"Local Customs"

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8 December 2025

Children stand beside elephants during the annual temple festival in Kochi, India, on December 8, 2025.

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8 December 2025

Children stand beside elephants during the annual temple festival in Kochi, India, on December 8, 2025.

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6 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Affy, the Santa Claus of the Tallinn Christmas Market, poses for a photo with members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Santa named Affy performs on stage during Saint Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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5 December 2025

The illuminated storefront of Vinzenzmurr displays meat, sausage products, and sandwich advertisements. A clerk serves a customer inside, while bicycles are parked outside. The store is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. Vinzenz Murr Vertriebs GmbH operates a major chain of German butcher shops and snack bars specializing in meat processing, wholesale, and retail food products.

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5 December 2025

The illuminated storefront of Vinzenzmurr displays meat, sausage products, and sandwich advertisements. A clerk serves a customer inside, while bicycles are parked outside. The store is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. Vinzenz Murr Vertriebs GmbH operates a major chain of German butcher shops and snack bars specializing in meat processing, wholesale, and retail food products.

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5 December 2025

The illuminated storefront of Vinzenzmurr displays meat, sausage products, and sandwich advertisements. A clerk serves a customer inside, while bicycles are parked outside. The store is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. Vinzenz Murr Vertriebs GmbH operates a major chain of German butcher shops and snack bars specializing in meat processing, wholesale, and retail food products.

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

The Newar community prepares Yomari food for the Yomari Punhi festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, on December 4, 2025. Yomari is a traditional steamed dumpling delicacy of the Newar community in Nepal. It is made from a dough of new-harvest rice flour and typically filled with sweet ingredients like chaku (molasses or brown cane sugar taffy) or khuwa (condensed milk)

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5 December 2025

KATOWICE, POLAND - DECEMBER 4: Members of the mining community and their families leave St. Anne Church after attending the Holy Mass on St. Barbara's Day, the patron saint of miners, in the Nikiszowiec district of Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, on December 4, 2025.

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