Injera is a traditional Ethiopian Christmas dish which is a type of bread in the form of a sourdough pancake.
The
main meal is Doro Wat, which is a spicy chicken stew, served in beautifully
decorated Baskets, with which the Injera serves as both plate and fork when it
is used to scoop up the Wat.
Lucina is celebrated as the Sun goddess in Sweden but is in fact a combination of Norse goddess Freyr and the Christian martyr St Lucia. Young girls dress up to represent Lucina by wearing white gowns and on their heads evergreen wreaths with candles in them. The lighted candles, eight in all, supposedly represent the equinoxes, solstices and the points in between.
The
young Lucina girls give out cookies on the streets at dawn to celebrate
Lucina's
act of sharing food with the needy.
Tom
(Sam Page) is the guy who can find the perfect gift for that special someone, that’s
his business and he’s very good at it, and he is in very great demand especially
at Christmas which is why he is known by his nickname “Mr. Christmas”
He
is very good at what he does due to his ability to determine the perfect
Christmas gift to fir a person's personality.
When Tom’s good friend Paul (Sam Guinan-Nyhart)
comes to him asking for help in finding a gift for his girlfriend, Jenny (Tara
Holt) , Mr. Christmas finds himself in a bit of trouble. The more he learns about
Jenny during his research, the more he likes her, and the guiltier he feels being
caught between his heart and his best friend.
And With Christmas rapidly approaching, Tom
dreads his encroaching deadline as it will mean an end to his time with Jenny and
perhaps an end to his only chance at being with his one true love.
Gaudette
Written by Bell, Andy / Clarke, Vince / Traditional
Gaudete,
gaudete
Christus est natus
Ex Maria Virgine
Gaudete
Tempus
adest gratiae
Hoc quod optabamus
Carmina laetitiae
Devote reddamus
Deus
homo factus est
Natura mirante
Mundus renovatus est
A Christo regnante
Ezechielis
porta
Clausa pertransitur
Unde Lux est orta
Salus invenitur
Ergo
nostra contio
Psallat iam in lustro
Benedicat Domino
Salus Regi nostro
In an Ethiopian Christmas gift giving plays a very small part in the festivities.
Ethiopian
Children will receive a present but it is something very simple and is more
often or not an item of clothing.
1163
Hurricane hits villages in Holland and Friesland, causing devastating floods
1582
Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar
1620
The Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1835
HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin aboard sails into the Bay of Islands New Zealand
1864
General Sherman conquers Savannah
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie
discover radium
1910 An Explosion in a coal mine in Hulton
England kills 344 mine workers
1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare
neutrality in the Comende war
1913 The 1st 32 clue crossword puzzle was
printed in New York World
1919 J Edgar Hoover deported anarchist and
feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate
to an independent nation
1925 Eisenstein's movie the battleship
Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1933 20th century Fox signs Shirley
Temple aged 5 to a studio contract
1937
Snow White the 1st feature length color and sound cartoon premiered
1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1946
Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premiered
1946
An Earthquake in Southern Japan, kills 1,086
1948 State of Eire formerly called the Irish
Free State declared its independence
1951
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1954
Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered and the Dr is accused of the crime
1958
Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France
1959
10th largest snowfall in New York City’s history 13.7"
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13 for
soft-landing in Oceanus Procellarum
1968
Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) the 1st manned Moon voyage launched
1971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim
as 4th secretary General
1975
Madagascar adopts constitution
1976
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 the Year of Child
1978 Police in Des Plaines Illinois arrest
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder
1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1988 NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over
Lockerbie Scotland all 258 aboard die
1989
Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with the word beacon spelled beakon
1991 Soviet Union
formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of
Independent States
1991 95 ticket holders share in the Madrid
Spain $1.3 billion lottery
1992
Dutch DC-10 caught fire on landing at Faro Airport Portugal, 56 die
1994
Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street station New York City
Mistletoe and Melody, is the story of a fashion designer, Kristin Parson (Lacey Chabert), who sells her house in LA, and with her daughter Emily (Fina Strazza), she moves to the town, where she used to live as a child.
In Silver Falls, Ohio, she meets a music
teacher Danny Collier (Brennan Elliott), who had a crush on her when they were
a kids, and now that he is Emily’s music teacher he finds that he still does,
and that’s where the story really starts.
This is singer Mariah Carey's directorial
movie debut and it’s a delight, it’s a gift of music transporting people back
to another time and place where they find their truest feelings.
It's a great movie, Mariah Carey, did a good
job as the nightmare parent Melissa McKean-Atkinson, and as a director.
