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it's that time of year again when the sun stands still

submitted by robertkamper on thu, 2008-06-19 14:55.


National Geographic online provides a solstice facts article for the Friday June 20 solstice.It also has a photo show of different celebrations across the planet, and if you like the lead photo, there's a gallery of sun photos online as well. Of course, you can always do a wikipedia or google search on solstice too. Or go to the library and read a book.

saint walpurgis night out for witches in lithuania national geographic style

submitted by robertkamper on tue, 2008-05-06 12:30.

video at National Geographic of Lithuanian witches celebrating Walpurgis Night is more of a hoot than anything. One of the ladies is wearing a red hat, which reminds me of the red hat club for women of a certain age who go out together wearing purple attire and red hats and whoop it up.
They do seem to be perpetuating a visual stereotype, if nothing else, probably just to distract people from their true hidden secret rites and practices ...