Caribou And Muktuk Head Holiday Menu
FAIRBANKS ALASKA AP Barrow residents recall Christmas origins from before missionaries teaching Christ and the Star. Eskimo tradition marked by the two stars guiding celebrations. villages across the Arctic held games, contests, and shared food from post Christmas to New Year. All ages join in skill games and endurance events beginning after Christmas.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Barrow
Santa
Toghether
Arctic
Christmas Dinner in Barrow Includes Caribou and Muktuk
Barrow families plan turkey for some and caribou and muktuk for others at Christmas. Children anticipate dolls and bicycles, with the whole family attending church and taking part in pageants as people do around the world.
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Barrow
Turkey
Scale-Model Autos Sold to Adults Spark Ashtray Line
A British toy maker shifted from selling scale-model antique cars to children to meet rising adult demand. The firm now markets ashtrays featuring mounted car models including locomotives buses trolley cars fire engines motorcycles and cars. A separate line remains for children.
Toy factory kit brings plastic playthings to Hawthorne
In Hawthorne California a manufacturer unveils a miniature plastic products factory. The kit includes softened plastic sheets molded into airplanes boats cars and jewelry along with clay for other playthings. Various molds enable original creations and there is an emphasis on self contained toy making.
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Hawthorne
Calif
Christ Child Brings Peruvian Children Gifts
In Lima Peruvian children greet Christmas with gifts from the Christ Child and later await Santa Claus. School breaks until April as summer nears. Catholic traditions crown the holiday with a midnight Eve mass and a family dinner.
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Christ
Lima
Feru
Christ Chil
Nino Jesus
Equator
Peru
Santa Claus
United States
West Germans celebrate Christmas amid division and candles
Candles glow in West German homes on Christmas Eve as a symbolic reminder of families behind the Iron Curtain. Despite politics, children await gifts from Der Weihnachtsmann or Christkindl, with the tree central to the holiday and gifts placed around it after church services. St Nikolaus Day adds candies and small gifts, while space toys and moon rockets appear among cherished family traditions.
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Frankfurt
Germany
America
Santa Claus
St. Nikolaus
Hans
Enameled Bowls Save Best Silver
Holiday entertaining calls for bringing out your best in serving pieces. Hosts learn mayonnaise ripe olives eggs or salted nuts can tarnish or permanently stain and pit silver. Now silver holloware with enamel linings offers colored options for compotes serving dishes sauce bowls in muted red blue green yellow gold and coffee brown.
Christ's Mass origins in early English phrase
The term Christmas derives from Christes Masse, meaning Christ's Mass, reflecting the religious roots of the holiday's name.
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Christes Masse
Christ
Average Boy Learns To Believe In Santa Claus
Averages marked Johnny Girinsky doubts Santa until he finds him hungry on Main Street. He brings Santa home, shares a dinner, and learns belief depends on both children and adults. Santa explains belief keeps him alive, and Johnny resolves to become a believer. Virginia Tech won its first Southern Conference football title in its history last season.
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Santa Claus
Johnny Girinsky
Johnny
Santa
Main Street
North Pole
Tenth and Lang
Mr. Girinsky
Dad
Virginia Tech
Medieval Music Recalls Holiday at The Cloisters
The Cloisters in Manhattan hosts a 45 minute medieval Christmas concert in the Langon Chapel and Saint Guilhen cloister. Gregorian and Ambrosian chants accompany 13th to 16th century works while visitors view Flemish art by Ro bert Campin and medieval collections. About 125000 people visited last year.
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Cloisters
Manhattan
Langon
Saint Guilhen
Robert Campin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Canadian Trees Supplying Majority of US Christmas Forests
More than half of the Christmas trees used in the United States come from Canadian forests, reflecting strong cross border forestry trade and seasonal demand. The report highlights notable producers and regional distribution across Canadian provinces supporting American holiday cheer.
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United States
Luke and the Gospel of St Luke a physician writer
Luke a physician from Antioch treated Paul as a patient and later accompanied him to safeguard his health. He sought to document Paul's story by visiting holy places, interviewing apostles and Mary, and checking dates. His Gospel aims to provide a precise historical account with exact political and temporal details.
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Luke
Antioch
Paul
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Mary
John the Baptist
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