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  2. Pitching pennies - Wikipedia

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    Pitching pennies is a game played with coins. Players take turns to throw a coin at a wall, from some distance away, and the coin which lands closest to the wall is the winner. In Britain the game is also known as pap, penny up or penny up the wall and it is referred to as pitch-and-toss in Rudyard Kipling's poem If—.

  3. Las arras - Wikipedia

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    The custom of using coins in weddings can be traced to a number of places, including Spain and Rome. [1] [4] The book An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies claims that origin of arras was from gold rings or coins in Visigothic law, [5] whereas the Sex and Society claims the practice emerged from Frankish marriage ceremonies.

  4. Wedding superstitions - Wikipedia

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    A wedding in Chicago, 1925. A wedding is a celebratory ceremony where two people are brought together in matrimony. [1] Wedding traditions and customs differ across cultures, countries, religions, and societies in terms of how a marriage is celebrated, but are strongly symbolic, and often have roots in superstitions for what makes a lucky or unlucky marriage.

  5. Coins as votive offering - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese tradition, there is a custom of offering money (known as "saisen") to temples and shrines, typically by placing coins in offertory boxes, often using 5-yen coins. However, throwing coins into ponds was not traditionally common. With the increase in foreign tourists, many ponds at tourist sites have accumulated large amounts of coins.

  6. Why do we toss coins into fountains? - AOL

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    Where the money goes. Some well-known fountains can collect thousands of dollars in coins each year. According to an NBC report from 2016, the Trevi Fountain accumulated about $1.5 million in ...

  7. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

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    The wedding party may form a receiving line at this point, or later at a wedding reception, so that each guest may briefly greet the entire wedding party. At the wedding reception. Drinks, snacks, or perhaps a full meal, especially at long receptions, are served while the guests and wedding party mingle.

  8. Obama caught in photos handing servicemen challenge coins ...

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    The challenge coin was the first Charron had received from a president, a new highlight in a collection of approximately 250 coins he's amassed over his long military career.

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