In 1963, General Mills Vice President John Holahan was tasked with turning one of the company’s current cereals into something kids would find a bit more “magically delicious.” If a baseline of either Cheerios or Wheaties wasn’t restrictive enough, this new product had to be developed in six months, a fair amount shorter than the […]
When watching a cartoon like Disney’s Mulan, my kids are fairly confident that things like the ancestors’ spirits, talking dragon and lucky cricket never really happened.
If there’s one thing we can learn from the Black Death in the 14th century, it’s the importance of record keeping in times of crisis.
While Santa may deliver front teeth and ’54 convertibles, it takes one’s true love to hand over an overstocked aviary plus enough musicians and dancers to put on a parade.
While climate control and electric lighting can now make the winter solstice a footnote in our seasonal plans, it’s fair to say that getting through the longest nights of the year were hard on ancient peoples.
Twas the night before Christmas, and all across Iceland, every person was up reading, new books in their hands.
Many holiday traditions involve gifts, special foods and visiting friends and family, but Christmas holds the special honor of being the one time of year millions of people temporarily add a tree to their home furnishings.
As popular as it is today, people haven’t always left out Oreo cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve.
According to Eddie Pola and George Wyle, marshmallows, caroling, mistletoe and ghost stories all help make the Christmas season “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” The last item in the list may seem like a bit of a non-sequitur to modern listeners more accustomed to hearing about sleigh bells and failed relationships during the […]
A candy cane is one of the more easily recognizable icons of Christmas.