Christmas is a 2004 album by Chris Isaak released on Warner Bros. Records.
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.
Igor Dushin was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party. From 1994 to 1998 he was chair of the secretariat of advisers of the President of Ukraine in the area of regional politics. From 1998 to 1999 he was a scientific consultant of the charitable organization “Sodruzhestvo” (”Concord”). From 1999 to 2000 he was a chair of Center of Business collaboration at the Fund of Assistance for Local Governments of Ukraine. He favors acknowledging the Russian language as a second official language in Ukraine, and also speaks in support of transforming Ukraine into a federal republic and the creation of a two-chamber parliament.
Merry Christmas Strait To You is a Christmas album by George Strait released by MCA Records in 1986. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.
“Christmas Wrapping” (sometimes misspelled as “Christmas Wrappings”) is a Christmas song performed in 1981 by The Waitresses and later covered by the Spice Girls. Save Ferris also recorded a version with different lyrics.
The song is narrated from the point of view of a busy single woman who is adamant that she will try to sit-out the exhausting Christmas period, not participating in the traditional Christmas activities (except for making dinner, see below).
She reveals that, during the course of the year, she has attempted to meet up with a man she encountered in a ski shop the previous year. Despite the couple’s attempts to meet, a succession of mishaps conspires to keep them apart.
Finally on Christmas Eve, while the protagonist (after stating that A&P provided her with “the world’s smallest turkey”) is doing last-minute shopping for cranberries at a local convenience store, ends up running into the man after discovering that he, too, forgot to buy cranberries.
This coincidence seems to hint that the narrator, and therefore the listener, shouldn’t completely abandon their faith in the magic of Christmas.
Yuletide Records was a daughter record label of Modern Records, specialized only in Christmas music. Apparently only 9 records were made, somewhere during the late sixties. Their slogan was “Great Sounds of Christmas” but was unsuccessful at producing these sounds. The music and album covers were cheesy at best, and overwhelmingly generic.
Swallow My Eggnog is the twelfth Christmas album released by KROQ show Kevin and Bean.
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.
Skipping Christmas (2001) is a comedy novella by noted American author John Grisham. In 2004 the novella was made into a movie titled Christmas with the Kranks.
The story focuses on how Luther Krank and his wife Nora tried to avoid doing the traditional Christmas frenzy.
The plan was hatched by Luther himself after he and his wife took their daughter Blair to the airport for a year long mission to Peru with the Peace Corps. After calculating how much money they spent last Christmas, Luther decides to take a 10-day Caribbean Cruise with his wife this year instead of celebrating Christmas the usual way. No Christmas shopping, no Christmas trees, not even the traditional Christmas party they hosted. Nora reluctantly agreed at first but as the day of the cruise approaches she thinks it’s a great idea as they all miss the crazy commotion people had to endure during the season. Or so they thought……
Blair suddenly calls on Christmas Eve to tell them that she’s at the airport in Miami,FL and she’s coming home with her fiance as a surprise for them. Blair also told them that her fiance hasn’t been to the U.S.A. and would like to see how they spend Christmas, after Blair told him about the decorations, Music, snow and the Christmas party their family always hosted.
All of a sudden the Kranks have to prepare a Christmas party in 4 hours, not to mention getting the house decorated in time for the arrival of Blair from the airport.
Luther’s view on Christmas changes a lot throughout this novel. In the beginning he is looking forward to his cruise the Island Princess. The ten day cruise, full of food and fun was a must. In the end of the, book Luther realizes that family is more important as he reluctantly decides not to go on the cruise.
A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in a series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released in 1992 and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records.
Justice Party is the name of several different political parties around the world:
Disambiguation page for Justice and Development Party
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]
Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.
It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.
In a North American/Australian or British wedding a groomsman or usher is one of the (usually) male attendants to the bridegroom in a wedding ceremony. Usually the groom selects his closest friends and/or relatives to serve as a groomsmen, and it is considered an honor to be selected. From his groomsmen, the groom chooses one to serve as best man.
In a typical “Anglosphere” white wedding, the duties of a groomsman typically include some or all of the following:
The groom may also designate other male friends and relatives to act as ushers, whose main task is ushering guests to their seats before the ceremony.
In a military officers wedding, the role of groomsman is replaced by Swordsmen of the Sword Honor Guard. They are usually picked as close personal friends of the groom who have served with him/her. Their role includes forming the traditional sword arch for the married couple and guests to walk through.
To show appreciation and gratitude, the bridegroom will traditionally purchase gifts for his best man and groomsmen. These gifts are generally known as groomsmen gifts. Groomsmen gifts serve as both a thank you to all the groomsmen or ushers who take the time (and spend the money) to be a part of your wedding celebration. Groomsmen gifts are also a way to commemorate the special day for years to come.
Traditionally, the bridegroom will give a gift to both his father, the bride’s father and the ringbearer.
18 Candles: The Early Years is a CD released by Silverstein in 2006. It compiles their two previously released, then-out-of-print CD EPs Summer’s Stellar Gaze (2000) and When the Shadows Beam (2002) along with some newly recorded acoustic and live material as well as a remix of the Discovering the Waterfront album track “Smile In Your Sleep”.
(some of these songs are remastered, such as Bleeds No More)
A wedding march is a piece of music played during a wedding, usually during the entrance of the bride (processional) or the departure of the married couple at the end (recessional).
The traditional processional at Western weddings is the Bridal Chorus from Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, while a traditional recessional is the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
It is ironic to note that while their musical works are often paired today, Mendelssohn, a Jewish composer, was a target of Wagner’s anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik.
dnotify is a file system event monitor for the Linux kernel. It was introduced in the 2.4 kernel seriesIt is included in 2.4.0, but not in 2.2.26 and is still included in the current 2.6 kernel seriesVerified to be included at least until 2.6.21, the current version at time of this writing. It has been replaced by inotify in newer kernels (since release 2.6.13), but dnotify is still included for compatibility reasons.
The word event can have several meanings:
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MICKEY-128 is a stream cipher developed by Steve Babbage and Matthew Dodd.
The cipher is a Phase 2 Focus candidate for the eSTREAM project. The cipher is targeted for fast hardware implementations and efficient implementations for embedded systems. Several versions of MICKEY-128 with different key lengths exists. The version selected for Phase 2 has a key length of 128 bits. It is not patented.
Hypnotised is a 1980 album by The Undertones.
The original LP release included the UK chart hits: My Perfect Cousin, which made #9 in April 1980, and Wednesday Week, which got to #11 in July the same year.
The album was listed in “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” which was selected and written by 90 leading international critics1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.