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- The legend of a jolly red man who gives presents to children on Christmas Eve is based on the German and Dutch traditions of St Nicholas — a real-life bishop from ancient Greece.
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- The real Bedford Falls from It's a Wonderful Life. Frank Capra's 1946 fantasy-drama "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the quintessential holiday movies, thanks in part to annual December airings on television.
- 8-Bit Christmas recalled '80s Nintendo mania. The 2021 HBO Max comedy "8-Bit Christmas" is an anarchic but warm-hearted tribute to not only the highs and lows of the holiday season, but also the mania generated by '80s-era toys and games like the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Joyeux Noel depicted a all-too-brief truce in WWI. The 2005 feature "Joyeux Noel" depicts a remarkable moment in the carnage of World War I: A temporary truce brokered between French, Scottish, and German soldiers, who left their trenches during Christmas and shared songs and gifts.
- The Man Who Invented Christmas looks at the life of Charles Dickens. The 2017 Irish-Canadian biopic "The Man Who Invented Christmas" examines the events in the life of author Charles Dickens that reportedly inspired him to write his enduring holiday novella "A Christmas Carol."
Dec 22, 2023 · The legend of a jolly red man who gives presents to children on Christmas Eve is based on the German and Dutch traditions of St Nicholas — a real-life bishop from ancient Greece.
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- Audrey Courty
Aug 24, 2023 · The origins of Christmas can be traced back to the ancient Roman and Norse civilizations. In fact, 25th December was not even Jesus’ date of birth. The early Christians appropriated what was originally a pagan holiday because it was convenient.
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Mike hated all the commercial stuff around Christmas: the overspending and finding the perfect gift stress. So I wondered what to get for my husband. Mike coached kids and, at one match, sadly noticed that the opposing team, from a poor inner-city neighborhood, had almost no equipment at all. When I saw his pain in the situation, I knew what to do....
Everybody knows Rudolph, but nobody knows the second most famous reindeer in the world: Bernie the Reindeer! Santa Claus did not know what to do with Bernie. He did not like to be outside. He was too clumsy for the toy workshop. He ate everything he cooked in the kitchen. At last, Santa realized that Bernie was always talking. Then, in a bright fla...
One Christmas, my sister told me that Santa was not real. I told my grandmother, and she took me to the big department store. She handed me 10 dollars and the assignment to buy something for somebody in need. I thought of a boy in my classroom who had no coat and bought a beautiful coat. We delivered it to his door with a secret note from Santa. Si...
The children of a widowed woman take a tree into their home. However, there is no money to buy decorations for the tree. So sadly, the children went to bed. Spiders, however, had seen the sadness of the family, and during the night, they decorated the whole Christmas tree with their webs. The following day all family was happy, and they realized th...
My father sat down outside our apartment, crying. He could not pay the bills for us anymore. When the mailman came by, he asked him what he needed. My dad replied that he needed $33 for the following rent. The mailman gave him $50 without expecting him to pay it back. Then he looked at me and said to my father: “When someone in the future needs you...
My daughter received a bubble maker for Christmas. So, of course, she wanted to try it out immediately the following day. I read in the instruction manual that it was best with a certain kind of soap called Joy. But, unfortunately, we did not have it. So in the early morning, when my daughter wanted to make bubbles, and I was tired, I could not bri...
There was no money for presents or Christmas delicacies. My mother had had a stroke, and all money went to the hospital. However, on Christmas Eve, the church knocked on our door. They heard about our Christmas situation and brought us new coats and holiday treats. All because one of our neighbors had told her church about us. It’s small things lik...
His little girl used all the expensive gold wrapping paper. And on Christmas Eve, he saw that she used it all to cover a big shoebox. What a waste! However, she came to him on Christmas and gave him the shoebox. It was her gift to him. But, when he opened the shoebox, it was empty. What?! He looked sternly at his child and told her there needed to ...
Mr. Waterby wants to buy a set of Edgar Allen Poe books for Christmas. However, when he tells his wife, she discourages him from buying the set. He starts to wonder why she does not let him buy the set. Does she want all money for herself? Grumpily, he decides that he also will not buy anything for her. In the end, she gets him the Poe set as a gif...
On Christmas Eve, a wife discovers she has only a few dollars to buy a present for her husband. So she sells her beautiful long hair and buys a gift: a pocket watch chain. Her husband comes home, and she gives him her gift. Jim gives Della a set of combs and tells his wife that he sold his watch to buy the combs for her. Both received gifts they co...
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In a cabin on a World War II front, a German mom with a young son mediates a truce between three German and three American soldiers so they can all celebrate Christmas Eve 1944 together.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Rodney Gibbons
- 2002-12-14
Silent Night is a 2002 television film set on Christmas Eve in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II and is loosely based on true events.
Oct 27, 2009 · Believed to have been written on Christmas Eve of 1822, the New Yorker is said to have been inspired by his sleigh ride home.
