Namibia Edition
World Home Threshold Day leads today's complete edition for Namibia.
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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 the doors, mats, shoes, keys, steps, and greetings that mark the passage between the world and home.
A day honoring the Skeleton Coast, the notorious stretch of coastline from the Ugab River to the Kunene River in the north, named for the whale bones, seal bones, and shipwrecked vessels that litter its shores. The Benguela Current brings cold Antarctic water northward, creating dense fog that has caused hundreds of shipwrecks over the centuries. The coast is so inhospitable that sailors who survived wrecks often died of thirst before they could cross the desert to reach civilization. Today the Skeleton Coast is a protected wilderness area where desert lions roam the beaches and hyenas eat seal carcasses.
