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About 20 years ago, while anthropologist and independent scholar Edgar MartĂn del Campo lived with the Nahua and Otomi people of the rural region of Huasteca, including Chicontepec, he explored the complicated folklore of the teyollohcuani.
In 1935, Saint-Exupéry and his navigator André Prévot crashed in the Libyan desert while trying to break a record for fastest flight from Paris to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
The second Squonkapalooza took place August 10, 2024, and it proved equally popular, with hundreds of visitors perusing the vendor stands in Johnstown’s Central Park and watching lectures, podcast recordings, and movie screenings in the State Theater.
If you visit Yotsuya today, you may find another interesting thing in the area: There are two Inari shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, almost facing each other on the same street.
With its cheery yellow exterior and distinct sloping roofs, the Swedish Pavilion is architect Ferdinand Boberg’s only international exposition building still standing.
The isles are famed for their wide Atlantic vistas, sandy beaches routinely named among the best in the world, sea-to-summit mountains, mystical standing stones, Gaelic culture and machair – a rare grassland habitat only found on the exposed west-facing shores of Scotland and Ireland.
Modern witchcraft is often traced back to the mid-20th century, when a renewed interest in environmentalism, the founding of Wicca, the seeds of second-wave feminism, and a postwar world searching for spiritual guidance led people to beliefs outside mainstream or patriarchal “major” religions like Christianity.
Hidden in Guelph’s Royal City Park, Garbasaurus is a six-foot-tall sculpture made entirely from garbage, commemorating the Ontario Public Interest Research Group’s (OPIRG) Speed River Cleanup.
Tales of Madoc’s “Welsh Indians” had captured the imagination of jingoistic colonialists since Elizabethan times, because their purported existence meant that North America had been “claimed” for the English long before Columbus arrived in 1492.
The exterior makes the London Scottish House look like an average office building, but the interior features a unique multi-story Victorian-era military drill hall that has been given a Grade II listing.
Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago, a Buddhist monk named YĹ«kei was traveling across the Adachi-ga-hara plain when he sought a lodging for the night and found a cavern occupied by an old woman.
In 2023, the unique art project Multiplera Skåne brought 28 life-sized, 3D-printed clay figures to a forest clearing in Sweden’s Hörby municipality.