Navy plans preserve 2200 ships in inactive fleets for 20 years
Scrapping only a sliver of the fleet would save less than one percent of cost. The Navy will keep 2,200 ships in two inactive fleets for twenty years at roughly scrap value. Chaplains held 407,577 services reaching 32,603,648 people. 12,501 marriages. 14,951 funerals. 15,088 baptisms. 13,818 joins. and 5,311,408 hospital and brigs visits. Of 7,000 Sea Scouts, 6,082 became Naval Reserve officers. half of 285,000 Reserve officers were former Boy Scouts. Savings bonds purchased totaled 1,698,000,000 between 1941 and 1945.
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Naval Reserve
Karkantzari Folklore and Christmas Flight of Mischief
The Karkantzari are eerie Greek rural figures blamed for seasonal mischief between Christmas and Epiphany. They fear burned leather, attack those tired after meals, and vanish when a priest blesses homes with holy water and a cross. They are banished until next Christmas.
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Karkantzari
Greece
A Child’s Letter to Santa Reassures Kind Mother
A child writes to Santa asking for toys and sweets but faces mixed reactions from family. Father says such gifts could harm, sister objects to noisy toys, and brother teases. Mother calmly defends Santa’s judgment, claiming no one understands his mind and that it’s safe to let him decide what’s best.
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Santa
Tom
Santa Claus
St Lucy Day Traditions Across Sweden and Alpine Regions
The article describes St Lucy Day on December 3 signaling Christmas in Sweden with the Lucia ritual where the chosen girl wears a white dress and a candle crown and serves coffee. It recounts Lucy’s martyrdom around 300 A D and notes variations in Switzerland where she is paired with Father Christmas distributing gifts.
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Lucy
Switzerland
Father Christmas
Yale Scholar Translates Ancient Syrian Tablet Tale
Dr Julian Obermann of Yale translates a Ras Shamra tablet from Ugarit revealing the oldest known narrative of a miraculous birth. The cuneiform inscription prologue tells of Daniel who lived over a thousand years before the biblical figure and his son Aghat.
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Syria
Ras Shamra
Ugarit
Julian J. Obermann
Yale
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Aghat
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