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How did the Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins start? It is believed that the custom of making jack-o'-lanterns at Halloween began in Ireland. The name originates from an Irish folktales about a man named Stingy Jack. Turnips and potatoes were the original canvas. Irish immigrants brought the tradition to America, home of the pumpkin, and it became an integral part of Halloween festivities.
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- Boxer Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1878. In 1908 he became the first African-American to win the world heavyweight crown when he knocked out the reigning champ, Tommy Burns. The fast living Johnson held on to the title until 1915 and continued to box until he was 50.
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Where did Pumpkins Originate From It is not known exactly where pumpkins originated from, but it is thought that they originally came from somewhere in North America. The oldest pumpkin seeds were found in Mexico and they have been dated at somewhere between 7000 and 5500 BC.
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History of Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses had its origins in the Bible Student movement, which developed in the United States in the 1870s among followers of Christian Restorationist minister Charles Taze Russell. Bible Student missionaries were sent to England in 1881 and the first overseas branch was opened in London in 1900.
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Will-o'-the-Wisp Jack-o'-Lantern Jack-o'-Lantern. ignis fatuus (foolish fire) Will-o'-the-Wisp is the most common English designation for a family of fairy-beings characterized by their fiery appearance and their tendency to lead nighttime wayfarers astray. The term wisp refers to a twist of straw, used as a torch.
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Nike debuts electrifying LeBron James commercial marking Cleveland return Ask someone to name their favorite Michael Jordan commercials and they might rattle off two dozen without stopping for a breath. Ask someone to do the same with LeBron James’ ads and they might sputter for a while before mentioning that SportsCenter spot with Scott Van Pelt and the throne.Despite his longtime association with Nike and his on-court greatness, LeBron has yet to star in a defining, iconic commercial.sk someone to name their favorite Michael Jordan commercials and they might rattle off two dozen without stopping for a breath. Ask someone to do the same with LeBron James’ ads and they might sputter for a while before mentioning that SportsCenter spot with Scott Van Pelt and the throne.
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Jack O'Lantern (Marvel Comics) However, the character's name would not be used in-story until Ghost Rider vol. 5 #10 (2007). This incarnation of Jack O'Lantern was a professional criminal, and a partner of Blackwing. Alongside Blackwing, he searched Skullhouse and first battled Captain America. With Blackwing, he was then admitted as a provisional member of the loosely knit band of Red Skull operatives called the Skeleton Crew.
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Jack LaLanne Both entered the U.S. in the 1880s as young children at the Port of New Orleans in Louisiana. LaLanne had two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906–1911), and Norman (1908–2005), who nicknamed him Jack.. He grew up in Bakersfield and later moved with his family to Berkeley, circa 1928.
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- The Billy Jack character was actually introduced in the 1967 film The Born Losers. Tom Laughlin already had the basic outline of the script for Billy Jack the movie, but lacked funding because studios simply weren’t interested in a film about peace and love and the plight of the American Indian. What did interest Hollywood investors, though, were violent outlaw motorcycle gang movies.
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Pumpkin History Pumpkins are believed to have originated in North America. Seeds from related plants have been found in Mexico dating back to 7000 to 5500 B.C. References to pumpkins date back many centuries. The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for large melon which is pepon.. Pepon was changed by the French into pompon..
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- Orange Order Societies and clubs celebrating the victory of King William III date back to 1690. The Orange Order itself arose out of disturbances in County Armagh, Ireland in the late eighteenth century, when Protestant 'Peep O'Day Boys' conflicted with Roman Catholic 'Defenders'.
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- A Short History of the Watchtower Organization. Jehovah's Witnesses trace their origins to the nineteenth century Adventist movement in America. That movement began with William Miller, a Baptist lay preacher who, in the year 1816, began proclaiming that Christ would return in 1843.
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History in the Philippines The new birth of the North Philippine Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists located at 1975 Corner Donada and San Juan Streets, Pasay city, Philippines 1300 (Luzon Headquarters).
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Ancient Origins of Trick-or-Treating Ancient Origins of Halloween. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1.
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Jack Daniel's Font And what a marketing joke that is -- the historic Jack Daniels label was created by an advertising firm in the late '50s. The population of Lynchburg is several thousand, not 361, and Lem Motlow died in 1947 and consequently is no longer the proprietor.
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History of Shanghai In 1846, Peter Richards founded Richards' Hotel, the first western hotel in China. It would later become the Astor House. In 1850, the first English-language newspaper in Shanghai, the North China Herald, was launched.
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Sons of Liberty The first known activity of the Sons of Liberty occurred on the 14th of August, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver, the next candidate to be the Distributor of Stamp for Massachusetts, was hung on a tree on Newbury Street. This figure also had a big boot and a scary demon springing out of it.
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- The word pumpkin originated from the Greek word Pepõn which means large melon. The word gradually morphed by the French, English and then Americans into the word pumpkin.. Pumpkins and squash are believed to have originated in the ancient Americas. These early pumpkins were not the traditional round orange upright Jack-O-Lantern fruit we think of today when you hear the word pumpkin. They were a crooked neck variety which stored well.
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- Omphalotus olearius. The Jack O'Lantern is an orange or orangish-yellow mushroom with a cap up to eight inches wide. Its stalk can grow also grow eight inches tall. Jack O'Lanterns grow in large clusters on the base of live trees, on old stumps, or on buried roots.ack O'Lanterns bloom from July to November. The gills of a mushroom are the feathery things under the cap. The Jack O'Lantern has gills that run partway down the stalk. The gills of this mushroom also glow in the dark.
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Historical Data: The Birth of A.A. and Its Growth in the U.S./Canada. A.A. had its beginnings in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between Bill W., a New York stockbroker, and Dr. Bob S., an Akron surgeon. Both had been hopeless alcoholics. Prior to that time, Bill and Dr. Bob had each been in contact with the Oxford Group, a mostly nonalcoholic fellowship that emphasized universal spiritual values in daily living.
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- The first Jack in the Box? The History Page on the Jack in the Box web site shows the photo above and says In 1951, a businessman named Robert O. Peterson opened the first Jack in the Box® restaurant in San Diego on the main east-west thoroughfare leading into city.
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Jack Higgins Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.After his father abandoned him soon after he was born, his Irish mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to live with her mother and grandfather on Shankill Road.atterson began using the pseudonym Jack Higgins in the late 1960s; his first minor bestsellers appeared in the early 1970s, two contemporary thrillers The Savage Day and A Prayer for the Dying but it was the publication of his thirty sixth book, The Eagle Has Landed, in 1975, that made Higgins' reputation.
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- On 3 April 2007, Thorntons set up what is thought to be the world's first edible billboard. The 14.5 ft by 9.5 ft (4.4 m by 2.9 m) and 390 kg (860 lb) sign was erected outside their Covent Garden, London shop, and was devoured by eager passers-by within 3 hours.oseph grew up to become a commercial traveller with the Don Confectionery Company and opened his first Thorntons Chocolate Kabin shop in October 1911 on the corner of Norfolk Street and Howard Street in Sheffield. At that time the family was living in rented property in the nearby Derbyshire village of Hathersage.
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Jack-o'-lantern In a jack-o'-lantern, the top of the pumpkin or turnip is cut off to form a lid, the inside flesh is scooped out, and an image — usually a monstrous or comical face – is carved out of the rind to expose the hollow interior. To create the lantern effect, a light source is placed within before the lid is closed.
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- The original Woodstock took place on a dairy farm owned by Max Yasgur in Bethel, New York. The event occurred August 15 to the 18, 1969.
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Jack O'Lantern (Marvel Comics) After Osborn's fall, a new Jack O'Lantern appears working for the third Crime Master. As a child, the kid that would become Jack O'Lantern had disobeyed his parents and mistreated animals. While going as Jack O'Lantern for Halloween, he came across a house that Crime Master was in.