Between themed TV specials, novelty candy flavors and the pageantry of the mass-produced costume, Halloween has become so thoroughly Americanized that we often forget the holiday grew from much more ...

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LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) — Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk music, could ...

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Germany's growers have started to cut their Christmas trees in anticipation of a tradition that's around 500 years old.Germans have been celebrating Christmas with decorated trees for centuries. In ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African ...

In August 2024, Russian forces appeared poised to capture Pokrovsk, Donetsk. Over a year later, as of October 2025, the city remains under Ukrainian control despite Russia deploying more than 110,000 ...