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Oct TTC Newsletter
What was your favorite Halloween Costume as a child?
Will you have a boy or a girl if you get pregnant this month? Check out the Chinese Gender Prediction Chart!
Pregnancy and Baby: Chinese conception gender chart
Spicy Buffalo Chicken Dip
The Moon this month is called the Hunter's Moon.
The opal and the tourmaline are the birthstones for October.
Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.
Jack o’ Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.
Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.
Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Cookie Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
1 International Day for the Elderly
1 1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida
7 Yom Kippur
10 Columbus Day observed
10 Thanksgiving Day in Canada, 2nd Monday
12 Sukkot begins at sundown
14 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
15 Sweetest Day 3rd Saturday
16 Boss' Day
22 Make a Difference Day 4th Saturday
24 United Nations Day
24 1901 - Anna Edison Taylor is the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
29 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashed on what came to be known as "Black Tuesday", starting the Great Depression.
31 Halloween
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