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Franz Gruber
Franz Gruber , 1787-1863, Austrian organist. On Christmas Eve in 1818 he composed his one published work, the music for the poem Silent Night by the local curate, Josef Mohr.... Read more |
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night Jan. 5, the vigil or eve of Epiphany , so called because it is the 12th night from Christmas, counting Christmas as the first. In England, Twelfth Night has been a great festival marking the end of the Christmas season, and popular masquerading parties are typical entertainment.... Read more |
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Eve
Eve [Heb.,=life], in the Bible, the first woman, wife of Adam and the mother of Cain, Abel, and Seth. Fashioned from Adam's rib, she was beguiled by the serpent into eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Eve then tempted Adam to eat, whereupon they were banished from the Garden of... Read more |
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Advent
Advent [Lat.,=coming], season of the Christian ecclesiastical year preceding Christmas, lasting in the West from the Sunday nearest Nov. 30 (St. Andrew's Day) until Christmas Eve. In the Roman Catholic Church it is traditionally considered a season of penitence and fasting, to prepare for the holy... Read more |
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Life of Adam and Eve
Life of Adam and Eve early Jewish work included in the collection known as the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha . It was probably written in Hebrew between 100 BC and AD 100. Based on the Old Testament story, it supplements the original. It has been interpreted to teach that Eve was the source of... Read more |
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Glastonbury
Glastonbury , town (1991 pop. 6,751), Somerset, SW England. It has a leather industry, but Glastonbury is famous for its religious associations and many legends. One legend tells that St. Joseph of Arimathea founded the first Christian church in England there. On Wearyall Hill he rested his staff,... Read more |
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Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick , 1771-1833, British engineer and inventor, b. Cornwall. He is known as the father of locomotive power because of his invention (1800) of the high-pressure steam engine. He built a steam carriage that on Christmas Eve, 1801, in London, carried the first passengers transported by... Read more |
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Abel
Abel in the Bible, son of Adam and Eve, a shepherd, killed by his older brother, Cain; in the Gospel of St. Matthew, mentioned as the first martyr.... Read more |
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Cain
Cain , in the Bible, eldest son of Adam and Eve, a tiller of the soil. In jealousy he killed his brother Abel and became a fugitive.... Read more |
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Robert Anderson (American playwright)
Anderson, Robert W[oodruff] (1917–), New York City‐born playwright, after receiv‐ing his A.B. and M.A. from Harvard and navy service in World War II taught playwriting and began writing his own dramas, including All Summer Long (1953); Tea and Sympathy (1953), about an unhappy... Read more |
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CLINTON GIVES PARDONS FOR CHRISTMAS.(Front)
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...a chance this Christmas with President ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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DON'T WANT TO COOK ON CHRISTMAS EVE?(CNY)(Column)
...is New Year's Eve, some are open today, Christmas Eve, to serve...but is closed Christmas Day. "So many people ask about Christmas," says Chiyeko...Jolene. "We're busy Christmas ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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CHRISTMAS WEEK PARDON ERASES A SAILOR'S 'BIGGEST FAILURE'
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...had chance this Christmas with President ... |
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Tidings of Comfort in Christmas Week Pardons; President Grants Clemency to 21...
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...a chance this Christmas with President ... |
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CLINTON QUIETLY ISSUES PARDONS TO 21 WHO BROKE FEDERAL LAWS.(News)
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...a chance this Christmas with President ... |
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Clinton hands out 21 pardons for crimes that go back years
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...a chance this Christmas with President ... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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CLINTON PARDONS 21 PEOPLE
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas week pardons for...For Weaver, Clinton s signature Tuesday...had chance this Christmas with President ... |
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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CLINTON PARDONS 21 IN DECADES-OLD CRIMES.(NEWS)
...Fifty Christmas Eves ago, a young...pen, President Clinton erased what Raymond...Americans to receive Christmas-week pardons...For Weaver, Clinton's signature...had chance this Christmas with President ... |
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SNOW NO BARRIER TO "LIGHTS' VISITORS; ONONDAGA LAKE PARK DISPLAY DRAWS 300...
...Lopez said. Christmas Eve was the best night...the previous two Christmas Eves, he said. Liverpool...with his family Christmas night. For the...the Lake and the Clinton Square ice rink...Christmas, the ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CHRISTMAS A BUSY ONE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES.(CAPITAL REGION)
...deputy's vehicle on Christmas Eve. William J. Liddle...apartment building, Christmas 2001 will be the one...belongings and spend Christmas with their relatives...Schodack, East Greenbush, Clinton Heights, East Schodack... |
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