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Little Christmas, or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Epiphany. It is so called because it was, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the day on which Christmas Day was celebrated. It is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the last day of the Christmas holidays for both Primary and Secondary schools.

The name Little Christmas is also found in Slovenian (mali božič).

It is also known as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas), so called because of the tradition (still very strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all the household duties on that day and giving their spouses a day off. Most women will either hold parties or go out to celebrate the day with their friends, sisters, mothers, aunts etc. Bars and restaurants have a near 100% female clientele on this night. Children often buy presents for their mothers and grandmothers and it closely resembles Mother’s Day in this respect.

The Temptations Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The group’s first holiday release, Christmas Card features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas standards and original Christmas songs.

Track listing

1. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
2. “My Christmas Tree”
3. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
4. “Silent Night”
5. “Someday at Christmas”
6. “White Christmas”
7. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
   
8. “Silver Bells”
9. “The Christmas Song”
10. “Little Drummer Boy”

Personnel

• Dennis Edwards: vocals
• Eddie Kendricks: vocals
• Paul Williams: vocals
• Melvin Franklin: vocals
• Otis Williams: vocals

Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the .cx ccTLD, and administrator of the Christmas Island Information Economy Development Trust. Christmas Island Internet Administration owns and operates the only Internet Service Provider (http://www.pulau.cx) in the Territory on a not-for-profit basis.

xCBL is a collection of XML specifications (both DTD and XML schema) for use in e-business. It is maintained by Commerce One Inc.

History

xCBL was originally called Common Business Library (CBL). The xCBL standardization began in 1997.
This led to the creation of xCBL 2.0 which covered 12 different business document specifications, mainly meant for use in business-to-business (B2B) procurement. xCBL 2.0 was mainly based on existing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards.

xCBL 3.0 contained several new business specifications and categories.

xCBL 3.5 (October 2001) contained nine new business documents. OASIS used this version as the starting point for defining business documents in Universal Business Language (UBL).

xCBL 4.0 (March 2003) is the latest version of xCBL. It consists of 44 business documents in eight categories. It also introduces the use of XML schema.

External links

• xCBL Home
• xCBL Forum

Past continuous is used to describe actions and states continued in the past period of time.

The construction of a past continuous is similar to the present continuous tense, be it that it has a past simple form of ‘to be’ instead of a present simple form preceding the present participle.

An example of a past continuous inside a sentence would be ‘I was painting the house.’ There’s the past simple form of ‘to be’ in the finite position (was), with the present participle of ‘to paint’ (painting) following it.

For the 1971 novel by Yaakov Shabtai see Past Continuous (novel)

See also

• continuous aspect

External links

• Past Continuous in english language

Christmas Turkey is a Christmas-themed album released in 1997 by the Canadian Comedy Music group The Arrogant Worms.
It includes a re-recorded version of “The Christmas Song” (which appeared on their debut album).

Track listing

1. “Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass”
2. “The Christmas Song”
3. “Santa Got Arrested”
4. “Christmas Sucks”
5. “Things Are Looking Bad For Santa”
6. “Christmas Turkey Blues”
7. “Oh God, I’m Santa Claus!”
8. “Christmas Is Almost Here”
9. “Dad Threw Up On Christmas Day”
10. “The Same Christmas Cake”
11. “Christmastime”
12. “Christmas Blues”
13. “Christmas Hangover”
14. “Vincent The Christmas Virus”
15. “Christmas In Ignace”

Swallow My Eggnog is the twelfth Christmas album released by KROQ show Kevin and Bean.

Track listing

1. “Swallow My Eggnog” – 4:25
2. New Found Glory: “Ex-Miss” – 3:27
3. Remy Zero: “Someday at Christmas” – 2:45
4. Seth Green: “Seth Green’s Holiday Message” – 0:13
   
5. Chillaz: “Clint Frostwood” – 2:39
   
6. “Cookin’ With Walken” – 3:38
7. Pudie Tadow: “Get Your Dreidel On” – 3:06
8. P.O.D.: “Christmas in Cali” – 2:44
9. “Steve Erwin’s Crocodile Christmas” – 0:24
10. “Harry Blotter & The Sorcerer’s Bone” – 4:57
11. Jimmy Eat World: “Last Christmas” – 4:25
12. Cypress Hill: “The Night Before Christmas” – 2:04
13. “Silent Bob’s Christmas Memory” – 0:24
14. The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show: “Little Girls and Hobos” – 4:00
15. Unwritten Law featuring Sum 41: “Unwritten Christmas” – 3:52
16. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine: “Christmastime Is Here” – 1:30
17. Johnny Knoxville: “A Very Jackass Christmas” – 1:15
18. Blink 182: “Happy Holidays, You Bastard” – 0:44
19. Dave Gahan: “Dave Gahan’s Christmas Message” – 0:13
20. Dr. Dyke & The Cinnamon Cowboys: “Westside” – 3:05
21. Gorillaz: “Don Quixote’s Christmas Bonanza” – 3:42
22. “Under the Mistle-Toke with Mole” – 2:37
23. “A Family Guy Christmas” – 3:49
24. Coldplay: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” – 0:40
25. Sum 41 Vs. Tenacious D: “Things I Want” – 3:44
26. Jackie Chan: “Jackie Chan’s Christmas Message” – 0:27
27. “Santa Bob” – 3:01
28. Afroman: “Afroman’s Christmas Joint” – 1:05
29. Weezer: “Always” – 2:40
30. Armenian Comedian: “Rock ‘n Pot Christmas” – 4:00

Democratic Party has been used as a name by a number of political parties in the United Kingdom. The main users have been:

• Democratic Party (UK, 1942)
• Democratic Party (UK, 1969)
• Democratic Party (UK, 1998)
• British Democratic Party

A parade of horribles is both a literal parade and a rhetorical device.

As a literal parade

“Parade of horribles” originally referred to a literal parade of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes, rather like the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. It was a traditional feature of Fourth-of-July parades in parts of the U. S. in the nineteenth century. A 1926 newspaper article about July Fourth celebrations in the White Mountains of New Hampshire notes

Old-time celebrations are to be held tomorrow at Littleton, Lancaster, Colebrook, and Conway, with all the usual features of street parades of horribles and grotesques, brass bands, decorated automobiles and vehicles, exhibitions by fire departments, basket picnics in convenient groves…<ref>”Mountain Season Early. Camp and Stream Bring Many Visitors to New Hampshire Despite Coolness.” The New York Times, July 4, 1926, p. X8</ref>

As a rhetorical device

A parade of horribles is also a rhetorical device whereby the speaker argues against taking a certain course of action by listing a number of extremely undesirable events which will ostensibly result from the action. Its power lies in the emotional impact of the unpleasant predictions; however, a parade of horribles is a logical fallacy to the extent that:

• The “horribles” are not likely to occur as a result of the action, an appeal to probability,
• The argument relies solely on the emotional impact of the “horribles”, an appeal to emotion, or
• The “horribles” are not actually bad.

A parade of horribles is a type of hyperbole because it exaggerates the negative results of the action. It is similar to a slippery slope argument, but not identical. Whereas a slippery slope argument argues that, “If we do this, then the next thing we do will be this,” a parade of horribles argues that, “If we do this, then ultimately all these horrible things will happen.”

References

The West Riding of Lindsey was a division of the Lindsey part of Lincolnshire in England. It consisted of the north western part of the county, and included the Isle of Axholme and the Aslacoe, Corringham, Manley, Lawress and Well wapentakes.

The administrative centre of the riding was Kirton-in-Lindsey. At the time of the Domesday Book, the riding also contained Lincoln, although in 1409 it became a county corporate. Other important towns included Gainsborough.

Organizational intelligence (OI) is the capability of an organization to comprehend and conclude knowledge relevant to its business purpose.

OI can be seen as the business oriented extension to knowledge management (KM), as it is the application of KM concepts to a business environment, additionally including learning mechanisms, comprehension models and business value network models, such as the balanced scorecard concept.

OI’s focus includes the creation, fostering and management of organizational competencies (OCs).

See also

• Talent management

John IV may refer to:

• Patriarch John IV of Constantinople, Patriarch from 582 to his death in 595.
• Pope John IV, Pope from 640 to his death in 642.
  
• John IV, Bishop of Naples (died 835).
• John IV of Naples, Duke from 997 to after 1002.
• John IV of Gaeta (died 1012).
• John IV Laskaris (1250–c. 1305), Emperor of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261.
• John IV, Duke of Brittany (1295–1345).
• John IV, Duke of Brabant (1403–1427).
• John IV of Trebizond (c. 1403–1459).
• John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437–1463).
• John IV of Portugal (1603–1656).
• Yohannes IV of Ethiopia (c. 1831–1831).

See also

• John 4, the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John

This article is about the Caribbean coast. For the film, please see The Spanish Main.

The Spanish Main was the mainland coast of the Spanish Empire around the Caribbean. It included Florida, Mexico, Central America and the north coast of South America. In time it became a general term for the seaways around the Spanish possessions in the Caribbean.

From the 16th to the 18th century the Spanish Main was the point of departure for enormous wealth in the form of gold, silver, gems, spices, hardwoods, hides and other riches.

Major loading ports were Cartagena de Indias in New Granada, Porto Bello on the Isthmus of Darien and Veracruz in New Spain (with wares brought by the Manila Galleons transported overland from Acapulco), and from there they were shipped to Spain by the famous Spanish treasure fleets.

This made the Spanish Main a haunt of pirates and privateers, and gave the name a notorious and romantic allure.

See also

• Spanish colonies
• Spanish treasure fleet
• Piracy in the Caribbean
• Privateering on the Spanish Main

External links

• Notorious Places: The Spanish Main
• Mel Fisher Maritime Museum: The Spanish Main

A Very Special Christmas Live is the fourth in a series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was recorded in Washington, D.C. at a benefit party held by then President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton in December 1998 to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Special Olympics. In October 1999, it was released under the production supervision of Bobby Shriver for A&M Records.

Track listing

1. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – Mary J. Blige and Sheryl Crow
2. “Christmas in Hollis” – Run-DMC
3. “Please Come Home for Christmas” – Jon Bon Jovi
4. “Christmas Blues” – John Popper and Eric Clapton
5. “What Child Is This” – Vanessa Williams
6. “Christmas Tears” – Eric Clapton
7. “O Holy Night” – Tracy Chapman
8. “Give Me One Reason” – Tracy Chapman and Eric Clapton
9. “Merry Christmas Baby” – Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton
10. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” – Jon Bon Jovi
11. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” – all artists

The Edge Of Christmas was a Christmas compilation album released in 1995.

Track listing

1. “Thank God It’s Christmas”
2. “Please Come Home For Christmas”
3. “2000 Miles”
4. “December Will Be Magic Again”
5. “Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy”
6. “Winter Wonderland”
7. “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
8. “Run Run Rudolph”
9. “Christmas Is Coming”
10. “Fairytale Of New York”
11. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight)”
12. “Christmas Wrapping”

A theme party is a party gathered around a single theme that guides the behavior of guests or hosts. The best-known type is a masquerade ball, in which participants dress as characters, but many other types exist, such as:

• Pyjama party
• Tea party
• Cupcake party
• Bottle party
• Dress up party
• Gin and cider party
  
• Cheese and wine party
• Dinosaur party
• Construction party
• Monster mash party
• Pokémon party
• Singles party
• Costume party

Rick Mercer’s Christmas in Kabul is a CBC Christmas special about comedian Rick Mercer going to Afghanistan to bring Christmas cheer to the Canadian troops stationed outside Kabul. Mercer’s performances could be compared to those of Bob Hope for the USO.

Music stars Damhnait Doyle, Kevin Fox and Tom Cochrane accompanied Mercer to Camp Julien, where many of the troops live in large tents.

It originally aired December 21 2003, on CBC.

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The name John Paul might refer to:

Full name

• John Paul (actor), who appeared in the two BBC television series
• John Paul (field hockey), a field hockey player from South Africa
• John Paul, Sr., former IndyCar driver
• John Paul, Jr., former IndyCar driver
• John Paul (1839-1901), US politician and judge
• John Paul, Jr. (1883 - 1964), US politician and judge
• Pope John Paul I
• Pope John Paul II
• Ciampolo (a language variant of “John Paul”), alleged name for a soul found by Dante in the Inferno.

Named “John Paul…”

• John Paul Jones (disambiguation)
• John Paul McQueen, a fictional character in British soap Hollyoaks.
• John Paul Stevens, US Supreme Court Justice

See also

• Giovanni Paolo
• Jean Paul
• Jean-Paul Gaultier
• Jean-Paul Sartre

Euphoria (album) may refer to:

• Euphoria (Leftover Salmon album), a 1997 album by Leftover Salmon
  
• Euphoria (Def Leppard album), a 1999 album by Def Leppard
• Euphoria (compilations), a line of compilation albums consisting mainly of trance and chillout genres
• Euphoria (Vinnie Vincent album), a 1997 album by Vinnie Vincent
• Euphoria (Echo Screen album), a 2007 album by Echo Screen
• Euphoria (Euphoria album), a 1969 album by EUPHORIA

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Zvakwana is an underground movement in Zimbabwe, that came to light in 2004. Its name means “enough is enough” in the Shona language, and in Ndebele it translates to Sokwanele. (Sokwanele is also a part of the movement but appears to be more occupied with information dissemination).

Zvakwana appears to be responsible for clandestinely distributing resistance messages, graffiti, CDs of music, and condoms featuring their logo, a Z on a yellow background. They also run a website which the Zimbabwean government is trying to block from internet service providers.

Opposition party Movement for Democratic Change says they have no connection to Zvakwana, but share its values and support its efforts.

External links

• Zvakwana
• Sokwanele
• This is Zimbabwe - Sokwanele blog