October 31 - November Eve - Samhain

Samhain means 'summer's end', for now nights lengthen, winter begins, and we work with the positive aspects of the dark tides. In the increasing starlight and moonlight, we hone our divinatory and psychic skills. Many Craft traditions, and the ancient Celts, consider this New Year's Eve. It is the one night when the veil that separates our world from the next is at its thinnest, allowing the dead to return to the world of the living, to be welcomed and feasted by their kin. The Christian religion adopted this theme as 'All Saints Day' or 'All Hallows Day' (Nov. 1), celebrating the eve as 'All Hallows Eve' or 'Halloween'. The alternative date of November 6 ('Martinmas' or 'Old Hallows') is sometimes employed by Covens.

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October 31 is the day of halloween 475 - Romulus Augustus was proclaimed Roman Emperor. 1517 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the [[Wittenberg Castle Church]]. 1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575. 1822 - Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempted to dissolve the Mexican Empire. 1861 - American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Ar ...

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Wicca and Witchcraft: Holidays in Wicca and Witchcraft

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December 21 - Winter Solstice - Yule

January 31 - February Eve - Imbolc

March 21 - Vernal Equinox - Lady Day

April 30 - May Eve - Beltaine

June 21 - Summer Solstice - Litha

July 31 - August Eve - Lughnassad

September 21 - Autumnal Equinox - Harvest Home

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Charles Cameron (October 31, 1927 - January 1, 2001) was a professional magician who specialized in a style known as bizarre magic. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

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October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. October begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Libra and ends in the sign of Scorpio. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Virgo and ends in the constellation of Libra. The name is from the Latin Word "octo" for "eight". October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period (summer in the southern hemisph ...

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There were four Battles of Ypres during World War I: First Battle of Ypres (October 19 – November 22, 1914) Second Battle of Ypres (April 22 – May 15, 1915) Third Battle of Ypres (July 31 – November 6, 1917) (also known as Passchendaele) Fourth Battle of Ypres (September 28 – October 2, 1918) (also known as the Battle of Ypres 1918) Other related archives1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, April 22, First Battle of Ypres, July 31, May 1

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Wilfrid Michael Voynich, or Wilfryd Michał Habdank-Wojnicz (31 October 1865 – 19 March 1930), was a Polish-born American bibliophile. He was the eponym of the Voynich manuscript. He was married to Ethel Lilian Voynich, who was the daughter of George Boole and famous for her novel, The Gadfly. Other related archives1865, 19 March, 1930, 31 October, Ethel Lilian Voynich, George Boole, Polish, The Gadfly, Voynich manuscript, eponym

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Beant Singh was one of the bodyguards to Indira Gandhi who allegedly assassinated the former Prime Minister of India. He was a native of Maloya, a village near Chandigarh. He and Satwant Singh assassinated Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 in retaliation for ordering the attack on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest place, in an attempt to flush out a band of Sikh militants. Singh was fatal ...

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Bellarmine University is a Roman Catholic liberal arts university located in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened as Bellarmine College on October 31, 1950, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, and named after the Catholic Saint Robert Bellarmine. The school was one of the first in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to be open to all races and was the first integrated college in the s ...

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Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) (Gurmukhi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, Devanagari: अमृता प्रीतम) was a Punjabi poetess and writer who lived in India since 1947, when India and Pakistan were divided as two separate countries. She was born in 1919 to a Sikh family in Gujranwala, presently in Pakistan. She was the only child of a school teacher and a poet. Her mother died when she was eleven and she grew up with adult responsibilities. She began to write at an early age, and ...

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A Kung Ngam (阿公岩) is a village, part of Shau Kei Wan, in Eastern district, in the north of Hong Kong Island. It contains a fish terminal market and several temples and the Hong Kong Museum of Coastle Defence. A fire broke out in the early morning of October 31, 2005. Some ten houses in the village were burnt. See also. List of buildings, sites and areas in Hong Kong ...

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1740 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1740 - Events. May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austri ...

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1056 - Events. Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany. Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria 1056 - Births. 1056 - Deaths. August 31 - Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 981) October 5 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017) Category: 1056Including:

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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (इन्दिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गान्धी) (November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24, 1977, and from January 14, 1980 until her assassination on October 31, 1984. The daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (and not related to Mahatma Gandhi), she was one of modern India's most politicaly notable leaders. Indira Gandhi - Early years. The Nehru family trace their ancestry to the B ...

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Rav Yehuda Amital (born 31 October 1924), a noted Orthodox Jewish rabbi, is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of Knesset. Rabbi Amital was born Yehuda Klein in Hungary. When Germany invaded Hungary in 1943, the Nazis sent his entire family to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Yehudah himself was sent to a Labour camp, thus surviving the Holocaust. He remained in the Labour camp for eight months, and was liberated on 4 October 1944 by the Russian Army. After his liberation he made his way to Bucharest, from where he t ...

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See also: Moscow theatre siege Beltway sniper attacks Bali car bombing Myyrmanni bombing Zamboanga bombings Afghanistan timeline October 2002 October 2002 - October 31 2002. The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. Over a million people gather in Greenwich Village to celebrate Halloween. Ni ...

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The naval Battle of the Downs took place on 31 October 1639 during the Eighty Years' War and was a decisive defeat of the Spanish, commanded by Admiral Antonio de Oquendo, by the United Provinces, commanded by Admiral Maarten Tromp. In 1639 the Spanish prepared a force of 77 ships carrying 24,000 soldiers and sailors, planning to take control of the English Channel from the Dutch and land the army at Dunkirk. They were sighted by the Dutch in early October in the channel. Tromp had only 13 ships, but he attacked with such feroc ...

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2003 in politics - January 1. January 1: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes office as president of Brazil. His cabinet includes Celso Amorim as foreign minister; Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva becomes Governor of Amapá, Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga becomes governor of Amazonas, Paulo César Hartung Gomes becomes governor of Espírito Santo, Blairo Borges Maggi becomes governor of Mato Grosso, Simão Robison Oliveira Jatene becomes governor of Pará, Cássio Rodrigues da Cunha Lima becomes governor of Paraí ...

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