The "Sin-Eater" is a profession that survived until the last century: in short, grieving family members of a recently deceased...
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Little Dunmow Church, St Mary, is one of the oldest buildings in Essex, England. The building was originally the chapel...
Norway’s national diet harks back to its days as a poor country, expecially with preserving fish and meats in salt,...
Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings still intact...
Millions of men would come to be grateful that Frenchman Louis Réard, a car mechanic, had an unlikely sideline in...
Cornish culture is legendary and mystery awaits around every corner in its land. Despite holy wells are water sources with...
All the fun things about Easter have pagan roots, and It is not a coincidence if the most widely-practiced customs...
High on the Ming Hill, Fengdu, or the “City of Ghosts,” is situated at the northern end of the Yangtze...
The village ef Scanno appears like small stone houses embracing each other with their tiny roofs. These roofs, so perfectly...
The ancient Lycians are probably one of the most enigmatic peoples of history, because there are not many traces of...
The two great rivers of ancient Mesopotamia, Tigris and Euphrates, rises in the Taurus mountains in southern Turkey, and after...
We are in Greece, where, during the celebration of the Mass the night before Easter Sunday, it is customary to...
That’s true: Batman's hometown wasn't inspired by New York City, but this English village that pretended to be insane. We...
In Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, was born in 1960, the first nucleus of what would become the largest gang in...