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Centuries later, Mexico's early Christians adopted the poinsettia as their prized Christmas Eve flower. The Mexican poinsettia, known as the Christmas Flower in North America, is used in most Christmas decorations, owing to its bright red color and its blooming season coinciding with the Christmas holiday season. However, florist dye them in ...
The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
8-Bit Christmas is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Dowse, from a screenplay by Kevin Jakubowski based upon his novel of the same name. It stars Neil Patrick Harris , Winslow Fegley , June Diane Raphael , David Cross , and Steve Zahn .
Christmas Tree EXEC was the first widely disruptive computer worm, which paralyzed several international computer networks in December 1987. The virus ran on the IBM VM/CMS operating system. Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics , then sent ...
His first appearance in Mad was in 1961; he went on to illustrate over 375 articles for the magazine. Beginning in 1967, Coker was a production designer on more than a dozen Rankin/Bass specials and shorts, including Frosty the Snowman , Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town , The Year Without a Santa Claus , Rudolph's Shiny New Year and The Easter ...
"Merry Christmas from the Family" describes the Christmas gathering of a fairly dysfunctional Texas family whose merrymaking—which includes drinking alcohol, carving a turkey, watching a televised ball game and smoking cigarettes—seems to be punctuated with Christmas music and the need to run to convenience stores for additional supplies ...
A Golden Christmas: 2009 Christmas Mail: 2010 12 Wishes of Christmas: 2011 Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas: 2011 Holiday Heist: 2011 A Golden Christmas 2: 2011 A Christmas Kiss: 2011 Christmas Twister: 2012 Christmas Wedding: 2012 Anything But Christmas: 2012 A Golden Christmas 3: 2012 A Star for Christmas: 2012 Defending Santa: 2013 My ...
Christmas in Connecticut is a 1992 American Christmas romantic comedy television film directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (his only directing credit to date) and starring Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson, and Tony Curtis.