Christmas traditions differ from culture to culture, location to location, and family to family. In '24 Christmas Stories: Faith and Traditions from Around the World', award-winning author Judith Bouilloc explores present-day Christmas traditions, as well as the holiday's history...
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"Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle - or perhaps the soya - that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the...
Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.
Forward: The first literary dreams do, it is akin to finding steep Dabie Mountains. That spring, eighteen years old, I was a "rustication" rolled into the torrent of the Dabie Mountain area in Jinzhai County stone flower commune remote village. There inaccessible by road, but is ...