![]() ![]() that the Japanese manga series Minato's Laundromat originated as a story titled Wash My Heart! that was posted on Pixiv? that due to her leftist beliefs, journalist Ana Amado was told not to come to work by her public television employer while her husband was on the death list of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance? ![]() that Zinkiv, Ukraine, was a center of Hasidic Judaism until almost the entirety of the city's 2,300-strong Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust? that two lion cubs that Anne Mills Archbold (pictured) brought to America as pets on the Lusitania became exhibits at the Bronx Zoo? The species was eaten by travellers, and while abundant in 1681, it was declared extinct in 1698, probably due to overhunting and predation by introduced animals, particularly cats. ![]() They were terrestrial, and avoided water. Accounts indicate they were very tame, were grazers, lived in groups, and were usually found on the north side of the island except when seeking water to drink in the dry season. Although smaller than the Egyptian goose, it had more robust legs. This small sheldgoose had wings that were half black and half white. The bird may have descended from Egyptian geese that colonised the Mascarene Islands. In 1893, a wing-bone (depicted) and pelvis were attributed to a new species of comb duck, but later determined to belong to a relative of the Egyptian goose in Alopochen, a genus of sheldgeese. Accounts by visitors in the 17th century mentioned geese, with few details. The Mauritius sheldgoose ( Alopochen mauritiana) is an extinct sheldgoose that was endemic to Mauritius. ![]()
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