LOOK: Japanese traditional midwinter dip for good health
More than a hundred people take a midwinter dip known as the annual kanchu suiyoku, at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday.
More than a hundred people take a midwinter dip known as the annual kanchu suiyoku, at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday.
In the two months leading up to Tết, the Lunar New Year, the fashion houses across the country launch their latest áo dài (Vietnamese traditional costume) collections for the year.
Four of Italy’s braver souls continued a seven-decade-old New Year’s tradition Tuesday, leaping off a bridge in Rome into the river Tiber.
From Edinburgh to Lisbon by way of Berlin, the chilly thrill of a New Year’s dip appealed to many looking for a bracing way to ring in 2019.
Togoville runs a lively traditional barter market where traders, fisherfolk and farmers from surrounding villages flock to trade their produce.
New research by Mintel has found that 36 percent of adults in the United Kingdom feel stressed at Christmas time.
The town of Newton Aycliffe in the United Kingdom and its Great Aycliffe Town Council voted to reserve the role of Santa Clause or “Father Christmas” exclusively for males. The
“A foreigner holding a washbowl in a bathhouse is so cool!” was the reaction to one of the promotional posters on display in a Tokyo bathhouse. “You think public bathhouses are weird?!” was another. An association consisting of six bathhouse operators in the Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward has created four unconventional posters to boost interest in public baths.
Lovesickness is no laughing matter; Persian polymath Avicenna (also known as Ibn Sina) considered it a mental illness, a point noted in the illustrated compendium of The Wonders Of Creation And The Oddities Of Existence.
Scientists based in Antarctica welcomed the winter solstice by plunging into icy waters Thursday as part of a “mad tradition” heralding the return of brighter days after weeks of darkness.
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