The foliage has an attractive scent, and is sometimes used for Christmas decoration, including Christmas trees.
Adults are common in the summer months, particularly around Christmas, resulting in the common name of Christmas beetle for the species (and also for other members of its genus).
The coastal fort was attacked under the well-known Måløy raid, Operation Archery, during Christmas 1941.
He got his first taste of acting in grade school when the drama club cast the school's largest child to play Santa in their Christmas pageant.
Initially organized in the mid-1960s as a local unit of Trout Unlimited, the founders formed CalTrout during Christmas week of 1970 and filed papers of incorporation the following January.
The show premiered with the original Christmas segment from The Magic, the Memories and You.
He also wrote studies on Christmas and on Epiphany in Amide la religion (Paris, 1848–1849), and in his Calendrier populaire du temps passé in Revue de l'art chrétien (Paris, 1878).
They are known as Christmas beetles because they are abundant in both urban and rural areas close to Christmas.
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, a Poem (1850) is, despite the title, often treated as two poems by Robert Browning, rather than as one poem in two parts.
and his "...tribute to the American folk humorist, Will Rogers at Claremore, Oklahoma..." (Dickinson, 2006).
In December 2005, Danny was invited to sing alongside Elaine Paige and John Barrowman in a Christmas concert performed at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
In 1973, Bailey co-starred in the dramatic short film Peege, in which he portrayed Jerry, the middle son in a family who pay a Christmas visit to their now blind and helpless grandmother in the nursing home where she resides.
He was then sent out to Montrose on a season long loan, but this was cut short, and he returned to Clyde at Christmas due to injury.
Ba was an integral part of Hoffenheim's promotion to the Bundesliga and their successful first season in the Bundesliga, where they finished seventh after leading during the Christmas break.
Donna VanLiere is an American author of fiction, primarily novels about Christmas.
He played one of the five major roles in the 2006 film Unaccompanied Minors - Spencer, the leader of a group of kids who get stuck in an airport on Christmas.
A fixed feast is an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas, as distinguished from moveable feasts, such as Easter, whose calendar date varies.
Madan had an eye for aphorisms, and each Christmas between 1929 and 1933 sent a small anthology from his notebooks to his friends.
In contrast, his representations of the mythic, symbolic, and religious aspects of Christmas, such as the figure of the Virgin Mother, the infant Jesus, and Christmas eve, demonstrate a harmony and purity which is not present in his social commentary.
Leonard's most notable Temptations leads were on the 1980 single Power, and on the Christmas classic Silent Night from their 1980 Christmas album.
Having made 109 appearances for them, with loan deals at Bury and Wigan Athletic along the way, he was released on a free transfer to Stockport County for the beginning of the 1998–99 season, and quickly arrived at Turf Moor around Christmas in 1998 when signed by the colourful manager Stan Ternent, following a falling-out with then Stockport manager, Gary Megson.
It centers around the lives of three different families in Frisco, Texas, during three consecutive Christmas seasons and the impact the holiday has on modern culture and the consumer economy.
He wrote words and music to his most famous hymn, "We Three Kings", as part of a Christmas pageant for his nieces and nephews.
Two inexperienced angels from heaven must deliver a casket containing the holiday of Christmas to Earth in time for Christmas Eve, as the evil Öngull attempts to steal the casket, and sink it in the deepest black hole in space.
He also released a Christmas CD with his wife, Bethany Paige, entitled A W.O.W. Christmas in 2004, as well as a contemporary Christian disc entitled Faith, Hope, Love, Passion that same year.
Civelli also stated that his expectation was to be back playing first team football before Christmas.
It is not an official money event for any of the major tours, and like many high profile unofficial tournaments in professional golf it takes place between the conclusion of the PGA Tour in early November, and Christmas.
In 1886, Mills originated the practice of taking a group of New England Conservatory students to perform for patients in Boston hospitals on Christmas and Easter.
His musicianship was often requested for church functions, and it soon became standard for him to play at events such as the Christmas Eve celebration at St. Adrian's.
They appear in late spring and summer, and specifically around Christmas time in Victoria.
The next day, Gyldengrød finds out that the problem is much bigger than first thought because Christmas has disappeared.
Four years later, in May 1970, she joined the ATWT cast as Deming (and her later married names Hughes Stallings Andropoulos Frazier) until her exit from the serial on Christmas Day 1981.
Doña Rosa creates fantastic shapes of clay, from the figures of Paraguayan mythology, plates representing the sun and the moon, Christmas houses, animals, and characteristic persons of the Paraguayan culture.
In December 2005, on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly used a clip of Bee from The Daily Show as an example of "The War on Christmas", presenting it as having aired recently.
For the unemployed at Christmas, he financed a Christmas dinner for 10,000 people at the Royal Exhibition Building, including a gift for every child.
A long running tradition at St. Mary's College is "Pennies from Heaven" which raises money each Christmas season to be donated to various youth charities.
The school also has a Christmas Miracle campaign where students in individual classes purchase gifts for the less-fortunate in Hamilton.
Other holidays include around two weeks for Easter and around another two weeks for Christmas and New Year, as well as two midterms with one in October/November during the week of Halloween and one usually in the month of February.
Mathis released a solo single under the name 'Tiger Sue' in 1978 and was the vocal coach for the St Winifred's School Choir Christmas number one in 1980, "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".
During the Christmas holiday season, Taco John's offers Nachos Navidad, a nacho platter with red and green colored tortilla chips.
The book is a 413-page collection of diary entries written between Christmas of 1986 and Christmas of 1987.
A series of adventures begins for the Hardy Boys and their friends Chet and Biff after they are invited to spend Christmas vacation on Cabin Island at the invitation of its owner, Elroy Jefferson, as a reward for recovering Jefferson's car in The Shore Road Mystery.
He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.
Zara's nan bought her a bowling ball for Christmas that year and a Pro Shop operator recommended that she join the Youth Bowling Club so she went along on a Saturday morning and the rest is was set in stone
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Some "Fireside Al" segments continue to air on the program to this day, particularly his Christmas Eve readings of stories by Frederick Forsyth, notably The Shepherd, and O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.
Other recordings of Burt's carols include Simon and Garfunkel's 1967 recording of "The Star Carol", Kenny Loggins' version of "Christmas Cometh Caroling", George Winston's 1982 rendition of "Some Children See Him", and James Taylor's 2004 recording of "Some Children See Him".
In Christmas 2010, TJX Companies aired a commercial for TJ Maxx and Marshalls, featuring Annie Little and the theme "There's a better way to Christmas shop".
Bridgett was a deeply religious man, and refused to play on Good Friday or Christmas Day throughout his career.
Irving's The Sketch Book stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned.
Salon writer Andrew Leonard said of "Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees", "(the game is) diverting for about three nanoseconds — less, if you give in to the urge to pelt the annoying elf, for which you are unfairly punished".
The poem, 'The Life That I Have', also known as 'Yours', recited to Violette by her husband Etienne, was once believed to have been written especially for the film, but was in fact the actual code poem given to her in March 1944 by the SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, and written by him on Christmas Eve 1943 in memory of his girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in a car crash.
She was born in Bergen, Norway during a Christmas holiday to a French father, Jean-Luc Bauer, a professional volleyball player, and a Norwegian mother, Tone Bauer, a handball player who played several years in France.
After his release, Allison maintained a friendship with the Kauffmans, and even visited Christmas Carol while she was hospitalized in Elkhart, Indiana.
The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.
It tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.
In 1992, a remake of Christmas in Connecticut was made, starring Dyan Cannon as Elizabeth, Kris Kristofferson as Jefferson Jones, and Tony Curtis as Mr. Yardley.
The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.
Fernando Ortega also recorded "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" on his 2011 album, "Christmas Songs".
Jakub Jan Ryba: Czech Christmas Mass (Česká mše vánoční) – Jaroslava Vymazalová, Marie Mrázová, Beno Blachut, Zdeněk Kroupa, Václav Smetáček conducting the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Josef Veselka and the Czech Philharmonic Chorus; Supraphon SU 3649 (1966).
It was included on Volume 2 of the "Ultimate Christmas Album" series produced by Collectables Records and on the Christmas compilation album "Merry Xmas 2011" by Cinquenta Musica.
This short was featured as part of the edited collection, Donald and His Duckling Gang, from 1979, and is featured in From All of Us to All of You which is shown on TV every Christmas in the Scandinavian countries.
Tommy and wife arrived Egbe two days before Christmas 1915 from their honey moon, they didn’t realise how exciting Christmas Day was going to be.
Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.
Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), Austrian composer, organist, and creator of the Christmas carol Silent Night
Chris Squire and a choir recorded a rock version on the 2007 Christmas album Chris Squire's Swiss Choir.
The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.
After releasing Pressure the Hinges and finishing up the 12 Days of Christmas tour with Calico System, Heavy Heavy Low Low and Flee the Seen, the band began another tour with From Autumn to Ashes and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
After his success in his films, McNair was cast in a leading role in Argos's 2009 Christmas campaign, where he gained nationwide recognition as the laughing man at the Christmas table.
November 1989: The MyPC, basically an Ultra XT using cut-price components and secondhand CPUs in brightly coloured chassis, was released for sale through Grace Brothers and Myer stores at Christmas.
Dr. Christmas was appointed Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services on August 16, 1972 by Mayor of New York City John Lindsay.
Over Christmas 2007, Dunbar made her first appearance in pantomime, at the King's Theatre in Glasgow, playing Nanny Begood in Sleeping Beauty.
Christkind or Christkindl, the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child
Trundle also performed 'Let it Snow' for Preston's 2012 Christmas light switch on, before turning on the lights alongside fellow players, Matt Cardle and Russell Watson.
The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.
The basis of London Calling! began at the Swiss resort of Davos in Christmas 1922, when Coward presented a musical outline of a new project involving himself and Lawrence, to benefactor, Edward William Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd Earl of Lathom, who was also a friend of André Charlot.
Since then, she's been in over 60 films including American Gangster, Life Support, The Replacements, Satan Hates You, and Bikini Bloodbath Christmas.
It was featured as the closing track on the Christmas album, Acoustic Hearts of Winter.
After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s, including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis for Mathis' 1958 Christmas album titled Merry Christmas, and Guy Mitchell for whom Faith wrote Mitchell's number one single, "My Heart Cries for You".
In 1965 while organizing a Christmas party at the home of a sculptor friend, Geles Cabrera, he used collages as decorations.
In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown and 1986 in a Jack Rosenthal British television Christmas play Day To Remember.
In the years following 2000, La Sonora Ponceña participated in a large number of events throughout Puerto Rico, including Fiestas Patronales, private parties, graduation parties, and corporate Christmas and holiday parties.
She also produced the 2008 Christmas special, entitled "The Next Doctor".
Muslims celebrate Ramzan (Id-ul-Fitr) and Bakrid, Milad un Nabi, Shab-e-Meraj and Christians celebrate Christmas and Good Friday.
#"The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve" (with the bell-ringers of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin) (Paddy Moloney)
"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".
Kreepmas combines Halloween and Christmas, and is celebrated October 1 through December 31.
The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1968 Christmas album by Frank Sinatra and featuring his children, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Nancy Sinatra, and Tina Sinatra.
"There Goes The Groom" is a 1997 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine first shown on 28 December 1997.
This song was included in the Pink Martini Christmas album Joy to the World released in 2010, under the title "Congratulations - A Happy New Year Song" with vocals by China Forbes and Timothy Yuji Nishimoto.
When Huckleberry Hound and his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber visit Jellystone Park for Christmas, they discover Yogi Bear and Boo Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus.
Produced by Elena Beloff, co-produced by Ken Christmas and Vincent D'Onofrio, cinematography by Eun-ah Lee; film editing by Ben Abrams; original music by Oliver James and Robert Eldridge, additional music by Tony Sokol and the song "Budem Vmeste" was written by Elena Beloff and produced by Tony Sokol and Joe Bohmer.