https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-kirkpinar-oil-wrestling-festival.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-kirkpinar-oil-wrestling-festival A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:42:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-kirkpinar-oil-wrestling-festival.html#comment-141043 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:42:32 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=17232#comment-141043 […] I’ve got one more week of lessons in Tekirdag, one week of exams, then five glorious weeks of vacation!  The plan right now is to spend three weeks in Izmir recording Jewish oral histories for the Sephardic Center’s Ladino Database project (more info to come later), then jet across the Mediterranean for two weeks in Spain with friends and my old Spanish host family.  And yes, for those eagerly awaiting an answer, I am returning for a second semester at NKU.  Leaving mid-year seems oddly incomplete and I’ve grown attached to my 250 little buggers.  Besides, could I really leave before the annual Oil Wrestling festival? […]

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