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Animals of Gibraltar Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You observe Barbary macaques (the only wild primates in Europe), Barbary partridges, and various seabirds on the Rock of Gibraltar. You find that Gibraltar residents typically keep dogs, cats, rabbits, and birds as pets, following typical Mediterranean pet-keeping practices. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
Kansas entered the Union on January 29, 1861. In Topeka, schoolchildren reenact the state's admission. They learn that Kansas is called the Sunflower State, the Jayhawk State, and the Wheat State. They do not learn that "Bleeding Kansas" was a preview of the Civil War, or that the state's motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" means "to the stars through difficulties," which is a polite way of saying "everything here is hard."