Halloween history, traditions, and German witch hunts

A History of the Persecution of "Witches"
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/witchhistory.html

Historical Background of Hallloween
https://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/origins-halloween-and-day-dead
http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/halloween-around-the-world

A Witch Hunt: Germany 1628 (a computer game simulation)
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/witch/hunt/

Primary Sources on European Witch Trials
http://thecaveonline.com/APEH/witchdbq.html

And Bloody Mary (Mary Tudor)
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/10/127563/bloody-mary-queen-ghost-story-pregnancy-murder

Catalonia Declares Independance and Spain Moves to Stop it

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-deepening-crisis-in-spain-over-catalonia

Jennet Cohen and the Atomic Bomb

https://charlierose.com/videos/31095

Spanish Empire, Silver and Runaway Inflation

Italian Regions demand autonomy from Rome

https://euobserver.com/enlargement/139580

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UK LEAVING THE EU

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

Perspectives Sunday's Election of Conservative Leader in Austria

Austria heads for a new, conservative-nationalist government

Sebastian Kurz: Austrian conservative set to become world's youngest leader

Austria Turned Sharply to Right in Election Shaped by Immigration

In Election, Austria's Nazi Past Raises its Head

Austria's Right Wing Parties' Strong Showing in Election 

Austria's Not So Scary Turn to the Right

Austria's Rightward Lurch is New Normal

Where is the EU in the Catalonia crisis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/catalonia-eu.html

Reformation Exam Study Guide

Catena Choices 

Peasant revolts and Lutheranism
Indulgences and 95 Theses
John Calvin and predestination (or theocracy) 
Martin Luther and faith alone
Erasmus and humanism
Zwingli and commemoration 
Peace of Augsburg and political decentralization
Saint Bartolomew’s Day Massacre and Reformation
John Wycliffe and Anglicanism
Anabaptists and millenarianism
Ignatius Loyola and Society of Jesus
Reformation and Modernity 

Essay Choices 

How did technological changes in print culture and competing religious ideas intersect during the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation?  

How did individual, cultural, geographical, and political considerations influence the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation? 

I am Spanish: Thousands in Barcelona Protest a Push for Independence

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/world/europe/catalonia-independence-protest.html

Current Events Discussion: Catalonia

Source: Financial Times explains history of Spain, including Catalonia

See also NBC News Long Story Short 

Source: BBC on Catalonia vote: Nationalists win elections?

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/10/02/world/catalan-voted-separate-spain-now-what

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/catalonia-spain-referendum.html

What would Europe look like if every separatist movement was successful?