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	Christmas television special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christmas television specials are also where non-animated characters from other media may first cross over into animation; examples include the Peanuts comic strip, the Bloom County comic strip, and the Dr.
		In British television, a Christmas special is a one-off episode of a regular television series which may not otherwise be running in the winter or even that year, as in Britain television series tend to run on limited schedules of 6 to 13 episodes rather than year-round.
		A Christmas special may or may not have a Christmas theme and often is not even set during the Christmas season but usually runs on Christmas day itself and is often longer than a regular episode of the series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_special (613 words)

	A Charlie Brown Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		None of the special's technical problems detracted from the show's appeal; to the contrary, it is thought that these quirks, along with several other choices, are what lent the show such an innovative, authentic and sincere feeling.
		The musical soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas, by jazz composer Vince Guaraldi, has become as well-known as the story itself, especially the piece entitled "Linus and Lucy," which has come to be regarded as the signature musical theme of the Peanuts specials.
		A soundtrack album for the special was released by Fantasy Records and remains a perennial best-seller.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas (2116 words)

	Christmas - Crystalinks
		Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a traditional holiday in the Christian calendar which takes place on the twenty-fifth day of December and celebrates the birth of Jesus.
		Christmas has a reasonable amount of acceptance in the Islamic world, as Jesus is a prophet of Islam and a celebration of his birth is not to be rejected outright.
		Christmas itself is as everywhere a holiday of food, with the central Christmas feast focused on baked ham, but there are wide regional variations as to what day it is best served.
	www.crystalinks.com /christmas.html (4488 words)

	Paskong Pinoy - an INQ7 Christmas special
		The basic Filipino Christmas package is Christian, since the feast came with the Spanish conquest and Christianization.
		For most, however, Christmas does not seem right without rosy-pink slices of ham edged with sugar-rimmed fat; or capons stuffed with Oxford sausages, pork, olives, even truffles; or sugary, cheese-sprinkled ensaimadas to dip into thick hot chocolate ("E" for espeso or thick; "A" for aguado or watered); or fragrant apples and oranges.
		Polly Owyong's roast goose, from the Chinese (remember Yeung Kee in Hong Kong?) and British traditions (remember Bob Cratchit and his family in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol") is now available from her company, called The Classic Roast (formerly Woodshed Roast), along with the Prime Roast duck (with roast duck siopao) and duck liver paté.
	www.inq7.net /specialfeatures/christmas2001/articles/art_1.htm (754 words)

	Anime News Network - Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And as the first Christmas of the millenium, there is a rumor that if one confesses his love on this special eve it will come true.
		Keitaro has decided what he needs to do on this Christmas eve, but being a retaker can he afford taking attention away from the tests on the same day...
		There are rumors about this special christmas eve: If someone is going to confess his love on this christmas eve, any wish will come true.
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=860 (335 words)

	Crosswalk.com - christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Christmas arrives again with all the promise of remembrance and celebration.
		The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem was not only the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, but the dawn of a new age.
		Read from one of the 31 daily advent readings from Calvin Miller's "The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent" as you and your family prepare to celebrate the Christ of Christmas in your own lives this holiday season.
	www.crosswalk.com /special/christmas (307 words)

	Sew Special - Patterns - Christmas & Holidays
		Christmas stocking and ornament featuring yo yo's and button embellishments.
		His look is wonderfully Victorian - but he can take on an updated look by using velour and fur for his clothes.
		t's going to be a sweet Christmas at your house this year with these delightful wall hangings.
	www.sewspecial.org /christma.htm (614 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The League of Gentlemen -- Christmas Special [1999]: DVD: Steve Bendelack,Mark Gatiss,Steve ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Gothic-comedy masterpiece, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special is a horrific anthology of three related stories, all set in Royston Vasey, which takes its inspiration as much from the writings of MR James and Edgar Allan Poe as the low-budget Hammer and Amicus shockers that the team parody so affectionately.
		This Christmas special is set in Royston Vaseys church on christmas eve with the vicer getting ready to close for the night when she is visited by 3 men who each tell there tale about christmas.
		All through this, Bernice has her own Christmas woes to worry about, as she relives a Christmas past where her mother was taken by an evil stranger at her front door posing as Santa Claus, and it is only at the very end that all is revealed...
	www.amazon.co.uk /League-Gentlemen-Christmas-Special/dp/B00006JY8N (1997 words)

	Paskong Pinoy - an INQ7 Christmas special
		THE SINGING of "Silent Night" by young children who were practicing for their Christmas program so irritated one teacher that she had the number dropped from the program.
		There are people who want to see Christmas simply as a vacation or holiday, rather than a holy day.
		Christmas is meant to bring us closer to Jesus Christ and His beloved Father.
	www.inq7.net /specialfeatures/christmas2001/spiritual/spir_3.htm (482 words)

	A Charlie Brown Christmas
		It would include ice-skating; a pageant (Mendelson and Schulz had both flubbed parts in school shows); a mix of Christmas carols and Guaraldi's contemporary jazz; and the message that Christmas is really about the joyful miracle of Jesus's birth.
		Schulz wanted A Charlie Brown Christmas to have the religious meaning that was central to his own experience of Christmas.
		And though the special was made in California, Schulz wanted it to include snowy scenes that recalled his native Midwest.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/cbrown1.html (555 words)

	Amazon.ca: V2 A Very Special Christmas: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The second volume of "A Very Special Christmas", released in 1992, is crammed with 19 tracks, though at least three of them should have been left on the shelf which is why this set gets four stars instead of five.
		Next is Run-DMC with "Christmas Is" and it just doesn't have the magic of their "Christmas In Hollis" from Volume 1.
		The first volume of A very special Christmas was incredible, but this follow-up is just as good and even more eclectic.
	www.amazon.ca /V2-A-Very-Special-Christmas/dp/B000002G0M (1820 words)

	X-Entertainment: The Pac-Man Christmas Special
		Christmas Comes To Pac-Land, a 1982 holiday spinoff of the Pac-Man cartoon, sought to bring kids closer to the true meaning of this most special of days.
		The show still makes the rotation during Cartoon Network's ongoing Christmas special marathons, so if you're lucky, you might be able to catch it before next year.
		At heart, all a Christmas special needs to do is make you feel festive.
	www.x-entertainment.com /articles/0709 (1709 words)

	The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour Episode Guide, The Desilu Playhouse Christmas Special \| Youns.com
		On Christmas Day, 1959, The Desilu Playhouse (1958-1960) presented a special Christmas broadcast starring the whole I Love Lucy gang, in addition to the Desilu Players and numerous stars of other popular Desilu productions.
		The Desilu Christmas special was produced and (essentially) directed by Lucille Ball herself.
		The Desilu Players was a pet project of Lucille Ball's, who hand-picked each of the versatile performers as her protégés (they actually were appearing in a stage revue that she produced around the time of this broadcast).
	www.youns.com /lucy/comedyhr.asp?offset=13 (322 words)

	S Club 7: Christmas Special - TV.com
		On Christmas Day, Paul was sitting in a park and some man said something about brakes, making Paul remember the accident.
		As he remembers what happened, he meets the others, telling them he is cured, and they perform their gig in the park.
		In some airings, ABC Family also cut this episode in half, making it a 'two part special', instead of playing the full hour, as it originally intended.
	www.tv.com /s-club-7/christmas-special/episode/89704/summary.html (407 words)

	CHRISTMAS IN NEWPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Founded in 1971, Christmas in Newport began as a two-week festival that celebrated the noncommercial traditions of the holiday season.
		The lights are meant to simulate candlelight, and are the brainchild of Christmas in Newport founder Ruth Myers, who wished to recapture the candlelit holidays of bygone days.
		Dinesen) “Out of Africa,” This special First Look Screening serves as a benefit for Christmas in Newport and is sponsored by the RI International Film Festival and the Flickers Arts Collaborative.
	www.christmasinnewport.org (6758 words)

	StoryShare - Free Christmas Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was Christmas Eve, and as he sat in his comfy old friend of a chair, memories of earlier Christmases came to him, when the kids were young and the house was noisy with excitement.
		They were in their late fifties, looking forward to retirement and very much enjoying their empty nest years now that they had the Christmas House and all of the fun and hoopla it had brought into their lives.
		Al Roker, in the days when he was still in his portly incarnation, stood by the manger and did a special Christmas weather report predicting partly cloudy skies with intermittent showers of "peace on earth and mercy mild." Joe rigged the lights so it appeared that Al had angel wings.
	www.csspub.com /FreeChristmasSpecial.lasso (3926 words)

	Keep Christmas Special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By bonfire night Christmas fare is taking over the shops, and a week or so later Christmas decorations appear in shopping centres.
		Any sense that Christmas is a special event is a distant memory and has been swamped by the four-month retail build-up.
		"It's August, there are four months until Christmas, but one shop in York city centre has decided it's time to get the illuminated Santas and little elves out..." Read more and join in the debate at the BBC North Yorkshire website.
	www.keepchristmasspecial.com (356 words)

	A Garfield Christmas Special(1987)
		This year, John is packing everything up - and taking his Christmas tidings and Garfield and Odie to an old-fashioned Christmas "down on the farm", where John had always celebrated his Christmas' as a child with his mom, dad, little brother he calls "Doc Boy" and his granny.
		Everything is done in their traditional family way and they all end up having a very sweet and reminescent Christmas, learning many things about each other along the way and giving each other the best gifts of all - from their hearts...
		An all-time Christmas favorite of mine (well - there are a few ;)and has been since I seen it for the first time on TV in 1987.
	journals.aol.com /all4eyez/MoviesYeAAA/entries/2004/12/11/a-garfield-christmas-special1987/847 (498 words)

	X-Entertainment: The Smurfs Christmas Special
		The bucket of special Smurf pudding is equally huge - enough to feed a fleet of baleen whales if you could convince them to eat pink pudding first.
		If I was a wolf and I just found the perfect Christmas dinner, I don't think I'd eat something else just because a little blue troll told me that they were friends with it.
		Songs are sung, pudding is eaten - all in all, it would've been such a marvelous time if the kids didn't have this nasty recurring thought about their grandfather laying dead under a sleigh in the middle of the storm.
	www.x-entertainment.com /articles/0710/index.html (1972 words)

	Anchor Steam - Anchor Christmas Ale
		This is the thirty-first Our Special Ale from the brewers at Anchor.
		Although our recipes must remain a secret, many enthusiasts save a few bottles from year to year—stored in a cool dark place—to taste later and compare with other vintages.
		Properly refrigerated, the beer remains intriguing and drinkable for years, with different nuances slowly emerging as the flavor mellows slightly.
	www.anchorbrewing.com /beers/christmasale.htm (150 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas--Special Edition [1994]: DVD: Henry Selick,Danny Elfman,Chris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On the DVD:This Special edition is a must for all Burton fans with the biggest gem to be found on a DVD release--"Tim Burtons Early Films" which holds his first two works.
		The Nightmare Before Christmas is an fanasty film that tells the story of Jack Skellington (a skeleton) who longs for a more meanful existence in his home of Halloween Town, and desides to spread his version of Christmas to all, but his well meaning plan goes wrong.
		Nightmare before christmas was an astonishing film when it was first released over a decade ago, and nothing of its genius or calibar has come out since.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tim-Burtons-Nightmare-Before-Christmas-Special/dp/B00004CXT5 (1677 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Have a very Wookie Christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The dark, ugly secret of "Star Wars" is a "Holiday Special" banned from TV forever.
		And at the end, when all the Wookies line up in their red robes and walk through the stars and into the moon...
		Although technically only 120 minutes long, the "Holiday Special" has the futuristic ability to slow time, and one emerges from its vortex some six days later bearded, weeping, defeated and sporting a limp.
	www.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2000/12/05/star_wars_tv/index.html (1041 words)

	Error_Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In many cases over the years, individuals and organizations have “deep linked” to pages within the Special Olympics site.
		A deep link is a hypertext link to a page on a Web site other than its home page.
		If you are coming to Special Olympics from a link on another site, please consider informing the organization which provided the link that it is no longer valid by sending them an e-mail message.
	specialolympics.org /Special+.../Very_Special_Christmas/default.htm (340 words)

	Christmas - Holidays
		After all, he is the "reason for the season!" We've included a variety of resources below to help you experience the true meaning of Christmas.
		Reminding ourselves of the "real" twelve days of Christmas is important to keep the focus on the real reason for the holiday celebration.
		Public Christmas displays, like the Ten Commandments, are allowed—as long as they don't mean anything religious.
	www.christianitytoday.com /holidays/christmas (469 words)

	BlackDog's Christmas Fun and Games!
		Christmas Bingo - Print out these cool bingo boards and get some friends together for Christmas Bingo.
		BlackDog's Christmas Jigsaw Puzzles - Seven puzzles are waiting for you to play.
		Christmas Poetry - Enjoy traditional Christmas poems with your loved ones this season.
	blackdog.net /holiday/christmas (711 words)

	Christmas
		Rudolph and the gang are happy enough with carrots, but we all know that Santa Claus enjoys a bit of Christmas cake and a little sip of something to warm him up on a cold winter night.
		You know they're just waiting for the opportunity to say 'but Christmas just isn't the same without turkey' and you really don't want to end up in another argument about the horrors of poultry farming, so you have to make sure dinner is so delicious that they'll never want to eat turkey again.
		For the perfect Christmas dinner try their Celebration Roast with steamed cabbage, carrots, brussels sprouts and roast potatoes - smother it all in gravy (which Redwoods have thoughtfully provided) and serve with a dollop of cranberry sauce.
	www.vegansociety.com /html/food/special_occasions/christmas.php (624 words)

	Free Bad Christmas Girl Special Links & Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A six-year-old girl puts on her thinking cap to solve this daunting case that has baffled all the adults and police for so long An amazing story that will keep children of all ages captivated and talking for a long time to come.
		Christmas Gifts For Dog Lovers Buying a Christmas gift for a dog often means buying toys or a toy.
		Planning Your Christmas Party Christmas party planning can be a difficult task regardless of whether you are planning a home or office party.
	www.christmasdecorationgift.be /christmas/bad-christmas-girl-special.php (599 words)

	Barlow's Christmas Special
		Still, I usually emerge from my humbuggery sometime around dawn on Christmas Day and generally succeed in investing the day with at least as much generosity of spirit as comes quite easily to me in almost any other season.
		I did this so that when we did meet face to face (often after a long hiatus), I didn't have to spend a ton of time telling them what was new with me - since I had already told them - and could spend it instead finding out what was new with them.
		It is a wonderful list of wonderful people and I am genuinely grateful for the friendship and tolerance nearly every one of you has extended me. I hope we can find a way for you to extend it to one another as well.
	www.scripting.com /97/12/stories/barlowChristmasSpecial.html (4908 words)

	The Carolina Opry -- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
		The Carolina Opry Christmas Special offers an unparalleled celebration of America's most loved holiday, a heart-warming, funny, and dazzling family tradition that just gets better and better.
		Now in its 19th year, the Christmas Special combines the traditional music of the season with Yuletide comedy for an evening of holiday entertainment you'll long remember.
		Among these is Gilmore's "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem," which has been a fixture in the show since 1986, and "The Twelve Days of Christmas", a full-cast free-for-all which features Bogie acting out all the parts for twelve consecutive verses.
	www.cgp.net /ChristmasSpecial.html (335 words)

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