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Celebrate Winter Magic

If you’re planning a stay in an Amsterdam hotel over the festive season, you won’t want to miss the city’s annual Winter Magic celebrations. From mid-December to early January, the city’s famous canals are lit up with plenty of Christmas spirit as the boats are decorated for the holidays with coloured lights and ornaments. Events […]

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Jewelry For The Holidays

All over the world there is hardly anything that people enjoy more than celebrating holidays. We all wait for those special times when we can take a day or two off from work, decorate our homes, and gather with family and friends, and eat to our hearts content. These are the happy times in our […]

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Halloween Is For Grownups

Once upon a time in our collective distant memory – or maybe just on TV, which is more or less the same thing – October meant apple cider, jack o’ lanterns, and small children in witch hats toting pillow cases full of candy. Now we know fall has arrived when temporary Halloween stores start popping […]

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Halloween Traditions – Old and New

The commercialization of Halloween in the United States did not start until the 20th century, beginning perhaps with Halloween postcards (featuring hundreds of designs) which were most popular between 1905 and 1915. Dennison Manufacturing Company, which published its first Hallowe’en catalog in 1909, and the Beistle Company were pioneers in commercially made Halloween decorations, particularly […]