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Swan Upping: Time to count the Queen’s waterfowl

August 2, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

Royal officials took to the River Thames on Tuesday to count the swans that belong to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at the start of the “Swan Upping” ceremony which dates back to the 12th Century. Teams in traditional skiffs rowed up a stretch of the river to begin the annual census of the birds that was […]

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California billionaire Bill Gross and his neighbor are headed back to court

August 1, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

Billionaire investor Bill Gross and his tech-entrepreneur neighbor are headed back to court for a new round in the ongoing legal dispute between the respective owners of two adjacent oceanfront Laguna Beach mansions over allegations of harassment, revenge and loops of high-decibel sitcom theme songs. What started as a quarrel between Gross and his neighbor, […]

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Ranging Bull: ‘Barney’ eludes capture days after farm escape

July 31, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

An escaped bull has eluded capture for several days on Long Island despite searchers employing a helicopter and night-vision equipment along with attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow. Police in Suffolk County say they began responding to calls about the 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) bull running loose Tuesday morning after it broke […]

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Crafty cockatoos master dumpster diving and teach each other

July 30, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity. It’s quite a feat for a bird to grasp a bin lid with its beak, pry it open, then shuffle far enough along the bin’s […]

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Woman arrested after skinny dipping in stranger’s pool

July 29, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

A Florida man returning home from a doctors appointment found a stranger skinny dipping in his backyard swimming pool, sheriff’s officials said. At first, the man only noticed clothes scattered across his lanai earlier this week, Charlotte County Sheriff’s officials said in a social media post Tuesday. Then, he saw the woman in his pool […]

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Rare pink water bird lands in Michigan, delighting public

July 28, 2021July 27, 2021grabtestcom

Bird lovers with cameras and binoculars are traveling to a stream in southeastern Michigan to see a rare creature with pink feathers and a long bill. The roseate spoonbill was found in Saline in the Koch Warner Drain, the first to be seen in Michigan, said Molly Keenan of Michigan Audubon. The bird, which typically […]

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Hoe no! Facebook snafu spells trouble for gardening group

July 27, 2021grabtestcom

Moderating a Facebook gardening group in western New York is not without challenges. There are complaints of wooly bugs, inclement weather and the novice members who insist on using dish detergent on their plants. And then there’s the word “hoe.” Facebook’s algorithms sometimes flag this particular word as “violating community standards,” apparently referring to a […]

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