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	December 26 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		December 26 is a public holiday in most Christian countries, a notable exception being the United States (unless Christmas Day falls on a Sunday like it did in 2005 and will again in 2011, in which it is the observed federal holiday).
		December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years.
		This page was last modified 09:53, 25 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_26 (1449 words)

	December 25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining.
		2003- The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing.
		This page was last modified 02:47, 27 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_25 (1392 words)

	Why December 25?
		December 25 was observed as "the birthday of the sun." Because the sun god was identifed with Mithra, a very popular god at the time, pagan celebrations occurred throughout the empire (see Clement A. Miles, Christmas, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912, 23).
		December 25 was chosen not because it had somehow been proven from extra-biblical sources that Christ was definitely born on December 25.
		Though there no direct evidence that proves that the Church of Rome deliberately chose December 25 so that Christ's birth would replace "the birthday of the sun," we do have sermons from fathers of the church who soon after this used this line of reasoning.
	www.orlutheran.com /chrorig.html (482 words)

	CHRISTMAS
		December 25 was a festival long before the conversion of the Germanic peoples to Christianity, it seemed fitting that the time of their winter festival would also be the time to celebrate the birth of Christ.
		The Puritans and other Protestant groups were right when they said that Christmas observations in December had their origins in pagan festivals of the winter solstice, and that no one knew in what season Christ was born.
		There was some dispute about the proper date of the birth of Christ and not everyone agrees even to this day.
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/xmasintr.htm (1636 words)

	Christian History Corner: Why December 25? - Christianity Today Magazine
		December 25 already hosted two other related festivals: natalis solis invicti (the Roman "birth of the unconquered sun"), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian "Sun of Righteousness" whose worship was popular with Roman soldiers.
		The eventual choice of December 25, made perhaps as early as 273, reflects a convergence of Origen's concern about pagan gods and the church's identification of God's son with the celestial sun.
		Most easterners eventually adopted December 25, celebrating Christ's birth on the earlier date and his baptism on the latter, but the Armenian church celebrates his birth on January 6.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2000/149/54.0.html (1044 words)

	CADRE Comments: December 25 and the myth of the pagan Christmas
		Starting with these two dates of April 6 and March 25 and adding nine months, the dates of birth for Jesus (assuming the "integral age" teaching as true) would be either January 6 or December 25.
		Thus, December 25th as the date of the Christ's birth appears to owe nothing whatsoever to pagan influences upon the practice of the Church during or after Constantine's time.
		He reports that the date of December 25 was being celebrated by Christians first, and gives the reason.
	christiancadre.blogspot.com /2005/12/december-25-and-myth-of-pagan.html (2650 words)

	Was Jesus Born on December 25
		December 25 was used as a celebration of the birthday of the sun god.
		Other evidence that December 25 is the wrong date for the birth of Jesus comes from early writings.
		It wasn't until A.D. 440 that the church officially proclaimed December 25 as the birth of Christ.
	www.allaboutjesuschrist.org /was-jesus-born-on-december-25-faq.htm (492 words)

	Christmas Symbols Unit Study - December 25
		December 25th was the date of the winter solstice on the Julian calendar.
		The Encyclopedia Romana tells us that "at the time of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar), Saturnus, the god of seed and sowing, was honored with a festival...
		The day of his birth was celebrated on December 25, as the winter solstice was widely believed to be the time when the sun was 'reborn.'
	www.athomeschool.com /unitstudy/christmas_symbols_04.htm (551 words)

	December 25: Encyclopedia topic
		1976- Tuomas Holopainen (Tuomas Holopainen: tuomas holopainen (born december 25, 1976, in finland) is the keyboardist and...
		1954- Annie Lennox (Annie Lennox: annie lennox (born december 25, 1954) is a singer from aberdeen, scotland....
		1946- Jimmy Buffett (Jimmy Buffett: jimmy buffett (born december 25 1946 in pascagoula, mississippi) is an american...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/december_25 (3081 words)

	December 25 - Simple English Wikipedia
		This page was last changed at 19:53, 31 December 2005.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_25 (700 words)

	The Battle of Kelja, 25 - 27 December 1939
		Later on 25 Dec, a new attack was launched that was to pass the Kekinniemi fort from the west, but this attempt was repulsed.
		The casualties of the II/JR 30, on 25 Dec, was 8 killed and 28 wounded.
		In other parts of the Taipale area, two attacks were made on 25 Dec, the first one with 5 lone tanks in Kirvesmäki, and the second one with 1,5 companies supported by 6 tanks in Terenttilä.
	www.winterwar.com /Battles/Kelja.htm (5224 words)

	December 25, 1998
		In ALJ Levine's December 4, 1998, Initial Decision on Remand, the ALJ reduced his original civil monetary penalty assessment by 25 percent from $1.77 million to approximately $1.33 million based on the scope of Staryk's violations, and reinstated the sanctions of a registration revocation, a permanent trading ban, and a cease and desist order.
		The provisions of the Commission's Order are effective on December 23, 1998, the date on which it was issued, and remain in effect unless and until the Order is revoked in accordance with section 8e(b)(3)(B) of the Act.
		On December 22, 1997, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a six-count complaint against James Wichmann, among others, charging, inter alia, that he had violated sections 4(a), 4b(a), 4o(1)(A) and 40(1)(B) of the CEAct, and aided and abetted violations of section 4(a) of the CEAct and violated section 166.4 of the Commission's regulations.
	www.cftc.gov /opa/adv98/opawa54-98.htm (4000 words)

	December 25 Wasn't the First Choice
		While there is one record of Christmas being celebrated in Antioch (Turkey) on December 25 in the middle of the second century, there is no record of its being observed on that date in Rome until the year 336 AD.
		Mithra, the god of light and wisdom, was said to have been born from a rock on December 25.
		To some the December date may seem completely arbitrary, but in fact it was a calculated choice that reflected the importance of winter solstice festivals for the cultures of pre-Christian Europe and Asia.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/main-areas/xmas-not-first-choice.htm (3336 words)

	December 21 - 25
		Doug was united in marriage with Wuaneta Wilson on Aug. 25, 1981 in Las Vegas, Nev. He worked as a Safety Director for Morgan Drive Away and previously as an independent owner/operator truck driver.
		Thursday, December 28, 2000 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 302 Fifth St. S.E., with the Rev. David Kucera officiating.
		GARNER - Tillie Hinrichs, 100, died Saturday (December 23, 2000) at her home in the Prairie View Apartments.
	www.pafways.org /obituaries/mcgg/2000/dec5.htm (6563 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why do we celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25?
		According to the most tenable hypothesis, Christ's birthday was assigned to the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian) because the date had a ready-made pagan holiday, the "Birthday of the Invincible Sun" (or "ancient Saturnalia debauch," as you put it).
		One theory holds that this is the right date, postulating that Zachary was high priest and that the Day of Atonement fell on September 24, ergo, John the Baptist was born on June 24 and Christ dropped in exactly six months later on December 25.
		Another guess works backward from the supposed date of the crucifixion (March 25), figuring that Christ was conceived exactly 33 years before he died, True Believers having no use for fractional numbers.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_034b.html (342 words)

	Update: Influenza Activity --- United States, December 25--31, 2005
		During December 25--31, World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating laboratories and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) laboratories in the United States reported testing 1,677 specimens for influenza viruses, of which 169 (10.1%) were positive.
		From December 2003 through January 10, 2006, a total of 147 laboratory-confirmed human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) infections were reported to WHO.*** Of these, 78 (53%) were fatal (Table).
		Since December 30, four new cases and two deaths in Turkey and one new case and two deaths in China were reported.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5501a4.htm (1008 words)

	Was Jesus born on December 25?
		Rather than disputing December 25th as the day of Jesus' birth, we should be grateful that an increasingly non-Christian society even celebrates His birth at all.
		Ironically, December 25th was a celebration of the birthday of the sun god.
		The early church, in an attempt to get rid of the pagan holiday, declared December 25th to be the birthday of the Son of God.
	www.gotquestions.org /December-25.html (240 words)

	December 25 - Uncyclopedia
		This page was last modified 15:28, 25 February 2006.
		If an article link referred you here, you should make it to point directly to the article where you think the confused link-maker thought it would point, or go nuts and pick one at random.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/December_25 (108 words)

	RELIGIOUS CONNOTATIONS TO DECEMBER 25.
		Christmas dates: Christmas day is on 25th December, and Christmas' Eve is on 24th December, when at night, Santa appeares.
		Free Religious connotations to december 25 resources
		Christmas: From the Old English, Cristes Maesse, meaning the Mass of Christ, the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th of December, the nominated day of observance.
	christmas.candles.ro /k/religious_connotations_to_december_25.html (349 words)

	Today in History: December 25
		The evening of December 25, 2005 marks the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 164 B.C. Also referred to as the Feast of Lights, Hanukkah recalls the Talmudic story of the Temple's one-day supply of oil miraculously burning for eight days.
		The origins of the holiday are uncertain; by the year 336, however, the Christian church in Rome observed the Feast of the Nativity on December 25.
		On December 25, Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Christ.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec25.html (1361 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Christmas Day)
		On December 25 (the date of the winter solstice) pagan Romans, still in the majority, celebrated Natalis Solis Invincti, "Birthday of the Invincible Sun God," Mithras.
		Since it was well known that Roman patricians and plebians alike enjoyed festivals of a protracted nature, Christians recognized that they needed an alternative to the December celebration of Natalis Solis Invincti.
		In those tenuous early days of Christianity, however, Church fathers debated strategies for supplanting the Mithras cult with their own religion.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/christmas/jesus.asp (437 words)

	Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives
		December 19, 2004- December 25, 2004
		Finally, Congressman Adam Smith of Washington, from what we can glean from TPM constituent-readers who've contacted his office and this article he wrote on December 17th, is very much keeping his options open on private accounts.
		Further down we find that the number of people who think there is a "crisis" in the Social Security system is a mere 25%, down from 34% six years ago.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /archives/week_2004_12_19.php (7478 words)

	DPW Press Releases: HOLIDAY NOTICE: Christmas Day is Thursday, December 25
		Citizens, whose regular trash collection day is Thursday, December 25, are asked to place their trash out on their next regularly scheduled collection day, Monday, December 29.
		Residents whose regular paper recycling collection day is Thursday, December 25, are asked to place their paper recyclables out for collection on Tuesday, December 30, 2003.
		There will be no monthly bulk trash collections on December 25, 2003.
	www.ci.baltimore.md.us /government/dpw/press/031217.html (238 words)

	(DV) Leupp: Celebrating the True Meaning of December 25
		But Christmas celebrated on December 25 is a completely non-biblical tradition, and realizing that, various Christians over the centuries have actively opposed its observance.
		That falls this year on December 21 but the Romans celebrated the birth feast of Mithras on December 25, ordered to do so by Emperor Aurelian in 274 CE.
		If it occurred as the Gospel of Luke tells us, as shepherds were watching over their fields by night, it probably wouldn’t have taken place in December.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Dec05/Leupp1225.htm (1683 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days December 25 Christmas truce Yule folklore origins customs Evelyn Nesbit Dalai Lama Isaac Newton alchemist Xmas birthdays
		Christmas, ironically, antedates the Nativity of Christ, and December 25 is a fudge.
		October 25, 1910 - 2002), a noted aviator who sometimes appeared in Hollywood films; the identity of his father remains in doubt.
		June 25, 1906 Evelyn and Harry saw White at a restaurant (the Café Martin) and ran into him again in the audience of the old
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/dec25.html (2677 words)

	December 25 Natalis Invicti
		Duchesne suggests as an explanation of the choice of December 25 the fact that a tradition fixed the Passion of Christ on March 25.
		Why, we may ask, did the Church choose December 25 for the celebration of her Founder's Birth?
		The same date, he thinks, would have been assigned to His Conception in order to make the years of His life complete, and the Birth would come naturally nine months after the Conception.
	www.worldspirituality.org /december-25.html (425 words)

	Prabhupada Letters :: 1968
		I thank you for your letter of December 17, 1968, I am always so glad to be hearing from you.
		I have received your letter of December 15, 1968 and have noted the contents with much satisfaction and encouragement.
		I have received your letter of December 17, 1968 and have carefully noted the contents.
	sangalog4.blogspot.com /2004_12_19_sangalog4_archive.html (5713 words)

	December 25: Christmas when and where
		This day, December 25, 336, is the first recorded celebration of Christmas.
		Dionysus Exiguus, a sixth century monk, who was the first to date all of history from December 25th, the year of our Lord 1.
		"Why Decemebr 25?" World (December 10, 2005) p.32.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/12/daily-12-25-2002.shtml (774 words)

	December 25
		It is more certain that the sun's birthday (25 December: the midwinter solstice in the Julian calendar) could not be suppressed by Christianity, and so the festival was made out to be the birthday of Christ instead."
		The day was notable in the Roman astronomical calendar as the day of the winter solstice (bruma), but became more loosely used for "midwinter." In Byzantine days, the Brumalia was celebrated as a festival, and in Byzantium itself it lasted until the tenth century at least.
		According to Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins in their Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome: "It has been suggested that the cult of the sun influenced the east-west orientation of burials, so that the dead arose to face the rising sun on the day of resurrection.
	lonestar.texas.net /~robison/Dec_25.html (160 words)

	Peace Corps Online December 25, 1978 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Eugene Galgas who died while serving in Ghana in December, 1978 at Age 34
		December 25, 1978- Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Eugene Galgas who died while serving in Ghana in December, 1978 at Age 34
		Eugene Galgas served in Ghana and died in December, 1978.
		PCOL is not responsible for broken links which may have changed.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2018451.html (956 words)

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