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

Yule or Yuletide (" Yule time ") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples and some neighboring peoples, before later being absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

" As the newspaper notes, the house was destroyed and " Yule died two weeks later of burns and injuries suffered.

René continued his studies with his father as well as with the Jazz Arts Society, HARYOU ACT Cultural Program under Julian Yule, Rheet Taylor, Jackie McLean and Kenny Dorham ; the Clark Terry Youth Band, Jazz Mobile and later at the New York College of Music ( N. Y. U. ) and the University of Massachusetts.

Lady Yule later sold her shares to Rank while John Corfield resigned from its board of directors.

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.

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.

This was later called the Yule process, but is now better known as preferential attachment.

“ To summarize we may, I think, justly conclude that though Yule did not fully develop any completely new branches of statistical theory, he took the first steps in many directions which were later to prove fruitful lines for further progress … He can indeed rightly claim to be one of the pioneers of modern statistics ”.

Yule died 25 years later from a heart attack, aged 57.

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.

Yule later recalled, " I remember sitting on a plane writing extensive notes on the mixing of the album ... I sent it to Steve and none of my suggestions were taken, I'm sure he didn't even read it.

The events of Yule are generally held to have centered around Midwinter ( although specific dating is a matter of debate ), and feasting, drinking, and sacrifice ( blót ) were involved.

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish julemand and the Finnish joulupukki ( in Finland he is still called the Yule Goat, although his animal features have disappeared ) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture.

The two may, instead, be holly and mistletoe ( which has white berries with green branches ), which would align more closely with the tradition of the defeat at Yule of the Holly King by the Oak King ( mistletoe ' traditionally ' grows on oak trees, although it will grow on other types of tree ).

Thus, although Squeeze was released nominally as a Velvet Underground album, Yule was the only Velvet to actually perform on it.

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.

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.

The next eldest was Hjorvard and one Yule, when everyone was at home and bragged about what they would accomplish the following year, Hjorvard declared that he was to marry princess Ingeborg at Uppsala.

According to tradition, children who had done mischief had to take special care, since Lussi could come down through the chimney and take them away, and certain tasks of work in the preparation for Yule had to be finished, or else the Lussi would come to punish the household.

One Yule, they were back home on Bolmsö when the next eldest son Hjörvard, swore that he would win Ingeborg, the daughter of Yngve, the king of Sweden.

Two key people did not participate in the reunion: sometime singer Nico, who had died in 1988 ; and latter-day bassist / keyboard player Doug Yule, whom Sterling Morrison would have liked to participate but who was vetoed out by Reed and Cale.

" 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.

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

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.

In recognition of his prodigious feats of exploration, regarding which Colonel Henry Yule commented that " his explorations have added a larger amount of important knowledge to the map of Asia than any other living man ", Nain Singh was presented with an inscribed gold chronometer by the Royal Geographic Society ( RGS ) in 1868.

Some of the stations and cable channels that have broadcast imitations of the Yule Log simulcast the Christmas music from a radio station that is playing it, and before 1989, the WPIX version also secondarily promoted the playing of the same Christmas music in a simulcast over their sister FM station, WPIX-FM ( 101. 9 ), for those unable view the Yule Log on television.

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 ').

This feature is reminiscent of the Yule Log, in which a stationary camera films a burning log in a fireplace which is intended for people who do not have a fireplace.

More tracks featuring Yule from the album's sessions have emerged on a recent CD re-issue of the album.

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony with the purpose being to provide maximum warmth and endurance.

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.

There is Holy Communion at Christmas ( which Wodrow calls Yule ) and Easter with, in 1713, an altar being set up in anticipation ( perhaps an indication that Communion was infrequent ).

Later, one Yule, Helgi was visited by an ugly being while he was in his hunting house.

Yule was a prolific writer, the highlight of his publications being perhaps the textbook Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, which went through fourteen editions.

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.

Ded Moroz, and on occasion the Belarus Dzied Maroz, are presented in the media as being in on-going détente with various counterparts from other cultures, such as the Estonian Santa Claus ( Jõuluvana or " Old man of Christmas "), the Finnish Santa Claus ( Joulupukki or " Yule Goat "), and other Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas figures.

Keeping parallel with the road, it passes about 3 chains to the north of the Murchison Meat Company's slaughter yards, 6¼ miles from Perth and when about half a mile from the main road, opposite the Cannington Hotel, the main road is gradually approached, the route being within 10 chains of the Yule and Bickley Brooks.

In 1995, Yule described the recording of Squeeze being " like the blind leading the blind, me leading myself.

The tour manager insisted on billing the band as being the Velvet Underground despite demands from Yule not to do so.

The band soldiered on with bassist Doug Yule moving to vocals and guitar and Walter Powers being drafted in to play bass guitar.

Hrólfr Kraki's saga tells that one Yule, Helgi ( appears as Halga in Beowulf ) was visited by an ugly being while he was in his hunting house.