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Christmas

2023-12-12T21:58:19+00:00December 11th, 2023|Christmas, Holiday Fun|

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, although it has never been seriously claimed that December 25 was his true birthday. Before the fourth century, it was celebrated in April or May, which more closely matches the scriptural account. As Christian festivals were substituted for [...]

Hanukkah

2023-12-12T21:37:59+00:00December 11th, 2023|Christmas, Holiday Fun|

Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is a Jewish festival, beginning on the twenty-fifth day of Kislev, the third month of the Jewish lunar calendar, usually in December. Hanukkah marks the reconsecration of the Temple in Jerusalem after its recapture from the Syrian Greeks around 165 B.C. A [...]

Thanksgiving Story

2023-11-17T03:58:01+00:00November 17th, 2023|Holiday Fun, Thanksgiving|

There have been festivals associated with the harvest ever since man began to till the soil. The Chinese celebrated such a feast thousands of years ago, and in our hemisphere, Native Americans and colonists celebrated the harvest years before the Pilgrims arrived. Nevertheless, Thanksgiving Day, as [...]

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