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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Last full weekend of August: International Bat Night

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The ancient origins of the Dog Days of Summer

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• People, mysteries and stories

How a popular anime caused a raccoon infestation in Japan

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• Travel

Meet Gacek, the fat cat that became a Polish city’s top tourist attraction

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Groundhog Day, an American holiday with purely Europeans origins ~

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

29/30/31 January: the Merla days (hen blackbird), according to tradition are the coldest days of the year ~

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Las Luminarias: a fiery and controversial Spanish celebration

9 months ago Robin

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Wolf Moon: the first Full Moon of the year

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• Myths and Legends

Montana’s Shunka Warak’in, the Rocky Mountain Hyena

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• Breaking News

China’s multi-story pig hotels: the controversy facilities that elevate industrial farms to new levels

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• Food

Crab Trapper, the crab-infused Whiskey that aims to decrease invasive green crabs population

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• People, mysteries and stories

Dexter, the dog that learned to walk like a human

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• Breaking News

House of Nekko: the perfect Cat House doesn’t exis…

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• History

Dances with snakes: the sacred dance of Hopi Indians

2 years ago Adam

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• Travel

Monkey Mia: the Australian paradise that dolphins visit every day

2 years ago Robin

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• Breaking News

Plinthaster dentatus: the Ravioli Starfish that looks like Italian Pasta

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• Travel

Mon Chat Pitre: the bookshop in Provence where you can read books in the company of cats rescued from shelters

2 years ago Adam

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• Breaking News

Sumomomomomomomomo, “the horse that makes commentators cry”

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• History

The insane, inconclusive truth behind Rat Kings, the grotesque tangled Super-Rodents

2 years ago Leo S

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• Myths and Legends

White deer in myths and legends

2 years ago Leo S

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• History

The Protest Pig: a rare breed designed to be a living (and breathing) flag

2 years ago Pavel

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• Myths and Legends

The owl of Cwm Cowlyd and the oldest animals in the world

2 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

Meet the Bull Sharks of Carbrook Golf Course!

2 years ago Robin

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• Travel

The Wall of Hives: the “home of Chinese bees”

2 years ago Robin

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• Myths and Legends

Folklore and magic of crows and ravens

2 years ago Leo S

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The grave of ‘The Great Lafayette’ and his beloved dog in Edinburgh’s Piershill Cemetery

2 years ago Ivan

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• People, mysteries and stories

Bobbie, the wonder dog who walked 2,500 miles to home

2 years ago Nathan

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• Travel

‘Imaginary Elephants’: the sculptures created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

2 years ago Ivan

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Why do fireflies glow?

2 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

‘Nemuri-Neko’: is the Sleeping Cat asleep, or just pretending?

2 years ago Ivan

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Folklore of Bees

2 years ago Leo S

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• Myths and Legends

The story of Dick Whittington and his faithful cat

2 years ago Leo S

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• Motors

Mao Mao, the feline car model that earns more than most humans

2 years ago Robin

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The annual Pidakala battle of Kairuppala

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Telling the Bees: the curious folklore of Rural England and not only

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• Myths and Legends

How the Pussy Willow got its name

3 years ago Robin

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• People, mysteries and stories

Ming the Clam: the 507-year-old clam that explained climate change

3 years ago Robin

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• Food

Jacu Bird Coffee: from bird poop to a one of the world’s rarest and most expensive coffee varieties

3 years ago Danilo G.

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• Myths and Legends

Black Shuck: The mythic hellhound Of Medieval England

3 years ago Leo S

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• Travel

Beddgelert: a place of legend in the heart of Wales.

3 years ago Ivan

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• Food

Indlovu, the premium Gin made from distilled elephant dung

3 years ago Robin

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• Travel

Kauai, the Hawaiian Island home to thousands of feral chicken

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