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World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
Canadian Halloween is American Halloween with colder weather. The costumes are the same but the coats go over them. The little ninja who spent an hour on his mask is now a ninja in a parka and nobody can tell who he is. The pillowcase full of candy will last until November 10. The candy tax levied by parents is real and it is not optional.
You find that seabirds including frigatebirds and boobies are the most distinctive wildlife native to Wallis and Futuna's islands. You notice that residents commonly keep pigs, chickens, and dogs as working and companion animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
The carved pumpkin, or jack-o'-lantern, comes from an Irish legend about Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil and was doomed to wander the earth with a hollowed-out turnip lit by a coal. When the Irish came to America, they discovered that pumpkins were bigger and easier to carve than turnips. This is immigration at its finest: the tradition came from Ireland, the pumpkin came from America, and the result is better than either.