Tonga Edition
Dia de Reyes leads today's complete edition for Tonga.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
Kids leave their shoes out the night before and wake up hoping for a gift from the Reyes Magos. The panaderias sell roscon de reyes, the ring-shaped sweet bread with a plastic baby hidden inside. Whoever finds the baby hosts the next gathering, though everyone forgets by February.
The Day of the Kings is celebrated with a church service, and the tradition of serving feke (octopus) with taro. The octopus is not just food. It is a cultural institution, and the tradition is to catch it by hand on the reef (the Tongan method of octopus catching involves diving into the water and grabbing the octopus by the head).
You spot the solenodon and the Hispaniolan hutia as distinctive small mammals endemic to this Caribbean island. You see that Dominican households most commonly keep dogs, cats, and fighting roosters. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.