Monday, June 27, 2011
How to draw ... penguins
Inside the World of Pet Psychologists
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Billy the Kid photograph sold at auction in Colorado for $2.3m
The black and white tintype of the 19th-century wild west outlaw was sold at auction in Denver, Colorado, and is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico."
Djokovic pleads for poodle pass
Kitten rescued from three-inch pipe
"A member of the public brought the three-inch metal tube into the fire department after hearing the trapped animal's cries.
Firefighters used a mechanical pipe cutter to gently free the kitten, which they named 'Piper'.
'Piper' has since been adopted by a local television station employee."
Firefighters used a mechanical pipe cutter to gently free the kitten, which they named 'Piper'.
'Piper' has since been adopted by a local television station employee."
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The loneliest penguin is making a lot of friends
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Croatian Statehood Day
"With undisguised satisfaction and pride, we are informing all republics and federal bodies of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the whole world about the sovereign will of the Croatian people and all citizens of the Republic to declare the Republic of Croatia an independent and sovereign state as of today, and we are inviting all governments and the parliaments of all states to accept and recognise the free decision of the Croatian people, an act of freedom whereby one more nation wants to become a full member of the international community of the free world," then President Franjo Tudjman told parliament on the occasion of the adoption of the constitutional decision on Croatia's independence.
That same day Slovenia, too, declared its sovereignty and independence from the former Yugoslavia.
With mediation from the international community, in order to facilitate negotiations on the separation from the former Yugoslavia, the Brijuni Declaration was adopted, establishing that the enforcement of the 25 June 1991 constitutional decision should be postponed for three months.
When the moratorium expired on 8 October 1991, Croatia severed all ties with the other Yugoslav republics, becoming a free and independent state. That day is observed as Independence Day.
The first years of independence saw many human victims and destruction during the military aggression on Croatia in which the Yugoslav People's Army, Serbia, Montenegro and Croatian Serb extremists took part, occupying about 26 per cent of Croatian territory.
The Croatian people defended the country, and the bulk of the occupied territory in western Slavonia, Banovina, Kordun, Lika and northern Dalmatia was liberated in the military operations Flash and Storm in 1995. The remaining occupied territory in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem was peacefully reintegrated into Croatia's system with the help of UN's transitional administration on 15 January 1998.
This was followed by the country's reconstruction and Euro-Atlantic integration. Croatia joined NATO on 1 April 2009. Accession negotiations with the European Union were launched on 4 October 2005. On 10 June 2011, the European Commission officially recommended to EU member states to conclude the accession negotiations. Croatia is expected to join the Union on 1 July 2013.
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President Josipovic issues Statehood Day message
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Why do dogs bark so much?
Perhaps because humans designed them that way.
“The direct or indirect human artificial selection process made the dog bark as we know,” said Csaba Molnar, formerly an ethologist at Hungary’s Eotvos Lorand University.
Molnar’s work was inspired by a simple but intriguing fact: Barking is common in domesticated dogs, but infrequent if not downright absent in their wild counterparts. Wild dogs yip and squeal and whine, but rarely produce the repetitive acoustic percussion that is barking. Many people had made that observation, but Molnar and his colleagues were the first to rigorously investigate it.
Humans Guided Evolution of Dog Barks | Wired Science | Wired.com/continue reading
Peter Falk, ‘Columbo’ Actor, Dies at 83
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Croatia to become European Union member in 2013
Croatia will become a European Union member in two years, officials said Friday, making it the first new country to join the bloc since 2007 and offering hope to other nations from the former Yugoslavia seeking to join.
(L-R) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country currently holds the EU presidemcy, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso address a press conference at the end of a summit of the EU heads of State, on June 24, 2011 in Brussels. European Union leaders gave Croatia the green light on June 24 to join the bloc in 2013 as they endorsed the closure of negotiations with Zagreb.
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Our Street
"There is a huge house on our street.
The extended family is run by a grumpy old woman with a pack of irritable dogs allowed to run without leads.
Her car isn't taxed or insured and doesn't even have a number plate, but the police still do nothing.
To the best of my knowledge, she has never worked a day in her life.
Her bad-tempered husband is notorious for his racist comments.
A shopkeeper blamed her for arranging the murder of her son's ex-wife and her boyfriend, but nothing has ever been proved.
All their kids have broken marriages except the youngest, who everyone thinks is gay.
Two grandsons are meant to be in the Army but are always out partying in nightclubs.
They are both out of control, it is not even known if they have the same father.
One of them finally got married to what seems to be a nice gal. Do you think she’ll be able to do something about the whole mess there?
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God....... I hate living next to Buckingham Palace!"
The extended family is run by a grumpy old woman with a pack of irritable dogs allowed to run without leads.
Her car isn't taxed or insured and doesn't even have a number plate, but the police still do nothing.
To the best of my knowledge, she has never worked a day in her life.
Her bad-tempered husband is notorious for his racist comments.
A shopkeeper blamed her for arranging the murder of her son's ex-wife and her boyfriend, but nothing has ever been proved.
All their kids have broken marriages except the youngest, who everyone thinks is gay.
Two grandsons are meant to be in the Army but are always out partying in nightclubs.
They are both out of control, it is not even known if they have the same father.
One of them finally got married to what seems to be a nice gal. Do you think she’ll be able to do something about the whole mess there?
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God....... I hate living next to Buckingham Palace!"
Feline left paralysed after car crash learns to walk again by taking swimming lessons
Mog the grey tabby lost the use of his front two legs but is slowly learning to use them again in a hydrotherapy pool normally used by more enthusiastic dogs."
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Pork-trait gallery
Meet the perky piglets who love to hog the limelight
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