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The Battle for the Soul of Sikkim

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Post date October 2, 2022
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Part five: The snake and the storm.

Tags india, let's fuck up a deal, sikkim

Grapevine's Atlas History

The Chogyal’s Gambit

Part four: More milk, more problems.

Tags india, international superconflict, sikkim

Grapevine's Atlas History

The King and Queen of Sikkim

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Post date August 20, 2022
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Part three: Wedding bells and drums of war.

Tags Chogyal, india, sikkim, Top 10 worst years to get married

Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The American Queen of Sikkim

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Post date July 26, 2022
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Part two: The 22-year-old New Yorker who became Himalayan royalty. A real riches-to-different-riches story.

Tags Darjeeling, himalayas, one-upping everyone at the country club by becoming a himalayan monarch, sikkim, South Asia

Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The Last Chogyal of Sikkim

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Post date July 22, 2022
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Part one: The lost kingdom of the Himalayas.

Tags himalayan morpheus and his nazi friends, himalayas, india, sikkim

Geography Grapevine's Atlas United States

The Best-known Breasts of the West

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Post date March 28, 2022
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This Women’s History Month: Who was Mollie, and why are her nipples all over Utah?

Tags mantle mammaries, mollies nipple, what a butte

Grapevine's Atlas Language

Grass Mud Horse Fuck Your Mother

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Post date February 11, 2022
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This is the Chinese government’s least favorite Peruvian ungulate.

Tags Ai weiwei, alpaca, censorship, China, Hong Kong, IKEA, lufsig, motherfucker, The Great Firewall

Jurisprudence United States

The definitive ranking of all 50 state mottos

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Post date January 22, 2022
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I’ve never been more ready to throw hands for Rhode Island.

Tags A practical lesson on the concrete consequences of legislative plagiarism, God-Tier, Mottos, Ranking, Tier List

Grapevine's Atlas History Language

Should auld Scots be forgot?

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Post date December 31, 2021
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Our one and only New Year’s song is written in a language you may have never heard of.

Tags Gaelic, Mutual intelligibility, Scots, Yer bum's oot the windae

Christmas History

Who Stole Christmas?

Are our favorite traditions Christian, pagan, or something else entirely?

Tags Christmas, Holiday, Pagans, Ritual blood sacrifice, Santa, Yule