Halloween
HOLLYWOOD, FL - MARCH 28: A bowl of chocolate chips along with chocolate dipped Easter cookies sit on a table before being melted down into a chocolate Easter bunny at the Amazing Chocolates store on March 28, 2013 in Hollywood, Florida. Americans spend roughly $1.9 billion on Easter candy, second only to Halloween in candy consumption. Around ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each year, from white to dark chocolate, and with an unlimited varieties of styles.
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Lincoln impersonators rub gangly elbows in Ohio
were humble.Tall, lean and bearded, the Ohio man already bore a passing resemblance to the Rail Splitter, or so he was told. One Halloween he donned a frock coat he found in his mother's attic, and his wife fashioned a stovepipe hat out of cardboard. A little Read more »
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Haunted Zoos
Halloween is about tricks and treats, but do children really learn anything during this holiday? They learn how to dress up in scary costumes, and they learn that some things are not what they seem. But at the end of the night, they usually end up with a 5:50 PM from Humanitarian News Read more »
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Here’s A ‘NBA Mascots Who Shouldn’t Dunk’ Segement From Conan, Complete With Your Next Halloween Costume, ‘An Octopus Taking Selfies’
There was an especially odd segment on Conan last night, titled “NBA Mascots That Shouldn’t Dunk.” Ignoring the facts that none of them are actually NBA mascots, and we sadly don’t get to see 6-foot-4 Conan O’Brien try his own hand at dunking, it was qui from SportsGrid Read more »
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Halloween: Harmless or Haram? An Islamic Perspective Every year, on the evening of October 31st, millions of children across North America paint their faces, dress up in costumes, and go door to door collecting treats. The adults often decorate their hou from OpPapers.com Read more »
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Beauty Police at the Billboard Music Awards: Stars Skip Shock and Awe for Just Plain Pretty (And Not So Pretty)
So you can imagine how stunned we were that, for the most part, the starlets and songstresses skipped the theatrics and ruled the red carpet with the kind of looks we'd want to try and duplicate at home (rather than save for Halloween costume). We were t from E! Online Read more »
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Thousands To Descend Upon Orlando For First Ever Halloween Extreme/May-Hem, May 24-26
ORLANDO, Fla., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The haunted attraction industry's largest tradeshow producer, TransWorld Exhibits, the world famous Netherworld Haunted House and Spooky Empire Productions, known by fans for masterminding some of the craziest from PR Newswire Read more »
