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In German traditions, St. Nicholas is accompanied by a an imp or mildly evil fellow named Krampus.  St. Nicholas hands out sweet treats and fruit to good children, leaving the treats in a shoe.  Krampus beats bad children with a stick.  

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@miz mirandathank you for adding to the Christmas Traditions list. Again, it's very interesting. As is the story of the actual Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myrna and Bari, the precursor of Santa. I've gotta say, I think I'll pass on the fried caterpillars though.

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Krampus is another different tradition. I first learned about the character on an episode of General Hospital several years ago.

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You have all prompted me to do some research. Being of Scottish descent, I went in that direction and learned a bunch of things, some of the most unusual were:

 

On Christmas eve, the children leave a slice of mince pie and a shot of whisky for Father Christmas.

 

A rowan twig is often burnt on Christmas to restore good relationships between neighbors, family members and friends.

 

And, most unusual of all, Christmas wasn't celebrated openly by Scots from 1647 until the 1950s. Originally, this was because of edicts under Cromwell's rule and later the Presbyterian Church of Scotland discouraged the practice of celebrating Christmas. 

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Ancient Romans celebrated reversals at the midwinter festival of Saturnalia.

 

Saturnalia parade

 

A Saturnalia celebration in England in 2012. / Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The holiday, which began as a festival to honor the agricultural god Saturn, was held to commemorate the dedication of his temple in 497 BCE. It quickly became a time of widespread revelry and debauchery in which societal roles were overturned, with masters serving the people they enslaved and servants being allowed to insult their masters. Mask-wearing and play-acting were also part of Saturnalia's reversals, with each household electing a King of Misrule. Saturnalia was gradually replaced by Christmas throughout the Roman Empire, but many of its customs survive as Christmas traditions.

The sun illuminates an ancient tomb in Ireland on the winter solstice.

 

Newgrange mound in Ireland

 

Newgrange mound in Ireland / Stephan Hoerold/iStock via Getty Images

Newgrange, a tomb mound built in Ireland about 1000 years before Stonehenge, lights up dramatically during the winter solstice. A roof-box above the entrance coordinates with the light from the winter solstice sunrise so that a beam of light travels the 19-meter passage and then illuminates the chamber for about 17 minutes. The attraction is so popular that visitors can only gain entrance to the chamber on solstice mornings via a lottery held in late September every year.

Some of Peru’s Nazca Lines converge with the sun on the winter solstice.

 

Nasca lines in Peru

 

Nasca lines in Peru / lovelypeace/iStock via Getty Images

The 2000-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru are massive designs etched into the ground, depicting a variety of plants, animals, and shapes. Some of the straight lines are as long as 30 miles and the animals and plants as large as 1200 feet.

 

The geoglyphs are best viewed from the sky and remain a mystery to researchers. American historian Paul Kosok, working in the 1940s, believed the geoglyphs were related to astronomy and may have served as a calendar. Some of the lines appear to correspond to the winter solstice, as they touch the spot on the horizon where the sun sets.

The pagan festival of Yule honored the winter solstice.

 

Sunset over a snowy field

 

Sunset over a snowy field / SV Photography/iStock via Getty Images

Despite showing up in a variety of Christmas-related songs and traditions, Yule originated as an ancient pagan winter solstice festival. People would celebrate with a 12-day feast that marked the sun’s rebirth and burn a Yule log, which stayed lit for all 12 nights. Some pagans consider Yule the beginning of the new year, a time when the days start getting longer. Druids would burn Yule logs for 12 days to eliminate evil spirits and bring about good luck.

 Mistletoe was part of some winter solstice celebrations.

 

Bundles of mistletoe

 

Bundles of mistletoe / AY Images/iStock via Getty Images

Druid priests believed mistletoe, a parasitic evergreen plant that grows among oak branches, was the soul of the tree. The high priest would climb an oak on the sixth night of the new moon after the winter solstice and cut down pieces of the mistletoe, which people would wear for good luck and protection from evil spirits.

The winter solstice marks one of the most important celebrations of the Hopi.

 

Winter snow on Arizona mountains

 

Winter snow on Arizona mountains / Doug Berry/iStock via Getty Images

In northern Arizona, the Hopi people celebrate Soyal, or Soyaluna, the winter solstice celebration. They welcome kachinas, or katsinam, ancestral spirits that guard over the Hopi, to dance with them and bring the sun back to the world. The ritual is usually performed in an underground room, called a kiva, and is meant to bring about a prosperous year.

A world heritage site in North America is aligned with the winter solstice.

 

Chaco Canyon pueblo ruins

 

Chaco Canyon pueblo ruins / YinYang/iStock via Getty Images

At Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, where Ancestral Puebloans built an elaborate city more than 1000 years ago [PDF], the sun strikes a particular petroglyph called the Sun Dagger at the summer and winter solstices. The rock carving may have been part of the Ancestral Puebloans’ sophisticated practice of astronomy.

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Winter cold kills more than twice as many Americans as summer heat does.

 

The Southern Hemisphere typically has milder winters than the Northern Hemisphere. This is because the Southern Hemisphere has less land and a more maritime climate.

 

While it seems counterintuitive, Earth is actually closest to the sun in December, even though winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.

 

According to the Guinness World Records, on January 28, 1887, a snowflake 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick fell in Fort Keogh, Montana, making it the largest snowflake ever observed.

 

While the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, seasonal lag means that the coldest period usually follows the solstice by a few weeks.

 

Several discoveries happened in a Winter Solstice. The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth on December 21, 1620; Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium on December 21, 1898, and on December 21, 1968 the Apollo 8 spacecraft launched.

 

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Snow Was Almost Illegal

The 1991-1992 snow season was particularly bad for Syracuse, New York. More than 162 inches of snow fell on the city. So in March of 1992, the Syracuse Common Council passed a decree “on behalf of its snow-weary citizens” that said any more snow before Christmas Eve of that year was outlawed. But Mother Nature must have missed the memo: It snowed two days later, and the following winter brought even more snow.

Some Snowflakes You Can’t Catch in Your Mouth

The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Fort Keogh, Montana in January of 1887. 

Snow Seems to Really Like Italy

The town of Capracotta in southern Italy holds the record for the city to get the most snow in one day. In March of 2015, more than 100 inches of snow accumulated in just 18 hours. That’s about five inches of snow per hour!

Lots of Snow = Super Tall Snowmen

The Guinness Book of World Records gave the record for Tallest Snowman to one jolly, happy soul in Bethel, Maine. The snow-woman, which took over a month to build, was over 122 feet tall.

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Christmas Trivia

 

PopSci estimates Santa Claus would have to travel an average speed of 5.083 million miles per hour based on a 24-hour cycle to hit each household on Christmas Eve. It bases this on 2.67 children per household, with 75 million households worldwide. The speed of light is 671 million mph. So if we ever get there, presents for everyone!

 

The restaurant Denny’s, known for its “always open” motto, decided to give employees the day off in 1988. The only problem was 700 of the franchise’s then-1,221 locations had no locks per the policy. Thankfully, corporate was able to come through with last-minute installations.

 

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates there are approximately 15,000 decoration-related emergency room visits each holiday season.

 

The Catalan Region, Spain: Tió de Nadal, or “Christmas log,” is a hollow log with stick legs and other decor. From Dec. 8-24, children “feed” him nuts, dried fruit, and water each night. On Christmas Eve, Slate notes, they beat him with sticks until candy falls out, earning him the dubious nickname of “defecating log.” We poop you not.

 

The Italy-based emergency services organization Pubblica Assistenza Carrara e Sezioni in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, captured the world’s longest Christmas stocking title from GWR on Jan. 5, 2011. The final size was over 168 feet in length and more than 70 in width (from heel to toe).

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A song that takes 1,000 years to play launched on January 1, 2000.
 
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Composer Jem Finer wrote the piece called "Longplayer," which can be heard at London's Trinity Buoy Wharf (or over this live stream). It's being performed by singing bowls and is set to start all over again immediately after it finishes in 2999.

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Some of the shortest songs recorded

 

Napalm Death 'You Suffer' 1.3 seconds 1989

 

Smashing Pumpkins '17' 17 seconds

 

Beatles 'Her Majesty' 23 seconds

 

 

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The origins of Friday

There is some dispute about the origins of the word Friday, but most agree that the day is named after the Norse goddess Freyja, known to the Anglo-Saxons as Frigg. It’s thought the name comes from ‘Freyja’s Day’ which was shortened to Fre-day, then Friday. Freyja was the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sex, war and magic.

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Employees who work at Jack Daniels get a free bottle of Jack Daniels with their paychecks on the first Friday of every month.

 

McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was created in 1962 for Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent. According to McDonald's, a quarter of all its Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were sold during Lent last year.

 

On this day, April 13th, a Friday in 2029, an asteroid more than 1,000ft wide will pass by Earth closer than the moon and will easily be observed with the naked eye.

 

Hugh Jackman buys lotto tickets every Friday for the entire crew while filming a movie. It's a tradition he started 2 months into filming his first American film when he was embarrassed he didn't know the names of half the crew members.

 

On 24th October 1975, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike and took to the streets, refusing to work, cook, and look after children. The strike was called "Women's Day Off", and helped put Iceland at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Men came to know it as "The Long Friday".

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14 minutes ago, miz miranda said:

On 24th October 1975, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike and took to the streets, refusing to work, cook, and look after children. The strike was called "Women's Day Off", and helped put Iceland at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Men came to know it as "The Long Friday".

Yeah for this--seize the moment 

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The name "bonobo" resulted from a misspelling.
Bonobo Edwin Butter/Shutterstock

"Bonobo," the common name for apes, may sound like some sort of translation of a meaningful term, but in fact, it was the result of a typo. Researchers reputedly first found the animals in the town of Bolobo, Zaire, in the '20s, but the name of the place was misspelled "Bonobo" on the shipping crate in which the animal was placed, leading others to refer to the animal by the name, which stuck.

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Cows have best friends.
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Cows may seem like simple creatures, but deep down, they are surprisingly social and can experience a complex range of emotions and relationships, including friendship. "When heifers have their preferred partner with them, their stress levels in terms of their heart rates are reduced compared with if they were with a random individual," a researcher from the University of Northampton told the BBC.

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Different breeds of dogs, as well as wolves and coyotes all have the same number of chromosomes and can interbreed. 

 

Foxes are different. Each type of fox has different genes, so they are unable to reproduce outside their own kind.  While they look, sound, and act in similar ways, they are very distinct species.

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Fun Facts about Classic Rock

1. Axl Rose is an anagram for oral sex, and his real name is William Bailey.

2. Rose used to earn $8 an hour by smoking cigarettes for a science experiment at UCLA.

3. The Clash's "Rock The Casbah" was written after the banning of rock music in Iran.

4. Bono got his nickname from a hearing-aid store.

5. John Lennon was featured as the cover story on the first issue of Rolling Stone, but the Beatles hold the record for most covers with more than 30.

6. Jimmy Page dated a 14-year-old girl while he was touring with Led Zeppelin.

7. The Rolling Stones' tongue logo design was inspired by the Indian Hindu goddess Kali The Destroyer.

8. London Calling was named after a phrase used in a BBC show during WWII: "Good morning America, this is London Calling."

9. Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" is named after Route 61, the highway that goes through his home state Minnesota through the Mississippi Delta.

10. Angelina Jolie's uncle, Chip Taylor, wrote the song "Wild Thing."

11. Lynyrd Skynyrd got their name from a high school teacher, Leonard Skinner, who suspended students for having long hair.

12. Brian Jones, co-founder of The Rolling Stones, was proficient at over 60 musical instruments.

13. Zeppelin came up with the title "Black Dog" after a large black labrador walked into the studio while recording.

14. Eric Clapton wrote the song "Layla" for George Harrison's wife.

15. The Doors were the first band ever to advertise a new album on a billboard.

16. John Bonham drank 40 shots of vodka the night he died.

17. Keith Moon, drummer from The Who, allegedly gave Led Zeppelin their name.

18. Led Zeppelin was once accused of defiling a groupie with a mud shark.

19. Wings recorded Red Rose Speedway at Abbey Road Studios the same time Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side Of The Moon.

20. Each member of Nirvana was kicked out of the Nevermind release party for starting a food fight.

21. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" is dedicated to Duane Allman of The Allman Brother's Band.

22. Prince's "Purple Rain" is an allegory to the Jimi Hendix song "Purple Haze."

23. Jimi created the song "Little Wing" in 145 seconds.

24. Elton John's real name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

25. Fleetwood Mac founding member Jeremy Spencer abruptly left the group to join the Children of God cult.

26. The Muppet Show's Animal is allegedly inspired by Mick Fleetwood.

27. After making a mistake when recording "Hey Jude" Paul McCartney says, "Oh, -censored- hell" at 2:58.

28. Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" is about a man attempting to convince a Catholic girl to lose her virginity to him.

29. "Killing an Arab" by The Cure is really about Albert Camus' book The Stranger.

30. Before Neil Young joined Crosby, Stills and Nash, the members reached out to George Harrison and Eric Clapton to join the group.

31. Queen has the longest-running fan club, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

32. Paul McCartney performed at the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony for the astonishing amount of 1 pound ($1.57).

33. London socialite Tara Browne is the inspiration behind the Beatles' "A Day in the Life."

34. Before he renamed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly went by Elston Gunn.

35. Malcolm Young, AC/DC guitarist, worked in a bra factory as a sewing-machine mechanic.

36. The Rolling Stones recorded "Nineteenth Nervouse Breakdown" after Mick Jagger announced how exhausted was after touring, "I don't know about you blokes, but I feel about ready for my 19th nervous breakdown."

37. Before joining KISS, Vinnie Vincent wrote the soundtracks for Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi.

38. The Beatles' White Album was originally titled A Doll's House.

39. The Eagles started out as the backup band for Linda Ronstadt.

40. Elvis recorded more than 600 songs, but wrote zero of them.

41. Chuck Berry aspired to be a professional photographer and only performed music to buy photography equipment.

42. Bill Wyman, former Rolling Stones guitarist, dated a 14-year-old.

43. Dylan's first draft of "Like a Rolling Stone" was six pages long.

44. While Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" was recorded in one take.

45. Jimi Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze" after dreaming about walking under the sea.

 
 
 
 

 

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Groundhog Day falls on the 2nd of February for a reason. It’s what’s known as a “cross-quarter” day, meaning it falls at the midpoint between one season and another. In the case of February 2nd, it’s the cross-quarter day that falls between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, making it the ideal time to consider whether or not spring will arrive early.

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4 hours ago, Heather Shay said:

It’s what’s known as a “cross-quarter” day, meaning it falls at the midpoint between one season and another.

And as such is a "Sabbat" for some folks.

We have daffodils coming out here.  Spring is on the way.

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And as such is a "Sabbat" for some folks.

We have daffodils coming out here.  Spring is on the way.

It is a traditional festival for a number of different folks.  "Imbolc" to Wiccans IIRC.  In Ireland, it is the feast of St. Brigid.  Also some Christians observe it as Candlemas, commemorating the presentation of young Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem.

 

 

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The origins of Friday

There is some dispute about the origins of the word Friday, but most agree that the day is named after the Norse goddess Freyja, known to the Anglo-Saxons as Frigg. It’s thought the name comes from ‘Freyja’s Day’ which was shortened to Fre-day, then Friday. Freyja was the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sex, war and magic. She really had a lot on her plate, didn’t she!?

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On 12/31/2022 at 4:05 AM, Heather Shay said:

oooooooooooops forgot to do this yesterday .....

 

 
A song that takes 1,000 years to play launched on January 1, 2000.
 
music sheets
 
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Composer Jem Finer wrote the piece called "Longplayer," which can be heard at London's Trinity Buoy Wharf (or over this live stream). It's being performed by singing bowls and is set to start all over again immediately after it finishes in 2999.

Just curious - how long did it take to compose the song?

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