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nHalloweennis big where I live, in Southern California. People decorate thenoutsides of their homes, work on costumes and jack-o-lanterns, and gon(often multiple times) to haunted n
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nattractionsnsuch as houses, theme parks, and corn mazes. People often spend a lotnof money on treats to hand out to strangers who comentrick-or-treating…I would say that Halloween is the second mostnpopular, most big-deal holiday around here, after Christmas!
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nLast year’s post describes how this holiday got its start.
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nSomencoincidence of events include:
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nOnn a day when people often talk about mystery… on Halloween, 1892,n the book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (written by Arthur Canonn Doyle) was first published.n
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nOnn a day when people often talk about magic…on Halloween, 1926, Harryn Houdini (perhaps the most famous magician of all time) died.n
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nOnn a day when people dress up as skeletons and ghosts…on Halloween,n 1961, Joseph Stalin’s dead-and-embalmed body was removed fromn Lenin’s grave. nn
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nYouncould celebrate Halloween in a most unusual way…such as reading anstory about Sherlock Holmes, learning a magic trick, or trying tonfind out what the Russians (or, rather, the Soviets) did withnStalin’s body!