Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

So the story goes, after a period of discord and conflict he invited the local leaders to a Christmas banquet under the pretext of resolving differences and building relations but his plan was to eliminate them.

Her nickname appears as a store name in the story " Christmas in Duckburg ", featured on page 1 of Walt Disney ’ s Christmas Parade # 9, published in 1958.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

In Steven Moffat's short story " What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow " ( the basis for the Tenth Doctor episode " Blink "), the Ninth Doctor has a rooftop sword fight with two Sontarans in 21st century Istanbul, defeating them with the help of spy Sally Sparrow, apparently before the events of " Rose " in his personal timeline.

and a short story by Henry van Dyke, " The First Christmas Tree.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

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

He was mentioned in the story " A Christmas for Shacktown " ( 1952 ) by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

In New York City, local television journalist Gabe Pressman has recounted the story each Christmas for the past thirty years.

The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard ; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.

The World Showcase pavilions feature storytellers describing their nation's holiday traditions, and three nightly performances of the " Candlelight Processional " featuring an auditioned mass choir and a celebrity guest narrating the story of Christmas.

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

He had fourteen stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison, but was becoming best known as " O. Henry ", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story " Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking " in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

The story concerns the gamesmanship between Henry, Eleanor, their three surviving sons Richard, Geoffrey, and John, and their Christmas Court guest, the King of France, Philip II Augustus (), who was the son of Eleanor's ex-husband, Louis VII of France ( by his third wife, Adelaide ).

In 1943, Laughton recorded a reading of the Nativity story from St. Luke's Gospel, and this was released in 1995 on CD on a Nimbus Records collection entitled Prima Voce: The Spirit of Christmas Past.

One Thursday before Christmas, the elderly physician Dr. Emlyn McCarron tells a story about an episode that took place early in his long and varied career: that of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter what, despite financial problems and social disapproval.

The story was first published in the Christmas edition of Redbook magazine, New York on # 23 November 1967 but without the illustrations by Pauline Baynes that appeared in the published book.

In that story, Donald Duck found himself unable to afford a Christmas dinner and decided to trick Scrooge McDuck into paying for dinner for him.

Additionally, Miller drew a short Batman Christmas story, " Wanted: Santa Claus – Dead or Alive ", written by Denny O ' Neil for DC Special Series No. 21 ( Spring 1980 ).

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

* THE MOURNER: In a Landscape of Sadness, Offering Just Her Presence, New York Times, 10 / 1 / 2001 the story of Carol O ' Neill, wife of a founder of Sandler O ' Neill

" The cinematic version of The Basement Room short story, The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), directed by Carol Reed, replaced novelist Greene's niggers usage with natives.

* Joyce Carol Oates ' short story In the Region of Ice contains the dialog between Claudio and his sister, and also parallels the same plea with the student, Allen Weinstein, and his teacher, Sister Irene.

The story has been adapted to other media including film, opera, ballet, a Broadway musical ( 1979's Comin ' Uptown, which featured an all African-American cast ), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on ' A Christmas Carol.

According to a comic story by Don Rosa, it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar, the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.

Christmas Carol captured the spirit of Charles Dickens ' tale in a manner that few of the many re-tellings of the story would, and it is considered to be a holiday classic of the 1960s, ranking alongside A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas !.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens ' famous short story A Christmas Carol starring the character Mr. Magoo.

His first marriage was to award-winning short story novelist Carol Bly.

Joyce Carol Oates has brought the story of Love Canal into her 2004 novel The Falls however setting the suspicions of harm to the 1960s.

His parents, Harry and Carol ( Michael Bryan French and Christine Tucci ) are later called into school, where Ms. Caldwell tells Jason that if Jason can't bring her a handwritten story to the community college by 6 p. m., Ms. Caldwell will not consider it a valid contribution.

The novel Lion of Alnwick by Carol Wensby-Scott is the first volume of the Percy Saga trilogy which retells the story of " the wild and brilliant Percy family " and relates a fictionalised account of the 1st Earl of Northumberland and his son Henry " Hotspur " Percy's lives.

* Carol Matas's 1987 and 1989 novels Lisa and Jesper presented a fictionalized story on Danish resistance missions.

The series was praised for its artwork, by Carol Lay, for its close emulation of the work of John R. Neill and John Tenniel, but the story, scripted by Joey Cavalieri was seen by many to be too close to the plot of Ozma of Oz to reach its full potential.

Carol Gilligan uses the story as the basis for much of her analysis of love and relationships in The Birth of Pleasure ( Knopf, 2002 ).

Brindsley hurriedly distracts Carol with a bogus story about fuse wire in his bedroom loft.

According to a Catholic News Service online news story by Carol Glatz from 5 August 2011, Pope Benedict XVI noted this when he explained the importance of astronomy-especially when clocks were primitive and prone to error-in the determination of certain liturgical celebration days and the times for certain daily prayers, such as the Angelus.

The upbeat music as the theme for such a dark story is perhaps a reference to Carol Reed's The Third Man, with a harmonica in the place of a zither ( The Third Man is indeed referenced in a number of camera shots, according to DVD commentary ).

Geoffrey Hindle, ( Jolley Geoff ); son of Bob Hindle, the driving force behind the very successful sales organisation ; also nephew of Desmond Rawson, has spent many hours recording both of their life's work, donated all the family's pieces of pottery and many photographs to help the collection's guardians Carol Harker and Museum founder Dr Stuart Walker tell the full story of the company's success and eventual demise.

The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy ( played by Carol White ) and Reg ( Ray Brooks ).

According to an online CNN wire staff news story by Vivian Kuo, Carol Cratty, and Michael Martinez posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, " The FBI and local Texas authorities are investigating reports of gunshots Tuesday striking the north Houston office ..." of Green.

He co-wrote the story for the season premiere with Sacret Young, Carol Flint and Lydia Woodward and wrote the teleplay himself.