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Mischief Night is an informal holiday on which children, teenagers and adults engage in jokes, pranks, vandalism, or parties. [1] It is known by a variety of names including Devil's Night (particularly in Detroit), Gate Night, Goosey Night, Moving Night, Cabbage Night, Mystery Night and Mat Night.
Prior to the 20th century, this type of minor mischief was confined to the last night in October. Later, the combination of the Great Depression and the escalating threat of war in the 1930s ...
If your house gets toilet papered, or TPed, on Mischief Night, no need to worry. The clean-up will be annoying, but there are safe ways to remove the paper.
The custom on the outskirts of Sheffield is known as caking-night [75] and traditionally took take place either on 30/31 October or 1/2 November where children "said the traditional caking rhyme ("Cake, cake, copper, copper"), and received about ten pence from each householder" as reported in Lore and Language, Volume 3, Issues 6–10 in 1982. [76]
Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16, 1960 – October 30, 1975) was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975.. Moxley was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Belle Ha
Illinois' current frontcourt issues are compounded because 6-foot-9, 250-pound freshman power forward Morez Johnson Jr. went from looking like the team's breakout star of the second half to ...
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The jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's corruption trial told the judge Wednesday that they were deadlocked on 12 counts filed by federal prosecutors.