Cyprus Edition
World Common Cup Day leads today's complete edition for Cyprus.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for tea, coffee, water, juice, and the conversations that begin when someone offers another person a drink.
Nameday for Ignatis. Five days until Christmas, and every Cypriot household is in full production mode: the melomakarona, the kourabiethes (shortbread), the tsoureki (sweet bread), and the phyllo dough that will become the flaounes (Easter cheese pastries, but some families make a Christmas version).
You marvel at the Andean condor soaring over mountains and the endangered Magellanic penguin swimming in southern waters. You see that Chileans keep dogs and cats as the most popular pets, with some rural families maintaining horses and llamas. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.