Maybe you’ve made or heard the joke: Sorry Grandma, we tried to put enough candles on your birthday cake to represent your age, but the fire department wouldn’t let us. Well, start counting out the ...

No matter how many cool parties you attend as an adult, you will always have room in your heart for your childhood birthday parties - with all your friends and family wearing colourful caps and ...

For most of human history, ordinary people’s birthdays weren’t cause for much celebration. In fact, in the ancient world if you weren’t among the elite, odds are your birthday would have mostly just ...

Whenever we think of birthday celebrations, cake and candles instantly come to mind. But have you ever wondered why it is so? What made these two things an intricate part of celebrating yet another ...

The tradition of putting candles on a birthday cake is said to have roots in Ancient Greek and German cultures. In Greece, round cakes were made to honor Artemis, the goddess of the moon, with candles ...

Ah, birthdays: the best day of the year, when you get to spit all over a cake baked in your honor and force all of your closest friends to eat it with a smile on their faces. Then, a few months back ...