Category: Other news
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Meet Wally the Alligator – it helps its owner deal with depression
这是沃利鳄鱼——它帮助主人处理抑郁症问题
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Spring’s coming meets furry playtime: Russia-based MIR TV reporter had her microphone taken away by a dog
Speaking of furry invasions: outside the fandom, a furry encounter became the star of the internet show globally. For news reporters, reporting outdoors puts them live on the scene and exposes them to what mother nature has to offer. A Russian news reporter for MIR TV learnt that the furry way when a dog came…
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Air Pirate Funnies is where parody met lawyers
Air Pirate Funnies was created by Dan O’Neill with the help of Bobby London, Shary Flenniken, Gary Hallgren and Ted Richards in 1971. Only 2 issues were ever printed. The first in July, the second in August of that year. Air Pirate Funnies was an underground comic (meaning it was not published by some big…
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Anime Midwest 2019
Anime Midwest takes place annually in July at both the Hyatt Regency O’Hare and the Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL USA which is centrally located between Chicago and O’Hare Airport. They get on average over 16,000 attendees. It is second in Anime Cons in my area, compared to Anime Central which takes place in…
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Mistar Urdd to be Welsh team mascot at 2022 CWG as youth organisation becomes charity partner
Team Wales’s mascot for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham will be Mistar Urdd – the popular figure personifying Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the largest youth organisation in Wales, which has become the team’s official Games charity partner. The announcement was made in Cardiff Bay on the second day of the 2019 Cardiff & Vale Urdd…
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Borobi Day gives local language a voice
Borobi the koala will emerge from his post-Games (GC2018) hibernation for Borobi Day. The event will promote the usage of the local Yugambeh Aboriginal language from which his name is derived. The adorable blue koala won the hearts of millions during the 2018 Commonwealth Games, but few would realise he was the first mascot in…
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Flash the Fox to be Forest Hill Elementary mascot
Flash the Fox it is for Forest Hill Elementary School. The new Germantown school, set to open in August, revealed its mascot Sunday afternoon during a schoolwide event for families inside Farmington Elementary, due to the threat of rain. A costumed figure jumped out of a box as confetti cannons blasted. The fox and a…
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Maine to become first state to ban Native American mascots in public schools
Maine’s governor has signed a bill making the state the first to prohibit public schools, colleges and universities from using Native American symbols as mascots. Gov. Janet Mills signed the measure on Thursday and it will go into effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns.”While Indian mascots were often originally chosen to recognize and honor…
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