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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 2006
Page
6
The piece traces the origin of Christmas cards in 1843 with Henry Cole and John Horsley, notes evolving designs from snowmen to Mickey Mouse, and highlights wartime patriotic themes in the 1940s and psychedelic colors in the 1970s. It states Christmas cards now account for about 60 percent of holiday card sales.
Experts note a rise in peace themed cards amid reflections on the Iraq war and nostalgia for past years. The 2006 season brings prayers for peace, retro scenes, and new tech enabling music audio clips, lights, and moving figures in regular and email cards, with sales flat for five years.
Savion Glover, 33, performs the penguin Mumble’s dance in Happy Feet via motion capture. The New Jersey native began drumming at 4 and tap at 7, first tapping in cowboy boots. He starred in The Tap Dance Kid at 12 and Tap at 13, co created Bring in Da Noise Bring in Da Funk in 1996, and appeared on Sesame Street for five years. He now teaches tap to youth.
Spread cherry pie filling in a microwavable dish and cook four minutes, stirring at two. Layer cake mix, top with butter slices and a sugar cinnamon mix. Microwave ten to twelve minutes, then serve with vanilla ice cream. Makes six to eight servings with adult supervision.
The article notes the December 18 holiday mail peak with about 280 million cards mailed that day and the following two days as the busiest delivery period. It describes annual winter holiday stamps, religious Christmas art since 1978, and non religious designs often reused. It highlights Madonna and Child With Bird by Ignacio Chacon on display at the Denver Art Museum, snowflake photos by Kenneth Libbrecht, and the Hanukkah stamp featuring a dreidel. The Hanukkah dates are December 16 to 23 this year.
The Eid stamps celebrate two Islamic festivals Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha with Arabic calligraphy reading Eid mubarak. Eid al Fitr marks Ramadan’s end and occurs in October this year while Eid al Adha follows about two months later after the hajj period in Mecca. The Kwanzaa stamp honors the seven day African American celebration created in 1966 running December 26 to January 1 and upholds seven ideals unity faith purpose self-determination collective work and responsibility economics and creativity.
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