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A ‘Chrismon’ makeover miracle

Posted November 25th, 2020

A North Carolina church leapt into action to hand-make a new collection of ‘Chrismon’ Christmas ornaments featuring religious symbols.

Anthropologists believe you can tell what is important to a community based on how many names they have for the same thing. The Inuit people who live in northern Canada have 50 words to describe snow. Each word describes a slightly different classification of snow, like “aqilokoq” for softly falling snow and “piegnartoq” for snow that’s good for sledding.