Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Ballkids? No thanks, we’ll stick to boys and girls says Wimbledon. – Change comes slowly at the All England Club, which will not follow the other Grand Slams by scrapping the gender-specific titles
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Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives.
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Sominsai: The end of a 1200-year-old festival
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Reindeer skins and sonic looms – Borealis music festival dives into Sámi culture in the Norwegian city of Bergen
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Asin tibuok, nicknamed the dinosaur egg, is one of the rarest salts in the world. Only a few families on a small island in the Philippines still make it. | Still Standing
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World's Strongest Man vs. wood chopping champion (Basque rural sports)
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Major League Baseball is making a handful of radical rule changes designed to make games faster and more action-packed
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The shape of Vodou in diaspora
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The Gävle goat
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A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
@aaolomi: Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, has a devil. But Iblis, as he's known to Muslims, differs from the red-skinned and horned devil popular in "Western" imagination. A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
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The battle for the Boqueria
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The Roman triumph
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The Roman pomerium
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The oldest true stories in the world
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The eel trader reviving an old Amsterdam tradition
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The Mud Mosque Of Mali: As militant attacks get closer, the Malian town of Djenné defiantly continues its annual tradition of replastering its ancient mud mosque
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Belgium sheds a chocolate tear as another manufacturer sold off
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