The Raptor's Annual Christmas Rant
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From: Over the Electric Grapevine.....man
Christmas eve was roast beef, mac and cheese, potato salad and a bunch of delicious desserts.
Christmas day was a great ham, hash brown casserole, broccoli salad, green beans with bacon, corn and sweet potato casserole. Pecan pie for dessert
Christmas day was a great ham, hash brown casserole, broccoli salad, green beans with bacon, corn and sweet potato casserole. Pecan pie for dessert
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Tanks RB
fyi this tread always puts this in mehead > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzhflMkGLg
nun of your head is cut off Daddy
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Happy Holidays!
December:
See also: Winter solstice#Observances
Advent: four weeks prior to Christmas (Western Christianity).
Chalica: A holiday created in 2005, in the first full week in December, celebrated by some Unitarian Universalists.[4]
Saint Nicholas' Day: 6 December
Bodhi Day: 8 December - Day of Enlightenment, celebrating the day that the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Gautama) experienced enlightenment (also known as Bodhi).
Our Lady of Guadalupe: 12 December - An important honor of Mexico's Patron Saint before Christmas officially begins on December 16th[5]
Las Posadas: 16 December -24 December - procession to various family lodgings for celebration & prayer and to re-enact Mary & Joseph's journey to Bethlehem [6]
Saint Lucia's Day: 13 December - Church Feast Day. Saint Lucia comes as a young woman with lights and sweets.
Winter Solstice: 21 December-22 December - midwinter The Granddaddy of them all!
Dongzhi Festival - a celebration of Winter
Soyal: 21 December - Zuni and Hopi
Yalda: 21 December - The turning point, Winter Solstice. As the longest night of the year and the beginning of the lengthening of days, Shabe Yaldā or Shabe Chelle is an Iranian festival celebrating the victory of light and goodness over darkness and evil. Shabe yalda means 'birthday eve.' According to Persian mythology, Mithra was born at dawn on the 22nd of December to a virgin mother. He symbolizes light, truth, goodness, strength, and friendship. Herodotus reports that this was the most important holiday of the year for contemporary Persians. In modern times Persians celebrate Yalda by staying up late or all night, a practice known as Shab Chera meaning 'night gazing'. Fruits and nuts are eaten, especially pomegranates and watermelons, whose red color invokes the crimson hues of dawn and symbolize Mithra.
Mōdraniht: or Mothers' Night, the Saxon winter solstice festival.
Saturnalia: the Roman winter solstice festival
Pancha Ganapati: Five-day festival in honor of Lord Ganesha. December 21–25.
Festivus: 23 December
Christmas Eve: 24 December
Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (Day of the birth of the Unconquered Sun): late Roman Empire - 25 December
Christmas: 25 December (Because the early Christians could not stop the populations from celebrations on Dec 25. Jesus was born in the spring, not winter.
Twelve Days of Christmas: 25 December through 6 January
Yule: Pagan winter festival that was celebrated by the historical Germanic people from late December to early January.
Anastasia of Sirmium Feast Day: 25 December
Malkh: 25 December
Boxing Day: 26 December - Gift-giving day after Christmas.
Kwanzaa: 26 December - 1 January - Pan-African festival celebrated in North America
Saint Stephen's Day: 26 December
Saint John the Evangelist's Day: 27 December
Holy Innocents' Day: 28 December
Saint Sylvester's Day: 31 December
Watch Night: 31 December
New Year's Eve: 31 December - Last day of the Gregorian year
Hogmanay: Night of 31 December - Before dawn of 1 January - Scottish New Year's Eve celebration
Hanukkah: A Jewish festival celebrating the miracle of oil.
December:
See also: Winter solstice#Observances
Advent: four weeks prior to Christmas (Western Christianity).
Chalica: A holiday created in 2005, in the first full week in December, celebrated by some Unitarian Universalists.[4]
Saint Nicholas' Day: 6 December
Bodhi Day: 8 December - Day of Enlightenment, celebrating the day that the historical Buddha (Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Gautama) experienced enlightenment (also known as Bodhi).
Our Lady of Guadalupe: 12 December - An important honor of Mexico's Patron Saint before Christmas officially begins on December 16th[5]
Las Posadas: 16 December -24 December - procession to various family lodgings for celebration & prayer and to re-enact Mary & Joseph's journey to Bethlehem [6]
Saint Lucia's Day: 13 December - Church Feast Day. Saint Lucia comes as a young woman with lights and sweets.
Winter Solstice: 21 December-22 December - midwinter The Granddaddy of them all!
Dongzhi Festival - a celebration of Winter
Soyal: 21 December - Zuni and Hopi
Yalda: 21 December - The turning point, Winter Solstice. As the longest night of the year and the beginning of the lengthening of days, Shabe Yaldā or Shabe Chelle is an Iranian festival celebrating the victory of light and goodness over darkness and evil. Shabe yalda means 'birthday eve.' According to Persian mythology, Mithra was born at dawn on the 22nd of December to a virgin mother. He symbolizes light, truth, goodness, strength, and friendship. Herodotus reports that this was the most important holiday of the year for contemporary Persians. In modern times Persians celebrate Yalda by staying up late or all night, a practice known as Shab Chera meaning 'night gazing'. Fruits and nuts are eaten, especially pomegranates and watermelons, whose red color invokes the crimson hues of dawn and symbolize Mithra.
Mōdraniht: or Mothers' Night, the Saxon winter solstice festival.
Saturnalia: the Roman winter solstice festival
Pancha Ganapati: Five-day festival in honor of Lord Ganesha. December 21–25.
Festivus: 23 December
Christmas Eve: 24 December
Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (Day of the birth of the Unconquered Sun): late Roman Empire - 25 December
Christmas: 25 December (Because the early Christians could not stop the populations from celebrations on Dec 25. Jesus was born in the spring, not winter.
Twelve Days of Christmas: 25 December through 6 January
Yule: Pagan winter festival that was celebrated by the historical Germanic people from late December to early January.
Anastasia of Sirmium Feast Day: 25 December
Malkh: 25 December
Boxing Day: 26 December - Gift-giving day after Christmas.
Kwanzaa: 26 December - 1 January - Pan-African festival celebrated in North America
Saint Stephen's Day: 26 December
Saint John the Evangelist's Day: 27 December
Holy Innocents' Day: 28 December
Saint Sylvester's Day: 31 December
Watch Night: 31 December
New Year's Eve: 31 December - Last day of the Gregorian year
Hogmanay: Night of 31 December - Before dawn of 1 January - Scottish New Year's Eve celebration
Hanukkah: A Jewish festival celebrating the miracle of oil.
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