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Rudolph Facts

Everything you ever wanted to know about Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer [http://www.tvparty.com/xmasrudolph.html]. Excerpt: > Premiering on NBC December 6th, 1964, RUDOLPH has become the longest running, highest rated television special in the history of the medium. . . . > The special originally premiered on the GENERAL

Moose Me

Another feel-good story for the holiday season: > Alaska inmates at a prison work farm are taking on a new assignment: butchering the meat of moose struck by trains each winter along 68 miles of track. > The meat will be processed by prisoners at the Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm,

Creators of Christmas Specials

Wikipedia has an entry about Rankin/Bass [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin-Bass]. Interesting stuff for this time of year.

Charlie Brown Christmas

Fox News has a nice little piece about the Christmas special that turns 40 this year [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176934,00.html]. The article also has a listing of when a handful of Christmas specials will air during the next few weeks, though they don'

Neat?

It sounds neat, but as the Scandinavians have shown [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3105/], the flipside of such an over-active government isn't always pretty. > Postal services around the world are gearing up for their most frantic period of the year -- ensuring wishful letters from millions of children

Throwing Dry Pine Needles on a Fire

As if we didn't already have plenty of Christmas wars going on already [http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-11-25T225326Z_01_KRA582362_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-TREE.xml] : > Boston set off a furor this week when it officially renamed a giant tree erected in