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They’re distracting a nervous dog during a blood draw.

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17th July, 1717 - The premiere of George Frideric Handel’s Water Music.

Handel composed the Water Music in response to a request from King George I for a concert on the River Thames. On this day George I boarded a barge at Whitehall Palace to listen to the performance by 50 musicians aboard a second barge, as he sailed up river to Chelsea.

George I enjoyed the music so much, he had the exhausted musicians play the whole composition three times over the course of four hours!

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Amazing art. ❤️❤️❤️. How do they do that?

** please stop & watch. You'll be amazed, as well

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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

A 2018 video produced by the British news agency Barcroft TV shows Volker reuniting with a male cheetah named Gabriel after a year apart. The description states that Volker is a volunteer at the Cheetah Experience Breeding Centre in Bloemfontein, South Africa, where the footage of their reunion, as well as the 2019 footage of Volker sleeping with the cheetah family, was taken.

According to its website (www.cheetahexperience.com/), the Cheetah Experience is “home to a number of endangered and threatened species, including cheetahs, leopards, male non-breeding lions, servals, caracals, African wildcats, wolves, meerkats and a Siberian tiger.” It states its long-term goal as being “able to release some animals into a protected yet self-sustaining natural habitat where animals are still monitored by researchers and medical experts but live free.”

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Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:

Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!

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Puffer Fish Creates This Blue Water Art ~: }

Thank you❤️

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Elephant says thank you after herd crosses road

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dogs can make friends with anyone (via)

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All dogs in the shelter were allowed to choose a toy as a Christmas present (via) (volume warning)

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Skippy for you and all our friends…I can’t stop watching this incredible moment of two strangers singing this duet so beautifully…he is from Ireland and sang on the street for money.  She was performing in the show not far for this spot.  She heard him start this song and asked to sing along with him.  According to his story, he had just suffered thru a long song with a drunkard and was a tad worried but then this happened…it is old and perhaps many of you have seen it but I just love this moment in time when 2 souls met and connected…

xox Pilgrim 

Thank you so much!  How wonderful!❤️

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QUEEN MADE DUKE GRIN

By Joan Reeder

Daily Mirror, June 12, 1953

It was almost a “rodeo ride” for the Duke of Edinburgh at the Trooping the Colour on the Queen’s official birthday yesterday.

Winston, the light chestnut coloured police horse that the Queen rode, trotted sedately from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade.

Reared, Pranced:

But the Duke’s horse, immediately behind the Queen, reared and pranced all the way.

The Duke—a crack polo-playing horseman—spoke to it soothingly as the procession, led by the Queen, cantered on to the parade ground.

Skillfully he manœuvred his horse into position, to stand just behind the Queen and in line with the Duke of Gloucester. Then, for one hour and fifteen minutes, the Queen sat motionless while the scarlet line of Guards faultlessly carried out the ceremony.

Her only movement was when, time to time again, her small white gloved hand lifted smartly in salute.

Expressionless:

Her horse was motionless too. The Duke’s made repeated efforts to turn its head and chew at the Duke’s boot.

As the parade finished, the Queen turned to her husband. With an expressionless face she made some comment which brought a broad grin to his.

After a moment he answered her. Whatever he said made the Queen bite her lip and suppress a smile.

Finally she looked up at the sky, and as the first heavy rain began she gave a slight shrug of her shoulders. Carefully she straightened her horse’s mane with her small riding whip.

Serenely:

Then she eyed the Duke of Edinburgh’s horse, and with the suspicion of a mischievous smile at her husband, rode serenely away to lead the Queen’s Guard back through the cheer-echoing Mall, to the Palace.

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Meowzart with a jazz band

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THE BLUE WHALE

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 ft) and weighing up to 199 tonnes (196 long tons; 219 short tons), it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The blue whale's long and slender body can be of various shades of greyish-blue dorsally and somewhat lighter underneath. Four subspecies are recognized: B. m. musculus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia in the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda (the pygmy blue whale) in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, B. m. indica in the Northern Indian Ocean. There is also a population in the waters off Chile that may constitute a fifth subspecies.

In general, blue whale populations migrate between their summer feeding areas near the poles and their winter breeding grounds near the tropics. There is also evidence of year-round residencies, and partial or age/sex-based migration. Blue whales are filter feeders; their diet consists almost exclusively of krill. They are generally solitary or gather in small groups, and have no well-defined social structure other than mother-calf bonds. The fundamental frequency for blue whale vocalizations ranges from 8 to 25 Hz and the production of vocalizations may vary by region, season, behavior, and time of day. Orcas are their only natural predators.

The blue whale was once abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century. It was hunted almost to the point of extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all blue whale hunting in 1966. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed blue whales as Endangered as of 2018. It continues to face numerous man-made threats such as ship strikes, pollution, ocean noise and climate change.

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Race against time to find ancient Indigenous carvings on boab trees

Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia’s boab trees.

Carvings in the boab trees tell the stories of the King Brown Snake (or Lingka) Dreaming in a remote area of the Tanami desert, which straddles the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

After more than two years of fieldwork, the research team from The Australian National University (ANU), The University of Western Australia and University of Canberra, working alongside five Traditional Owners, found 12 trees with carvings. Read more.

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A sand sculpture of an elephant and a mouse playing chess. The artists are Ray Villafane and Sue Beatrice.