" In time, Haakon had a law passed that established that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as when the Christians held their celebrations, " and at that time everyone was to have ale for the celebration with a measure of grain, or else pay fines, and had to keep the holiday while the ale lasted.

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast " had a pronounced religious character " and comments that " it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages.

However, some historians have disagreed with this claim, for instance the Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow attacked Frazer's theories, claiming that the Yule log had never had any religious significance, and was instead simply a festive decoration with practical uses.

and Udny Yule, in 1903, had mentioned similar effects earlier.

The owner of the home, Mr. George Murray Yule, " had an illegal fireworks factory in the basement of his home.

Mr. Yule had been illegally manufacturing fireworks in his basement.

In the Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, Alan attributed his rash and erratic behaviour to the fact that Carol had left him on Christmas Eve.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Homer, Alaska, where her grandfather Yule Kilcher, a delegate to the Alaska State Constitutional Convention and a state senator, had settled after immigrating from Switzerland.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

WPIX and KTLA had The Yule Log on Christmas Morning for 4 hours.

* The " Frontier Route "— surveyed in 1836 by Captain Yule ( Royal Engineers ) from Saint John, via Fredericton, up the Saint John River valley to Canada East, not far from the International Boundary which had been recently decided in favour of the United States during the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

The edition of Luigi Foscolo Benedetto, Marco Polo, Il Milione, under the patronage of the Comitato Geografico Nazionale Italiano ( Florence: Olschki, 1928 ), collated sixty additional manuscript sources, in addition to some eighty that had been collected by Sir Henry Yule, for his 1871 edition.

The two had met by chance in 1935, and were on close terms until Yule's death in 1951 ( Yule was godfather to Kendall's second son ).

After Olga, drummer Martin Yule had the longest tenure in the band ( 1987 – 1999 ).

Tucker returned to the band in late 1970, by which time Reed had left the group and Doug Yule had assumed leadership.

Burnell had died before the work was finished, and most of it was finished by Yule, who, however, deeply acknowledges Burnell's contributions.

Morrison argued that Doug Yule, who had replaced Cale in 1968, should be included to fill out the sound, but Reed and Cale vetoed him.

For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but his work was later extended by Udny Yule and Karl Pearson to a more general statistical context.

The previously strong Andy Warhol influence is diminished, with the most notable ties to The Factory being the cover and back photographs taken by Warholite Billy Name, and opening track " Candy Says ," written about transsexual Candy Darling ( who would later appear in Reed's 1972 song, " Walk On The Wild Side ") The song was sung by Yule at Reed's insistence.

Murray confirmed again that the album was still coming out, and was due out sometime in Spring 2011, and that there'd be a holiday preview of a song off the album with a " Yule Log " video, much like how they had done previously on New Year's Eve 2009.

Chowdhury plays Harry Potter ’ s Yule Ball date, Parvati Patil, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( previously portrayed by Sitara Shah in Prisoner of Azkaban ).

Modranicht, an event focused on collective female beings attested by Bede as having occurred among the pagan Anglo-Saxons on what is now Christmas Eve, has been seen as further evidence of a fertility event during the Yule period.

The Yule log has frequently been associated with having its origins in the historical Germanic paganism which was practiced across northern Europe prior to Christianization.

A great many video fireplace productions with a similar format have also been marketed on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, some of which are entitled " Yule Log " The Yule Log program also helped influence the " Puppy Bowl ", an annual special broadcast by cable network Animal Planet on the day of the Super Bowl.

Over 1, 000 cultivars have been selected, including plants selected for cold tolerance (' Cobalt ', a male cultivar, is able to tolerate temperatures as low as − 32 ° C ), growth form ( e. g. dwarf forms such as ' Cardinal Hedge ', a female plant growing to 1. 2 m tall ), and color and abundance of fruit ( notable female cultivars including the large-berried ' Yule ', and the yellow-berried ' Canary ' and ' Morgan Gold ').

Moreover, upon arriving at the court of Denmark, he kills a monstrous beast that has been terrorizing the court at Yule for two years.

The Yule process is a canonical generative process for power laws, and has been known since 1925.

Ian Yule, who played ' Tosh Donaldson ', had been a real mercenary in Africa in the 1960s and ' 70s.

The Velvet Underground, which at that time consisted of Doug Yule ( vocals / guitar ), Willie Alexander ( keyboards / vocals ), Walter Powers ( bass guitar ) and Maureen Tucker ( drums ), had toured the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in October and November 1971 to support its latest album, Loaded, which had been written and recorded when Lou Reed was in the band, and which had seen a European release in March 1970.

Yule later said, " I don ’ t think Moe would have been expensive in money, but too costly in terms of ' management ', meaning that she didn ’ t take a lot of bullshit and would have taken a lot of ' handling ' on Sesnick's part.

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

In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule ( see winter solstice for more ) are also celebrated around this time.

Yule was an indigenous midwinter ( winter solstice ) festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization.

In Germanic Neopagan sects, Yule is celebrated with gatherings that often involve a meal and gift giving.

It appears that in England and Wales, from at least the late 14th Century, New Year's Day was celebrated on 1 January as part of Yule.

Influenced by the surrealist movement, Discordianism, and other subversive art currents, the Cacophonists celebrated the Yule season in a distinctly anti-commercial manner, by mixing guerrilla street theatre and pranksterism.

The custom of starting celebrations 12 days before Christmas ( Advent ) and ending them 12 days after Christmas (" The Twelve Days of Christmas ") is known in various Northern-European countries, with the Icelandic Yule Lads appearing on December 13 and the end of Christmas being celebrated with bonfires and fireworks on January 6.

Tjugondag jul (" Twentieth Day Yule "), or Tjugondag Knut, in English St. Knut's Day, ( Finnish: nuutinpäivä ) is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on January 13.

* Yule or " Yuletide " ( translated by " Koleda "), celebrated by Germanic people

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

The Saxon calendar began on 25 December, and the months of December and January were called Yule ( or Giuli ) and contained a Modra niht or " night of the mothers ", another religious festival of unknown content.

" This saga is set soon after Iceland converted to Christianity and identifies Yule with Christmas: " No Christian man is wont to eat meat this day Eve, because that on the morrow is the first day of Yule ," says she, " wherefore must men first fast today.

" James George Frazer in his work on anthropology, The Golden Bough ( p. 736 ) holds that " the ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice appears to survive " in the Yule log custom.

He doesn't live on the North Pole, but perhaps in a forest nearby, or in Denmark he lives on Greenland, and in Finland he lives in Lapland ; he doesn ’ t come down the chimney at night, but through the front door, delivering the presents directly to the children, just like the Yule Goat did ; he is not overweight ; and even if he nowadays sometimes rides in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, instead of just walking around with his sack, his reindeer don ’ t fly-and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway some still put out a bowl of porridge for him on Christmas Eve.

* Rogersville Holiday Festival, includes a Holiday Tour of Homes in the town's Historic District and Yule Log Ceremony on the Courthouse Square

Other actors and actresses who featured on the show included Peter Sellers, Fred Yule, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, Pat Coombs and Graham Stark ; Sellers ' earliest appearances predated The Goon Show by a couple of years.

From 1875 to 1889 Yule was a member of the Council of India, being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India on his retirement.

* Doug Yule – bass guitar, organ, lead vocals on " Candy Says ", chorus co-vocals on " The Murder Mystery ", backing vocals

The Yule Log is a television program which is broadcast traditionally on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning ( except for the 1990s and the year 2000 when the program wasn't broadcast ), originally by New York City television station WPIX but now by many other Tribune Company-owned television stations, including WGN America, and by Antenna TV starting in 2011.

Beginning in 1997, WPIX offered various versions of The Yule Log on the Internet.

In 2003, Tribune Broadcasting, parent company of WPIX, announced that in addition to being broadcast in New York City, The Yule Log would be broadcast in additional U. S. television markets on other Tribune-owned television stations, and would also be broadcast by high definition television that year as well.

WGN America did not broadcast The Yule Log in 2010 and 2011, citing the economic infeasibility of devoting several hours to commercial-free programming on a national channel ; however, the program was broadcast locally by WGN-TV Chicago, and by the other Tribune-owned local stations.

There are also plans to broadcast The Yule Log on Tribune's new digital subchannel network, Antenna TV, beginning in 2011, bringing the concept to many more additional markets without dependence on WGN America.

In 2010, The Yule Log was broadcast on the Gospel Music Channel ( GMC ), for 24 hours starting at 8: 00 P. M. Christmas Eve until 8: 00 P. M. Christmas night.