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World Lost Sock Day leads today's complete edition for Latvia.
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A day for the universal mystery of laundry, missing pairs, household systems, and the small comic defeats of domestic life.
The anniversary of the 1991 Barricades, when Latvians built barricades around the parliament and key buildings in Riga to protect them from Soviet tanks. Five people were killed, and the barricades held. The day is observed with candle-lighting at the barricade sites, and the candles burn in the snow as a reminder that independence was defended with human lives.
