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Europe

The eight-day week

Culture, History, SocietyDecember 17, 2025December 17
Buddhism / Europe / Italy / time / Times New Roman / UK

In Ukrainian Modernism: an exploration of mid-century Soviet architecture

Architecture, Art & Design, Books, PhotographyApril 29, 2025April 30
Europe / Soviet Union / Ukraine

Today is the Sechselauten in Switzerland

SocietyApril 28, 2025April 30
Europe / statues / Switzerland / traditions

Lola Akinmade Åkerström on Sweden, other Nordic countries, and their “erasure of cultural differences”

Black Cultures, Culture, Lifestyle, SocietySeptember 18, 2024September 18
Africa / Black women / Europe / Nigeria / racism / Sweden / women / women of colour

Atlas Obscura on vampires and diseases

Culture, Pop Culture, SocietySeptember 5, 2024May 10
Atlas Obscura / Europe / monsters / Russia / the occult

Jacques Pépin's 'Tastiest Tomato Sandwich'

Food & DrinkJuly 31, 2024December 31
cookin' and bakin' / Europe / France / fruit / vegetables / video

Atlas Obscura's 14 best spots for tea lovers

Cool Links, Food & Drink, Geography, TravelJuly 19, 2024April 30
Asia / Atlas Obscura / California / Europe / Germany / London / Portugal / Russia / Scotland / tea / Vietnam

Kiosk: The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe

Art & Design, Books, PhotographyJuly 8, 2024April 30
cities / Europe / Soviet Union / Yugoslavia

Climate and spice around the world

Food & DrinkJune 27, 2024June 28
Africa / Asia / Atlas Obscura / Ethiopia / Europe / spices / spicy food / USA

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

History, Politics, SocietyApril 24, 2024April 30
death / Europe / genocide / life

The New Yorker on Andrea Illy's 'World Cup of Coffee'

Food & DrinkJanuary 15, 2024January 15
coffee / Europe / Italy

Drone footage of a new volcano eruption in Iceland

Nature, TravelJanuary 10, 2024January 10
Europe / volcanoes

Copyrighted works from 1928 enter the public domain today, including Steamboat Willie and Joseph Stalin

Art & Design, Books, Film, MusicJanuary 1, 2024April 30
copyright / Disney / Europe / law / public domain / USA

Yule: a Germanic pagan festival that's definitely not Christmas

Books, Culture, Film, Food & Drink, History, Pop Culture, SocietyDecember 29, 2023December 21
Christmas / Europe / Germany / Sweden / traditions / winter
May yule-tide give you of its best and your own heart supply the rest. Postcard sent to Mrs J. Moore, Bishop's Bridge, Farley, West Maitland, [n.d.]

Abolish Sinterklaas. Abolish Zwarte Piet.

Black Cultures, Culture, SocietyDecember 5, 2023December 21
Christmas / Europe / racism / Santa Claus / The Netherlands / traditions

Tom Scott visited the Baťa Skyscraper and its famous elevator office

Architecture, Cool LinksSeptember 21, 2023October 2
Europe / video

Architecture appreciation: Tennispalatsi

Architecture, Culture, History, SportSeptember 9, 2023February 12
Europe / Finland / tennis

Hiking and climbing mountains in Slovakia

Geography, TravelJune 7, 2023April 30
Europe

Norway's national snack is... the hot dog

Cool Links, Food & DrinkMay 27, 2023February 12
Atlas Obscura / Europe / Norway / sausages

TIL: domesticated cats were present in Serbia and Poland around 6000 BC

Cool Links, History, NatureMay 9, 2023December 21
cats / Europe / Poland / Serbia
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