The history of Halloween and why we celebrate it is spookier than you know. Learn more about the origins of the October 31 holiday here.
Torcs have been found upon excavating Celtic burial sites. However, they are more commonly found in the tombs of women and girls rather than in male burial sites. It is also of note that artistic Celtic depictions of the gods usually display them wearing or holding a torc. The goddesses of...
But the world-famous Glastonbury festival in Somerset this past weekend likely did him in--so I plan to take him to an AA meeting near Fleet and Chancery when I'm in London in September. This is Blawg Review #166. He is your host. Women, children, liberals, conservatives, Catholics,...
That was 2023 for us. We expanded our building at the PA Renaissance Faire, went in as a demo artist for the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival, vended at a Viking event in DE, and did a Victorian Yuletide event. We ventured as patrons to two other faires And yours truly took a dream ...
Declaration. Through a touchscreen installation, visitors learn about the 88 local declarations of support for independence that preceded the one issued by the Continental Congress. Galleries also explore what “the promise of equality” meant for all people, including women, native people, and ...
It's been driving you all crazy! You've been texting, calling and even stopping us in the street to take a guess.And no, Googling it will get you nowhere. It...
Ann:It just felt weird while you were doing it. It felt weird partially because we were at the back of the line and did not quite know where we were going. We were being led by the official, top people, you know, the big senior types like Martin and John Lewis. Those people, ever...
According to food historians, Amish women would bake these tasty desserts and put them in farmers’ lunch pails. When farmers would find the treats in their lunch, they would shout “Whoopie!” It is likely that the original Whoopie Pies were made from cake batter leftovers. ...
How did we find her? In the spring of 2006, one of our older, hopelessly romantic and famously exclusive (i.e., picky about people, especially women) editors discovered Maryam by accident in a photo of her inside a Parisian bistro he'd been in only a few weeks before. It took our ...
The women of Grenoble had high hopes that they could move up into the second tier of club soccer, and they did just about everything in their power to make that happen. Jade Decilap, Claudia Fabre, Romane Pilot and Melanie Chabrier were the top leaders for the scorers, and Julie Tissino...