Guy Fawkes Day November 5 \"A penny for the Guy! A penny for the Guy!" The merry shouts of children asking for money echo up and down the streets. And with them they have \"the Guy," a straw...
The “ninth” month
November is the eleventh month of the year. It has thirty days. In ancient Roman times, when the year began in March, November was the ninth month of the year. This month got its name from novem, the...
November
Benvenuto Cellini \(1500\) Italian goldsmith and sculptor Sholem Asch (1880) Polish-born author who wrote in Yiddish and English James K. Polk (1795) 11th President of the United States Warren...
“Trick or treat”
Halloween October 31 What's that? It's a ghost! Look, there goes a witch! There's no need to be afraid, though. All these ghosts, witches, and other strange creatures are only children in...
The Festival of Lights
Divali It is late autumn in India, the day before Divali, or the Festival of Lights. For many who practice the Hindu religion, Divali is the first day of the new year. In many homes, the children...
“Sail on!”
Columbus Day October 12 Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: \"Now must we...
The soldier from Poland
> Pulaski Day > > October 11 Count Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman who fought for the Americans in the Revolutionary War. While in France in 1777, Pulaski learned of the American Revolution...
Honor for a Viking
The Vikings were hardy, daring sea-farers from what are now Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. More than a thousand years ago, some Norwegian Vikings under Eric the Red ventured far out into the Atlantic...
Nigeria celebrates
> With a rat-a-tat-tat of drums and a blare of bugles, rows of soldiers > march smartly down the street. Overhead, there is a roar as a > formation of warplanes rushes through the sky. Later, there...
The “eighth” month
October is the tenth month of the year. It has thirty-one days. In ancient Roman times, when the year began in March, October was the eighth month of the year. This month got its name from octo, the...