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THE HOLIDAY SEASON


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On this page: We can't say “Merry Christmas”!
BirthdaysCreationsEventsIndependence/Births of NationsInventions

Holiday Season
December is a time of cele brations by many peoples for many reasons. Below are some occasions you might have already celebrated, some you might want to celebrate, and some you might consider celebrating when they come again, and a few solemn ones lest we forget.
   Whichever you wish to celebrate this Holiday Season, I hope that you do so in peace and harmony and that your life in the coming year will be graced with even greater harmony and peacefulness.


 1 WORLD AIDS DAY
 2 WORLD POLLUTION PREVENTION DAY
 4 WORLD WILDLIFE CONSERVATION DAY
7-15 HANUKKAH
 7 USA'S REMEMBRANCE OF PEARL HARBOR DAY
10 NOBEL PRIZE DAY
10 United Nations' HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
12 National DING-A-LING DAY
14-28 HALCYON Days
15 BILL of RIGHTS DAY
16 UNDERDOG DAY
17-23 SATURNALIA honoring Saturn/Zeus, father of gods
21 SOLSTICE; GODY in Poland; CHAOMOS in Pakistan;
   SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE; SUN (Maya, Inca, many others)
21 HUMBUG DAY
23 FESTIVUS
24 Christmas Eve (date changed from ≈ late Winter, -4)
25 CHRISTMAS
Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will;
to Hell with the Rest!
25 GODS' BIRTHDAYS:
Yah'shua ben Yosef
(date chosen to conflict with Saturnalia and other gods' birthday celebrations).
Invincible Sun (Dies Natalis Invicti);
Mithras, the Sun god. Attis. Dionysus. Osiris.
26 BOXING DAY
26 National WHINER'S DAY
26-January 1 Kwanzaa
31 NEW YEAR's EVE
31 MAKE UP YOUR MIND DAY

INDEPENDENCE/BIRTHS of NATIONS
1000 Kingdom of Hungary
1640 Portugal
1821 Dominican Republic
1917 Finland
1918 Iceland
12/29/22-12/25/91 Union of Soviet Socialst Republics
1958 Central African Republic
1958 Bourkina Fasso
1958 Niger
1960 Ivory Coast
1961 Tanganyika
1963 Zanzibar
1963 Kenya
1974 Maltese Republic
1951 Libya
1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic

BIRTHDAYS
  -4 Jesus of Nazareth
1503 Nostradamus
1642 Isaac Newton
1770 Ludwig von Beethoven
1821 Clara Barton
1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
1839 George Armstrong Custer
1861 Charles Edgar Duryea
1870 Helena Rubinstein
1876 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1886 Diego Rivera
1901 Walter Elias Disney
1907 Cab Calloway
1908 Quentin Crisp
1915 Pete Rugolo
1912 Minoru Yamasaki
1915 William Randolph Hearst
1915 Frank Sinatra
1920 Dave Brubeck
1923 Maria Callas
1932 Little Richard

EVENTS
 336 Celebration of Christmas on December 25
1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
1534 Quito founded
1773 Boston Tea Party
1787 Delaware ratifies Constitution, becomes 1 US state
1790 Calendar stone found in Mexico City
1803 USA buys Lousiana
1865 Slavery abolished in USA
1869 Women granted right to vote
1871 “Aida” premiers
1912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole
1932 Snow in San Francisco; frost in Hell
1941 Pearl Harbor attacked
1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights: UN General Assembly
1954 Joseph McCarthy censured by U.S. Senate
1955 Rosa parks keeps her seat

INVENTIONS
1621 Telescope by Galileo
1877 Phonograph by Thomas Edison
1903 Powered flight by Wright Brothers

CREATIONS
 794 Kyoto
1791 Bill of Rights
1793 Daily newspaper, Noah Webster
1818 “Silent Night”
1842 New York Philharmonic
1890 Ellis Island Immigration Station
1911 San Francisco Symphony
1913 Drive-up gasoline station: Pittsburgh
1922 Skywriting over the US: “Hello USA” by RAF Captain Turner
1947 Everglades National Park, Harry S Truman
1966 Kwanzaa, M. Ron Karenga

A revise of my comments of December 21, 1998:
This revolting screed has had many annual appearances
We can't say “Merry Christmas” or call it a Christmas Tree; we have to say “Happy Holidays” and call it a Holiday Tree because it might offend someone if we refer to Christmas.
   If our customs and traditions offend you, GO HOME. I will help you pack. I AM A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN … MERRY CHRISTMAS. God IS Christmas and a part of my daily life.

You might be proud to be a citizen of the USA but your offensive attitude makes me cringe in disgust because of your pitiful delusion that you're a good one! People like you are an embarrassment to decent cit­izens of any country.
   You seem to be blissfully ignorant of the reason others sailed on the May­flower to a new home. Let me tell you why they did: your unacceptable intol­er­ance! It is because peo­ple First Amendment like you rev­eled in the lack of religious freedom at the home they left. You are who should “go home”* to a land where your kind of intolerance is accep- able. It's not only unAmeri- can, it is also counter to the teach­ings of any religion of which I know.
   Your god might be part of your daily life just as other peoples' gods might be part of their daily lives. You obvi­ously do not share good Americans' understanding that we are free to be with our gods only as long as others are free to be with, or without, theirs. I sug­gest you read the first phrase of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
   Oh, and you might consider going back to your ancestral home; we don't need your kind in the USA.

*Countries where the USA's intolerant can “GO HOME” to a State Religion
Algeria — Andorra — Argentina — Armenia — Bahrain — Bangladesh
Bhutan — British Commonwealth — Brunei — Bulgaria — Cambodia
Comoros — Costa Rica — Cyprus — Denmark — Djibouti
Dominican Republic — East Timor — Egypt — El Salvador — Finland
France — Georgia — Greece — Guatemala — Haiti — Hungary — Iceland
Iran — Iraq — Italy — Jordan — Kuwait — Libya — Liechtenstein
Malaysia — Maldives — Malta — Mauritaniav Monaco — Morocco
Myanmar — Nicaragua — Norway — Oman — Pakistan — Palestine
Panama — Paraguay — Perú — Poland — Portugal — Qatar — Sahrawi
Saudi Arabia — Scotland — Somalia — Spain — Sri Lanka — Sweden
Tuvanu — United Arab Emirates — Yemen

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