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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Chamberlain
Owl
Palace
Spider
Palaces
Spiders
Trumpeter
Conquest
Caesars
Battlements

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