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• In Italy, a dinner of several kinds of seafood, sometimes called the “Feast of the Seven Fishes,” is popular for the Christmas Eve meal. • A Christmas tradition in Estonia takes place on Christmas Eve, when the whole family goes to the sauna together. • He is known throughout the world by various names: Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas, St. Nick and Pere Noel. On Christmas Eve, children all over the world lie in their beds while “visions of sugarplums dance in their heads.” When they awake, they will excitedly check to see if Santa Claus visited and left them gifts. • On the west coast of Africa, in Liberia, most homes have an oil palm for a Christmas tree, which is decorated with bells. On Christmas morning, presents such as cotton cloth, soap, sweets, pencils and books are exchanged. Also on Christmas morning, a church service is held in which the Christmas scene is enacted and hymns and carols are sung. • In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets to be blocked off around Christmas so that people can roller-skate to church. • In Bangladesh at Christmas time, Christian men in each village plant full-sized banana trees along the paths to churches. They plant them in two rows, and then bend them over to form an arch. They make oil lanterns out of bamboo poles and tie them on the arches, lighting the way to church. • There is a sweet Christmas tradition in Scandinavia. A little gnome called Julenisse puts the presents under the Christmas tree at night. The children leave a bowl of porridge out for him.

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• Pudding is important in the Christmas traditions of Great Britain. While making the pudding, the British have a traditional practice of making a wish while mixing the ingredients in a clockwise direction.

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www.tidbitpapers.com For Distribution E-mail: russ@tidbitpapers.com or Call (319) 360-3936 • For a long time, it was considered dangerous to sleep alone on Christmas Eve. The extended family, master and servant alike, would sleep together on a freshly spread bed of straw. • The Yule log was originally an entire tree, carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony. The butt end would be placed into the hearth while the rest of the tree stuck out into the room. The tree would be fed into the fire and the entire process was carefully timed to last the entire Yule season. • The Chlausjagen Festival or Feast of St. Nicholas is celebrated in Switzerland at dusk on December 6. The week before Christmas, children dress up and visit homes with gifts. Ringing church bells to call people to midnight mass has become a tradition, and each village competes with the next for the “best” bell ringing. After the service, families gather to share homemade doughnuts called ringli and hot chocolate.

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• A Maltese Christmas traditionally is centered on the Christ’s crib or presepju. The child’s version of the church crib is called grolta. The crib figures are called pasturi and represent Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, angels, villagers and animals such as cows and sheep. • Wreaths have a long history that can be traced back to the ancient Druids. They believed that holly, an evergreen with bright red berries, had magical properties. Wreaths were first created when holly and other evergreens were arranged in a circular shape.

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● It was French playwright Albert Guinon who made the following sage observation: “There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.” ● Most people at all familiar with the name Max Schmeling know him as the Great Nazi Hope, the boxer produced by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s to defeat Joe Louis, supposedly proving Aryan superiority. (He did defeat Louis in a match in 1936, though he lost a rematch in 1938.) What most people don’t realize, though, is that Schmeling did not subscribe to Hitler’s beliefs -- he wasn’t even a member of the Nazi party. In fact, during World War II, Schmeling risked his life to save two Jewish children. ● For reasons that are unclear now, the Supreme Court in 1893 declared that a plant eaten during a main course was a vegetable and one eaten afterward was a fruit.

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• The most commonly agreed-on facts of the show are that the band quit early because Morrison wasn’t feeling well, and that they played “Soul Kitchen,” “Break On Through” and “Light My Fire.” • The Doors reclaimed their status as a premier act with “L.A. Woman” in 1971. It contained two top-20 hits and has gone on to be their second best-selling studio album, surpassed in sales only by their first record. The singles “L.A. Woman,” “Love Her Madly” (the Doors last top ten hit) and “Riders On The Storm” remain mainstays of rock radio programming, and the latter was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009 for its special significance to recorded music. • On March 13, 1971, following the recording of “L.A. Woman,” Morrison left the Doors and moved to Paris. On June 16, Morrison’s last known recording was made when he befriended two street musicians at a bar and invited them to a studio. This recording was finally released in 1994 on an album entitled “The Lost Paris Tapes.” • Morrison died on July 3, 1971. According to the official account of his death, he was found in a Paris apartment bathtub by his girlfriend. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. • The Doors released two albums after Morrison’s death. The first was “Other Voices,” released in 1971; they had already started recording while Morrison was in Paris. The other was “Full Circle,” released in 1972. • How popular were The Doors? Well, they sold 32 million albums in the United States alone, but their worldwide sales number is unknown.

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These are the basic steps involved in cutting and caring for fresh flowers to maximize their longevity. Depending upon the type of flowers you have, there may be other ways to keep them fresh. Consult the Internet or a professional for more information. Keeping flowers fresh requires some time and effort, but won't it be worth it as you wake up each day to a home filled with colorful blooms and amazing scents? Enjoy!

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