Halloween celebrations are held on 31st October of every year and it’s a time when everyone is getting costumes and decorating the neighborhood for a spooky night. Costumes for Halloween can be just about anything and buying them online is the best bargain you can get. The history of Halloween should be considered a little when you are buying costumes for Halloween, because it’s so much more fun that way.

The current costumes for Halloween belong to hundreds of categories, from funny and fairy-tale like to horrifying and gruesome. The main reason for such a wide variety is that Halloween has also fallen prey to commercial gimmicks. In reality, the history of Halloween shows us that the holiday is about a single night when the boundary between the dead and living becomes obscure and the dead cause problems for the living. Originating from an ancient Celtic festival, Samhain, the present day celebrations for Halloween are milder, less horrifying and more about fun than anything else.

Costumes for Halloween became popular in the 20th century, starting in the United States and spreading to countries such as Canada, UK, Australia and the Caribbeans. The initial mass production of costumes for Halloween was seen in 1930. The history of Halloween has no mention about other Halloween celebration aspects, such as trick -or-treating, jack-o-lanterns and haunted houses.

Since Halloween is supposed to be as scary as possible, many people tend to create super natural and beyond-the-grave atmospheres just for the holiday. It’s important to follow certain precautions when preparing for Halloween, because safety is necessary when lighting bonfires, bursting firecrackers, fixing lighting arrangements and sending children off for trick-or-treating.

Halloween safety tips include picking costumes for Halloween that are fire-proof and have peripheral vision eye holes, avoiding the use of candles inside the jack-o-lanterns, creating props with smooth edges as not to cause any injuries, checking the collected candy before the kids eat them and teaching kids about general safety (not talking to strangers, crossing the street etc). There are many more Halloween safety tips for adults to follow when preparing for the holiday.

When Halloween is gradually approaching, it’s important to find costumes for Halloween that you like. You can choose from a wide range consisting of scary costumes such as witches, monsters, vampires, devils and skeletons or select something like a cartoon/comic character, pop culture figure, political figure or fairy tale character etc.
Keeping with the history of Halloween, it’ll be simply super if you choose scary costumes for Halloween.

You may or may not have heard about this brilliant poet so as an introduction, let me quote George Russell’s words about Gibran: “I do not think the East has spoken with so beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore as in The Prophet of Kahlil Gibran”.

Although renowned as a poet he was also a painter through which he tried to communicate his impeccable wisdom about life and its nature. Gibran’s thoughts and paintings are so profound that they help us to see through many superficial facets of life and the materiality that covers the profoundness of nature.

Among his many glorious writings are ‘The Prophet’ which speaks of marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy, sorrow, bliss, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crimes and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self knowledge, teaching, friendship, good and evil, prayer, beauty, pleasure, death and you name it!

Born in Lebanon in 1883, he migrated to the United States with his family in 1894 where he would spend most of his life until his death in New York in 1931. Having an authorship for over 25 books, Gibran soon earned popularity not only as a poet and an artist but also as a prophet due to the nature of his writings.

He often aims directly at the expression of spiritual inner life of man but what makes him so popular is his simplicity. Any mundane person could read Gibran’s works and perfectly understand what he means with a message that has smoothly pierced through to the very bottom of one’s heart. So, in modern day terms, we could even call him a ‘silent killer’ in a sense. His intensions are also clearly demonstrated through his writings. He wanted to bring about a spiritual awakening in the man kind. He wanted to direct and guide people to see beyond the bliss in to understanding life in its true nature and as of today, we can see that he surely did accomplish his task. Although so many years have flown behind after his demise, he is one poet, a philosopher and an artist that is truly cherished up to day.

Memon community is widely spread around the world. They are well-known for trading and are renowned as rich businessmen. In this brief article, we will explore the Memon community in Sri Lanka and their customs.

The Memon community in Sri Lanka is a very small community of about 5000 people, and they know each other very well as they are at least distantly related to each other. Memons have been a trading community of Gujarat, a city in India, that have converted in to Islam during the 12th century. There are many different versions of the story because it is passed over from generation to generation by oral tradition. The most famous theory about their descent is called ‘Lohana Theory’. The theory surrounds a story where a Hindu merchant community known as the Lohana, in India embraced Islam. Therefore Memons have many customs and traditions similar to the Hindus, although they also have some traditions similar to the Muslims.

The role of the community plays a major part in Memon lives. They are a closely bound community which hardly welcomes outsiders to their functions and get-togethers. But don’t get the wrong impression. They are extremely polite and warm people. However they are very conservative too.

When it comes to Memon weddings, the marriages are usually pre-arranged through proposals. Marriages between people from outside the community are not allowed. Memons are extremely respectful of their parents and elders and are a community that leads a lavish lifestyle.

It is indeed interesting to explore the world around a little bit because there is a lot of diversity tangled in common things. Memons are a perfect example of how a community can be very unique yet have a lot of things in common with others at the same time. So let’s explore more of cultural diversity and new insights in our future articles.

Among hundreds of social and business networking sites, there are only few standup for quality and classy service. After the social and business-networking boom, there is only handful of survivors catering the Internet users today. These web sites cater different user segments such as teenagers and young adults, senior citizens, work at home professionals etc. In this article, we are reviewing Cambridge Who’s Who service briefly.

Cambridge Who’s Who can be identified as a networking facilitator for executives, professionals and entrepreneurs. It acts as a directory for above categories and has somewhat strict conditions for membership. Candidates will have to go through an evaluation process before they get their membership. That may be one method for ensuring high quality profiles on members so that, members can benefit from each other. As any other service, Cambridge Who’s Who too, comes with a membership fee.

Cambridge Who’s Who publishes the member biographies in three mediums as hardcover, online and CD-ROM. These three mediums are offered targeting different reference options for members. But when it comes to up-to-date information, online directory should be the ideal medium for using Cambridge Who’s Who because with the fast growing member community, hardcover and CD-ROM will quickly be outdated.

Currently there are about two hundred thousand biographies of members spread across a number of countries. Although Cambridge Who’s Who is an international directory, the majority of members are from countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and England. If you are willing to network with other professionals and entrepreneurs to enhance your business contacts, to get a wider customer base for your product or service etc., you can try out Cambridge Who’s Who on a one year membership and then extend it, if it works out for you.