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Looking Back at 1900 Day leads today's complete edition for Iceland.
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Bengal is the heart of the nationalist movement. The British partition of Bengal in 1905 has inflamed Hindu-Muslim tensions. The jute mills of Calcutta employ thousands. The countryside is poor and getting poorer. The monsoon still decides who eats and who does not.
Not an official holiday, but the first day of the month when Icelandic families traditionally finished their winter stores and had nothing left but bread and milk. The modern version involves eating flatbread with butter and washing it down with cold milk. It is simple, it is traditional, and it reminds everyone that their ancestors survived on less.
You observe white-tailed eagles, moose, and ringed seals in the archipelago's forests and waters. You find that local residents commonly keep cats, dogs, and rabbits as household companions.
