The inexplicable nonexistence of hemp jeans
For the vast majority of reasonable humans found anywhere on the planet, jeans are the greatest invention in the medium of apparel in the history of human civilization. They look …
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Portyanki: awesomely awkward Russian footwraps
Russia: Riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. So said Winston Churchill, when attempting to describe this massive swathe of baffling land, and rich, but historically obscured culture. And …
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5 awesomely quirky tourist attractions in Poland
And you thought the whole Eastern bloc was nothing but boring grey concrete apartment blocks as far as the eye can see. Ha! So if you haven’t figured out by now, …
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10 awesome things to do in Poland
For anyone who doesn’t know any better, Poland is pretty great. With beautiful cities all over the place and prices around half of what you’d expect to pay in Western Europe, …
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Fun Facts about Poland
Years ago I met an American guy, whose family came from Poland to settle in the US, because Europe had gotten all Hitlery. The guy grew up in a family …
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The Russian version of Winnie the Pooh is the greatest thing in the universe
The Soviet Union is famous for a number of achievements. Sputnik. MIR. Winnie the Pooh. It’s a little known fact about the Soviet Union, but they actually had quite a …
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Why Chacos are the Microsoft of the sandal world
Consider for a moment the icons that have emerged throughout history that have come to represent a once great, but now flailing, and ultimately doomed creature, whose glory days have …
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10 big Russian stereotypes (that are kinda true)
Pretty much every time I tell people I’ve been to Russia, they ask me why I bothered going there, and how they picture it as just a bunch of babushkas …
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The Transnistrian border un-bribe extravaganza
Ever heard of Transnistria? Probably not. It’s a tiny breakaway republic in Eastern Moldova and you probably haven’t heard of Moldova anyway. But imagine if you could go back in …
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The time I got stuck in a Moldovan canyon like an idiot
Fresh off the hilarity that was me getting my seduction skills called into question by a Moldovan police officer, my Moldovan misadventures continued in spectacular fashion as I proceeded to …
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