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Susami is a small Japanese fishing town, two hours by express train from the city of Wakayama. Until 1999, no one knew or cared about it. To change that, the…
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13th of December. St. Lucia, Sweden. They march down the street, young boys and girls clad in flowing white gowns, bearing stars on sticks. Tall paper cones stand on their…
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Before it was discovered as the world’s highest summit, the mountain peak had several names. The Tibetans called it Chomolungma and in Nepalese it was Sagarmatha. And for the British…
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The word “passport” comes from “passe port” (to pass the port). Early French kings would issue letters of request for safe passage through ports because most international travel was by…
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