Christmas
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Maybe we should be thinking about the gifts we’ve already received this year, rather than the presents we will be giving or getting this Christmas.A gift isn’t always something that makes you feel good or happy. Sometimes it’s the opposite that is true, but what makes it a gift is the value it adds to
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At first glance when you look at the picture it doesn’t appear to be extraordinary. There is an officer clearly giving a speech. There are a few Christmas trees at the back so it appears to be some sort of Christmas do. The officer is Albert Konrad Gemmeker he was a German SS-Obersturmführer and camp
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This season comes with lights aglow,With songs the world expects to sing,Yet some hearts walk a quieter road,Still holding echoes of everything. The chair is empty, the voice is gone,The laughter lives in memory’s air,And every ritual carries a nameYou still, instinctively, look for there. If joy feels distant, you need not pretend.If tears arrive,
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The Victorian age is often imagined as an era of high collars, tight corsets, and unsmiling faces frozen in early photographs. Yet beneath this austere exterior, Victorians possessed a sharp, often irreverent sense of humor. One outlet for this was the then-new tradition of sending Christmas cards—a practice less than two centuries old. It began
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Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, first published on 19 December 1843, is one of the most enduring works of English literature and a defining text of the Victorian era. Although it is often regarded as a simple holiday story, the novella is a sophisticated moral narrative that addresses social inequality, personal responsibility, and the possibility
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During this festive season it’s time to look at how Christmas was celebrated during the darkest era of mankind. It’s amazing that at the height of the war the all time best selling Christmas song was first released. From the movie ‘Holiday Inn’ White Christmas Below are some pictures of Christmas celebrations during WWII Christmas
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On December 4 ,1956 , Carl Perkins, who had had a big hit for the Memphis-based record label Sun that year with “Blue Suede Shoes,” had a recording session booked at Sun’s studio. Jerry Lee Lewis, not yet a star in his own right,had been hired to play piano. Elvis Presley — Sun’s breakthrough artist,
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I don’t care if you’re Santa; a queue is a queue. In 1975, Santa Claus stood in line with other customers for a cup of coffee in New York City. We all live in Santa’s submarine Santa Claus at the North Pole. Circa 1987. Size does matter. A large Christmas tree practically consumed this family’s
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