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Holi Color Fight: Rainbow Warfare Breaks Out In India
A man brandishes his colorful face at a Holi celebration in Dubai. (Matt Schreve/Getty Images) Let’s say you walk out onto your street, and there’s a plume of orange powder. Some guy on a balcony hurls...
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Punkin Chunkin? What the Blarg?!?!
David S. Holloway/Getty Images Hello, folks – if you listen to the podcast then you’ve heard Dr. Clark and I mention this Science Channel show lately, something about pumpkins being flung through the...
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Where Paper Lanterns Dance
That’s it. I’m officially hooked on Japanese festivals. I just watched Rachel and Matt’s Coolest Stuff video podcast on the Akita Kanto festival in Japan. Have you seen it? It’s lovely. I mean, first...
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Ice Cream + Travel
(Courtesy of Lizzy/elizabethjphoto.com) Um, I really like ice cream. Therefore, I give you the following ice cream travel advice: Go to an ice cream festival. At the Austin Ice Cream Festival on Aug....
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The Burial of the Sardine
In 18th-century Madrid, citizens spent the season of Lent eating sardines. One sad year, however, the shipment of sardines that came in off the coast for Lent was spoiled — totally inedible. Irate,...
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Cats on Parade in Belgium
Every three years on the second Sunday in May, cats are hurled from Lakenhalle’s belfry in Ypres, Belgium. Don’t worry — they’re stuffed cats! Unfortunately, in the 12th century they were live cats....
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