The weekly UPI Almanac package for October 20-26.

As creatures of the night, bats fit well with the motifs of Gothic fiction, not to mention the ghosts and goblins of Halloween.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2002 with 72 to follow.

In the fall of 2001, that mysterious white powder kept showing up at points across the globe as the anthrax scare hit its peak. Reports of letters with white powder possibly containing anthrax, nearly all false alarms so far, spread from the U.S. and Jap

The weekly Blast from the Past package for Oct. 14-20.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 20, the 293rd day of 2001 with 72 to follow.

Today is Oct. 20.