The country of Albania is littered with bunkers.
They’re everywhere. In cities, out in the countryside, next to highways, on beaches, next to government buildings. You can’t go for a walk anywhere without seeing at least one rounded concrete dome sticking out of the ground. There are more than 173,000 bunkers in Albania, and that just what’s left continue reading
Are you ready for Ash Wednesday? (It’s tomorrow, if you didn’t know.) The practice of marking penitent believers with ashes as an outward sign of repentance just before Lent dates back to at least the ninth century. Lent itself—the 40-day…