He had been commissioned by The Strand Magazine to write an article on fairies for their Christmas issue, and the fairy photographs " must have seemed like a godsend " according to broadcaster and historian Magnus Magnusson.

Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January ( Gregorian Calendar ), which coincides with 25 December according to the Julian Calendar.

Bogart's birthday has been a subject of controversy ; according to Warner Bros, he was born on Christmas Day, 1899.

The traditions of the Yule log died out in Britain in the latter 19th and early 20th century because of, according to historian Ronald Hutton, " the reduction in farm labour and the disappearance of the old-fashioned open hearths ", however the Bûche de Noël dessert has become a Christmas tradition in the UK, as in many French speaking places.

Today the mince pie remains a popular Christmas treat, although as the modern recipe is no longer the same list of 13 ingredients once used ( representative of Christ and his 12 Apostles according to author Margaret Baker ), it lacks the religious meaning contained therein.

Meat joints and some other foods like sponge puddings and Christmas puddings are typically timed according to their weight.

For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava ( a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal ) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they are intended to accompany.

" The name " Santa's Little Helper " was chosen because, according to writer Al Jean in the same TV Guide article, " we needed a name that would inspire Homer to bet on him, an omen, a Christmas name since he was betting on Christmas Eve.

In accordance with the Christmas traditions of the Serbs, their festive meal has a copious and diverse selection of foods, although it is prepared according to the rules of fasting.

Then the name was changed to that of the well-known character from David Copperfield, Uriah Heep ( for, according to biographer Kirk Blows, " Dickens ' name being everywhere around Christmas ' 69 due to it being the hundredth anniversary of his death ") and the decision came of widening the sound.

* Daisy Randone-A thin girl who is admitted to the hospital seasonally, according to Susanna, coming before Thanksgiving and staying through Christmas every year.

Consequently, according to the Met Office and British bookmakers, even of snow on the ground at Christmas, because of a heavy snow fall a few days before, will not constitute a white Christmas, but a few snow flakes mixed with rain will, even if they never reach the ground.

Scriabin was born into an aristocratic family in Moscow on Christmas Day 1871, according to the Julian Calendar ( this translates to 6 January 1872 in the Gregorian Calendar ).

He was born on 11 November 1849, according to the old Japanese lunar calendar, or Christmas day, according to the new one.

Anastasia of Sirmium, a 2nd century Christian saint martyred at Sirmium, is commemorated during the second Mass on Christmas Day each year according to the traditional calendar of the Roman Catholic Church.

She is no longer commemorated on Christmas Day according to the Vatican II calendar.

: First recorded performance: according to the quarto title page, the play was performed at court for Queen Elizabeth sometime over Christmas 1597.

Prior to this, according to Robert Plot, it was performed on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Day, in addition to the local Wakes Monday-though upon its revival in 1660 it was confined to the latter alone.

The religious holidays include Christmas and Easter according to both the Julian and the Gregorian calendars, for the Orthodox and the Catholic citizens respectively, and Eid al-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr for the Muslims.

The Twelfth Night of Christmas is always on the evening of 5 January, but the Twelfth Day can either precede or follow the Twelfth Night according to which Christian tradition is followed.

Many Christians still celebrate the liturgical seasons of Advent and Christmas according to their traditions.

One week later, thousands of Muslims stood as human shields outside churches as Coptic Christians attended Christmas Masses on January 6 & 7, 2011.

* Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church Christmas – January 7

* 2010 – Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.

Coptic Christmas is observed on what the Gregorian Calendar labels the 7th day of January.

As a result, the Coptic Christmas advances a day each time the Gregorian calendar drops a leap day ( years 1700, 1800, and 1900 ).

This is the reason why Old-Calendrists ( using the Julian and Coptic calendars ) presently celebrate Christmas on 7 January, 13 days after the New-Calendrists ( using the Gregorian calendar ), who celebrate Christmas on 25 December.

By 2100, the Coptic Christmas will be on the Gregorian date of 8 January.

The GNU observes both Muslim and Christian holidays, including Eid al-Adha, the Islamic New Year, the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, Coptic Easter, Israa Wal Mi ' Raaj, Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas.

Other holdings include material from ancient Egypt and medieval liturgical objects ( including Coptic literature examples ), Emile Zola, William Blake's original drawings for his edition of the Book of Job ; concept drawings for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; a Percy Bysshe Shelley notebook ; originals of poems by Robert Burns ; a Charles Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol ; a journal by Henry David Thoreau ; an extraordinary collection of autographed and annotated libretti and scores from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mahler and Verdi, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony in D Major ; and manuscripts of George Sand, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and nine of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe.

The earliest text of this hymn was found in a Coptic Orthodox Christmas liturgy of the third century.

On the basis of the account in Luke, the Catholic calendar placed the feast of John the Baptist on June 24, six months before Christmas.

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

The Serbian Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, so Christmas currently falls on 7 January of the Gregorian calendar.

In the Christian liturgical calendar there are two principal feasts, properly known as the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord ( Christmas ) and the Feast of the Resurrection, ( Easter ).

In the 1962 Roman Catholic calendar, the violet vestments for Holy Innocents were eliminated ( red used instead ), and if December 28 fell on Sunday, this feast was commemorated on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas.

Despite the principles of laïcité and the separation of church from state, public and school holidays in France generally follow the Roman Catholic religious calendar ( including Easter, Christmas, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Assumption of Mary, All Saints Day, etc .).

Bunn and Netter determined that 1 December was long enough after the election and soon enough before the Christmas holidays that it was, in effect, a dead spot in the news calendar and thus perfect timing for World AIDS Day.

" Krippenspiele " ( Nativity plays ), special festive music for organ, vocal and brass choirs and candlelight services make Christmas Eve one of the highlights in the Lutheran Church calendar.

Over time, that and the Christmas-themed parade merged into the one celebrating the season's lights of menorahs, Christmas trees and the calendar new year.

The biggest events in the town's calendar are the summer Carnival, the switching on of the Christmas lights as December approaches.

In addition to books and pamphlets, Det norske Arbeiderpartis forlag published Maidagen ( annual May Day publication ), Arbeidets Jul ( annual Christmas publication ) and Arbeiderkalenderen ( calendar ).

At the time of Newton's birth, England had not adopted the Gregorian calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642.

The commercial calendar has encouraged an erroneous assumption that the Twelve Days end on Christmas Day and must therefore begin on 14 December.

In 2010, the theatre added a Christmas production to its year round calendar of events.

As a result, Foula is now one day ahead of the Julian calendar and 12 days behind the Gregorian, observing Christmas Day on January 6 Gregorian and New Year on January 13 Gregorian.

Frau Holda's festival is in the middle of winter, the time when humans retreat indoors from the cold ; it may be of significance that the Twelve Days of Christmas were originally the Zwölften (" the Twelve "), which like the same period in the Celtic calendar were an intercalary period during which the dead were thought to roam abroad.

The name day of Anders in the Scandinavian calendar is November 30, and in the old peasant superstition that day was important for determining what the Christmas weather would be.