Five years later, the duet would prove a worldwide seasonal hit, charting in the UK at number three on Christmas Day, 1982.

His major works were written here, including three symphonies, a Requiem and a Christmas Oratorio.

An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.

The Keyboard Component's repeated delays became so notorious around Mattel headquarters that comedian Jay Leno, when performing at Mattel's 1981 Christmas party, got his biggest titter of the evening with the line: " You know what the three big lies are, don't you?

He also released three albums of Christmas music with his own band.

Upon the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, Coke ( already ordained in the Church of England ) ordained Asbury a deacon, elder, and bishop each on three successive days.

An order by governor Daniel Corneille ( 1782 – 1787 ) banning garrison troops and sailors from punch-taverns, only allowing them to drink at army canteens, led to a mutiny over Christmas 1787 when some 200 troops skirmished with loyal troops over a three day period.

After three weeks of courtship, Scott proposed and they were married on Christmas Eve 1797.

and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003 with up-tempo " Thank You Baby " (# 11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany ) and just before Christmas the romantic, acoustic ballad " When You Kiss Me ", at least a minor hit in both territories.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.

In between the films, Rogers and Thomas produced three Christmas specials in 1969, 1970 and 1973, a nineteen episode television series in 1975 and various West End stage shows which later toured the provinces.

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.

Otto III was crowned as king on Christmas Day in 983, three weeks after his father's death.

Otto II's three-year-old son Otto III was crowned as King of Germany in Aachen on Christmas Day in 983, three weeks after his father's death.

But Gama contracted malaria not long after arriving, and died in the city of Cochin on Christmas Eve in 1524, three months after his arrival.

The holiday was also one of the three days each year ( along with Christmas and Easter ) Roman Catholics were required to confess and receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in order to remain in good church standing.

White Christmas, Strategic Air Command, To Catch a Thief and The Battle of the River Plate ( a. k. a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee ) had very limited ( two or three ) prints struck in the 8-perf VistaVision format in which they were shot.

Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections ( featuring such characters as the three kings, baby Jesus, and assorted barnyard animals ) found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter ( extremely popular in Italy ).

Ælfwynn was conducted as a captive into Wessex three weeks before Christmas 919, by her uncle Edward, who was engaged in successful warfare against the Danes ; and we do not hear anything more concerning her in history.

From 2001 to 2004, two full series were produced, along with three one-off hour-long specials ; Gay ( retitled and issued as Absolutely Fabulous in New York for the United States ) in 2002, Cold Turkey, a Christmas special in 2003, and White Box ( which included the tying-up of loose-ends and past semi-regular characters appearing in cameos in what seemed an ironic finale for Saffy, Patsy, and Edina ), which aired in 2004.

* December 30, 1974: Olean, New York, Anthony Barbaro, a 17-year-old Regents scholar armed with a rifle and shotgun, kills three adults and wounds 11 others at his high school, which was closed for the Christmas holiday.

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 ).

Many people in Poland and Czech Republic buy a live carp and bring it home three or two days before Christmas Eve.

The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Problems and Solutions ( Quaestiones ) consists of three books which, although termed " problems and solutions of physical questions ," treat of subjects which are not all physical, and are not all problems.

Among the sixty-nine items in these three books, twenty-four deal with physics, seventeen with psychology, eleven with logic and metaphysics, and six with questions of fate and providence.

# De Sacramentis Corporis et Sanguinis Domini ; a treatise, in three books, against the Berengarian heresy, highly commended by Peter of Cluny and Erasmus.

Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".

He also would go on to publish three books on travel.

Gu Kaizhi has left three surviving books on the theory of painting.

* Amateur Telescope Making, series of three books by Albert Graham Ingalls

He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System ( My System ), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems ( The Practice of My System ), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade ( The Blockade ), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System.

Since his death in 1979, Al Capp and his work have been the subject of more than 40 books, including three biographies.

When he arrives at the Necronomicon's location, he finds three books instead of one.

She wrote at least three autobiographical books about adapting to blindness.

These three epistles are considered to be " the three great doctrinal books of the New Testament ," and Habakkuk's statement concerning faith forms the backbone of each book.

Working with Norman Warne as her editor, Potter published two or three little books each year for a total of twenty-three books.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

The standard works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination.

Adomnán categorizes the Vita Columbae into three different books: Columba ’ s Prophecies, Columba ’ s Miracles, and Columba ’ s Apparitions.

Clement begins the fourth book with a belated explanation of the disorganized nature of the work, and gives a brief description of his aims for the remaining three or four books.

Each of his three major books was a work continually in progress.