higher rate of injury and neurological disorder than non-hybrids. Though not universal, ligers and tigons may develop health issues. Organ failure issues have been reported in ligers, in addition to neurological deficits, sterility, cancer, and arthritis.

The fertility of hybrid big cat females is well documented across a number of different hybrids. This is in accordance with Haldane's rule: in hybrids of animals whose sex is determined by sex chromosomes, if one of the two sexes is absent, rare or sterile, it will be the heterogametic sex. Male ligers are consequently sterile, while female ligers are not.

Ligers and tigons were long thought to be totally sterile. However, in 1943, a fifteen-year-old hybrid between a lion and an island tiger was successfully mated with a lion at the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo. The female cub, though of delicate health, was raised to adulthood.

In September 2012, the Russian Novosibirsk Zoo announced the birth of a " liliger", the offspring of a liger mother and a lion father. The cub was named Kiara.

Co-occurrence of parent species

As with the tigon, the liger exists only in captivity. Historically, the Asiatic lion and the Bengal tiger co-occurred in some Asian countries, and there are legends of male lions mating with tigresses in the wilderness, or of ligers existing there. The two species' ranges are known to overlap in India's Gir National Park, though no ligers were known to live there until the modern era. The range of the Caspian tiger has overlapped with that of the lion in places such as northern Iran and eastern Anatolia.

Zoo policies

Keeping the two species separate has been standard procedure.[citation needed ] However, ligers have occurred, and do occur, by accident in captivity. Several AZA zoos are reported to have ligers.[citation needed ] The USA holds the greatest population of around 30 ligers. China holds about 20 ligers. There are a few countries worldwide that hold a few, but probably less than 100 exist worldwide.

The breeding of ligers and other Panthera hybrids has come under fire from animal rights activists and organisations, who argue that the health problems experienced by these animals makes their creation immoral. Despite these assertions of immorality, some zoos still breed ligers for profit.

References

Further reading

Peters, G. "Comparative Investigation of Vocalisation in Several Felids" published in German in Spixiana-Supplement, 1978; (1): 1-206.

Courtney, N. The Tiger, Symbol of Freedom. Quartet Books, London, 1980.

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The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion ( Panthera leo) and a female tiger ( Panthera tigris). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the similar hybrid called the tigon, and is the largest of all known extant felines.

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We should honor the House founders by having dress up days that go along with their accomplishments and other outstanding traits...we could also have a House Pep Rally Day or Dance or Field day Competitions through out the year! Hightower House for the win!!!!!! Others beware!!!!! This is Ms. Pena again!

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Purple and Gold!

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High tower guardian known as Mr.mustacho
Plus an icon and a mustache with legs

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A GIANT MUSTACHE WITH GOOGLY EYES AND ANOTHER MUSTACHE

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A GIANT MUSTACHE WITH GOOGLY EYES AND ANOTHER MUSTACHE

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Print out pictures of hightower and plaster them around the school as propaganda

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Hightower Vikings
Hightower Hawks
Hightower Stallions

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Sliving is a blend the slang slaying and living (your best life). A person is sliving when they are glamorously successful, self-empowered, and fulfilled—they are "killing it" all on their own, loving every minute of it, and lookin' good while doing it.

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Sliving is a blend the slang slaying and living (your best life). A person is sliving when they are glamorously successful, self-empowered, and fulfilled—they are "killing it" all on their own, loving every minute of it, and lookin' good while doing it.

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Mustache

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Choosing enemies based on their facial hair is a good way to pick your battles.

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As much as I love the Kealing Hornets, here are a few house mascots I would recommend:

Bison - Sure, they seem a bit intimidating (I feel you guys) but in all honesty they're sort of cool. They are animals that persevere through the hardships and they are associated with strength, stability, and independence.

Eagles/Falcons - Truthfully, not ALL birds are creepy animals that poop on your head all the time (Pigeons, I'm talking to you). They are strong and powerful birds of prey, and inspiring animals that tell you to reach for the stars and never give up.

Horses - Horses aren't just for riding on. Horses are fast and they represent inner and outer strength. They battle through the tough times and thrive in success. Overall, they are wonderful creatures.

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Personally I would say something around purple or gold. Here's why:

- Purple is associated with things like extravagance, creativity, wisdom, grandeur, dignity, and pride which seem like good house qualities. Along with the meaning, the physical effects of the color purple are good. Purple creates a balance between one side that is quiet and intelligent, but awakens our stimulated second side and cultivates our creative minds as both students and staff alike.

- Gold is a symbol of success, like how in competitions the winner gets a gold medal. The color gold is also thought to bring good luck because after all, gold is linked to success. We usually think of gold as riches and wealth and that's true, but in meaning of colors gold is generous and a benefactor to those below them. It stands out among other colors and it makes the Hightower House something no one will ever forget.