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What does a modern Japanese anime and a Finnish folk song have in common? Apparently they have both sprung a leek.
1930 - Ievan Polkka
In Finland around 1930 a folk song was written called Ievan Polkka. Commonly misspelled as Levan Polkka and correctly translated as Eva’s Polka or Loituma’s Polka, this song has been […]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And […]