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Halloween is characterized by fun costumes, candy, jack-o-lanterns, and trick-or-treating. However, Halloween's origins were not so light-hearted.

In reaction to the great famine in 1741, the Charitable Musical Society invited George Frideric Handel to premiere his new oratorio in Dublin.

Assuming possession of a castle meant gaining land, riches, and perhaps tolls on waterways insuring greater wealth. Both residents and invaders had to be vigilant.

Upon becoming a witch, the person is given an animal as a familiar, and can kill or harm both humans or animals.

Desperate people looting and killing to fill their empty bellies. Times have changed. There is no cheap food anymore. Can oil $ fix the world's food shortage?

Halloween has long been associated with evil and witchcraft that it is easy to forget that October 31st used to represent the harvest festival and the end of summer.

Medieval law tried bug swarms and entire classes of animals in serious church courts they failed to attend, before sentencing them to biblical curses that failed to work.

The lowly snake has been misunderstood and feared for centuries. Learn how they work and how the snake plays a vital role in the environment

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The Vintner's Luck tells the story of a peasant wine maker in the early 19th century France striving to make the perfect wine - with the help of an angel.

The monsoon season starts in India in early June, but with some careful planning it is still possible (and maybe cheaper) to travel in India during the rainy months.

Urban wildlife, ranging from the smallest insect and to birds, coyotes, and deer, can exist and even thrive in towns and cities, enriching people's lives.

Old stories of seagulls are found in British folklore, Native American myth, and beliefs from various places in the northern hemisphere.

On the Banks of Plum Creek is the fictionalized real-life experiences of a pioneer girl named Laura Ingalls, which takes place in Southern, Minnesota.

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"Roger Malvin's Burial" reflects an American heroic society whose roots originate in the violent civilizations of the past, a time when the gun replaces the sword.