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Picture of the day on December 26, 2017: Cablecar type Funifor Arabba Porta Vescovo in Italy

We Left You Some Presents The Digg editors needed a day off, so we left you our favorite videos of the year (for better or for worse) gift-wrapped below. Beware the coal.

Cablecar type Funifor Arabba Porta Vescovo in Italy.

Article of the day is Canadian Indian residential school system. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

The Article of the day for December 26, 2017 is Canadian Indian residential school system . The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children who were removed from their families and culture to be assimilated into Canadian culture. It was funded by the government's Department of Indian Affairs, in keeping with the Indian Act of 1876, and administered by various churches. Over more than a century about 30 percent of Indigenous children (roughly 150,000) were placed in residential schools, where at least 6,000 of them died. The schools were intentionally located far away from home communities, and parental visits were further restricted by a pass system that confined Indigenous peoples to reserves. Students often graduated unable to fit into either their home communities or Canadian society, and impacted families have suffered disproportionately from post-traumatic stress, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide. The last federa

St. Stephen's Day , proper n : (Christianity) A Christian holiday commemorating Saint Stephen the protomartyr (first Christian martyr; died 34 C.E.), falling immediately after Christmas Day (on December 26 in the Western Church and on December 27 in the Eastern Orthodox Church).

Word of the day is St. Stephen's Day : (Christianity) A Christian holiday commemorating Saint Stephen the protomartyr (first Christian martyr; died 34 C.E.), falling immediately after Christmas Day (on December 26 in the Western Church and on December 27 in the Eastern Orthodox Church).