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The fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas gifts for needy youngsters.
The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.
* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.
Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).
From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).
Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.
In Austria, bockbier is traditionally brewed only around Christmas and Easter, when nearly every brewery brews its own bock.
Bock beer is produced in Mexico around Christmas season, under the Noche Buena label with 5. 9 % abv
Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism which peaks during the Christmas season when Christian pilgrims throng to the Church of the Nativity.
In a twist on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the " kindest and loveliest " man in England.
Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradespeople would receive gifts from their superiors or employers.
Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws.
In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.
This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.
Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day, which is also St. Stephen's Day, a religious holiday.
In the UK, where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if 26 December falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December.

Christmas and generally
Rhys held a festival of poetry and song at his court at Cardigan over Christmas 1176 which is generally regarded as the first recorded Eisteddfod.
To supplement his income, Han would sketch posters and paint pictures ( generally Christmas cards, still-life, landscapes, and portraits ) for the commercial art trade.
The public holidays are generally days of celebration, like the anniversary of a significant historical event, or can be a religious celebration like Christmas.
The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia.
The county is generally divided between the communities around Lakeview and Paisley to the south and the communities around Christmas Valley, Fort Rock, and Silver Lake to the north.
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 .).
French and other European supermarkets generally stock both the grill apparatus and ready-sliced cheese and charcuterie selections, especially around Christmas.
Puritans generally disapproved of the celebration of Christmasa trend which continually resurfaced in Europe and the USA through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
In the United States and elsewhere the playing of Christmas music had generally begun after the Thanksgiving holidays, at which point Christmas decorations in stores and on streets would also appear, but in recent decades the music and related decor have been appearing increasingly early.
Glögg is generally served with raisins, blanched almonds and Ginger biscuits ( Ginger Snaps ), and is a popular hot drink during the Christmas season.
A Christmas card is generally commercially designed and purchased for the occasion.
Nordmann Fir, Noble Fir, Fraser Fir and Balsam Fir are popular Christmas trees, generally considered to be the best for this purpose, with aromatic foliage that does not shed many needles on drying out.
In the United States, nativity figurines are sometimes stolen from outdoor public and private displays during the Christmas season in an act that is generally called Baby Jesus theft.
The Basler Brunsli is made of almonds and generally enjoyed at Christmas all around Switzerland.
Although it is generally assumed that Duncan's sexual relations with Vanessa ended in the months before Angelica was born ( Christmas, 1918 ), they continued to live together for more than 40 years.
Already before the 5 days working week was generally adopted in Finland in the late 1960s, working hours in most cases were shorter on Saturdays ( 4 ... 5 h ) than on other weekdays ( 8 h ), but they were equally shorter also on all eves of public holidays, for example on the eve of Epiphany, the eve of All Saints ' Day, and even including Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve.
Most churches only use the gospel book during Lent, Advent, Christmas and Easter, generally not using the book during Ordinary time during which they use a smaller book on the lectionary.
It is generally believed that Spain's Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad ( Spanish Christmas Lottery ) is the world's largest lottery and has the largest first prize jackpot.
Festivals are observed for Holda in parts of Germany, generally on Christmas Eve ( see Sources below ) or Twelfth Night, or for the entire Twelve Days of Christmas, and during these times there are often prohibitions regarding spinning.
It is generally used as input to Christmas eve dinner, sliced ​​ on bread with mustard and muraturi.
A play that is over-presented with title credits, but is generally a simple dialogue based on Crowley's conversation with a friend and his wife on Christmas Day.

Christmas and celebrated
However, Boxing Day is still celebrated the day following Christmas Day for many British people.
Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.
Christmas and other Christian festivals have no religious significance in Judaism and are not celebrated.
Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.
Christmas carols are not celebrated in Poland until after the Christmas Vigil Mass.
** Earliest day on which Feast of the Holy Family can fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a Sunday.
His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who !, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.
At the royal court, celebrated there that Christmas, she appears to have agreed to a separation from Henry.
The Christmas and holiday season surrounds the winter solstice, Christmas and other holidays, and is celebrated by many religions and cultures.
The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.
The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the " Daft Days " as they were sometimes called in Scotland.
The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.
Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.
* Public Holidays: Doom's Day, Christmas, New Year ( Note: Doom's Day is an eclectic holiday, celebrated whenever Doom declares it.
The feast of Sol Invictus ( Unconquered Sun ) on 25 December was celebrated with great joy, and eventually this date was taken over by the Christians as Christmas, the celebrated birthday of Christ.
William then celebrated Christmas at Winchester and dealt with the aftermath of the rebellion.
Yule was an indigenous midwinter ( winter solstice ) festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization.
* December 25 – Christmas is celebrated for the first time in Alexandria ( approximate date ).
* January 6 – Christmas ( celebrated by the Armenian Church )

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