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by Barbara
Mon 15 December 2025 8:10 pm
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: The Cat Thread - Cat rescues, etc.
Replies: 27
Views: 31328

Re: The Cat Thread - Cat rescues, etc.

Intermission for an inspiring tiny clip :

"Woman shows the importance of adopting stray cats who only need love"

https://x.com/catsareblessing/status/20 ... 6210096598

by Barbara
Mon 15 December 2025 6:51 pm
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: Dec 14:Brit 19thC Royal date
Replies: 0
Views: 15

Dec 14:Brit 19thC Royal date

Interesting to note the historical irony in that Prince Albert, Prince Consort, Queen Victoria's husband, died on December 14, 1861 at the age of 42.
Officially the cause was given as typhoid fever, but it was more likely stomach problems plus chronic overwork

Then the daughter Prince Albert ...
by Barbara
Mon 15 December 2025 6:29 pm
Forum: Synaxarion Orthodoxia
Topic: St Jonah of Manchuria
Replies: 2
Views: 3536

Re: St Jonah of Manchuria

Maybe St Jonah's relics WILL BE found some day !
Perhaps the locations where the group searched for his grave was not correct ?

Immediately after Bishop Jonah’s repose on October 20, 1925, a remarkable event affirmed the depth of his holiness. He appeared in a dream to a young boy with a severe ...
by Barbara
Mon 15 December 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: Miscellany
Topic: The Cat Thread - Cat rescues, etc.
Replies: 27
Views: 31328

Re: The Cat Thread - Cat rescues, etc.

Funny !

No, eish. Cats don't eat that much in the wild. How they get their water in the wild, I don't know.

But here is the problem told to me by my vet : cats' kidneys are TOO SMALL. Thus they get worn out too fast.

I didn't know a thing about this UNTIL, UNTIL...

Nobody does, that's why I ...
by Barbara
Mon 15 December 2025 12:21 pm
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: Russia:Cultural Topics
Replies: 0
Views: 9

Russia:Cultural Topics

Fascinating !!! See video below

"One of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century happened in Russia. You've probably never heard of it.

In 1987, archaeologists uncovered Arkaim in the Chelyabinsk region, a massive circular city from the Bronze Age.

Built 3,800 years ago ...
by Barbara
Sun 14 December 2025 5:22 pm
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: Royal Navy: All bark, ZERO bite
Replies: 2
Views: 7608

Re: Royal Navy: All bark, ZERO bite

22 min fascinating exploration into the dynamics of the so-called "Special Relationship" between the 2 English speaking powers, the US and Britain

While it's clear the baton of world power was handed over to the US soon after WW2, this video explains all that led up to that historic transfer

We ...
by Barbara
Sun 14 December 2025 2:59 pm
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: Iran commentary by top observers
Replies: 22
Views: 17953

Re: Iran commentary by top observers

Amplification on the topic of unrest being fomented from outside Iran with the aim to overthrow the nearly half century-old Iranian government, by the same young author :

"The Iranian opposition craves to see Iranians suffer—hunger, drought, misery, every possible hardship you can imagine. They ...