Bill and Friends; I'll post a summary of this thread to the Silent Night group later in the day. I had initially noticed a difference in the notation on "is"...
With Día de Reyes ("Kings' Day", or the Epiphany) four days away, the Puerto Rican press is reporting on other local events taking place throughout the...
Ever since you began annual postings about the Kings' Day celebration in Juana Díaz, I've wanted to visit there at this time of year. I've been to Puerto Rico...
Hi Doug, A friend in Jacksonville told me about the lecture and he figured I already knew about it because they quoted something I wrote in the advertising. I...
I try to concentrate on traditions of Christmas and keep away from the Giftmas aspect of the season, but this year the hot item was a bit unusual so it...
Holiday leftovers aren't just for humans. Elephant calf Thabo-Umasai at Germany's Zoo Dresden joined camels, deer, and sheep in a traditional new-year feast of...
ISLE OF MAN -- Visitors to a Christmas Tree Festival on the Isle of Man have only days left to vote for their favourite design. Seventeen trees decorated by...
A Christmas party in Dublin, Ireland, was cut short after Gus, a camel starring in Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom Show, got drunk on Guinness and ate all the...
A giant straw goat that has been the target of a violent Christmas tradition for four decades survived the holiday season unharmed, Swedish officials said...
Being a Capricorn I had to check this out :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat ... From: "christmas_university" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> To:...
from The Times of Malta: As the incense swirled up towards the gilded and painted dome of Mdina cathedral at the start of midnight Mass, I could not help ...
We have a Christmas Tree Festival in our church over the first week end of Advent, we are the longest running in the UK, I believe we are the largest (over 100...
In yesterday's and today's online editions, the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero reports on some Día de Reyes ("Kings' Day") celebrations taking place outside...
The official story is that in the 14th century, Lady de Mowbray, wife of an Isle landowner, John De Mowbray, was out riding towards Westwoodside on the hill...
The Haxey Hood Game is a game of "football" traditionally played at Haxey in the English county of Lincolnshire on the afternoon of January 6 or Twelfth Day. ...