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A Baker's Dozen Ways to Dress Up the Traditional Pie at Christmas Time
Here are some ways to dress up the “traditional” favorites at your Christmas dinner. 1. Make your usual pie crust, 2-crust version. Line the pie tin, put in the filling, and now it’s time to play. Roll out the second crust and start cutting shapes – using ...
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A Blog Isn't Just For Christmas
I was watching the news on TV last night and there was a warning about buying puppies as Christmas presents. There's nothing worse than visiting the kennels in the new year and seeing all those unwanted dogs that were chosen as presents because they were ...
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A Christmas Carol - The Man and His Book
Charles Dickens's book "A Christmas Carol" is probably the most famous of all Christmas stories. In the preface he wrote:"I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with ...
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A Christmas History Lesson
The Twelve Days of Christmas is one of the most famous Christmas carols ever written. It has been sung for a great many years, and is known the world over. To most it is a delightful hymn, but it was originally created with a very serious intent. In ...
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A Christmas Ski Holiday for Young Travellers
Have you always dreamt of a white Christmas but thought skiing in Europe was only for investment bankers, movie stars and royalty? Many youth travel specialists offer great skiing package that will allow independent travellers to join the jet set and ...
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A Christmas Story - The First Christmas Lights
One would think that Christmas lights have been around for as long as Christmas itself. Can any of you imagine Christmas without lights? How would the children find their way in the dark, so early on Christmas morning without them? The history of ...
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A Christmas Wish
Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 22, 2003 My sister is a woman now beginning her thirties. She has had few friends and her boyfriends have never been good for her. Now she has finally found a man who adores her. They had an affair ...
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A Christmas with Trifle
This Christmas, I'm going to make trifle for desert. After all, what is Christmas without trifle? I'm sure, even the pickiest of diners who shun cross-cultural eating would find a soft culinary spot for trifle in their hearts and palates if they could ...
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A City Of 650 Bridges, Sauerkraut And 7 Christmas Markets...
Berlin, quite surprisingly, has more water surfaces and bridges (650 approx) than Venice, Amsterdam and Stockholm put together! This beautiful capital city and heartbeat of Germany, Berlin is a fascinating place year round with a vast array of attractions ...
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A Classic Christmas Video
If you're as tired of political correctness as I am, I'm sure you'll enjoy this wonderful rendition of The Night Before Christmas, as read in a funny non-Santa Claus kind of way by Larry the Cable Guy, part of the popular Blue Collar Comedy crew, to ...
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A Credit Card Can Sing A Christmas Carol
"Christmas Time, Mistletoe and Wine" How many times have you heard this so far and its only November? A few I'll bet, but with Christmas seemingly becoming earlier to us each year, we will no doubt feel the need to get ahead with our present and food ...
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A Diamond Christmas 2004!
When Archduke Maximillian of Austria bestowed a diamond ring on Mary of Burgundy in 1477, giving a diamond as a symbol of love and commitment was birthed. Prior to this only royalty wore diamonds, believing they symbolized strength and courage. The root ...
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A European Christmas
A European Christmasby C. Bailey-LloydWith the holidays right around the corner, it's hard not to reminisce our childhood memories and holidays of yesteryear. In each culture, there are differing values and traditions which are celebrated in different ...
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A Libertarian’s Christmas Wish list for 2005
I moved back to Fort Wayne five years ago. I moved back to Fort Wayne to raise my family. I want to do my part to make America a better place for my children; I do not think anything is more important then that. I feel that America has made some very bad ...
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A Poem For Christmas
We remember the birth of a babe this day, born in a stable, his bed filled with hay, heralded by angels and searched for by kings but whose life would be full of much simpler things. His mother, Mary, a woman of faith and trust, His father, Joseph, a ...
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