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This week, a helpful guide to the telltale signs your pet is hellbent on homicide.

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Our national anthem marathon reaches Australia and Advance Australia Fair:

Stumpy Moose Review

It's not as good an Australian song as Waltzing Matilda, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, or The Man From Delmonte's Australia Fair but the official national anthem is still a winner.

Advance Australia Fair is stately, stirring and all those other things an anthem should be.

We've deducted half a point, though, just because it's Australia.

7 out of 10

Source: Complete National Anthems of the World

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November's Eurasian field trip takes us to a major city in the eastern Urals:

• Yekaterinburg has a population of around 1.3 million people and is Russia's fifth-largest city

• Yekaterinburg is 1,933 kilometres south-east of Moscow

• Between 1924 and 1991, Yekaterinburg was named Sverdlovsk, after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov, and is still referred to by that name in Russian railway timetables

• When it was built in the 1920s, Yekaterinburg's Uralmash heavy machinery plant was Europe's largest

• Yekaterinburg's coat of arms features a silver mine and a smelting furnace

• In 1979, around 100 people were killed in the city when anthrax escaped from the Sverdlovsk-19 military facility

• It isn't unusual for snow to fall in the summer in Yekaterinburg

• Yekaterinburg is twinned with San Jose, California

• Ice hockey goaltender Nikolai "The Bulin Wall" Khabibulin was born in Yekaterinburg

• Yekaterinburg is home to Nautilus Pompilius, Chaif ("Tea Pleasure"), and many other bands from the "Ural Rock" scene

Previously on Stumpy Moose: Russian City of the Month: Sochi

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White noise has been proven to aid sleep, relieve migraines, clean windows and dissolve wallpaper paste, and you can now enjoy its benefits in the comfort of your own internet!

Also available in pink and brown.

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