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If you’re a spooky season lover in the Lone Star State, you may want to move to Denton — a town just north of the Dallas-Fort ...
Those who first celebrated what we now call “Halloween” probably wouldn’t recognize the holiday today. Still, you can see signs of the day’s somber origins all around at Halloween ...
This is everything you need to know about Halloween in Spain, including facts and traditions. With the traditional date of 31st October, Halloween in Spain is not just about costumes and candy ...
Trick-or-treating has a long and winding history, beginning as a tradition during a Celtic holiday in medieval Europe. The modern version of the Halloween tradition began to take shape after it ...
If you too are gearing up to attend a Halloween bash in your neighbourhood, with your spooky costumes in place, here are a few facts you must know about the spookiest night of the year ...
By request of UW Chancellor John Wiley, University Communications put together a history of the event citing the initial event as held by the student government in 1979. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, ...
Halloween began as the festival of Samhain. It was part of the ancient Celtic religion in Britain and other parts of Europe. At the end of summer, the Celts thought the barrier between our world ...
Americans are expected to spend more on Halloween this year, according to the American Express Spending and Savings tracker, giving businesses something to actually look forward to this season.
Between themed TV specials, novelty candy flavors and the pageantry of the mass-produced costume, Halloween has become so thoroughly Americanized that we often forget the holiday grew from much ...
On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his “Meme History” column. If you want to read columns like this a day before ...
Since the late 1970s, the celebration of Halloween on State Street has changed dramatically. The very beginning The history of Halloween on State Street begins in the late 1970s, when a crowd of ...