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45 unusual facts about Christmas


Abies amabilis

The foliage has an attractive scent, and is sometimes used for Christmas decoration, including Christmas trees.

Anoplognathus pallidicollis

Adults are common in the summer months, particularly around Christmas, resulting in the common name of Christmas beetle for the species (and also for other members of its genus).

Bo Ratliff

They are scheduled to appear at the Murat Temple during the Christmas time for the Murat Shriner's RV Club and for the Murat Shriner's club in Morristown, Indiana.

C. Ernst Harth

He got his first taste of acting in grade school when the drama club cast the school's largest child to play Santa in their Christmas pageant.

California Trout

Initially organized in the mid-1960s as a local unit of Trout Unlimited, the founders formed CalTrout during Christmas week of 1970 and filed papers of incorporation the following January.

Campfire Tales

The third story has to do with a greedy, selfish man returning home to his mother for Christmas.

Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant

The restaurant was open every day of the year, including all major holidays such as Christmas and New Year's Day.

Celebrate the Magic

The show premiered with the original Christmas segment from The Magic, the Memories and You.

Charles Cahier

He also wrote studies on Christmas and on Epiphany in Amide la religion (Paris, 1848–1849), and in his Calendrier populaire du temps passé in Revue de l'art chrétien (Paris, 1878).

Christmas club

The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1850.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, a Poem (1850) is, despite the title, often treated as two poems by Robert Browning, rather than as one poem in two parts.

"Christmas-Eve" is an account of a vision in which the narrator is taken to a Nonconformist church, to St. Peter's in Rome, to a Göttingen lecture theatre where a practitioner of the Higher criticism is discoursing on the Christian myth, and back to the Nonconformist church.

David Greenhill

He was then sent out to Montrose on a season long loan, but this was cut short, and he returned to Clyde at Christmas due to injury.

Demba Ba

Ba was an integral part of Hoffenheim's promotion to the Bundesliga and their successful first season in the Bundesliga, where they finished seventh after leading during the Christmas break.

Denise Donatelli

In addition, she is heard on pianist Bill Cunliffe’s 2011 Christmas album "That Time of Year."

Desfina

The Christmas and the Easter are celebrated with particular way mainly in villages and small town.

Donna VanLiere

Donna VanLiere is an American author of fiction, primarily novels about Christmas.

Eid il-Burbara

The seeds germinate and grow up to around 6 inches in time for Christmas, when the shoots are used to decorate the nativity scene usually placed below the Christmas tree.

Gil Vicente

Though Leonor asked him to give an encore performance of the play at the Christmas matins, Vicente decided to write a new play for the occasion, the Auto Pastoril Castelhano ("Castilian Pastoral Act").

In contrast, his representations of the mythic, symbolic, and religious aspects of Christmas, such as the figure of the Virgin Mother, the infant Jesus, and Christmas eve, demonstrate a harmony and purity which is not present in his social commentary.

Glenn Leonard

Leonard's most notable Temptations leads were on the 1980 single Power, and on the Christmas classic Silent Night from their 1980 Christmas album.

Hayden Foxe

He was a regular in Portsmouth's side until a fractured bone in his foot ended his campaign at Christmas.

Jól á leið til jarðar

Two inexperienced angels from heaven must deliver a casket containing the holiday of Christmas to Earth in time for Christmas Eve, as the evil Öngull attempts to steal the casket, and sink it in the deepest black hole in space.

Kevin Paige

He also released a Christmas CD with his wife, Bethany Paige, entitled A W.O.W. Christmas in 2004, as well as a contemporary Christian disc entitled Faith, Hope, Love, Passion that same year.

Luciano Civelli

Civelli also stated that his expectation was to be back playing first team football before Christmas.

Madrigal dinner

A Madrigal Dinner or Madrigal Feast is an American form of dinner theater often held by schools and church groups during the Christmas season.

Manuel Cajuda

Cajuda returned to Portugal midway through 2006–07 campaign joining Vitória de Guimarães – being announced on Christmas Day – which he led to promotion and a third position in the following year, just narrowly surpassing S.L. Benfica for the last UEFA Champions League berth and only to lose controversially in the last qualifying round against FC Basel of Switzerland.

Marcelo Moretto

During the 2005 Christmas and New Year break in Portugal, a lot was spoken in the press about Moretto's possible transfer to Benfica or F.C. Porto.

Margate, KwaZulu-Natal

Christmas and Easter are especially busy times, with Margate's main street often clogged with heavy traffic during these times.

Matty Fryatt

His first was becoming the first player in 42 years to score 20 goals before Christmas, and another being the first in 83 years to hit hat-tricks in successive matches.

Naisrín Elsafty

Naisrín grew up in a multicultural and multi-religious household, celebrating both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

Ossian Everett Mills

In 1886, Mills originated the practice of taking a group of New England Conservatory students to perform for patients in Boston hospitals on Christmas and Easter.

Peter P. Jurchak

His musicianship was often requested for church functions, and it soon became standard for him to play at events such as the Christmas Eve celebration at St. Adrian's.

Prostanthera lasianthos

They appear in late spring and summer, and specifically around Christmas time in Victoria.

Pyrus Series

The next day, Gyldengrød finds out that the problem is much bigger than first thought because Christmas has disappeared.

Robert De Cormier

He has also recorded several Christmas albums with his choral group, The Robert DeCormier Singers.

Roger Ewing

He also appeared that season as Eddie Fox in the episode "The Christmas Show" of ABC's short-lived The Bing Crosby Show, starring Bing Crosby and Beverly Garland, and in a third sitcom as well in the role of Norman in the episode entitled "Look Who's a Sailor" on CBS's short-lived The Baileys of Balboa.

St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School

The school also has a Christmas Miracle campaign where students in individual classes purchase gifts for the less-fortunate in Hamilton.

Susie Mathis

Mathis released a solo single under the name 'Tiger Sue' in 1978 and was the vocal coach for the St Winifred's School Choir Christmas number one in 1980, "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".

Svala

She began singing publicly at the age of seven when she appeared on her father's Christmas album.

The Front Porch Country Band

The Front Porch Country Band performed the world premiere of their multimedia Christmas production, "Christmas Once Upon A Time," on December 12, 2009 at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

The book is a 413-page collection of diary entries written between Christmas of 1986 and Christmas of 1987.

The Mystery of Cabin Island

A series of adventures begins for the Hardy Boys and their friends Chet and Biff after they are invited to spend Christmas vacation on Cabin Island at the invitation of its owner, Elroy Jefferson, as a reward for recovering Jefferson's car in The Shore Road Mystery.

Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge

ABC televised the event until 2009, showing the tournament tape-delayed on a weekend in December just before Christmas, with the first nine holes broadcast on Saturday, and the final nine holes on Sunday.


A Christmas Memory

In 2010, Capote's "A Christmas Memory" was adapted into a full-blown musical by Broadway veterans Larry Grossman (music) and Carol Hall (lyrics).

A Gerald Walker Christmas EP

The album is inspired by Charles M. Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and contains two traditional Christmas songs and three original songs.

Artists' Suffrage League

The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the Chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedly Charlton and Emily J Harding.

Baryton. Gracias a la vida

# A La Huella A La Huella 02:58 (aka "La Peregrinacion"); villancico (Christmas song); composer: Ariel Ramírez; writer: Félix Luna

Buddy Spicher

He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” performing on the title track with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

Carve Her Name with Pride

The poem, 'The Life That I Have', also known as 'Yours', recited to Violette by her husband Etienne, was once believed to have been written especially for the film, but was in fact the actual code poem given to her in March 1944 by the SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, and written by him on Christmas Eve 1943 in memory of his girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in a car crash.

Christmas Canon

"Christmas Canon" is a Christmas song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) from their 1998 album The Christmas Attic.

Christmas Cottage

It tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.

Christmas Market, Stuttgart

Stuttgart Christmas Market, known in German as the Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt is a Christmas market that takes place every year during Advent in the German city of Stuttgart.

Christmas Tales

Christmas Tales is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, it released on the November 23, 2012 in Norway.

Christmas Tree EXEC

Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics, then sent itself to each entry in the target's email contacts file.

CJGV-FM

On December 1, 2011, the station flipped to an all Christmas format for the holiday season, with announced plans to switch to adult contemporary after January 1, 2012.

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Fernando Ortega also recorded "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" on his 2011 album, "Christmas Songs".

Danny Seward

In December 2005, Danny was invited to sing alongside Elaine Paige and John Barrowman in a Christmas concert performed at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

Dominick the Donkey

It was included on Volume 2 of the "Ultimate Christmas Album" series produced by Collectables Records and on the Christmas compilation album "Merry Xmas 2011" by Cinquenta Musica.

Erich Bey

Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.

Gregory Webster

In the Christmas season of 2007,he recorded a version of The Ramones song "Merry Christmas(I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight" with Rose Melberg (ex-Go Sailor, Tiger Trap, The Softies, Gaze).

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Haste the Day

After releasing Pressure the Hinges and finishing up the 12 Days of Christmas tour with Calico System, Heavy Heavy Low Low and Flee the Seen, the band began another tour with From Autumn to Ashes and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.

J. I. M. Stewart

Christmas at Candleshoe was the basis for the 1977 film Candleshoe starring Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes and David Niven.

Jonathan Watson

A Christmas 2012 object of his satire was Donald Trump of whom Watson commented "mastering the billionaire's hairstyle was harder than getting the voice right".

June Jackson Christmas

Dr. Christmas was appointed Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services on August 16, 1972 by Mayor of New York City John Lindsay.

Kris Kringle

Christkind or Christkindl, the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child

Lee Trundle

Trundle also performed 'Let it Snow' for Preston's 2012 Christmas light switch on, before turning on the lights alongside fellow players, Matt Cardle and Russell Watson.

Lewin's Mead

The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.

Liangmai Naga

Liangmai Naga being a Christian community, their other main festivals and celebrations are Christmas, Easter, the New Year and Thanksgiving.

M. William Howard, Jr.

Howard conducted Christmas services for the U.S. Embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran, Iran.

Manon Rhéaume

She guest-starred as herself in the made-for-TV movie A Beachcombers Christmas with Tiger Williams and Jyrki Lumme.

Margaritus of Brindisi

Margaritus and many nobles of the old guard, including Nicholas, Archbishop of Salerno, the son of Matthew of Ajello, and Tancred's widow, Sibylla of Acerra, and brief successor, William III, were present at the Christmas coronation.

Michael Roberds

He performed the role of Big Bird in the school play "Christmas on Sesame Street" at age five.

Monique Dupree

Since then, she's been in over 60 films including American Gangster, Life Support, The Replacements, Satan Hates You, and Bikini Bloodbath Christmas.

Natalia Tena

She hosted a behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Trailing Tonks" for the subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release, and is credited as producer and director of the featurette, in which she also performs an original Christmas-themed blues song on guitar, which she composed while working as a busker on the London Underground.

Percy Faith

After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s, including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis for Mathis' 1958 Christmas album titled Merry Christmas, and Guy Mitchell for whom Faith wrote Mitchell's number one single, "My Heart Cries for You".

Rachel Feldman

As a screenwriter, she written the television films Post Modern Romance (1993), She's No Angel (2001) starring Tracey Gold, Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (2005) starring Christine Baranski and Love Notes (2007) starring Laura Leighton.

Rodolfo Morales

In 1965 while organizing a Christmas party at the home of a sculptor friend, Geles Cabrera, he used collages as decorations.

Rosemary Leach

In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown and 1986 in a Jack Rosenthal British television Christmas play Day To Remember.

Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

Burroughs' recording of "The Junky's Christmas" was used as the soundtrack for a stop-motion animation short film of the same title released in 1993, directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel, which also incorporated live-action footage of Burroughs.

The Bells of Dublin

#"The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve" (with the bell-ringers of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin) (Paddy Moloney)

The Invisible Band

"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".

The Kreep

Kreepmas combines Halloween and Christmas, and is celebrated October 1 through December 31.

The Lana Sisters

They appeared on the BBC's Drumbeat with Adam Faith and John Barry, and later took part in a Christmas special "Tommy Steele’s Spectacular" with the song "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat".

Thee Majesty

Mary Never Wanted Jesus was a special Christmas-themed limited release that contains some different tracks and running orders on the vinyl and CD versions.

There Goes the Groom

"There Goes The Groom" is a 1997 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine first shown on 28 December 1997.

Two in a Million/You're My Number One

It made its debut at number 5 in the run up to Christmas selling almost 100,000 and peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart the following year.

Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper

When Huckleberry Hound and his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber visit Jellystone Park for Christmas, they discover Yogi Bear and Boo Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus.

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York

Produced by Elena Beloff, co-produced by Ken Christmas and Vincent D'Onofrio, cinematography by Eun-ah Lee; film editing by Ben Abrams; original music by Oliver James and Robert Eldridge, additional music by Tony Sokol and the song "Budem Vmeste" was written by Elena Beloff and produced by Tony Sokol and Joe Bohmer.