It’s that time of year again. The frenzy of shoe shopping, ironing uniforms and doing the last-minute stationery dash can only mean one thing: it’s time to go back to school. Whether you’re ...

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From the outset, Bucknell developed traditions that have strengthened and sustained its mission as a teaching institution. The first of these traditions ... Bucknell has more than 50,000 living alumni ...

Here are a dozen of the most unusual Christmas traditions from around the world. St. Nick’s devil ... size of a three-story house goes up on the first Sunday of Advent each year.

The Halloween festival known as Teng Chieh is built around rituals that not only celebrate the dead but free the spirits of the “pretas” to ascend to heaven. “Pretas” are the spirits of ...

It's a fun exploration of some unusual Christmas traditions around the world, including Mexico, Japan and Finland. It celebrates Christmas as a special time for Christians and non-Christians alike.

Borrow from these mind-soothing, skin-softening bathing traditions from cultures all around the world and sink in to ... a traditional cleansing ritual first employed by 17th-century Javanese ...

International Music Day is celebrated in more than 150 countries around the world. It was first celebrated on Oct. 1, 1975, ...

The role of chancellor at the University of Oxford has been around for 800 years. This year, a particularly broad range of people have applied. By Mark Landler Before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks ...