HOLIDAYS

In 2009, Ireland's last remaining leprechauns and their habitat became officially protected by the European Union.

This upcoming holiday is packed full of traditions and symbolism.

With a few choice facts about champagne, you can look knowledgeable rather than just tipsy when you drain your flute.

For a festive feast, concerns of calorie counting and drink moderation get tossed to the side as we indulge in Saturnalian levels of consumption. And if we go in for post-Christmas “detox” diets, it’s presumably because we worry about having “toxed” ourse

Too many wonderful holiday customs have faded into near-obscurity.

Halloweens of yesteryear were filled with treats, but many more tricks—or at least that's how it seems from contemporary newspaper clippings.

Every Halloween, adults worry that their kids will bring home dangerous and/or poisonous Halloween candy. Does it actually happen?

While plenty of Americans surely celebrate National Tooth Fairy Day by employing the fairy (or fairies) and her generous cash giving, the rest of the world has their own tooth-centric traditions.

On July 14, 1789, the French Revolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison. The Bastille has become such an important historical symbol that visitors to Paris seeking to get a look inside the fortress are often surprised to discover that it’s

The only thing that could possibly be more stars-and-stripes than a post about U.S. presidents and American historical figures is a post that doubles up on them. In honor of Independence Day, we give you nine presidential relatives who didn't have to look