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15 09, 2017

What is Nowruz? Zoroastrians – West Asian holidays

By |2019-09-04T05:59:52-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on What is Nowruz? Zoroastrians – West Asian holidays

Persepolis may have been built in the 500s BC as a place to celebrate Nowruz. What is the holiday of Nowruz? Zoroastrianism became much more popular suddenly when the Persian kings [...]

21 06, 2017

Why are chestnuts a famine food?

By |2019-10-23T08:55:46-07:00June 21st, 2017|Food|Comments Off on Why are chestnuts a famine food?

A pile of chestnuts When did chestnuts evolve? Chestnut trees are related to oak trees, and like oak trees they probably evolved early, around 66 million years ago, around the [...]

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