But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

On Christmas Eve, students brought out two small Christmas trees which I placed on either side of the tent.

I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

Thompson writes a letter to a local Aspen newspaper informing them that, on Christmas Eve, he was going to use napalm to burn a number of dogs and hopefully any humans they find.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Ealdred crowned King William on Christmas Day in 1066.

Cynesige, the archbishop of York, died on 22 December 1060, and Ealdred was elected Archbishop of York on Christmas Day, 1060.

Ealdred crowned William king on Christmas Day 1066.

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

The work was finished 9 years later and transported via warship, steamship, and finally mule train before being dedicated on Christmas Eve.

Berg died in Vienna, on Christmas Eve 1935, from blood poisoning apparently caused by an insect-sting-induced carbuncle on his back.

The Atari 7800 languished on warehouse shelves until it was re-introduced in January 1986 after strong 2600 sales the previous Christmas.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, for example, blue laws dating to the Puritans of the 17th century still prohibit most retail stores, including grocery stores, from opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Additionally, alcohol sales are prohibited on Christmas Day.

This is unlikely, as Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in 1947, in the story Christmas on Bear Mountain.

Tourist attractions include University of Alabama football, the Bear Bryant Museum, the Kentuck Art Festival, Dickens Downtown, International City Fest, and Tuscaloosa Christmas Afloat.

Other titles on this album include: Santa Claus, Joseph and Mary's Boy, Happy Holidays, Christmas Memories, Tonight is Christmas, Thistle hair the Christmas Bear, Tennessee Christmas, A Candle in the window, and Homecoming Christmas.

Scrooge made his first appearance in the Donald Duck story " Christmas on Bear Mountain " as a curmudgeonly man who decides to test Donald and his nephews to see if they are worthy of inheriting his wealth.

In 1973, he voiced Ted E. Bear ( Theodore Edward Bear ) in the DePatie-Freleng NBC animated Christmas special The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas.

* Other annual major cultural events include Victorian Christmas ( street faire ), Summer Nights ( street faire ), Mardi Gras, Fourth of July Parade, Teddy Bear Convention, and Psychic Faire.

Fozzie's mother Emily Bear ( performed by Jerry Nelson ) appeared in A Muppet Family Christmas special.

* Also translator and / or adapter of more than a dozen picture books for Picture Book Studio and North-South Books, including Where Is Mr. Mole ?, The Christmas Teddy Bear, Brave as a Tiger, The Beast and the Boy, Little Pig, Bigger Trouble, A Dog's Best Friend, and Where the Moon Lives.

It is later revealed in the Muppet Family Christmas special that the two hecklers were friends with Fozzie's mother, Emily Bear.

* Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain

In 1986, McFerrin was the voice of Santa Bear in Santa Bear's First Christmas, and in 1987 he was the voice of Santa Bear / Bully Bear in the sequel Santa Bear's High Flying Adventure.

* The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper ( 2005 ) ( voice ) Ted the Polar Bear

* The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas ( 1973 )

One of the studio's television specials was 1973's The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas, with Tommy Smothers voicing the little bruin who goes out to find Christmas ( in the human world ), while his fellow bears head for hibernation.

She released a Christmas album called For Christmas with Love ( recorded in Hollywood, California ) and later signed with A & M Records, releasing more albums including, A Gift of Song and Climb Ev ' ry Mountain.

No guest star ever appeared twice on The Muppet Show, although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ( John Denver & the Muppets: A Christmas Together and John Denver & the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday ).

Rocky Mountain Douglas-firs are also cut and sold as Christmas trees.

His seasonal special, Rocky Mountain Christmas, was watched by more than 60 million people and was the highest-rated show for the ABC network at that time.

* Christmas Mountain ( 1981 )

In December 2003 Burke sang " I Pray on Christmas " on the Go Tell It on the Mountain Christmas album ( Real World ) of the Blind Boys of Alabama, which won for them a Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album.

This is epitomized by traditional Ore Mountain folk art, in the form of smoking figures, Christmas pyramids, candle arches, nutcrackers, miners ' and angels ' figures, all of which are used as Christmas decorations.

In addition to the Christmas markets and other smaller traditional and modern folk festivals, the Annaberger Kät is the most famous and largest Ore Mountain folk festival.

The highest peaks in the Miramichi River watershed, include Big Bald Mountain and the Christmas Mountains, extending to 750 m above sea level.

Moments become memories at Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas.

* Smoky Mountain Christmas

The Smoky Mountain Christmas Festival premiers in November, extending the park's operating season into December.

The Polar Express 4-D Experience is shown in the Imagination Cinema during the park's Smoky Mountain Christmas.

He performed five songs for the Cold Mountain soundtrack ; " Sittin ' on Top of the World ", " Wayfaring Stranger ", " Never Far Away ", " Christmas Time Soon Will Be Over " and " Great High Mountain ".

* 1798: Explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders visit Derwent as part of circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land ; Bass climbs at least part of Mount Wellington ( then known as Table Mountain ) on Christmas Day

Other tourist attractions are the Ikom Monoliths ( a series of volcanic-stone monoliths of unknown age ), the Mary Slessor Tomb, Calabar Drill Monkey Sanctuary, Cross River National Park, Afi Mountain walkway canopy, Kwa falls, Agbokim waterfalls, Tinapa Business Resort and the annual Calabar Carnival that takes place during the Christmas period.

In " Christmas on Bear Mountain ", Scrooge was a bearded, bespectacled, reasonably wealthy old man, visibly leaning on his cane.