Because of how many things were going on in the same week in February, The February Issue of Animalia Magazine, titled Earth, Sun, Sea, and Sky, talked about both religion, the origin of the "Gregorian Calendar", and various myths from around the world tied to the sun, moon, and stars.
The "cover couple" was none other than Clara and Rick and their cubs, done up as a Native American couple. There wasn't anything overtly sexual in the picture, mainly because Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday was the same day.
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The article that talked about how the "Gregorian Calendar" came into existence talked about how difficult it was to get both a Solar Calendar (which took the 365 days that it took earth to move around the sun) and a Lunar Calendar (which took the 360 days it took the moon to wax and wane completely into effect) to "get along", so to speak. It wasn't until Pope Gregory the Great took Julius Caesar's "prototype" that compromised between the two and put it into it's final form.
The other article of this type talked about the many different myths that revolved around the constellations in the sky. But one common pair of constellations were the Orion and Sirius constellations, as well as the circumpolar stars. Apparently, every primitive culture was aware of the importance of these stars.
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The article that talked about Valentines Day not only talked about the origin of the holiday and many Valentine's Day symbols, but also of many important events that happened on Valentine's Day. One of the saddest, to many uplifted Animalians, was the Valentine's Day Massacre during Prohibition. The reason why it was upsetting to many uplifted Animalians was the lengths that organized crime would go to control an illegal trade, even resorting to mass murder.
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Another Article talked about the most popular "weird medicine" and "phrenological frauds" of the 19th Century, fully commented/debunked on by certified medical professionals. One surprising thing was how many familiar soft drinks originated with "patent medicine", with the most well known being Coca Cola.
Yet another article talked about how many drug policies began with anti-immigrant fever as perpetrated by certain media sources. One surprising thing from this article was how using "joints" to smoke Marijuana originated with Mexicans bringing it with them while they worked in the southwest. Another surprising thing was how the medical/spiritual properties of marijuana and opium were known as far back as the Scythians and Chinese (marijuana) and Ancient Sumeria (opium). Yet another fact that was unexpected was that the Arabs and people of North Africa were more concerned with the fiber of the cannabis plant, known as hemp, while the Greco-Roman Period knew about the danger of opium, from the encounter with the Lotus Eaters in the Odyssey of Homer, to Galen saying that opium should be used sparingly as a painkiller as well as saying that "it is better to endure pain than become bound to (the drug).".
The second part talked about how immigrants using drugs caused many new drug laws to be formed by the xenophobic rhetoric spread by the newspaper company owned by William Randolph Hearst. While such stories would be considered wrong in this current age, it helped form a lot of positive drug regulations.
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This issue, while it wasn't intended to be this way, was often quoted for those who were proponents of "marijuana decriminalization". Many Animalians didn't see a lot of the point in this because of many uplifted Animalians having bad experiences with hallucinogenic mushrooms while still feral, which caused them to stay well away from such things.