For over 1,000 years, the Kokusekiji temple in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, has been holding their annual hadaka matsuri or "naked festival" every winter. Although it's called a "naked festival", very rarely are the participa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/13/Kokusekiji-Temple-Will-Hold-Last-Naked-Festival-Next-Year/Brenda Lee's 1958 song "Rockin' Around the Christm... ...nide, TNT, neckties, contracts, high voltage -how festive ! I am always surprised to hear isolated vocals fr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/07/Dirty-Deeds-Around-the-Christmas-Tree/The Antarctic Peninsula is the part of the contine... ...r there now, and the snow is beginning to bloom a festive red and green. But those colors aren't for Christ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/02/The-Red-and-Green-Snow-of-the-Antarctic-Peninsula/<p><a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/11/27/language/creating-otaku-dictionary-japanese-lexicon/" target="_blank">The title of the book is <em>Otaku Yogo Jiten Daigenkai...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/11/28/How-a-Japanese-Otaku-Dictionary-Caused-an-Internet-Uproar/These days, there are roughly 200 Renaissance fairs and festivals held in the US every year. They serve as a glorious opportunity for cosplayers and historical re-enactors, as well as artists, craftspeople, actors, dance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/28/The-Radical-Origin-of-the-Renaissance-Faire/World Gorilla Day has been celebrated on September 24 every year since 2017. That date was chosen because it was on that day in 1967 that the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda was founded by gorilla researcher Dian Foss...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/22/Celebrate-World-Gorilla-Day-on-September-24/In 2015, John Farrier introduced us to Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton, who helped 669 Jewish children escape from Czechoslovakia in 1938, then went back home to Britain and never spoke of it. Even his wife didn't kno...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/07/One-Life-the-Nicholas-Winton-Biopic/The annual Bun Bang Fai Festival is celebrated in northeastern Thailand and in Laos in the run up to the rainy season. Its roots go back to earlier traditional festivals held to pray for abundant rain for the crops. The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/05/A-Festival-of-Rockets-to-Bring-the-Rain/About 70.000 people are stuck in the mud at #BurningMan2023 ā°Visitors to the legendary desert festival "Burning Man" in the US state of Nevada are stuck after heavy rains. The rain has turned the desert sand into ankle...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/09/03/Thousands-Stranded-in-the-Mud-at-Burning-Man-2023/The UK is full of quaint festivals that feature weird traditions from hundreds of years ago. The Gloucester cheese roll comes to mind. But the tradition of throwing pennies to the masses in Honiton, a town in East Devon,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/08/14/The-Honiton-Hot-Pennies-Ceremony/
