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19# Fruitcake: the gift that keeps on giving

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How to predict winter weather using a persimmon seed: a curious peasant legend

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• Random Christmas 2019

18# Melomakarona: Greek Christmas Honey Cookies with curious origins

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17# Lussekatter – Swedish saffron buns

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• People, mysteries and stories

The beautiful letter of 1973 from an illiterate woman to a distant husband

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• Random Christmas 2019

16# Traditional German Weihnachtsgans – the Christmas Goose

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15# Kūčios: traditional Christmas Eve Dinner in Lithuania

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• Abandoned Places

Panam Nagar: a ghost town of Sonargaon – Bangladesh.

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• Random Christmas 2019

14# The Christmas Pickle

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#13 Cuccía: a Sicilian tradition on Saint Lucy’s day

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• History

The true story of Trim, the adventurous cat belonging to navigator Matthew Flinders

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• Random Christmas 2019

12# the Christmas tradition of making Tamale

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11# Chicken Bones: the story behind an uniquely Canadian holiday treat

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• History

Vyborg: Once Finland’s 2nd most influential city, now only a small provincial town somewhere in Russia

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• Random Christmas 2019

10# Struffoli: Neapolitan Christmas Tradition

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• Random Christmas 2019

9# The Tradition of Christmas Pudding

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• Abandoned Places

Poveglia: the “cursed” Venetian island between history and legend.

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• Random Christmas 2019

8# The delicious history of the Yule Log Cake – or bûche de Noël

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7# Ul Boov: the Mongolian “shoe sole cake“

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• Travel

Oymyakon: the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth

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• Random Christmas 2019

6# Samichlaus, the beer from Austria brewed only on Saint Nicholas’s Day.

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5# Sinterklaas Pepernoten – Netherlands

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• Abandoned Places

An alternative side of Brooklyn: Gravesend’s Accidental Park

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• History

The sunken city of Pavlopetri: the oldest submerged city in the Mediterranean

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• Random Christmas 2019

3# From the bathtub to the table: Christmas Eve Carp!

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• Random Christmas 2019

1# Christmas Risengrød, the Danish rice pudding that appeases wicked elves!

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• Travel

A visit in Lawang Sewu, The Indonesian “House Of Thousand Doors”

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The Haserot Angel: the mysterious crying angel of Lakeview Cemetery – Ohio~

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• History

536 AD: the never-ending winter of the worst year in history

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Friedhof Der Namenlosen – Cemetery of the Nameless: a hidden gem for Danube’s victims

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• Travel

Port Arthur Penal Colony – the Australian “prison of Silence”

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• Abandoned Places

Humberstone: A Chilean ghost town with an english name

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• History

12 rare Color Photographs show the First Nazi Concentration Camps in 1933

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The Snow Child: a black humor medieval folktale

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• Abandoned Places

St. Ignatius Hospital: abandoned but not forgotten

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• Art and Photography

The “Hidden Mothers”: macabre portraits of children in the Victorian era

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

A visit at the Cimetière des Chiens, the world’s oldest Pet Cemetery

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Stephansdom Crypt – Vienna

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• People, mysteries and stories

Suicides at Bloomfield Hills – Michigan

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Shakespeare Ghost Town – New Mexico

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• People, mysteries and stories

Edward Leedskalnin and the mysteries of Coral Castle

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Hampton Court Maze: the English maze that has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

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