Sweden Edition
World Everyday Inventor Day leads today's complete edition for Sweden.
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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 improvised fixes, clever storage, new uses for old things, and the small engineering people do without a title.
The festival of light in the darkest month. A girl wearing a crown of candles leads a procession of white-robed figures through churches, schools, and offices, singing the Lucia song. The tradition combines a 4th-century Sicilian martyr with Norse winter solstice rituals, and the result is one of the most beautiful ceremonies in any culture. Lussekatter, saffron buns shaped like curled cats, are eaten alongside gingerbread and glögg, mulled wine.
You encounter forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, forest buffalo, and pangolins in Cameroon's rainforests. You find that Cameroonians typically keep dogs, cats, chickens, and goats as household animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.