Posts Tagged ‘books’

Christmas cookies | christmas party favors

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Christmas cookies are traditionally sugar cookies (though other flavors may be used based on family traditions and individual preferences) cut into various shapes related to Christmas. In the United States, since the 1930s, children have left cookies and milk on a table for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, though many people simply consume the cookies themselves. The cookies are often cut into such shapes as those of candy canes, reindeer, and holly leaves. Oreos are also popular.


See also

  • Lebkuchen
  • Pizzelle
  • Sugar cookie
  • Chocolate chip cookie
  • Cookie
  • Cookie cutter
  • gingerbread
  • Spritzgebäck
  • Pfeffernüsse


External links

  • Ginger Cookies Recipe
  • Christmas cookie recipes
  • Origin of Christmas Traditions by Sarah Lane
  • Christmas Cookies lists some popular recipes.
  • Snowflakes Recipe Traditional cookies in the shape of snowflakes.

Action Party | christmas party favors

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Action Party may refer to:

  • Action Party, Canada
  • Citizens’ Action Party, Costa Rica
  • Action Party, Guyana
  • Sardian Action Party, Italy
  • Action Party, Italy
  • Action Party, Liberia
  • Democratic Action Party, Malaysia
  • Democratic Action Party, Philippines
  • Social Action Party, Thailand
  • Action Party, United Kingdom


See also

  • National Action Party
  • New Action Party
  • People’s Action Party

Radio Disney Holiday Jams 2 | christmas party favors

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Radio Disney Holiday Jams 2 is a Christmas album released in 2002.


Track listing

  1. “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day” - A*Teens
  2. “As Long As There’s Christmas’” - Play
  3. “Wonderful Christmas Time” - Jump5
  4. “Here Come’s Santa Claus” - Gene Autry
  5. “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” - Johnny Mathis
  6. “Santa Claus Lane” - Hilary Duff
  7. “Feliz Navidad” - Jose Feliciano
  8. “Christmas Time” - Backstreet Boys
  9. “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer” - Burl Ives
  10. “Go Girlfriend (Have A Merry Christmas)” - No Secrets
  11. “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” - B2K
  12. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” - Jackson 5
  13. “The Chimney Song” - Bob Rivers
  14. “My Christmas List (Radio Disney Edit)” - Simple Plan


See also

  • Radio Disney Jingle Jams
  • Radio Disney Jams Series

Bendigo Easter Festival | Parade II

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Contents


The First Bendigo Easter Fair

The first Bendigo Easter Fair was instigated by Burnside and Aspinal to raise funds for the Sandhurst Benevolent Asylum and Hospital. The first fair was held in 1871 and raised over £1000 for this charitable cause. The fair was considered such a success that it has been held every year since, making Australia’s longest continuous running festival. The Festival is held every Easter and throughout its history has varied from one to ten days in duration.


Events


Gala Parade

In 1893 reports in The Weekly Advertiser describe a parade held that included a large and colourful Chinese section that delighted crowds. Since then the Chinese community has supported and been part of the Festival. Today the gala parade features upwards of 100 floats entered by local community groups, schools, emergency services, and businesses. The parade traditionally ends with the large Chinese section. Chinese cultural groups from Bendigo and Melbourne participate in the parade, demonstrating lion and dragon dances. The gala parade is held on Easter Monday each year.


Torchlight Procession

The Torchlight procession is a night-time parade that appeared prior to 1900. It heavily features local emergency services, with local volunteer fire brigade members marching with brass torches. In recent times the parade has ended at Bendigo’s Lake Weeroona where entertainment, activities and fireworks have been held. The Torchlight Procession is held on Easter Sunday each year.


Popular Girl

A fund raising event called “Popular Girl” was held in which well-known local women raised money and in doing so gained “votes” and the person that raised the largest number of votes was crowned the “Popular Girl”. The “Popular Girl” competition is no longer held.


Carnival

Originally held in several locations including Rosalind Park, Bendigo Showgrounds and, more recently, the Bendigo Central Business District, the carnival features a large number of ’sideshow alley’-type attractions and children’s rides.


Chinese Spring Festival and Golden Dragon Museum

The Chinese Spring Festival has been held regularly for many years. It marks the appearance of Sun Loong, the New Dragon, thought to be the World’s longest Imperial Dragon. The Spring festival culminates in the “Waking the Dragon” ceremony that prepares the Dragon for the Gala Parade. Sun Loong first appeared in 1971 and was created to replace Loong. Loong is now not a part of the parade and Both dragons are on display at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo.


New Name, Same Festival

The Bendigo Easter Fair was renamed The Bendigo Easter Festival in 2001. It is still a very popular event attracting over 100,000 people over the four day event.


External links

  • Bendigo Easter Festival website
  • Golden Dragon Museum website

Amsterdam Sloterdijk railway station | previous

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Amsterdam Sloterdijk is a major railway junction situated to the west of Amsterdam Centraal station.

At the ground level is the railway from Amsterdam to Haarlem and Zaandam, with branches to Alkmaar, Purmerend, and Hoorn; at elevated level is the railway from Amsterdam to Schiphol Airport (and thence to Leiden and The Hague). The booking hall is at an intermediate raised level (as too, is the station square). On the south-west side of the crossing and beside the station square runs the Hemboog chord, connecting Schiphol and Amsterdam-Lelylaan to Zaandam (platforms on the Hemboog chord are planned but not yet realised).

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Roger DeCourcey | for the ‘Bollocks to

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Roger DeCourcey is a British ventriloquist known for operating ‘Nookie Bear’. He was the winner of the 1976 New Faces televised talent competition.

Nookie Bear’s main feature is crossing his eyes when deCoursey pulls a string inside. When deCoursey was doing the pub circuits long before TV, Nookie Bear was originally named ‘Bollocks the Bear’.


External links

  • Official website

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Merry Christmas Wherever You Are | Christmas it was

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Merry Christmas Wherever You Are is a Christmas album by George Strait. It was released by MCA Records. It has his versions of many classic christmas songs.


Track listing

  1. “I Know What I Want For Christmas”
  2. “Old Time Christmas”
  3. “Let It Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”
  4. “Jingle Bell Rock”
  5. “Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are)”
  6. “All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)”
  7. “The Christmas Song”
  8. “Noel Leon”
  9. “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”
  10. “Santa’s On His Way”

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QM | a stand-alone

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

QM may refer to:

  • The ITV’s Quiz game show Quizmania.
  • Quartermaster
  • In a monarchy, QM can stand for Queen Mother.
  • QM may stand for Queen Mary, a Cunard cruise ship.
  • In physics, QM can stand for quantum mechanics.
  • Quality management
  • Quantitative Methods
  • The QM is a colloquialism amongst students at the University of Glasgow for the Queen Margaret Union
  • Air Malawi IATA airline designator
  • ‘QM’, a commercial Multi-Value database system; see OpenQM.
  • QM Systems Ltd. [1]
  • Ticker for NYMEX miNY Light Sweet Crude Oil [2]

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Porch Swing in Tupelo | by Elton John released

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Porch

Swing in Tupelo is a song off of British pop-rock performer Elton John’s 2004 album, Peachtree Road. The song talks about Elvis Presley’s childhood, upbringing, and describes how Tupelo, Mississippi is along with talking about relaxing in rocking himself in a swing on a porch.

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World Building | World

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

World

Building can refer to:

  • The New York World Building, the tallest building in the world from 1890 to 1894.
  • The Sun Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia was known as the World Building until 1924.
  • The term world-building refers to the construction of fictional worlds or milieux.

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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas | A Christmas themed

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas was the first Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album has sold over six million copies since it was released in 1984. The group has released five subsequent Christmas studio albums, most recently Christmas Song in October 2007. [1]


Track listing

  • Songs are traditional except where noted
  1. “Deck The Halls” – 3:29
  2. “We Three Kings” (Hopkins) 3:40
  3. “Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” – 2:32
  4. “Coventry Carol” – 2:38
  5. “Good King Wenceslas” – 3:29
  6. “Christmas Sweet: Wassail, Wassail” – 2:20
  7. “Christmas Sweet: Carol Of The Birds” (Bas-Quercy) – 2:03
  8. “Christmas Sweet: I Saw Three Ships” – 1:28
  9. “Christmas Sweet: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 1:37
  10. “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 4:19
  11. “Stille Nacht” (Gruber) – 5:26

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Smashed | Ho! Who’d Be

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Smashed is a critically acclaimed memoir written in 2005 by American writer Koren Zailckas and published by Viking Press. The book has spent more than 10 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.


About

Smashed chronicles Zailckas’ decade-long struggle with alcohol abuse, beginning at fourteen, in an effort to explain the binge drinking phenomenon that plagues America’s youth.

Around the time she quit drinking, Zailckas became preoccupied with an old memory, which involved a night that she had her stomach pumped when she was 16. According to Zailckas, she hadn’t thought about that night in a number of years, but she suddenly couldn’t get it out of her head. Eventually, she sat down and wrote about it. The piece later became a chapter in her book.

Around the same time, Zailckas was hearing a lot in the news about “girls of her generation” and how they were drinking younger and more than all the generations of women who’d gone before them. The Harvard School of Public Health reported, between 1993 and 2001, there was a threefold increase in the number of women who reported being drunk on ten or more occasions in the previous month. Time (magazine) ran a cover story about female binge drinkers. Zailckas didn’t agree with what the psychologists and the sociologists, the clinicians and the statisticians had to say, which was: “girls today are drinking more because they’re just so damn liberated, because they’re bursting with confidence and girl power, because they believe they can match boys everywhere, including the bar.” In her own experience, the author says, she and her female friends drank largely because it was an expression of their unhappiness and lack of confidence. It occurred to Zailckas, then 23, that she could offer a younger perspective.


Movie

On 26 July Zailckas announced on MySpace that film rights to Smashed were sold to Dan Halstead, the producer of Garden State. She wrote the screenplay with her sister.

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Is It Christmas Yet? | Christmas

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Is It Christmas Yet? was released by The Tycoons in 1998. First album with Presidents of the United States of America’s Chris Ballew, Gigolo Aunts’ Phil Hurley, and Tube Top’s Gavin Guss.


Track listing

  1. “Cloudy Cloud”
  2. “Every Other December”
  3. “To Be There At Christmas With You”
  4. “Frozen Christmas”

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Christmas in the Aire | World Christmas

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Christmas in the Aire was the third Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1995.


Track listing

  1. “Joy to the World” – 3:36
  2. “Joseph Dear, Oh Joseph Mine” – 3:08
  3. “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” – 3:11
  4. “Herbei, oh ihr Gläubigen (Oh Come All Ye Faithful)” – 3:30
  5. “Pat-A-Pan” – 4:48
  6. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” – 3:55
  7. “Angels We Have Heard on High” – 3:53
  8. “Gagliarda” – 3:00
  9. “Los Peces en el Rio” – 3:50
  10. “Christmas Lullaby” – 4:06
  11. “Kling, Glöckchen” – 1:46
  12. “Jingle Bells” – 4:28

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Botswana at the 1992 Summer Olympics | 1992

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Botswana competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.


Results by event


Athletics

Men’s 5.000 metres

  • Zachariah Ditetso
  • Heat — 13:54.88 (→ did not advance)

Men’s Marathon

  • Benjamin Keleketu — 2:45.57 (→ 83rd place)


References

  • Official Olympic Reports

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Leather Jackets (album) | the albums Elton

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Leather Jackets is the twentieth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1986. It was his first album to not create any top twenty singles, or any hits for that matter. It was also around this time he officially came out openly about his homosexuality, after renouncing his bisexuality. In 2006, Elton John declared this his least favorite of all his albums, while lyricist Bernie Taupin believes The Big Picture deserves that honor.

Roger Taylor and John Deacon of Queen play drums and bass guitar respectively on the track “Angeline”.

Contents


Track listing

All songs by John/Taupin, except where noted.

  1. “Leather Jackets” – 4:10
  2. “Hoop of Fire” – 4:14
  3. “Don’t Trust That Woman” (Cher and Lady Choc Ice (Elton John)) – 4:58
  4. “Go It Alone” – 4:26
  5. “Gypsy Heart” – 4:46
  6. “Slow Rivers” (Duet with Cliff Richard) – 3:06
  7. “Heartache All Over the World” – 3:52
  8. “Angeline” – 3:24
  9. “Memory of Love” (Gary Osborne) – 4:08
  10. “Paris” – 3:58
  11. “I Fall Apart” – 4:00


B-sides

Song Format
“Highlander” Heartache All Over the World 7″ / 12″ (US/UK)
“Heartache All Over the World (Megamix)” Heartache All Over the World 12″ (US/UK)
“Billy and the Kids” Slow Rivers 7″ / 12″(UK)
“Lord of the Flies” Slow Rivers 12″ (UK)


Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1986 The Billboard 200 91

Heartache All Over the World

Year Chart Position
1986 The Billboard Hot 100 59


Credits

  • Produced by Gus Dudgeon
  • Engineered by Graham Dickson
  • Mastered by Greg Fulginiti US

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Shushan, New York | covered

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Shushan is a hamlet located in the Town of Salem, Washington County, in Upstate New York. It is in the eastern region of the state, located four miles west of the Vermont border.

Among Shushan’s attractions is a covered bridge constructed in 1858.


Famous residents

The renowned classical saxophonist Sigurd Raschèr owned a farm in Shushan, and died there in 2001.


External link

  • Shushan Bridge page from New York State Covered Bridges site

Links

Caniapiscau, Quebec | album Caribou. It

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Caniapiscau was a temporary worksite opened in 1974 for workers involved in the construction of the dams and floodgates of the Caniapiscau Reservoir in northern Quebec, Canada. The reservoir was built as part of the James Bay Project that gave rise to the La Grande hydroelectric complex.

Accessible only by air from 1974 to 1976, when a temporary landing strip was cleared on a nearby frozen lake, by an ice road from James Bay from 1977 to 1979 and, since late 1979, by the 666 km long Route Transtaïga (Trans-Taiga Road) which branches off the Route de la Baie James (James Bay Road). The worksite was closed after construction ended towards 1984. The 84 kilometres between Caniapiscau and Brisay is not recommended for vehicles other than four-wheel drive due to large rocks on the coarse-gravel surface.

The site is now used by an outfitter (fishing and caribou hunting).


External links

  • Caniapiscau (Hydro-Québec)
  • Caniapiscau Reservoir

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Tinsel | Christmas

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Tinsel is a thin metallic strip typically made of plastic for use for Christmas decoration, particularly on Christmas trees. Tinsel is different than Garland, which is “Tinsel on a rope”. It was invented in Germany in 1610, and was originally made of shredded silver.

Tinsel used to include lead, which caused the strands to hang better from the branches. This was eventually removed due to safety concerns.


References

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The Folk Sampler | theme

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The Folk Sampler is a nationally syndicated public radio (NPR) show, that showcases folk, blues, & bluegrass music both modern and old.

Since 1978, the host Mike Flynn has been broadcasting his show from the foothills of the Ozarks. It was in 1982 that The Folk Sampler became syndicated by public radio. Each weeks show has a theme which all songs featured fit into either by release date or actual song theme. After selecting a theme for a show Mr Flynn has to work though over 6,000 record albums, 3,000 compact discs, and 2,000 cassettes. It’s reported that he spends 15-20 hours a week preparing each show.

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