Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

Christmas Vanguard

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiml42/5290553341/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChyLuhiex4

Zuzu - Karolyn Grimes

"At the tender age of 4, Karolyn Grimes began memorizing lines and acting in the fantasy world of cinema. She worked with film legends John Wayne, Cary Grant, Bing Crosby, Loretta Young, Fred MacMurray, Betty Grable, Danny Kaye and, of course, Jimmy Stewart. She already had appeared in four films when the part of Zuzu came along. It was just another small part, but one that has made an indelible imprint on the American consciousness. "

http://www.zuzu.net/

http://www.zuzu.net/store/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolyn_Grimes

eCards - Send free greetings with Cardiff Univerisity

http://ecards.cardiff.ac.uk/index.html

The gift behind the gift

"My gift had nothing special to it, it was not famous and it was not in fashion; but it had in it the gift behind the gift: the experience of time spent in company of loved ones, contemplating the Universe."


http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/12/the-gift-behind-the-gift/

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.

Their faithful Friend and Servant,

C. D.

December, 1843.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm

Nadolig Llawen

Nadolig Llawen i bawb


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BQtTAdufzzk


http://kiml42.blogspot.com/

微波爐大合唱'Jingle Bells' (Microwave Ovens Sing 'Jingle Bells')

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVGZ3KnYA

Christmas Ascii Art - Joan Stark

"Bee Fish Ewe a Mare Egrets Moose Ant a Hippo Gnu Deer"


http://www.geocities.com/soho/7373/xmastory.htm#beefish

Vintage 1996

The Christmas Broadcast, 2007

This year's 'Queen's Speech', first broadcast on Christmas Day 2007. Her Majesty speaks of the importance of friends and family and remembers members of the Armed Forces serving overseas at Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nmkYGCljE

The Christmas Broadcast, 1957

The first televised Christmas Broadcast or 'Queen's Speech', filmed at Sandringham House in Norfolk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s

NORAD Tracks Santa

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm

Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/christmas.htm

White Christmas

http://www.thecompassgroup.biz/merryxmas.swf

Smallest ever advent calendar made

"A group of nanotech specialists in Germany have got into the Christmas spirit by making what they believe is the smallest ever Advent calendar. It would take about five million of the miniature calendars to cover a postage stamp."

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/December/14120701.asp

Santa putting children's information at risk, warn experts

"Santa Claus could be breaking privacy laws in his collection and use of data about British children, experts have warned. Yuletide cheer-bringer Claus could be putting the personal data of millions of children at risk."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/11/santa_data_risk/

Elfster - Secret Santa Online Gift Exchange Organizer

Elfster helps you organize and enliven your Secret Santa gift exchange.

http://www.elfster.com/

Norad tracks Santa

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.htm

A Christmas Memory

In today's encore excerpt, seven-year-old Truman Capote, abandoned by his parents and raised by dirt-poor relatives in Alabama, with his closest friend a distant cousin--an elderly, simple minded, and slightly crippled woman named Sook. On a cold, bleak and empty Christmas afternoon with the two of them alone together, she exclaims to him:

" 'My, how foolish I am!' she cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the oven. 'You know what I've always thought?' she asks in a tone of discovery, and not smiling at me but a point beyond. 'I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun shining through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine takes away all the spooky feeling.'

" 'But I'll wager it never happens like that. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are,'--her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie, our dog, pawing earth over her bone-- 'just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with just today in my eyes.' "

Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory, Modern Library, 1996, originally published in 1956, pp. 26-7.

http://delanceyplace.com/

Christmas - Nadolig - Superstitions

You'll be surprised by some of the weirdest Welsh Christmas and New Year superstitions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/weird/sites/content/pages/xmas_superstitions.shtml