Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016

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Author: Danielle Novack
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545235154
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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When Sam's classmates talk about which winter holiday each one celebrates, he gets embarrassed because his family enjoys both Christmas and Hanukkah.

Author: José Feliciano
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The popular bilingual Christmas song by José Feliciano is illustrated by Caldecott awardwinner David Diaz. Together, lyrics and art celebrate music, food, gifts, family, tradition... Christmas! "Rare is the presiding adult who will be able to resist singing along to this invigorating picture-book adaptation.... Diaz's compositions convey the joyous mood that holidays traditionally inspire." - Publishers Weekly

Author: Theodore Parker
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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'Two Christmas Celebrations' is a speech delivered by Theodore Parker. As one can guess, it was delivered during a Christmas mass. Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.

Author: Theodore Parker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Two Christmas Celebrations" by Theodore Parker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Theodore Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Theodore Parker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519414410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Excerpt from The Two Christmas Celebrations, A. D. I. And MDCCCLV: A Christmas Story for MDDCCLVIA great many years ago, Augustus Cæsar, then Emperor of Rome, ordered his mighty realm to be taxed; and so, in Judea, it is said, men went to the towns where their families belonged, to be registered for assessment. From Nazareth, a little town in the north of Judea, to Bethlehem, another little but more famous town in the south, there went one Joseph, the carpenter, and his wife Mary, - obscure and poor people, both of them, as the story goes. At Bethlehem they lodged in a stable; for there were many persons in the town, and the tavern was full. Then and there a little boy was born, the son of this Joseph and Mary; they named him Jehoshua, a common Hebrew name, which we commonly call Joshua; but, in his case, we pronounce it Jesus.

Author: G. Q. Bowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190499001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Christmas, a global phenomenon adored by billions and a backbone of international trade, is the biggest single event on the planet. For Christians it is the second-most sacred date on the calendar. But whether one celebrates it or not, it engages billions of people who are caught up in its commercialism, music, sentiment, travel, and frenetic busyness. Since its controversial invention in the Roman Empire, Christmas has struggled with paganism, popular culture, fierce Christian opposition to its celebration, its abolition in Scotland and New England, and its neglect and near-death experience in the 1700s, only to be miraculously reinvented in the 1800s. The twentieth century saw it opposed by Bolsheviks, twisted by Hitler, and appropriated by every special interest group in the industrialized world. Lately it has been caught up in the cultural struggles between the left and the right in America, often misinterpreted as a war on Christmas, when the fight is really over whether religion in general will be allowed a public face. Gerry Bowler tells the fascinating story of the tug-of-war over Christmas, replete with cross-dressing priests, ranting Puritans, atheist witches, the League of the Militant Godless, aesthetic terrorists in Quebec and rap-singing Santa killers in Spain.

Author: Mary D. Lankford
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688163238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Ethiopian fringed umbrellas; star-shaped Filipino parol lanterns;candlelit Swedish St. Lucia crowns-Mary Lankford bringstogether Christmas traditions from twelve different lands,like decorations on a splendid tree.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105116190
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : es
Pages : 162

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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.