Medieval Great Halls Were at the Heart of the Festive Season
In castles up and down the lands of ancient Britain, the medieval great hall was a common focal point for seasonal festivities of the community.
Source: ancient-origins.net
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Chuck Haga: Swimming the waters of the world
Former Grand Forks resident has taken dips in the Indian Ocean, the Carribean and the Sea of Cortez. But the waters of Minnesota's old mine pits are her favorite.
Source: grandforksherald.com
NAVIDAD: Nineteen things you (probably) never knew about celebrating Christmas in Spain
Author Teresa O'Shea takes a look at some of the more surprising traditions celebrated in Spain at Christmas.
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The Paris Review - Blog Archive The First Christmas Meal
David Teniers the Younger, The Twelve Days of Christmas No. 8, 1634-40 These days, British and American Christmases are by and large the same hodgepodge of tradition, with relatively minor variations. This Christmas Eve, for example, when millions of American kids put out cookies and milk for Santa, children in Britain will lay out the more adult combination of mince pies and brandy for the old man many of them know as Father Christmas. For the last hundred years or so, Father Christmas has been indistinguishable from the American character of Santa Claus; two interchangeable names for the s...
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