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2008/11/12 Wednesday
   Halloween 2008 Trick or Treat!  Everyone at Academia loves to get into the holiday spirit. On Halloween this year all staff and students put on their scariest and funniest costumes   . Halloween evening saw our students going to the most exciting places in Waikiki to look at the costumes and party. Students enjoyed pizza, beer and a look at how Halloween is celebrated in the US.Halloween has many symbols with interesting meanings. The traditional Halloween pumpkin or jack-o’-lantern originates from Europe; there they believed that that the head was the most powerful part of the human body for warding off evil spirits. So they would use the “heads” of vegetables, like the pumpkin, as symbols to ward off bad luck.  Did you know the word Halloween comes from the phrase All Hallows Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening," but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") which is also known as All Saints Day. Did you know that Halloween costume sales in 2008 were over 5 billion dollars! 
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