I am going to a halloween party next Thursday that is history-themed. So I need a good costume of historical person! Any ideas?? (No Nazi costumes!!)

Simon Wiesenthal? Nazi-hunter and therefore an anti-Nazi.

hey,could you do me a favor?
so my teacher gave me an assignment and i got the part of halloween.but i don't know what's the history halloween.please someone explain the simple history of halloween.thanks

Your teacher means the origins of Halloween. Basically the name is short for All Hallows Evening. The following day being All Hallows Day or All Saints Day. It's a christian holy day that replaced a pagan one. The idea of trick or treat is that people (adults originally) would go around the local village dressed as spirits and demand treats from the household. This was a form of sacrifice, each household would give up something of value to appease the spirits who were roaming the land at that time of year. For those who refused to give a treat, they received a trick played on them by those dressed up. This was to punish those who refused to protect the village from evil spirits by not sacrificing something of value.

Traditional halloween celebrations involved games using apples such as bobbing for apples. Apples were considered a fruit of the underworld and to have magical properties.
Carved turnips were put out to scare away evil spirits. When the europeans arrived in America they discovered the pumpkin and replaced the turnip with it.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Halloween-

http://hubpages.com/hub/Halloween-History-Clip-Art-And-More

I found the two above Halloween free sites that I really liked. There is a lot of stuff there.

Anyone know any hidden things about Halloween we don't know. Surprize us.

Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat with a Thousand Young!" Read "Call Of Cthulhu" for more info. H.P. Lovecraft author.

It has to be catchy and make sense to do with ghosts and witches and pumpkins all that halloween stuff.

Hallowed Objects
Ghoulish Origins
Haunted History (a bit obvious)

Can't think of anymore right now but it's a start. Good luck!

Any ideas for an Art History themed Halloween costume?
Like from a painting or sculpture. There are a few I can think of but nothing that can be done ( at least properly) on a budget. I'm excited to see what people come up with=).

Well you could do your body all pale with makeup, and wear a white sheet as a toga. Then you could say you are a roman sculpture!

Something else is to wear an old coat, and pants, then bandage your head up. Then you could say you were Van Gogh, he cut his ear off and gave it to his prostitute gf. Messed up-I know! But that would be easy and interesting to do lol

You could also wear a sheet, and wear bandages on your head and be "Death of Marat" By David. Here's a pic of the painting: http://pergrunditz.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/death_of_marat_by_david.jpg

Another idea would be to paint yourself a whole bunch of bright colours and call yourself pop art.