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Disney Christmas Story


Christmas advertising. The strip appeared every year until 1987. In 2017, the Christmas stories were collected in a hardback volume, "Disney's Christmas Classics", published by IDW Publishing. The collection includes all of the Christmas stories except for 1986's story based on "Song of the South". Unlike most Disney comic strips, "Disney Christmas Story" actively mixed characters from different Disney films -- for example, in 1962, Ludwig Von Drake saved Princess Aurora from Maleficent's spell, and in 1976, the Seven
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A Christmas Story


that I was ranked — as Christmas villains go — higher than the Grinch. That's amazing." The screenplay for "A Christmas Story" is based on material from author Jean Shepherd's collection of short stories, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". Three of the semi-autobiographical short stories on which the film is based were originally published in "Playboy" magazine between 1964 and 1966. Shepherd later read "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid" and
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Secular Christmas stories


There exists a wide range of secular Christmas stories, told in popular music, on television, and in the cinema, that are told about the Christian holiday of Christmas, that may be based on or allegorize the biblical Christian mythology of Christmas, as the birth of Jesus, but not necessarily. The stories may also have newer interpretations and introduce new characters (such as Rudolph the reindeer). These secular Christmas stories could be classified as mythopoeia (invented mythology), or Christian allegories. Santa Claus is the English name
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A Christmas Story Live!


A Christmas Story Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by Fox on December 17, 2017. It was a live, televised musical remake of the 1983 film "A Christmas Story", and incorporated the 2012 stage musical version "". The live musical was executive produced by Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, directed by Scott Ellis and Alex Rudzinski, and starred Matthew Broderick, Andy Walken, Maya Rudolph, Chris Diamantopoulos, and Jane Krakowski. "A Christmas Story Live!" is based on "the
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Christmas Child


Christmas Child is a 2004 American Christian film directed by William Ewing starring Steven Curtis Chapman. The film is based on "The Christmas Cross", a short story by Max Lucado repackaged in 2003 as "The Christmas Child: A Story of Coming Home", and is a story about a Chicago journalist who finds himself in Clearwater, Texas around Christmas time to discover his past. Nine months after the death of his adoptive father, Jack Davenport, a Chicago journalist, obtains some of his possessions which lead Jack to discover
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A Christmas Story


limited release before being retitled "My Summer Story" for home video and television release. "A Christmas Story 2" is another sequel which ignores the references and events of "My Summer Story" and was released direct-to-video in 2012 and directed by Brian Levant. It was filmed in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. In 2000, a stage play adaptation of "A Christmas Story" was written by Philip Grecian. In November 2012, "", based on the film, opened on Broadway
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List of Christmas operas


Christmas operas are operas which are thematically based on either the Nativity of Jesus or secular Christmas stories. The earliest Christmas operas appeared in the early 17th century, not long after the creation of the art form. Because of the ban on secular theatrical works during the season of Advent, these early Christmas operas, while elaborately staged, were based on religious themes relating to the Nativity. By the mid 19th century the ban on secular operas during Advent had ceased, and operas based on a wider array of Christmas themes, such
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!


How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a children's story by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch, a grumpy, solitary creature who attempts to put an end to Christmas by stealing Christmas-themed items from the homes of the nearby town Whoville on Christmas Eve. The story was published as a book by Random House in 1957, and at approximately the same time in an issue of "Redbook". The book criticizes the commercialization of Christmas. Based
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A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who)


about writing anything. I was laughing madly as I typed along to Christmas songs in April". Moffat stated that "A Christmas Carol" was "probably [his] favourite Christmas story" and that it lent itself to "Doctor Who", as there was an aspect similar to time travel in the story. He also pointed out that the Doctor intentionally based his reform of Kazran on Charles Dickens' story; Dickens exists as a character in the "Doctor Who" universe, having appeared in the 2005 episode "
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A Christmas Story 2


A Christmas Story 2 is a 2012 film directed by Brian Levant and starring Daniel Stern and Braeden Lemasters. The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film "A Christmas Story", which ignores the events of the 1994 film "My Summer Story". It was released straight to DVD on October 30, 2012. Although billed as an "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on Jean Shepherd's writings, instead relying on an original script by Nat Mauldin, who also narrates the
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Signal Transfer Point


A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between "signaling end-points" (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs). Typical SEPs include "service switching points" (SSPs) and "service control points" (SCPs). The STP is connected to adjacent SEPs and STPs via signaling links. Based on the address fields of the SS7 messages, the STP routes the messages to the appropriate outgoing signaling link. Edge STPs can also route based upon message body content using
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12 Tiny Christmas Tales


12 Tiny Christmas Tales (stylized onscreen as 12 tiny Christmas tales) is an American Christmas animated short film, that which was broadcast on Cartoon Network on December 7, 2001. It was created, animated and directed by Bill Plympton. A grandmother tells her three grandchildren increasing bizarre stories of Christmas. The stories are based on eight-panel sequences from Christmas cards Plympton began drawing for his parents in 1964. In this film there are nine original songs, which were written and executive-produced by Maureen McElheron. Hank Bones
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Christmas traditions


to church often think it is still important to go at Christmas, so Church attendance increases. Most theatres have a tradition of putting on a Christmas pantomime for children. The pantomime stories are traditionally based on popular children's stories such as "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Aladdin", rather than being directly concerned with Christmas as such, although there is sometimes a link. Television is widely watched: for many television channels, Christmas Day is the most important day of the year in terms of ratings. Public transport
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Home for Christmas (2010 film)


Home for Christmas () is a 2010 Norwegian comedy-drama film directed by Bent Hamer. “Home for Christmas” is based on a selection of short stories from the Norwegian author Levi Henriksen’s collection, ”Only Soft Presents Under the Tree”. These stories, which now and then intersect with each other, all take place in Henriksen’s fictitious small town of Skogli, over a couple of hours on Christmas Eve. Following a prologue set in war-torn former Yugoslavia, the film follows several different Christmas celebrations
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Kirsten Sødal


Norwegian resistance movement and contributed by writing secret newspapers with true news. She has written small stories and poems her entire life. Her works include: "Bestefar I spøkelsesbyen", the "Birkebeinerbarn" series, "Kamelgutten" (The Camel Boy), a Christmas story with one chapter for each day of advent, "Med Benjamin til Bethlehem" (With Benjamin to Bethlehem), another Christmas story based on a play, "På Sporet", "Alf", a book based on the childhood of one of
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Christmas Eve (opera)


write a story of Christmas Eve. There is general rejoicing. Act 1br Act 2br Act 3br Act 4 An orchestral suite from the opera of 1904 consists of the introduction to the opera ('Holy Night'), Flight of Vakula, moon and stars, Polonaise, and return flight of Vakula and Christmas morning bells. "Christmas Eve", "Vakula the Smith", and "The Slippers", are all based on the same story by Gogol. Audio Recordings ("Mainly studio recordings") Source:
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United States hydrogen policy


programs. Each states energy office gets SEP funding and manages all SEP funded projects. For more information about the SEP, including project descriptions, visit the SEP website. Clean Ports USA is an incentive-based program designed to help reduce emissions by encouraging port authorities to redesign and replace older diesel engines with new technologies and cleaner fuels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Clean Diesel Campaign offers funding to port authorities to help them overcome the obstacles that prevent the adoption of cleaner diesel technologies. Clean Construction USA promotes the reduction
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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story


The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story is a 1983 American made-for-television Christmas drama film, originally broadcast on CBS as an annual tradition for more than five years, premiering December 20, 1983. It starred Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury and Polly Holliday. It was produced by Dick Atkins and Michael Lepiner; directed by Academy Award winner Delbert Mann; and written by Earl Hamner, Jr., creator of "The Waltons", based on the short story "The Silent Stars Go By" by Bess Streeter
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A Ghost Story for Christmas


30 and 50 minutes in duration, and features well-known British actors such as Clive Swift, Robert Hardy, Peter Vaughan, Edward Petherbridge and Denholm Elliott. The first five are adaptations of ghost stories by M. R. James, the sixth is based on a short story by Charles Dickens, and the two final instalments are original screenplays by Clive Exton and John Bowen respectively. The stories were titled "A Ghost Story for Christmas" in listings such as the "Radio Times", although this never appeared on screen,
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My Summer Story


My Summer Story, originally released in theaters as It Runs in the Family, is a 1994 comedy film directed by Bob Clark that serves as a sequel to his 1983 film "A Christmas Story". Like the previous film, it is based on semi-autobiographical stories by Jean Shepherd, primarily from his book "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". The opening makes direct reference to the events of "A Christmas Story", and the ending narration strongly parallels it; production delays forced most of
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas


were composed by Rachel Portman with lyrics written by Don Black. The film's songs were recorded "live" with an orchestra and the cast in a room, similar to the first film. "Stories", sung by Paige O'Hara, is about what Belle will give the Beast for a Christmas: a story book, and is heavily based on the motif in the finale of Jean Sibelius' symphony no. 5. "As Long As There's Christmas", the theme of the film, is about finding hope
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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A Christmas Story Live!


Family Singalong" were both cut, while "Act One Finale" was reworked as "Ralphie's Nightmare." The song "Up on Santa's Lap" was included in the television broadcast, but not included on the Christmas Story Live! album. The production was based on "", which in turn was based on the 1983 film. Marc Platt reprised his role as co-executive producer from the live television musical (2016) of "", joined by Adam Siegel, and television director Alex Rudzinski and
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)


The Night Before Christmas (, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1951 Russian feature animated film directed by the "grandmothers of the Russian animation", Brumberg sisters, and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's story "The Night Before Christmas". In big degree it was succeeded to present in this screen version of the story of the same name on the screen national color of the Ukrainian village. The animation features heavy use of rotoscoping, known as "Éclair" in the
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Mrs. Claus


Mrs. Claus (also known as Mrs Santa Claus) is the wife of Santa Claus, the Christmas gift-bringer in American and European Christmas tradition. She is known for making cookies with the elves, caring for the reindeer, and preparing toys with her husband. The wife of Santa Claus is first mentioned in the short story "A Christmas Legend" (1849), by James Rees, a Philadelphia-based Christian missionary. In the story, an old man and woman, both carrying a bundle on the back
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Christmas Eve (opera)


Christmas Eve (, "Noch' pered Rozhdestvom"), is an opera in four acts with music and libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolai Gogol's "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". The story had been used as the basis for an opera at least three times previously, including for Tchaikovsky's "Vakula the Smith" (1874). Oliver Knussen writes that "Rimsky is
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Angela's Christmas


Angela's Christmas is a 2017 Irish-Canadian animation film directed by Damien O'Connor, written by Will Collins and Damien O'Connor and starring the Oscar nominees Ruth Negga in the role of Angela’s mother, and Lucy O'Connell as Angela. The plot is based on the children's story from Pulitzer Prize winning Irish author Frank McCourt, and is set in Limerick, Ireland in the 1910s. The story revolves around Angela's (Lucy O'Connell) desire to make sure everyone is having a great Christmas. The film's cast and production
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A Christmas Story


humorous, "A Christmas Story" deserves its status as a holiday perennial." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In his movie guide, Leonard Maltin awarded the film a rare four-star rating, calling the film "Delightful" and "Truly funny for kids and grown-ups alike" with "Wonderful period flavor." On December 24, 2007, AOL ranked the film their #1 Christmas film of
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The Christmas Choir


The Christmas Choir is a 2008 American-Canadian made-for-television Christmas drama film written by Donald Martin and directed by Peter Svatek, It is based upon a true story of a man who volunteered to work at a homeless shelter and started a choir with its residents. The film first aired on December 9, 2008 on Hallmark Channel. The film was Michael Sarrazin's final screen role. It was inspired by the true story of Pierre Anthian and the Montreal Accrual Bonneau Choir. Peter Brockman (Jason Gedrick) is
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TV Colosso


1993, and retold traditional Christmas stories. The story tells TV Colosso's gang celebrating Christmas at JF's house and watching special scheduling at a high-technology TV. Priscila, Capachildo Capachão, Thunder Dog and others watch "A Estrela de Belém, Cada Gilmar é um Rei" (loosely based on the "Three Wise Men" classic tale) and "O Avarento" (loosely based on "Ebeneezer Scrooger" by Charles Dickens). The sets on this special were made by Lia Renha and Fernando Schmidt, the
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A Christmas Story House


The screenplay for "A Christmas Story" is based on material from author Jean Shepherd's collection of short stories, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". The house, that appears in the film, is located at 3159 W 11th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. For the film adaptation of these stories, director Bob Clark reportedly sent scouts to twenty cities before selecting Cleveland for exterior filming. Cleveland was chosen because of Higbee's Department Store, Vice-President Bruce Campbell took on the project hoping to
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Secular Christmas stories


also noted the ancient Germanic myths of Thor driving a cart led by goats in the sky (which led to the folklore of the Yule Goat) is like Santa driving a sleigh led by reindeers in the sky, so think Santa may stem from both Christian and pre-Christian Germanic mythology. In the 1950s, several Christmas cartoons emerged that deliberately adopt elements of Christian stories to convey the "true meaning of Christmas" in allegorical terms. An early film, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" based on a Gene
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Miracle on 34th Street


Miracle on 34th Street (initially released as The Big Heart in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies. It stars Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film has become a perennial Christmas favorite. "Miracle on
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A Christmas Story


A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book "", with some elements from his 1971 book "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories". It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley. A seasonal classic in North America, it is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. Since 1997, a marathon of the film titled "24 Hours of "
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Richard Mattern Montgomery


staff. Sep 1956-Aug 1959 In 1956 he was assigned as deputy commander of the 2d Air Force (SAC). Following this two-year tour, he became commander of the 3d Air Division at Guam, with responsibility for SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian. Sep 1952-Sep 1956 The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956. As a principal staff
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Christmas window


presents an annual animated Christmas Window display. Traditionally these have often featured snowy northern hemisphere Christmas scenarios, but in 2014 the windows are set in a distinctly Australian summer, featuring beach and rainforest scenes, based on the book "Reindeer's Christmas Surprise" by Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Sue De Gennaro. In Melbourne, the Myer department store began presenting an annual Christmas window display in 1956, and later added the annual Myer Christmas Parade. Displays have typically included scenes from Christmas related stories such as The 12 Days of
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List of Christmas operas


century, when the Advent restrictions were no longer in place, saw new operas on a variety of Christmas themes and usually premiering during the Christmas season, a practice which has continued into the 21st century. Some have been directly based on the Nativity itself or figures closely connected to it such as the Three Magi, while others have focused on Christmas celebrations or traditional figures such as Father Christmas, Knecht Ruprecht, or King Wenceslaus. Nikolai Gogol's short story "Christmas Eve" has been the inspiration of three Russian language operas
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Baabarr


film a repetition that "the film is of old story with new cast & crew, Martin specially criticises the decision of making film with lead role of "Soham Shah"" The film was not good at the box office as it hardly netted an amount of at the end of its first week after release & getting through the cinemas across India "Baabarr" at last managed to gross & determined a "Flop". "Baabarr" grossed £2,748 on 18 Sep 2009 & £1,439 on 11 Sep 2009 according to
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Annie Christmas


Annie Christmas or Keelboat Annie is a character in the folklore and tall tales of Louisiana, described as a 7 foot tall, supernaturally strong African-American woman keelboat captain. She has been described as a female counterpart of the John Henry character, another supernaturally strong African American folklore character. Like John Henry, the character may have been based on a real person. Stories of Annie Christmas have been included in several collections of folktales from the American South. The stories describe how she defies traditional gender hierarchies and the rules and
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The Star of Christmas


flash, but rather that love must come from the inside; Jesus was sent on Christmas to help enable such a change, and He is the true "Star of Christmas". The story of "The Star of Christmas" centers on two would-be operatic composers who are based on W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. "VeggieTales" has spoofed Gilbert and Sullivan's work in "Lyle the Kindly Viking" and (specifically "The Mikado") in "Sumo of the Opera". In this episode however
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Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense


discover on the evening that, in typical Wooster fashion, nothing has gone to plan and the show is not ready to be staged. In desperation, he enlists his valet Jeeves as well as the butler Seppings to help him stage the production, with Bertie as himself and both Jeeves and Seppings playing multiple characters. Both in the story Bertie is narrating and the play as it is being performed, events quickly spiral out of control, prompting Jeeves to step in to make sure all ends well. "Perfect Nonsense" was
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24


"Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" is an instrumental medley of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" and "Shchedryk", first released on the Savatage album "Dead Winter Dead" in 1995 as "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)." It was re-released by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, a side project of several Savatage members, on their 1996 debut album "Christmas Eve and Other Stories". The piece describes a lone cello player (based on Vedran Smailović) playing a forgotten Christmas carol in
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Christmas Every Day


Christmas Every Day is a 1996 American made-for-television fantasy-comedy film based on the 1892 short story "Christmas Every Day" by William Dean Howells. It was directed by Larry Peerce, starred Erik von Detten, and originally broadcast on The Family Channel during their first 25 Days of Christmas programming block. and was also shown on UK television on QVC Extra (True Entertainment) on November 28, 2015. The movie was remade into an ABC Family TV movie in 2006 titled "Christmas Do-Over"
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This Christmas (film)


This Christmas is a 2007 American Christmas romantic musical comedy-drama film produced by Rainforest Films and distributed by Screen Gems. Written, produced and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II, it is a Christmas time story that centers on the Whitfield family, whose eldest has come home for the first time in four years. The film is based on the 1970 Donny Hathaway song of the same name, which is covered by Chris Brown in the film. The Whitfield family overcome many trials and obstacles during the Christmas season. Shirley Ann
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation


National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. It is the third installment in National Lampoon's "Vacation" film series, and was written by John Hughes, based on his short story in "National Lampoon" magazine, "Christmas '59". The film stars Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and Randy Quaid, with Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki as the Griswold children Audrey and Rusty, respectively. Since its release in 1989, "Christmas Vacation" has often been labeled
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Snapchat


. In July 2016, it was reported that Snapchat had submitted a patent application for the process of using an object recognition system to deliver sponsored filters based on objects seen in a camera view. Later that year, in Sep 2016, Snapchat released its first hardware product, called the Spectacles. Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap Inc., called it “a toy” but saw it as an upside to freeing his app from smartphone cameras. Since May 2016, Cisco tells stories about current employees by asking employees of the company
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19th Air Refueling Squadron


The 19th Air Refueling Squadron (19 ARS) is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. At the time of its inactivation, it was based at Otis Air Force Base. On 19 Sep 1985 the 19th Air Refueling Squadron,(Medium), was consolidated with the 19th Ferrying Squadron, a unit that was last active 31 Mar 1944. This action was directed by Department of the Air Force Letter DAF/MPM 662q Attachment 2 (Inactive Units), 19 Sep 1985. The Consolidated Unit will retain the Designation of 19th
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Marias barn (TV series)


Marias barn (""Maria's Child"") was the Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar in 1987. It was an animated series based on the New Testament stories of Virgin Mary's son, Jesus. The stories are based on Danish writer Cecil Bødker's two novels, who in turn are based on the New Testament and other older stories about Jesus, as Cecil Bødker tried to reflect life in Ancient Egypt and Palestine upon the time Jesus was born. It follows the story all the way from the birth of Jesus
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Boris Karloff


(Belmont Books, 1963), though based on the recordings by Karloff of the same title, and featuring his image on the book cover, contained stories written by Michael Avallone; the second volume, "More Tales of the Frightened", contained stories authored by Robert Lory. Both Avallone and Lory worked closely with Canadian editor and book packager Lyle Kenyon Engel, who also ghost-edited a horror story anthology for horror film star Basil Rathbone. Beginning in 1940, Karloff dressed as Father Christmas every Christmas to hand out
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Hellboy Christmas Special


Hellboy Christmas Special is a Dark Horse Comics one-shot comic book horror anthology edited by Scott Allie and featuring the work of Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni and Steve Purcell. Mignola has stated that when he and Gary Gianni came up with the idea for this Christmas special and that for his own entry for it he took a story based on an old folktale that he had long mooted and added a Christmas angel to it. "Hellboy Christmas Special" (December 3, 1997) featured a cover by Gary Gianni. The
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Switchmas


Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington. This film also features CGI scenes based on Ira's Christmas dreams. It stars Elliott Gould and David DeLuise and is directed and produced by Sue Corcoran.
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The Christmas Shoes (film)


The Christmas Shoes is a 2002 American-Canadian made-for-television drama film based on the song and novel of the same name which was broadcast on CBS on December 1, 2002. It was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is the first part in a trilogy of films, followed by "The Christmas Blessing" (2005) and "The Christmas Hope" (2009). The film has several intertwined plot lines: One story is about a driven, workaholic lawyer named Robert Layton and the impact
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Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost


, the filmmakers chose to adapt an already well-known story, in this case "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, in the belief that the audience's familiarity with the story would result in the need for fewer intertitles. It was presented in 'Twelve Tableaux' or scenes. The film contains the first use of intertitles in a film. Evidence suggests that Paul's version of "A Christmas Carol" was based as much on J. C. Buckstone's popular stage adaptation "Scrooge" as on Dickens' original
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The Christmas Tree Ship (EP)


The Christmas Tree Ship is the second EP by I Like Trains. It was released on 24 November 2008. It is an entirely instrumental concept album, based on the storm that sank the Rouse Simmons. The Rouse Simmons was a schooner that for twenty years delivered Christmas trees to Chicago, until on the night of November 23 1912 it was lost in a storm on Lake Michigan, with all hands and a full cargo of Christmas trees. The five track titles relate to different aspects of the story. The album was released
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A Ghost Story for Christmas


"totally forgotten". Wheatley has commented that they heralded a divergence from the stage-inspired horror of the 1940s and 1950s to a more modern Gothic horror based in the present day, losing in the process the "aesthetic of restraint" evident in the original adaptations. The BBC Four revival beginning in 2005 with "A View from a Hill" was greeted warmly by Sarah Dempster, who stated that the programme was, "in every respect, a vintage "Ghost Story for Christmas" production. There are the powdery
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De Lysle Ferree Cass


De Lysle Ferrée Cass (1887–1973) was a writer of fantasy short stories. He had at least six stories published pre-World War I in magazines from the Munsey pulp stable. These include: "Oahula the Carnivorous" ("The All-Story" March 1913); "Pilgrims in Love" ("The All-Story" Sep and Oct 1913); "The Love Caprice" ("The All-Story" November 1913); "Love Goes Blindly" ("The All-Story"
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Christmas Oratorio


) the circumcision and naming of Jesus, the fifth (for the first Sunday after New Year) the journey of the Magi, and the sixth (for Epiphany) the adoration of the Magi. The structure of the story is defined to a large extent by the particular requirements of the church calendar for Christmas 1734/35. Bach abandoned his usual practice when writing church cantatas of basing the content upon the Gospel reading for that day in order to achieve a coherent narrative structure. Were he to have followed the calendar, the story
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A Christmas Carol (miniseries)


A Christmas Carol is an upcoming fantasy miniseries based on the story of the same name by Charles Dickens. It is due to air in December 2019. This marked one of Rutger Hauer's final performances. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future. It had been announced in November 2017 that BBC had commissioned a new telling of the Dickens tale, with Steven Knight writing the three
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The Night Before Christmas (1961 film)


The Night Before Christmas, also known as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (), is a 1961 Soviet fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Rou, based on a "Christmas Eve", first story in the second volume of the collection "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" by Nikolai Gogol. This eccentric and fantastical fairy tale takes place near the village of Dikanka on the night before Christmas. Amid carol singing, drunken revelry, and amorous hijinks, the blacksmith Vakula persuades the Devil to fly him to Sankt-Petersburg
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special)


How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (also known as Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) is a television special directed and co-produced by Chuck Jones. It is based on the eponymous children's book by Dr. Seuss, the story of the Grinch trying to take away Christmas from the townsfolk of Whoville below his mountain hideaway. Originally telecast in the United States on CBS on December 18, 1966, it went on to become a perennial holiday special. The special also features the voice of Boris Karloff as
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November Christmas


November Christmas is a 2010 American made-for-television Christmas drama film based on a short story written by Greg Coppa. The movie premiered on CBS on November 28, 2010. It was presented through Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was shot in Nova Scotia. A small Rhode Island community comes together to create special holiday (Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas) moments several weeks early for Vanessa Marks, an 8-year-old girl with a life-threatening illness. At the beginning of the film, the father
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Christmas gift


however, interpreted this story as indications that it should be their subjects who should give gifts to their superiors, and insisted on tributes and tithes during that period. This changed around the turn of the millennium following the popularity of the Good King Wenceslas story based on the life of another historical person claimed to be a gift-giver, Saint Wenceslaus. Christmas gift-giving to superiors became less common, and around the time of the Protestant Reformation, customs of gift-giving to children became increasingly widespread in Europe. The
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Pantomime


Theatre in 1939. Traditionally performed at Christmas and afterwards, with family audiences, British pantomime continues as a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Pantomime story lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children's stories, particularly the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of the most
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A Christmas Story Live!


The spot, which was directed by Michael Gracey and Beth McCarthy-Miller, and also simulcast on Facebook, featured a performance of the number "Come Alive" with the film's stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Keala Settle, and Zendaya. The presentation was billed as the first live television commercial for a film. "A Christmas Story Live!" received mixed to negative reviews, with the general audience reacting more harshly than professional critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the production received a 46% rating based on 13
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The Beeps


Sapphire Stream S2/Ep45 Apr. 29 Wash Those Socks! S2/Ep46 Dec. 12 The Bumps SEASON 3: S3/Ep1 Aug. 30 Up Down Hill S3/Ep2 Aug. 31 Caravan S3/Ep3 Sep. 6 Secret Garden S3/Ep4 Sep. 7 Bounceflower Tea S3/Ep5 Sep. 13 The Whale S3/Ep6 Sep. 14 Soggy Sockroaches S3/Ep7 Sep. 20 Stinkroots S3/Ep8 Sep. 21 Sing-a-long-a-beeps S3/Ep9 Sep. 27 History Book S3/Ep10 Sep. 28 What Goes Splat? S3
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Signal Transfer Point


. SEPs send signaling messages to other SEPs, but the messages are normally routed via the SEP's adjacent STPs. An STP's main function is to identify the best path for two SEPs to communicate. A typical application would be for two SEPs to agree on the use of a shared data path (e.g., using ISUP to initiate a voice call between a user on one SEP and a user on the second SEP). In this way, STPs route signaling messages (for starting, maintaining or finishing any kind of
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Icelandic Christmas folklore


Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas. The stories are directed at children and are used to scare them into good behaviour. The folklore includes both mischievous pranksters who leave gifts during the night and monsters who eat disobedient children. The figures are depicted as living together as a family in a cave and include: These Christmas-related folk tales first appear around the 17th century and display some variation based on region and age. In modern times these characters have taken on a slightly
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One Christmas


One Christmas is a 1994 American made-for-television drama film starring Katharine Hepburn (in her final television role), Henry Winkler and Swoosie Kurtz. It is based on the 1983 short story "One Christmas" by Truman Capote about a young boy who reluctantly leaves his Alabama home to spend Christmas with his estranged father in New Orleans. The film originally premiered on NBC on December 19, 1994. In 1930, eight-year-old Buddy lives an idyllic existence in rural Alabama with his cousin Sook. But
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Christmas Eve


tradition and based on the story of Creation in the Book of Genesis: "And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day." Many churches still ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening; for example, the Nordic Lutheran churches. Since tradition holds that Jesus was born at night (based in Luke 2:6-8), Midnight Mass is celebrated on Christmas Eve, traditionally at midnight, in commemoration of his birth. The idea of Jesus being born at night is reflected in the
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National Lampoon (magazine)


successful, however. Released in 1983, the movie "National Lampoon's Vacation" was based upon John Hughes's "National Lampoon" story "Vacation '58". The movie's financial success gave rise to several follow-up films, including "National Lampoon's European Vacation" (1985), "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989), based on John Hughes's "Christmas '59", "Vegas Vacation" (1997), and most recently "Vacation" (2015), all
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Signal Transfer Point


calls originated by the SEPs' attached users) while avoiding disabled intermediary STPs. A signaling message typically never goes directly from a given SEP to the destination SEP: the message would normally have to pass through the initiating SEP's adjacent STP so that it can be routed to the destination SEP. In some applications, however, SEPs might be directly connected with signaling links; this would typically be done to enhance robustness or performance between two critical SEPs. Such mesh network configurations are also common in Europe, where STPs have not
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The One Doctor


The One Doctor is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who. The Sixth Doctor and Mel come up against an impostor Doctor and his companion Sally-Anne. During the serial, the Doctor and his companions undertake a quest to find the three greatest treasures of the Generios system. The story was essentially Big Finish's Christmas panto, and features an extra Christmas scene as a hidden track at the end of the story. The episodes are heavily laden with comedy
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Ruth Sawyer


film in 1917, starring Mae Murray and an uncredited Loretta Young in her film debut as a fairy. The next year Sawyer published her first book for children, "This Way to Christmas". The story is about a young boy--based on her son, David--whose parents go on a trip and leave him in the care of an Irish couple, Joanna and Barney. In each chapter David listens to a new Christmas story or folk tale. Sawyer published one book every year or two for the next twenty
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Samaritan's Purse


items, and other small gifts. A booklet of bible stories is often distributed alongside the shoebox gifts which are given to children based on need alone, regardless of their faith. These boxes are then distributed overseas by volunteers. , over 124 million boxes have been delivered. The program uses "follow-up" evangelism with pamphlets of bible stories that are given to families that receive the boxes, and an organizer for Operation Christmas Child says his goal every day is to "expand [God's] kingdom through Operation Christmas
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Story Teller (magazine)


to both the original series and "Little Story Teller". Of the Christmas specials only "Christmas Story 2" was made available in New Zealand or Australia, under the title of "Christmas Story Time". "Christmas Story 3" was widely assumed to be the last title from the "Story Teller" series but in 1986, Marshall Cavendish released the "Story Teller Song Book". The 52-page publication contained 20 all-time sing-along favourites rather than stories but it still retained the "Story Teller"
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The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door


a neighbour turns his one bedroom council flat into a 'cannabis cafe'. In Wales, some new arrivals manage to upset a small community after they buy the local pub and convert it into a home. 4x7 Episode 7 --Air date Sep 09, 2015—Two feuding families turn their whole street into a war zone. 4x8 Season finale—Air date Sep 16, 2015—Among the stories highlighted are that of Leslie, whose neighbours began capturing his activities on film, convinced that his trade business was illegal. 5x1 Episode 1 --Air date
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Warner Bros. Animation


are never resolved. On December 16, 2014, Warner Bros. Animation's stop-motion Christmas special "" debuted on NBC. Based on the 2003 New Line film "Elf", and its Broadway musical adaptation "", the special was animated in stop-motion in the style of Rankin/Bass Productions Christmas specials, such as "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town". In "Buddy's Musical Christmas", Santa narrates the story of Buddy's travels
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A Christmas Carol


24 October Dickens invited Leech to work on "A Christmas Carol", and four hand-coloured etchings and four black-and-white wood engravings by the artist accompanied the text. Dickens's hand-written manuscript of the story does not include the sentence in the penultimate paragraph "... and to Tiny Tim, who did "not" die"; this was added later, during the printing process. The central character of "A Christmas Carol" is Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly London-based moneylender, described
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An All Dogs Christmas Carol


An All Dogs Christmas Carol is a 1998 animated TV movie which was released direct-to-video in November 1998. To date, it is the final installment in the "All Dogs Go to Heaven" film series and it also serves as the series finale to the . Unlike the first two films, where the main characters are Charlie and Itchy, Carface is the focus of the story. It is based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". The film opens with angel puppies talking to Annabelle (Bebe
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Friday Harbor, Washington


and founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Friday Harbor is the setting of the Friday Harbor novel series by Lisa Kleypas. The 2012 Hallmark Film called "Christmas with Holly" is the TV-movie adaptation of "Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor", the first book in the series, and also features Friday Harbor. Friday Harbor was the location for the 1966 feature film "Namu, the Killer Whale", based on a true story. Friday Harbor was also the home base for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, where
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Christmas Carol Kauffman


based on stories of those she met or stories which were submitted to her. Of particular note is the work of the Hannibal mission within several Missouri prisons, work which resulted in the conversion and baptism of Johnnie Allison, who would eventually be convicted of the murder of his father-in-law. As a result of a personal connection with Nelson and Christmas Carol Kauffman, Allison became passionately religious, and worked to convert other prisoners, even creating a Mennonite church within the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. Johnnie Allison
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A Boy Called Christmas


A Boy Called Christmas is an upcoming family film directed by Gil Kenan, based on the book of the same name by Matt Haig. The film will be released theatrically in UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and China by Studiocanal while Netflix will release the film elsewhere. A reimagining of the story of Father Christmas, Nikolas is a boy who sets off into the snowy white north in search of his father. A deal was struck in May 2016 for the film to be adapted into film by Blueprint Pictures
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Christmas in August (Yellowstone)


employees indicate that the celebration was not held prior to the 1930s. While the actual origins to the Christmas in August story are unknown, Yellowstone's Information Specialist Leslie Quinn speculates that the origins are based upon three factors. First, during the 1930s the celebration of Christmas in July was a popular celebration in the Rocky Mountains. Second, August 25th is the anniversary of the National Park Service. Third, there was an existing celebration in the park known as "Savage Days." Quinn discovered a 1966 article published by the
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Jerome Coopersmith


Christmas For You"" was a 1-hour television special based on the true story of a Jewish congregation whose members filled the jobs of their Christian neighbors for one night, so they could be with their families on Christmas Eve. The holiday special, produced by Gilbert and Joseph Cates in 1977 and directed by Marc Daniels, starred Milton Berle, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Herb Edelman, Jim Backus, and Adrienne Barbeau. ""An American Christmas Carol"," another holiday-inspired work, is a feature-
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List of Garfield characters


based on Jim Davis' father, James William Davis. Also, every Christmas he reads the Christmas story ""Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas"" to everyone. In "The Garfield Show", he is voiced by Frank Welker. First Appearance: May 17, 1983 Latest Appearance: November 06, 2011 (at Garfield title) (mentioned July 23, 2015) Doc is Jon's brother who lives on a farm with his mother and father. It remains unknown if he is Jon's older,
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Father Christmas (film series)


The Father Christmas film series is an American/Canadian trilogy, starring Erin Krakow and Niall Matter, based on the novels of Robin Jones Gunn. The films were originally broadcast in the USA on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as part of the channels' "Miracles of Christmas" seasonal programming. The films follow the story of Miranda Chester (Krakow), as she visits the town of Carlton Heath, Vermont, in search of the truth about her parentage. Whilst there she meets, and falls in love with, local
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Charles Dickens


also the most-filmed of Dickens's stories, with many versions dating from the early years of cinema. According to the historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of the observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by "A Christmas Carol". Dickens catalysed the emerging Christmas as a family-centred festival of generosity, in contrast to the dwindling community-based and church-centred observations, as new middle-class expectations arose. Its archetypal figures (Scrooge, Tiny
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Judy's Scary Little Christmas


Judy’s Scary Little Christmas is an original musical written by James Webber and David Church, with music and lyrics by Joe Patrick Ward. It is a spoof on television variety shows of the 1950s, satirizing celebrities’ public images and private lives. The fictional story employs a metaphysical plot twist (as in the television series, "The Twilight Zone") and spiritual redemption through a ghost (as in Charles Dickens’ novel, "A Christmas Carol".) The show contains campy humor based on the sensationalized personal lives
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The Beeps


/Ep20 Sep. 19 Bouncy Bouncy Beep Beep S2/Ep21 Sep. 19 Big Beepday Bash S2/Ep22 Sep. 20 Yuk Says No S2/Ep23 Sep. 24 Wheely Helpful S2/Ep24 Sep. 25 Teeny Beep Takes Off S2/Ep25 Sep. 26 Carnival S2/Ep26 Sep. 27 Peas and Beeps S2/Ep27 Apr. 25 Stuck on You! S2/Ep28 Dec. 9 Hole Lot of Trouble S2/Ep29 Dec. 15 A Little Adventure S2/Ep30 Dec. 16 The Lost Houses S2/Ep31 May 1 Bounceberry Pie S2/Ep32 Dec. 23
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov


opera "The Maid of Pskov", he closed his musical account with the past; he had left none of his major works before "May Night" in their original form. Another death brought about a creative renewal. The passing of Tchaikovsky presented a twofold opportunity—to write for the Imperial Theaters and to compose an opera based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "Christmas Eve", a work on which Tchaikovsky had based his opera "Vakula the Smith". The success of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Christmas Eve
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Barbara Grunes


Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for America's Favorite Fun Food" (The Popular Skinny Cookbook Series) by Barbara Grunes (Paperback – Mar 1996) "The Ultimate Cookie Cookbook" by Barbara Grunes and Virginia Van Vynckt (Hardcover – Oct 12, 1999) "Very Merry Cookie Party: How to Plan and Host a Christmas Cookie Exchange" by Virginia Van Vynckt, Barbara Grunes (Paperback – Sep 29, 2010) "Grill it in!: Recipes for the Burton Stovetop Grill" by Barbara Grunes (Paperback – 1991
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Tokyo International Players


directed by Hamilton Armstrong Mar 1995: "The Tinker's Wedding" & "In the Shadow of the Glen" by John Millington Synge, directed by Geraldine Twilley (studio production) May 1995: "The Foreigner" by Larry Shue, directed by Judy Fisher Sep 1995: "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Neil Simon, directed by Scott Sullivan Dec 1995: "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, directed by Hank Roberts Feb 1996: "The Amorous Flea" by Jerry Devine, directed by Judy Fisher Apr 1996
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The Golden Christmas Tree


The Golden Christmas Tree is a 20-page Disney comics Christmas story written, drawn, and lettered by Carl Barks. The story was first published in Four Color #203 (December 1948), with a cover by Barks, a 12-page Mickey Mouse and Goofy Christmas story ("Special Delivery") written, drawn, and lettered by Bill Wright, and three one-page Barks Christmas gag stories featuring Donald Duck: "Jumping to Conclusions", "The True Test", and "Ornaments on the Way". The
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Christmas cantata


Česká mše vánoční, which tells within the frame of a Mass a Christmas story in Czech, set in pastoral Bohemia. During the romantic era, Felix Mendelssohn composed the chorale cantata ' based on Martin Luther's song, and Josef Rheinberger wrote ' (The star of Bethlehem) on a text by his wife Franziska von Hoffnaaß. Christmas cantatas were also composed by Gerard von Brucken Fock (1900) and Charles H. Gabriel, among others. In the 20th century, Benjamin Britten set in 1942 a sequence of carols as "
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The Christmas That Almost Wasn't


error that resulted in Santa never visiting him as a child. Prune rediscovers his holiday spirit and runs into the street wishing everyone a merry Christmas, bewildering the townsfolk with his enthusiasm. As Santa and Mrs. Claus depart, he thanks Sam for all his help. Prune generously gives his sailboat to a little boy as the town’s children look on with delight. He invites all of them to his mansion for a Christmas party. The film was directed by and stars Rossano Brazzi. The actual story was based on the book
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A Christmas Carol (1982 film)


A Christmas Carol is an Australian 75-minute made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia; a part of the studio's series of adaptations of Charles Dickens' works made from 1982 through 1985. It was originally broadcast in 1982 through the Australian Nine Network Australia. The film is based on Charles Dickens' classic English story, "A Christmas Carol", first published in 1843, and was adapted by Alexander Buzo. It was produced by Eddy Graham and directed by Jean Tych. Voice talent included Ron Haddrick,
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Czech Christmas Mass


parts Kyrie, Gloria etc.), the story is based on Christian theme of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Despite this, the work has a rather pastoral character with emphasis on a Czech description of the nativity in a Czech setting. During the centuries, the composition became the most popular Christmas mass in Czech countries and one of the musical symbols of Czech Christmas. Ryba composed his most famous work in 1796, a year after he managed to resolve a dispute over his teaching methods with the priest Kašpar Zachar.
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Ellis Paul


includes a copy of the CD with exclusive introductory tracks by Paul. The accompanying CD allows young readers to listen to each song while discovering additional facts about Paul's heroes on each page. Paul's second children's book was published - again by Albert Whitman & Company - in October 2015. Based on his Christmas poem "The Night the Lights Went Out on Christmas", the book, illustrated by Scott Brundage, is the whimsical yet heartwarming story of a neighborhood where families trying to outdo one another with Christmas lights and
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