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COY WIRE: Hello, everyone.
So happy to be hanging out with you on the absolute and best
day of the week.
It's Friday.
And it has been an awesome week, sharing, learning.
We had some laughs.
Let's finish this week strong.
We're going to start today by heading to the Middle East
in the country of Iraq, where a team of experts trying to piece
together damaged historical artifacts
after the Islamic militant group ISIS
destroyed them in the city of Mosul.
Here's video from 2015, where the Islamic State militants
were smashing and destroying ancient artifacts
at the Mosul Museum.
Some of these statues were thousands of years old.
All of them demolished.
The reasoning behind this was part of a campaign
by this terror group to topple and dissolve
any cultural history that conflicted
with their extreme beliefs and ideology.
For three years, ISIS had control of Mosul,
Iraq's second-largest city.
But Iraqi forces, with the help of the US-led coalition,
reclaimed the city in 2017 and defeated
the extremist group's rule.
But the damage was already done.
So for years, experts have been in reconstruction
mode, looking to restore the city's proud history.
Our Michael Holmes has more on this Mosul Museum
restoration project in Iraq.
MICHAEL HOLMES: The fragmented artifacts in the Mosul Museum
have been under repair by a team of Iraqi and French restoration
experts for the past four years.
They say it is a painstaking process
to try to repair the shattered antiquities,
a jigsaw puzzle of pieces that might
never quite fit together again.
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MICHAEL HOLMES: One restorer says,
"this is the most gratifying part, assembling
and gluing the pieces."
Although some are too crushed to use.
Others are missing altogether.
The museum is just one of many ongoing rebuilding
projects in Mosul.
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In March, church bells rang out again in another part
of the city, part of a UNESCO effort
to rebuild churches and mosques destroyed
by decades of fighting in Iraq.
Since 2018, UNESCO has raised more than $105 million
for reconstruction efforts in Mosul.
AUDREY AZOULAY: Mosul is the place where UNESCO has
the largest commitment today in the world because the city
deserves it, because the people of Mosul deserve it,
because we know what they've been through
and the tragedies-- the intimate tragedies
they've been through over the last decades.
MICHAEL HOLMES: Another project is
taking a more modern approach to maintaining
the city's heritage.
The Eye on Mosul Foundation is recording videos
of witness testimonies of what life
was like under ISIS rule, which will then be
archived in the public library.
A common theme of the projects is to rebuild,
as well as remember.
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MICHAEL HOLMES: But the director of the Mosul Museum
says it is impossible to recreate
what happened here without any scratches or imperfections.
But those, too, are now part of Mosul's history.
COY WIRE: 10 second trivia.
What is the name given to the second full moon
in a calendar month, pink moon, blue moon,
blood moon, or harvest moon?
Once in a blue moon, we get two full moons
in one month, which typically occurs
once every two or three years.
Now, while we didn't see a blue moon last night,
the April pink moon was shining brightly instead.
Even though, despite its name, it doesn't appear shining pink,
the bright golden orb is still something special of which
to take notice in the nighttime sky.
The pink moon is a nod to the bountiful blooming
flowers and trees that the spring weather brings.
Our CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray has more on the origins
of the nicknames of moons.
JENNIFER GRAY: Many of the moon's nicknames date back
to the early Native Americans.
They named each full moon in every month
to help them keep track of their planting
and harvesting schedule.
The full moon in April is known as the pink moon,
signaling the first appearance of the wild ground phlox, one
of the earliest spring flowers.
When you have two full moons in a calendar month,
the second one is called the blue moon.
One of the more notable moons, the harvest moon in October,
also known as the hunter's moon or the blood moon.
This is when the leaves are falling off the trees,
and the animals are fat.
So this signaled to tribes it was
time to hunt all they could to get
them through that long winter.
And another thing to note is that the moon does not
appear pink during the pink moon,
red during the blood moon, or blue during the blue moon.
The only thing that can really alter the way we see the moon
is if there's a lot of dust, haze, ash,
or smoke in the atmosphere.
The moon can sometimes have an orange or red glow.
COY WIRE: For our next story, we're going north of the border
to Canada, where I'm given a 10 out of 10
to a canine romance story that's doggone adorable.
During the pandemic, two fur babies
named Rollo and Sadie met when their fur parents
moved next to each other.
It was love at first sight.
But after two years of bonding, times
got rough when one of the owners had to move three hours away.
Well, that didn't stop these long-distance doggy romantics
from seeing each other.
Our Jeanne Moos has the story of the Romeo and Juliet
of the dog world.
JEANNE MOOS: When's the last time someone
was this excited to see you after a separation?
Meet Rollo and Sadie.
Watch them meet after being apart.
And check out their faces when they FaceTime.
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This is the video that had viewers howling.
Sadie, a husky and German shepherd cross, and Rollo,
a Rottweiler-shepherd mix, met during the pandemic
when their owners moved into different apartments
in the same house in the Canadian city of Edmonton.
- Sadie's never really been the biggest fan of other dogs.
But when she met Rollo, she whined and cried
and laid down on her back like she'd
just met the love of her life.
- Every time they see each other, he goes insane.
JEANNE MOOS: But then Rollo's owner moved three hours away
for a job opportunity.
- We do FaceTime every Thursday night
so the dogs can see each other.
[DOG WHINING]
JEANNE MOOS: The whining, the howling.
[DOG HOWLING]
Their reunions are joyous.
And their owners are also best friends.
They say there's a chance they'll all
move back under the same roof.
But until then--
- That's your buddy, isn't it?
[DOG HOWLING]
Yeah, that's your buddy.
JEANNE MOOS: During our remote interview--
[DOGS WHINING]
--it was more sound than sight--
[HOWLING BARKS]
--that set them off.
He began looking for her, headed for the window.
Rollo and Sadie are the Romeo and Juliet of dogs.
[DOG HOWLING]
For never was a story of more woe than this
of Sadie and her Rollo.
[DOG HOWLING]
Parting may be such sweet sorrow,
but reunions are a ball.
COY WIRE: Round of "a-paws" for that one.
This story's getting me a little verklempt, though,
because we're going to miss you next week.
We're going to be off the air because our hardworking CNN
team has their much-deserved spring break.
Our final shout out this week goes to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Manitowoc Lincoln High School, we see you.
Rise up.
One more thing, as you chase your dreams,
there are going to be people who tell you that you cant'.
They'll say you're not good enough, or it isn't possible.
And sometimes maybe you'll start to doubt yourself
or you won't see a clear path to your goal at times.
But no matter what you're going through, just keep going.
Outwork everyone every single day and believe in you.
You are more powerful than you know.
I'm Coy Wire.
We are "CNN 10."
It's been a blessing to spend this week with you.
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