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It’s just nice to be able to look at Halloweens past. [1]

In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to share some of my all time favorite photos from Halloweens past. [2]

Like Christmas, Halloween is a once-a-year event, so you should make sure to take all the pictures you can to capture what will be wonderful memories of this great holiday. [...] Halloween Pictures 101 was created to help provide you with basic idea’s and information for taking Halloween pictures. [1]

This final full week of the 2010 campaign delivered its fair share of Halloween-worthy frights. [3]

The spooky costumes, creepy decorations and trick or treaters at the front door. [1]

It is a religious holiday that has entered the general American cultural ethos. [3]

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Topping the ghoulish behavior was the pre-debate head-stomp administered to MoveOn activist Lauren Valle by a Rand Paul supporter. [3]

You’ll find ideas on how to take pictures, the different formats available and how to keep and display your Halloween memories for years to come. [1]

I like their quirkiness and they are pleasing to watch when I desire mindless entertainment to wind down to. [2]

The information contained on this web site are some of the tips we’ve learned over the years. [1]

Many of us would turn out pretty worthless if we had every single aspect of our lives completely paid for, in perpetuity, and if celebrity were enough to keep us in extra dollars for the foreseeable future. [2]

Check out all the great prizes including the grand prize for a trip for four to celebrate Halloween 2011 at “Hershey Park in the Dark” in Hershey, PA. [...] Everyone loves to bring out the photos to show off, show to friends and family and just take out to browse through and relive fond memories. [1]

Sources:
[1] Halloween Pictures - A Guide to Taking Halloween Pictures
[2] The Kardashians’ Childhood Halloween Pics (PHOTOS)
[3] Halloween : Pictures, Videos, Breaking News

If you’re hosting a kids’ Halloween party, plan Halloween games that get kids moving-the better to burn off those candy-coated calories and high-fructose energy! [1]

We have lots of kids Halloween fun and games for you in this section, so please feel free to stay and play! [2]

When it comes to Halloween games for kids, you need a well-stocked collection of ideas. [...] Since your party will most likely include some sort of edible treats during the party, make any take-home prizes non-edible. [3]

The game begins when the first child scoops up candy corn with his spoon from the bowl, races to the end of the course, and dumps the candy in the bucket. [4]

This interactive math game helps students practice finding even numbers. [5]

Fill a plastic pumpkin with papers with the words “trick” or “treat” on each one. [3]

For smaller kids, you might want to use Halloween-themed fabric scraps or large felt pumpkins instead. [1]

Spooky Sequences - Count on….Counting by ones - One of the ghosts in the spooky sequence is missing a number. [5]

You can also have kids decorate the bottles with stickers, markers, and other art materials. [1]

You can set a limit regarding the number of balloons each child can pop to ensure that all kids get balloon treats. [4]

Ghost Blasters - Practice finding even numbers - Ghost Blasters, Operation Even. [5]

This idea from Martha Stewart has donuts (some seasonal apple cider donuts would be great) on strings just above mouth level of participants. [3]

Play Our Free, Safe Online Games For Kids! [4]

For this version of Pirates’ Treasure, use Halloween-themed objects (say, mini plastic pumpkins, or glow sticks) for the treasure. [1]

Sources:
[1] Halloween Games - Halloween Games That Keep Kids Moving
[2] Free kids Halloween games, puzzles and other children’s …
[3] Halloween games for kids | MNN - Mother Nature Network
[4] Halloween Games, Halloween Party Games
[5] Halloween Math Games - Fun interactive games reinforce …

Samhain had an important place in Celtic mythology as a time when the normal order is suspended to allow free passage between the natural and supernatural worlds. [1]

Samhain is known as the witch’s new year, and is considered the time when the veil between our world and the spirit world is at its thinnest. [2]

Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Beltane on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. [3]

Learn about the history of Samhain — as well as some popular misconceptions — and different ways to celebrate. [4]

A harvest festival with ancient roots in Celtic polytheism, it was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and continued to be celebrated in late medieval times. [...] The Irish name Samhain is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. [5]

Samhain is known by most folks as Halloween, but for Wiccans and Pagans it’s considered a Sabbat to honor the ancestors who came before us. [2]

In reality, much of what everybody “knows” about Buddhism isn’t true. [4]

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. [5]

It has never been an English word, but Wiccans and other Neo-Pagans use it in preference to All Saints’ Day and Halloween. [1]

At the heart of the Celtic Otherworld grows an apple tree whose fruit has magical properties. [3]

This clever poem was written by author Cather Steinkamp, and pays homage to the classic “Night Before Christmas” in a Pagan theme. [4]

The Samhain celebrations have survived in several guises as a festival dedicated to the harvest and the dead. [5]

Try one — or all — of these rituals to celebrate Samhain and welcome the new year. [2]

In many cultures, gods of the underworld and death are celebrated during the harvest time. [4]

Sources:
[1] Samhain: Information from Answers.com
[2] History of Samhain
[3] Samhain
[4] Samhain - the Witch’s New Year
[5] Samhain - Wikipedia

All versions of the show feature a talking dog named Scooby Doo; the original series included four teenagers or young adults: Fred “Freddie” Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville “Shaggy” Rogers. [1]

Scooby Doo has received mixed to negative reviews from critics. [2]

: i love scooby doo so YES! [3]

Scooby-Doo.com has relaunched its website with a totally new look and feel, featuring more games and kids pages, plus new Showcase and Scooby Snacks section, making it the ultimate online destination for Scooby-Doo fans. [4]

In the 1990s Scooby-Doo returned as a nostalgic pop icon for Generation X. A Scooby-Doo feature film was released in 2002, with a computer-generated Scooby cavorting with a live-action cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. [5]

After solving one of their typical madcap cases, the members of Mystery Inc. argue over Fred’s taking credit for Velma’s plan, and the group breaks up. [2]

Scoobert “Scooby” Doo is the eponymous character and the main protagonist in the Scooby-Doo animated television series created by the popular Hanna-Barbera franchise. [5]

Reggae artist Shaggy and rock group MXPX perform different versions of the theme song. [2]

These five characters (officially collectively known as “Mystery, Inc.”, but never referred to as such in the original series) drive around in the Mystery Machine van, solving mysteries by exposing seemingly otherworldly ghosts and monsters as flesh and blood crooks. [1]

Mystery, Inc. is a group of teenagers and a dog who travel in the Mystery Machine solving mysteries. [3]

A comically nervous Great Dane, Scooby spent each episode hunting ghosts with four human teenagers, including the always-hungry hippie boy Shaggy, the brainy Velma, the buff Fred and the beautiful Daphne. [5]

Fred becomes a celebrity, Daphne a martial arts expert, and Velma a NASA employee, while Shaggy and Scooby remain beach bums. [2]

The voice of Scooby’s human pal Shaggy was provided by “American Top 40″ radio personality Casey Kasem… Scrappy-Doo, a puppyish nephew of Scooby-Doo, appeared in some episodes of the cartoon; Scrappy is famously disliked by many devoted Scooby fans. [5]

Watch Scooby-Doo and play tons of free online games from the show on Cartoon Network. [3]

Scooby-Doo is the pet and best friend of Shaggy Rogers and in many iterations, including the original series, is regarded as a unique Great Dane dog who is able to speak in broken English, unlike most other dogs in his reality. [5]

Sources:
[1] Scooby-Doo - Wikipedia
[2] Scooby-Doo (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] What’s New Scooby Doo? - Cartoon Network
[4] Welcome to Scooby-Doo.com
[5] Scooby-Doo: Biography from Answers.com

A little over four years ago New Line Cinema’s Freddy vs Jason took in an astounding $114 million in the box office worldwide. [...] Now that MTV, Paramount and New Line Cinema are teaming together for the Friday the 13th remake (hitting theaters February 13, 2009), New Line Cinema has renewed excitement about the franchise and has begun developing Freddy vs Jason 2 to continue to run with the hype. [1]

One of the people that is sort of shepherding FREDDY VS JASON 2, Mr. Katz, has come up with this phenomenal script called SHOOT ‘EM UP. [2]

Freddy vs. Jason is a 2003 American slasher film directed by Ronny Yu. [3]

Freddy and Jason are back for a rematch — this time, another famous horror icon may be teaming up with Freddy. [4]

Robert Englund reprises his role as the famous dream stalker, Freddy Krueger, who joins forces with fellow horror maven, Jason Voorhees, to create a new reign of terror on Elm Street, but the collaboration soon turns into a nightmarish face-off between Freddy Vs. [5]

The film is a crossover between the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, the eighth and eleventh entries in their respective series, and puts their respective villains, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, against each other. [3]

Freddy vs jason was a farse.It was a celebration of everything that ruined these characters in the previous sequels.It could have been great but they chose not to show the characters or their creators the respect they deserve.I hope they wipe the slate clean and make a real dark and scary horror movie with the friday remake and they should do the same with elm street. [1]

The series was published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics, with imprint by Wildstorm, beginning in August 2009 and concluding in December 2009. [6]

Why can’t they just do a straight Nightmare sequel. [1]

Lack of support forced the finished film to sit for two years before finally being released on April 26, 2002; it would go on to become the lowest grossing film in the franchise at the domestic box office; it also held the distinction of having the largest budget of any of the previous films at that time. [3]

Revisit our two Halloween-themed JoBlo Movie Shows & see the MFC’s costumed schmoes! [2]

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors is a six-issue limited series comic book written by Jeff Katz and James Kuhoric, with art by Jason Craig. [6]

This was also Robert Englund ’s final appearance as Freddy Krueger, having portrayed him in all seven previous Nightmare films. [...] After overhearing several police officers accidentally discussing Freddy, Lori falls asleep and has a dream about Freddy, allowing him to gain some of his powers back. [3]

Sources:
[1] BD Horror News - New Line Still Working on ‘Freddy vs Jason 2‘
[2] Freddy vs Jason 2? - JoBlo.com
[3] Freddy vs. Jason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Freddy vs. Jason 2 (TBA)
[5] Freddy vs. Jason
[6] Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors - Wikipedia …