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1. Starting COP26 on Halloween, a festival for the dead, doesn't give much hope.
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1. Starting COP26 on Halloween, a festival for the dead, doesn't give much hope.
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2. Traditions can alienate you if you don't feel part of it. So in my efforts to blend in with the Canadians, I searched the internet to explain #Halloween and found that we have to go back into history as I so often do in The Planet newsletter.
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2. Traditions can alienate you if you don't feel part of it. So in my efforts to blend in with the Canadians, I searched the internet to explain #Halloween and found that we have to go back into history as I so often do in The Planet newsletter.
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3. There was not much of #Halloween celebration in colonial New England, where rigid Protestant beliefs prevented frivolously celebrating, especially of traditions with some doubtful pre-Christian fingerprints all over it.
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3. There was not much of #Halloween celebration in colonial New England, where rigid Protestant beliefs prevented frivolously celebrating, especially of traditions with some doubtful pre-Christian fingerprints all over it.
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4. Those New Englanders had a point. About 2000 years ago, a kick-off date for many traditions we still uphold, the Celts believed that the boundary between the living and the dead worlds became blurred on the night of October 31.
𧡠#halloween2021
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4. Those New Englanders had a point. About 2000 years ago, a kick-off date for many traditions we still uphold, the Celts believed that the boundary between the living and the dead worlds became blurred on the night of October 31.
𧡠#halloween2021
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6. In the mid-nineteenth century, Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine strengthened the Halloween tradition in North America.
A (not so) fun-fact: a quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for #Halloween.
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6. In the mid-nineteenth century, Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine strengthened the Halloween tradition in North America.
A (not so) fun-fact: a quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for #Halloween.
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7. On the picture, you see a βJason's mask Spider." It may look like a scary spider, but this cutie is harmless and friendly. Nor is it a spider (more about that in the full article).
#animals #wildlife #spiders
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7. On the picture, you see a βJason's mask Spider." It may look like a scary spider, but this cutie is harmless and friendly. Nor is it a spider (more about that in the full article).
#animals #wildlife #spiders
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8. Talking about scary #Halloween animals, the winner of the most frightening of all animals is us.
We, humans, have sent our leaders to #Glasgow on Halloween to decide about the future living conditions on our planet.
𧡠#COP26 #climatecrisis
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8. Talking about scary #Halloween animals, the winner of the most frightening of all animals is us.
We, humans, have sent our leaders to #Glasgow on Halloween to decide about the future living conditions on our planet.
𧡠#COP26 #climatecrisis
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9. At COP26, world leaders can take decisions that will impact the conditions for life on this planet. That includes the future for their own children and grandchildren and all their countries' citizens and future inhabitants.
π§΅#climate #COP26
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9. At COP26, world leaders can take decisions that will impact the conditions for life on this planet. That includes the future for their own children and grandchildren and all their countries' citizens and future inhabitants.
π§΅#climate #COP26
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10. Although you may have missed inspiration in Rome, I can only hope for more leadership and a recognition of the urgency and the seriousness of the climate crisis in Glasgow, simply because I can't live without hope.
𧡠#ClimateAction #COP26 #hope
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10. Although you may have missed inspiration in Rome, I can only hope for more leadership and a recognition of the urgency and the seriousness of the climate crisis in Glasgow, simply because I can't live without hope.
𧡠#ClimateAction #COP26 #hope
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