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The Queen’s dogs were her beloved companions. What will happen to them now? Buckingham Palace released this official photo by Annie Leibowitz in April 2016 to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday. She is pictured with four of her dogs: clockwise from top left Willow (corgi), Vulcan (dorgi), Candy (dorgi) and Holly (corgi).(Annie Leibovitz/UPPA via ZUMA Press) According to Reader’s Digest, the Queen had a fondness for corgis because of their “energy and untamed spirit.”... Here: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/09/09/the-queens-dogs-were-her-beloved-companions-what-will-happen-to-them-now/

A life in photos: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch Heir-apparent to the throne at 10-years-old, married by 21, Queen of the United Kingdom at 25 1941: The Royal Princesses Elizabeth (Elizabeth II) as ‘Prince Florizel’ and Margaret (1930 – 2002) as ‘Cinderella’ with Hubert Tannar in costume in the Christmas production of ‘Cinderella’ at Windsor Castle, UK, 21st December 1941. (Photo by Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 1950: The Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain greets Winston Churchill at a Guildhall reception, 23 March 1950 in London. In the background can be seen the Prime Minister Mr Atlee and his wife Mrs Atlee. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) 1982: American politician Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004), 40th President of the United States, and the Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II at a gala dinner at Windsor Castle, UK, 9th June 1982. (Photo by McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 1987: Diana, Princess of Wales, left, and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II smile to well-wishers outside Clarence House gathered on Elizabeth the Queen Mother’s birthday, in London. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver) 2000: Queen Elizabeth II accompanied by Prince Philip (behind) waves to the crowd from her horse carriage as she leaves Buckingham palace for the opening of parliament in London, 06 December 2000. (Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images) 2017: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh are greeted by an elephant at the Zoological Society of London’s Whipsnade Zoo, where they officially opened the zoo’s new Centre for Elephant Care as part of a visit, Tuesday April 11, 2017. (Chris Radburn//PA via AP) More images here: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/09/08/a-life-in-photos-queen-elizabeth-ii-britains-longest-reigning-monarch/

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Thank you @XPerceniol, I rejoice when you are reacting! - I have the impression, that knowing you hardly - maybe sometimes I'm wrong in my "advice"...because I don't know too much about your present condition - for example if you are physically able to go out of the house for a walk? How are you really doing I am hoping that I don't disturb you... by asking more details about you...

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Beautiful creature https://twitter.com/i/status/1558674023227293696 This Humpback Whale is appropriately named “Angel Wings”! https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1568140021495906305

The Real Story: Who Discovered America by Kevin Enochs Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492. Americans get a day off work on October 10 to celebrate Columbus Day. It's an annual holiday that commemorates the day on October 12, 1492, when the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus officially set foot in the Americas, and claimed the land for Spain. It has been a national holiday in the United States since 1937. It is commonly said that "Columbus discovered America." It would be more accurate, perhaps, to say that he introduced the Americas to Western Europe during his four voyages to the region between 1492 and 1502. It's also safe to say that he paved the way for the massive influx of western Europeans that would ultimately form several new nations including the United States, Canada and Mexico. But to say he "discovered" America is a bit of a misnomer because there were plenty of people already here when he arrived. And before Columbus? So who were the people who really deserve to be called the first Americans? VOA asked Michael Bawaya, the editor of the magazine American Archaeology. He told VOA that they came here from Asia probably "no later than about 15,000 years ago." They walked across the Bering land bridge that back in the day connected what is now the U.S. state of Alaska and Siberia. Fifteen-thousand years ago, ocean levels were much lower and the land between the continents was hundreds of kilometers wide. Beringia land bridge The area would have looked much like the land on Alaska's Seward Peninsula does today: treeless, arid tundra. But despite its relative inhospitality, life abounded there. According to the U.S. National Park Service, "the land bridge played a vital role in the spread of plant and animal life between the continents. Many species of animals - the woolly mammoth, mastodon, scimitar cat, Arctic camel, brown bear, moose, muskox, and horse — to name a few — moved from one continent to the other across the Bering land bridge. Birds, fish, and marine mammals established migration patterns that continue to this day." And archaeologists say that humans followed, in a never-ending hunt for food, water and shelter. Once here, humans dispersed all across North and eventually Central and South America. Up until the 1970s, these first Americans had a name: the Clovis peoples. They get their name from an ancient settlement discovered near Clovis, New Mexico, dated to over 11,000 years ago. And DNA suggests they are the direct ancestors of nearly 80 percent of all indigenous people in the Americas. But there's more. Today, it's widely believed that before the Clovis people, there were others, and as Bawaya says, "they haven't really been identified." But there are remants of them in places as far-flung as the U.S. states of Texas and Virginia, and as far south as Peru and Chile. We call them, for lack of a better name, the Pre-Clovis people. And to make things more complicated, recent discoveries are threatening to push back the arrival of humans in North America even further back in time. Perhaps as far back as 20,000 years or more. But the science on this is far from settled. Back to the Europeans So for now, the Clovis and the Pre-Clovis peoples, long disappeared but still existent in the genetic code of nearly all native Americans, deserve the credit for discovering America. But those people arrived on the western coast. What about arrivals from the east? Was Columbus the first European to glimpse the untamed, verdant paradise that America must have been centuries ago? A reconstruction of the Viking settlement in Newfoundland. Not even close. There is proof that Europeans visited what is now Canada about 500 years before Columbus set sail. They were Vikings, and evidence of their presence can be found on the Canadian island of Newfoundland at a place called l'Anse Aux Meadows. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage site and consists of the remains of eight buildings that were likely wooden structures covered with grass and soil. Today the area is barren, but a thousand years ago there were trees everywhere and the area likely was used as winter stopover point, where Vikings repaired their boats and sat out bad weather. It's not quite clear if the area was a permanent settlement, but it is clear that the expansion-minded Norsemen were here long before Columbus. One final mystery And to add one fascinating wrinkle to the story of America's discover, consider the Sweet Potato. The sweet potato, native to South America was around in Polynesia 1,000 years ago. (Credit: Miya) Yes, that's right the sweet potato. This humble pinkish-red tuber is native to South America. And yet, there have been sweet potatoes on the menu in Polynesia as far back as 1,000 years ago. So how did it get there? By comparing the DNA of Polynesian and South American sweet potatoes, scientists think it's clear that someone either brought them back to Polynesia after visiting South America, or islanders brought them from South America when they were exploring the Pacific Ocean. Either way, it suggests that about the same time Nordic sailors were cutting trees in Canada, someone in Polynesia was trying sweet potatoes from South America for the first time. Speaking of genetics, a 2014 study of the DNA of natives on the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, found a fair amount of Native American genes in the mix. The entry of American DNA into the genetics of the Rapa Nui natives suggests that the two peoples were living together around 1280 AD. There are other theories out there. A retired British Naval officer named Gavin Menzies has been pushing the idea that the Chinese colonized South America in 1421. Another theory from a retired chemist named John Ruskamp suggests that pictographs discovered in Arizona are nearly identical to Chinese characters. He puts the Chinese in the U.S. state of Arizona sometime around 1300 BC. We mention these two only because we have seen them pop up in newspaper articles recently. They're thoroughly discredited, so we'll leave it at that. A melting pot indeed So what to make of all this? Well, here at VOA, we are trying to tell the story of America. And what is clear is that America was a melting pot hundreds of years before the Statue of Liberty began urging the world, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." In fact, the entirety of North and South America are a polyglot of cultures stretching back before recorded history. And people have been coming here ever since, chasing a better life, abundant food, water and opportunity. Today, maybe not that much has changed. HERE: https://www.voanews.com/a/who-discovered-america/3541542.html

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Kindness cost nothing but means everything.. https://twitter.com/Hana721107/status/1567484716105744384 "It's not every day you see a goat with a monkey in a forest."

Viral Video: Elephant Charges Towards Safari Jeep, Narrow Escape For Tourists The 32-second video has amassed 2,65,000 views, with 1,406 retweets and 160 comments on Twitter. OffbeatEdited by Anjali ThakurUpdated: September 09, 2022 6:43 pm IST An angry tusker can be seen running towards a safari jeep A jungle safari takes you close to nature, with full of flora. However, human intrusion into wild life and the experience can sometimes turn terrifying. In a new video posted by Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Supriya Sahu, an angry tusker can be seen running towards a safari jeep. The video may send shivers down your spine. The clip shows an elephant trumpeting out loud while chasing a safari jeep full of tourists. The video shows the driver of the jeep reversing the car promptly. After a few moments, when the tusker gives up and walks away into the wild, the tourists' takes a sigh of relief. Along with the video, Ms Sahu wrote, “I am told this is in Kabini! Hats off to the driver deft handling of the situation with a cool mind is commendable. Source- shared by a friend.” The 32-second video has amassed 2,65,000 views, with 1,406 retweets and 160 comments on Twitter. The video has left netizens terrified and some even appreciated the driver's presence of mind. Other users talked about how encroaching the territory of the animals sometimes lead to such situations. Check out the video here: in the link! I am told this is in Kabini ! Hats off to the driver 🫡 deft handling of the situation with a cool mind is commendable. Source- shared by a friend pic.twitter.com/rfCQbIjK1T — Supriya Sahu IAS (@supriyasahuias) September 8, 2022 CommentsA user wrote, “Encroaching the territory of the animals will always lead to such situations which can be fatal. Why can't they be left in peace as they don't encroach the humans territory but we do always. The animals are always friendly with the tribal population who know their limits.” Another wrote, “Seriously the driver deserve for his calm and composure. The reaction of the guy sitting next to the driver.” “Yes. Amazing handling by the driver. Decades of experience with Jungle Lodges. This happened today. This elephant charged every vehicle. He was in full musth.” HERE: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/viral-video-elephant-charges-towards-safari-jeep-narrow-escape-for-tourists-3330941#pfrom=home-ndtv_lateststories - so my friends - beware of elephant trunks!

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A 60-Minute Walk In Nature Decreases Activity In Brain Regions Involved In Stress Processing September 8, 2022 Researchers in Germany have found that a one-hour walk in nature reduces stress-related brain activity. The amygdala is the brain region involved in stress processing. It has been shown to be less activated in people who live in rural areas, compared to those who live in cities, hinting at the potential benefits of nature. However, no study so far has examined the causal effects of natural and urban environments on stress-related brain mechanisms. "But so far the hen-and-egg problem could not be disentangled, namely whether nature actually caused the effects in the brain or whether the particular individuals chose to live in rural or urban regions," says Sonja Sudimac, predoctoral fellow in the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience (LMGEN) and lead author of the study. To address this question, researchers from LMGEN examined brain activity in regions involved in stress processing in 63 healthy volunteers before and after a one-hour walk in Berlin's Grunewald Forest and a busy city street using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results of the study revealed that activity in the amygdala decreased after the walk in nature, suggesting that nature elicits beneficial effects on brain regions related to stress. "The results support the previously assumed positive relationship between nature and brain health, but this is the first study to prove the causal link. Interestingly, the brain activity after the urban walk in these regions remained stable and did not show increases, which argues against a commonly held view that urban exposure causes additional stress," explains Simone Kühn, head of the Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience. The authors show that nature has a positive impact on brain regions involved in stress processing and that it can already be observed after a one-hour walk. This new study again confirms the importance for urban design policies to create more accessible green areas in cities in order to enhance citizens’ mental health and well-being. HERE: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/4787/A-60-Minute-Walk-In-Nature-Decreases-Activity-In-Brain-Regions-Involved-In-Stress-Processing

EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS HOME / ANIMAL CRUELTY / EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS by Dr. Vernon Coleman May 18, 2022 1. Every thirty seconds vivisectors around the world kill another thousand animals. They use cats, dogs, puppies, kittens, horses, sheep, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys, baboons and any other creature you can think of. 2 .While waiting to be used in laboratory experiments, animals are kept in solitary confinement in small cages. Alone and frightened they can hear the screams of the other animals being used. 3. Some of the animals used in laboratory experiments are pets which have been kidnapped, taken off the streets and sold to the vivisectors. 4. Animals used in experiments are blinded, burned, shot, injected and dissected. They have their eyes sewn up or their limbs broken. Chemicals are injected into their brains and their screams of anguish are coldly recorded. 5. Three quarters of the experiments performed by vivisectors are done without any anaesthetic. 6. Most vivisectors have no medical or veterinary training. 7. Scientists claim that animals are not sentient creatures and are incapable of suffering mental or physical pain. 8. All animals respond differently to threats of any kind depending on their circumstances (diet, cage size, etc.). None of these factors is allowed for by vivisectors. By locking an animal up in a cage, experimenters have already invalidated their experiment because by altering the animal’s surroundings, the experimenter alters the animal’s susceptibility, its habits, its instincts and its capacity to heal itself. Since these variations are not controlled (cages and surroundings differ) experiments performed on animals kept in cages are of no scientific value. 9 Many of the diseases which kill or cripple human beings do not affect any other members of the animal kingdom. It is, therefore, impossible to use different species to test drug therapies for these illnesses. 10. Doctors wouldn’t test a drug intended for old people on children (or the other way round). So why test drugs intended for pregnant women on rats? No one would test a drug for premenstrual problems on small boys and yet that would make far more sense than testing such a drug on male rats. 11. Drug tests done on animals can produce dangerously unreliable and misleading information. Thalidomide safely passed tests on animals. Penicillin and aspirin both kill cats. When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin growing on a culture dish in 1928, he tested the drug on rabbits and discarded it when it seemed useless. Later the drug was tested on a cat and a human patient at the same time. The cat died and the human being lived. If doctors had relied upon animal experiments to decide whether or not penicillin was of any value, the drug would have been discarded long ago. Penicillin even kills guinea pigs – the classic test animal for many drugs. Aspirin can be toxic to rats, mice, dogs, monkeys and guinea pigs as well as cats. Morphine sedates human beings but excites cats, goats and horses. Digitalis, one of the best established and most effective drugs for the treatment of heart disease, is so toxic to animals that if we had relied on animal tests it would have never been cleared for use by humans. 12. Vivisectors admit that most animal experiments are unreliable and produce results which are not relevant to human patients. But they don’t know which experiments are unreliable. Logically, that means that all animal experiments are useless. If you don’t know which experiments you can rely on, you can’t rely on any of them. 13. The very unreliability and unpredictably of animal experiments is what makes them commercially valuable. Drug companies test on animals so that they can say that they have tested their drugs before marketing them. If the tests show that the drugs do not cause serious disorders when given to animals the companies say: `There you are! We have tested our drug – and have proved it to be safe!’ If, on the other hand, tests show that a drug does cause serious problems when given to animals the companies say: `The animal experiments are, of course, unreliable and cannot be used to predict what will happen when the drug is given to humans. We have, however, tested our drug.’ Tests which show that a drug causes cancer or some other serious disease when given to animals are ignored on the grounds that animals are different to people. However, tests which show that a new drug doesn’t kill animals are used as evidence that the drug is safe for human consumption. If you try a drug on enough different animals you can usually end up with at least one set of results which suggest that a drug is safe. Scores of drugs which cause cancer or other serious health problems in animals are widely prescribed for human patients. (See www.vernoncoleman.com for the names of 50). 14. Four out of ten patients who take a prescribed drug which has been tested for safety on animals can expect to suffer severe or noticeable side effects. 15. Surveys show that most practising doctors are opposed to vivisection on scientific grounds. Taken from The Wisdom of Animals by Donna Antoinette Coleman and Vernon Coleman. Available as a paperback and an eBook. HERE: https://truthcomestolight.com/everything-you-should-know-about-animal-experiments/

Yes, we are all in mourning, she was the queen loved by all... everyone loved her, she was very devoted to her country.

...and this link too, about Amazing vulture: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/viral-video-man-paragliding-with-black-vulture-leaves-internet-amazed-3051868 And another, about bird stealing woman's pizza: Wait, What? Bird Flies Away With Woman's Pizza; Leaves Internet In Splits Recently, a video of a bird flying away with a pizza has amused the internet. The video has gone viral ever since it was uploaded. Vrinda Jain https://food.ndtv.com/news/wait-what-bird-flies-away-with-womans-pizza-leaves-internet-in-splits-3003966

cLobo @CWLobo ·20h Yeah, now we're teaching cats to play video games, further destroying their social skills.

Tansu YEĞEN @TansuYegen ·Sep 7 Amazing https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1567418994725879808

"This man was forced to give his dog to Humane Society due to lengthy hospital stay. This nurse went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily & will return him as soon as the man is released!" https://9gag.com/gag/a815eyY

I also support that "all the good things" happen for our friend @D.Draker!

@XPerceniol, the whole article is here: Mental health in prison: “Someone with a psychiatric disorder does not fit in and the problem gets stuck”: https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-09-04-mental-health-in-prison--“someone-with-a-psychiatric-disorder-does-not-fit-in-and-the-problem-gets-stuck”.B1l17jeGli.html Found too: VeryWellMind.com: https://www.verywellmind.com/ - then about STRESS MANAGEMENT: https://www.verywellmind.com/stress-effects-on-health-4157210

WHITESNAKE’S TANYA O’CALLAGHAN: THE PLANT-POWERED BASSIST WHO BELIEVES PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY KIND Irish musician Tanya O’Callaghan has always trusted her gut and followed her passion — whether that was challenging her family’s eating habits when she learned, at age four, that “meat” came from the animals she loved or leaving her straight-A school record as a teen to become a now famous, touring musician. O’Callaghan — who made headlines in 2021, after the already star-studded bassist got scooped up as the first female musician to join the band Whitesnake – said she’s never strayed from her plant-based lifestyle, not even while on the road during world tours. “Veganism on the road,” O’Callaghan started, with a laugh. “Simple thing is, I never question it. It’s not a case of, ‘I can’t find anything vegan, I’m going to have animals today.’ It’s just not an option.” Her journey started in Mullingar, a small town in Ireland, where O’Callaghan recalled a herd of cows who lived nearby, one of whom she affectionately named “Daisy.” When her older brother — no doubt meaning to be annoying, she said — informed her that the meat on her plate was “Daisy,” the young O’Callaghan snapped. The adult O’Callaghan clarified that the specific cow she named Daisy wasn’t likely the one on her plate, but she vowed to never eat meat again. “I had a meltdown,” she said. “I was four when I realized what meat was, that it came from an animal. I loved animals. That was it.” Volunteer work rehabilitating animals at a local shelter exposed her to horrific abuse inflicted on the animals she loved, and O’Callaghan took her anger and turned it into activism — a self-described “aggressive” activism that she’s since shifted to instead awakening people’s natural curiosity and tapping into people’s natural kindness. “My big belief with this is just living by example,” she said. “I’m not here to judge anybody. I love getting into interesting conversations with diametrically opposed views. I really believe that that’s where the growth is. Obviously there’s a percentage of the human race that we’ll never know why they just don’t seem to have empathy. But the majority of people all over the world are inherently kind, and they’re just trying to live their lives the same way you and I are. They’re just trying to be happy, have food and shelter, have some type of purpose.” Travel, and connecting to so many people with different beliefs and backgrounds, helped O’Callaghan refine her approach to activism. She also channeled her passions – for travel, animals, the planet, and lifelong learning — into an in-the-works docuseries, “Highway to Health,” which tracks her travels through the world as a plant-based touring musician, along with co-host Derrick Green. Those interested in following O’Callaghan on her newest adventures can check out her Instagram at tanyaocallaghan_official, or her website is https://tanyaocallaghan.com/. A Q&A with Tanya O’Callaghan: The Plant-Based Bassist of Whitesnake Tell us more about your early connection to animals and your choice to stop eating them? Even when you look back on all my childhood photos, when I’m really tiny, there’s animals everywhere. So I have that very visceral memory of just instinctively and innately being drawn to animals from the beginning. It was because of a cow that I called Daisy. I grew up in a small town in Ireland, and behind our house was a field full of cattle. They weren’t ours, but when you’re a child, you think all animals are your pet, right? I named all the cows, and one was Daisy. So one day I was sitting at the table, I was four or five, my brother told me, “That’s Daisy on the table.” It wasn’t obviously THE Daisy, but I remember vividly being like, “Wait, what? That’s animals?” And that was it. That was my first, very guttural feeling of “This is not right.” (Getting my family on board) was a little bit of a battle, but at the same time, I’m naturally so stubborn. One day my dad just started coming home with veggie burgers. Funny enough, (now) I’ll hear my mom say stuff like, “Oh, I heard dairy causes inflammation.” And I’m like, “I told you that 15 years ago.” Now my family is predominantly plant-based.... Read MORE (+video): https://ladyfreethinker.org/a-qa-with-whitesnakes-tanya-ocallaghan-the-plant-powered-bassist-who-believes-people-are-inherently-kind/

SWEET DOG RESCUED FROM ‘HORRIFIC’ BREEDER... Ruthie, one of 39 dogs recently seized from a notorious breeder and repeat offender in Michigan following an undercover investigation from nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has learned to trust humans again with lots of patience and loving care in her new forever home. The sweet pup now enjoys toys, walks, and “cuddle puddles” with her new companion animal parents Nikki and Kenny Carney and “grandmother” Eleanor. But it’s been a process. Ruthie formerly spent her life outdoors in a muddy pen, while being repeatedly bred to produce puppies for JRT John’s Jack Russelll Terriers, according to PETA. Kenny said it took five days for Ruthie to look him in the eye, according to a video released by PETA, while Nikki added that in her first days of freedom the tiny dog would back away and hide every chance she got. The couple fortunately was dog sitting for two other sweet dogs when they brought Ruthie home, and Kenny credits the resulting bond as key to Ruthie’s recovery. “They pretty much taught her the ins and outs of everything here,” he said... HERE (with video): https://ladyfreethinker.org/sweet-dog-rescued-from-horrific-breeder-one-of-39-seized-following-peta-investigation/

Help who you can, whenever you can, for as long as you can. How wonderful is this! https://twitter.com/chat4doobs/status/1567331400797372417 This is why Jesus hasn't retourned. He can't move til the cat wakes up. https://twitter.com/PoesAllan/status/1567024108482826241

Bohemian Catsody ! https://twitter.com/VitoCatleon/status/1560687674469539842

If you’ve seen everything.. https://twitter.com/VitoCatleon/status/1567471197436219394