Can You Match These Holidays to Their Home Countries?

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Can You Match These Holidays to Their Home Countries?

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Traditions vary from family to family, city to city, country to country. Sometimes the differences are as minute as eating ham versus turkey at Thanksgiving, and sometimes they’re as vast as getting naked in ice-cold water versus setting a pile of trash on fire for good luck in the new year. Can you match these lesser-known celebrations to their home countries?

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