* The first of Twelve Holy Days ( Esoteric Christianity )

The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the " Daft Days " as they were sometimes called in Scotland.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

It was delivered in the university Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge on 21 December 1609, and in it he rebuked sharply " lusory lotts " and the " heathenish debauchery " of the students during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

It may also be associated with the Winter Solstice festival or the Twelve Days of Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night.

While references are anecdotal, it seems to be a tradition that morphed into early European Christian tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

This can be witnessed, for example, in the " Twelve Days of Christmas " of Western European tradition.

The traditional Twelve Days of Christmas begin with Christmas Eve on the evening of December 24 and continue until the feast of Epiphany.

* A novelty version of " The Twelve Days of Christmas " made reference to the 1985 incident with reference to " a new row house on Osage Avenue ".

This sing-along culminates with the singing of " The Twelve Days of Christmas " with various sections of the dining hall acting out the different parts of the song.

In autumn 2011 Benison published " Twelve Drummers Drumming ", the first of a series of crime novels inspired by the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas.

*" The Twelve Days of Christmas "

Hayers was not impressed, and Alan had to wrap up his production company Peartree Productions ( a reference to the Christmas Carol " The Twelve Days of Christmas "), firing all its staff including Jill ( whom he had feelings for and had one-night stand with ; albeit unsuccessful ).

It is traditionally eaten on January 6 ( Epiphany ), at the conclusion of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

The Twelve Days of Christmas.

In 1999, Bonaduce appeared in the Christmas episode, " Sabrina, Nipping at Your Nose ", of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, after Salem buys a Twelve Days of Christmas package at the 89 Cents Store, Bonaduce appears sitting in a pear tree, which Salem then exclaims, " Danny Bonaduce!

Bonaduce appeared in a Christmas Day episode of 1 vs. 100, where much of the mob was connected to The Twelve Days of Christmas including Bonaduce as the " partridge in a pear tree " in reference to Danny Partridge.

In 2002, Taylor appeared on the " Twelve Drummers Drumming " Christmas card in the " Twelve Days of Christmas " set sold at Woolworths to raise money for the NSPCC – alongside the " other " Roger Taylor, the drummer for Queen.

Turtle Doves also are featured in the song, " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", as the gift " my true love gives to me " on the second day of Christmas.

A 30 minute special in which the regular characters attempt to perform and interpret the Christmas carol " The Twelve Days of Christmas " was first aired on 25 December 2005.

A critic for the Bergen Record discovered Ricci at age eight in a school play ( The Twelve Days of Christmas ) at Edgemont School in Montclair, New Jersey.

* December 21 – William Ames delivers a controversial sermon for St Thomas's Day, criticizing the " heathenish debauchery " of Cambridge students during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares ' Observations upon the Times ( London, 1652 ), involved " Old Christmas " advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.

* 24 December: The Twelve days of Christmas started at sundown and lasted until Epiphany on 6 January.

That December, Sherman's " The Twelve Gifts of Christmas " single appeared on Billboards separate Christmas chart.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Twelve spies are sent out into Canaan and come back to report to Moses.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

Twelve gold ( or yellow ) stars are centered in a circle ( the radius of which is a third of the length of the hoist ) upon a blue background.

The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

The Twelve Articles ( 1525 ) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.

To this end, he enacted Twelve Decrees that are remarkable for their liberalism and foresight.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol.

Benjamin Minor ( originally titled Book of the Twelve Patriarchs ) and Benjamin Major are Richard of Saint Victor's great works on contemplation.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

* 449 BC: The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome — the first public laws of the Roman Republic.

Har answers: Twelve are the Æsir of the race of gods.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

XII. 22 Lying Lips are abomination to the Lord ", pp. 519 – 657 in South, R., Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions ( Second Edition ), Volume I, Printed by S. D.

* July 17 – Twelve Christian inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage ( also in North Africa ) ( known as the Scillitan Martyrs ) – they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars, though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos.