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  2. Silver Bells - Wikipedia

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    Silver Bells. " Silver Bells " is a Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans . It debuted in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley, [1] then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. [1] The first recorded version was produced by ...

  3. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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    Christmas tree lights and Christmas bulb. Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques.

  4. Silver Dollar City - Wikipedia

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    Silver Dollar City is a 61-acre (25 ha) amusement park in Stone County, Missouri, near the cities of Branson and Branson West. The park is located off of Missouri Route 76 on the Indian Point peninsula of Table Rock Lake. Silver Dollar City opened on May 1, 1960. The park is an 1880s-themed experience. Silver Dollar City's operating season runs ...

  5. Silver Bells (film) - Wikipedia

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    Original release. Network. CBS. Release. November 27, 2005. ( 2005-11-27) Silver Bells is a 2005 Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas made-for-television drama film starring Anne Heche and Tate Donovan based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Luanne Rice. It originally aired on CBS on November 27, 2005.

  6. Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century

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    Canada. 73 Troy Street in Verdun, Montreal. Swastika is the name of a small residential community in northern Ontario, Canada, approximately 580 kilometres (360 miles) north of Toronto, and 5 kilometres (3 miles) west of Kirkland Lake, the town of which it is now part. The town of Swastika was founded in 1906.

  7. Observance of Christmas by country - Wikipedia

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    Status of observance. Map of countries where Christmas is a formal public holiday either on December 24/25 or January 6/7. Color shading indicates "Days of rest". Note: Slovenia does have two days of rest, but the 26th is not a Christmas-related public holiday ( Independence and Unity Day ). Many national governments recognize Christmas as an ...

  8. National Christmas Tree (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The tree was decorated with 4,600 red, white, and blue lights; red, white, and blue ornaments, and silver garland; and topped by a 4-foot (1.2 m) high gold and green Liberty Bell. [129] [160] The low-watt Christmas tree lights were specially designed by General Electric. [160]

  9. Carol of the Bells - Wikipedia

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    1919. ( 1919) Play ⓘ. " Carol of the Bells " is a popular Christmas carol, which is based on the Ukrainian New Year's song " Shchedryk ." The music for the carol comes from the song written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914; the English-language lyrics were written in 1936 by Peter Wilhousky. [1] [2]

  10. Solar deity - Wikipedia

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    Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament by ancient Shu people. The center is a sun pattern with twelve points around which four birds fly in the same counterclockwise direction, Shang dynasty. In another myth, a solar eclipse was said to be caused by a magical dog or dragon biting off a piece of the Sun. The referenced event is said to have ...

  11. Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    European discovery and colonization of the Americas. Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus [a] led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World.