12-04 Santa’s List Day
December 4th, 2009
Santa’s List Day:
(excerpted from http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/December/santaslistday.htm)
Today is Santa’s List Day. Have you been good all year? Have you been Naughty? Or, have you been nice? Santa knows.
Santa’s Elves have been everywhere, checking up on children all over the world, to see who has been naughty, and who has been nice. Thanks to the hard work of his elves, Santa now has two lists. The short list contains the names of a few children who have been naughty. A much longer list is filled with the names of children who have been good all year long.
Which list are you on?
National Dice Day:
(excerpted from http://www.zanyholidays.com/2007/12/roll-em-national-dice-day.html)
National Dice Day is not just about commemorating the glory of dice. It goes one step further: it’s all about the games. Never heard of the game “Dice”? Neither had I until today, but it’s really just as simple as rolling dice! Each player takes turns rolling five dice at once, and whatever the sum is of the little black dots, 5 for example, you multiply by 100 and voila: 500 points (100×5)! There are a few more rules about how to play but they sort of complicate things and the beauty of the dice game is how simple it is.
Eid il-Burbara:
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_il-Burbara)
Eid il-Burbara or Saint Barbara’s Day, is a holiday very similar to Halloween anually celebrated on December 4 among Arab Christians in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. It is celebrated in honor of the Christian Saint and Martyr Saint Barbara. The general belief among Lebanese Christians, is that Saint Barbara disguised herself in many different characters to elude the Romans who were persecuting her.
Barbórka, Miner’s Day (Poland):
(excerpted from http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art68fr.htm)
Miners’ profession was always considered dangerous but prestigious therefore this day called “Barb rka” or Barburka” (there was a long battle between puritans of the Polish language which form is correct) was celebrated for centuries in a spectacular way. The name of the feast originate of course from St. Barbara as a patron. Read about Polish saints and patrons.
Miners are dressed in the special uniforms during Barbórka. The uniform consists of black suit and hat with a feather. The color of the feather (white, red or black) depends on the rank of the miner. Miners wear their decorative uniforms not only during Barborka but also for weddings, funerals and other important political or social ceremonies.
St. Barbara is not only a patron of coal-miners but also a patron of geologists, mathematicians and many others professions. Her patronage is linked with the fact that according to the legend she was imprisoned in a tall tower. Her imprisonment led to association with variety of construction professions. Her festivities take place in geological institutes and universities of Germany and Austria. Read St. Barbara Story HERE. St. Barbara is also connected strongly with the Orthodox Church’s tradition.
Navy Day (India):
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Day)
4 December is celebrated as Navy Day in India. This was the day when the Indian Navy played a significant role in the bombing of Karachi harbor in the 1971 war. The name given to the attack was Operation Trident which was launched on December 4. Owing to its success, the day of the attack has been celebrated as Navy Day ever since.
(1945) Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations:
(excerpted from http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1204.html#article)
The Senate passed by a 65-to-7 vote this evening the legislation to give the United States full, active participation in the United Nations Organization in accordance with the San Francisco Charter that it ratified, 89 to 2, last July.
Voting for the implementing measure, which now goes to the House, were forty-one Democrats, twenty-three Republicans and one Progressive. Opposing its passage were six Republicans– Senators Langer of North Dakota, Moore of Oklahoma, Revercomb of West Virginia, Shipstead of Minnesota, Taft of Ohio and Wherry of Nebraska, the minority whip–and one Democrat, Senator Wheeler of Montana. Senators Langer and Shipstead were the two who voted against ratification of the Charter.
Passage came after seven days of the Senate contest, which reached its final show-down stage in late afternoon as Senators Wheeler and Willis, Republican, of Indiana, sought to require the President to obtain specific Congressional authorization before he could make armed forces available to the UNO Security Council to halt an aggression or to maintain peace.
(1954) The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida:
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King)
Burger King (NYSE: BKC), often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The first restaurant was opened in Miami, Florida in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton, and has since used several variations of franchising to expand its operations. Burger King Holdings Corporation is the parent company of Burger King; in the United States it operates under the Burger King Brands title while internationally it operates under the Burger King Corporation banner. It is a publicly traded company with investment firms of TPG Capital, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners each owning about 25% of the company.
Celebrity Birthdays:
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Tomei)
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American stage, film and television actress. Tomei first came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992). She received subsequent nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
Her most commercially successful films to date are What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003) and followed by Wild Hogs (2007). She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars (1996), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) and The Wrestler (2008).
(excerpted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bridges)
Jeffrey Leon “Jeff” Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, Tron, Against All Odds, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, The Contender, and Iron Man.
As a teenager, Bridges appeared, along with his brother Beau, on their father’s CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962-1963).
His first major role was in the 1971 movie The Last Picture Show for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated again for the same award for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. One of his better known roles was in the 1982 science-fiction cult classic Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 for playing the alien in Starman. He was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge. His role in Fearless is recognized by some critics to be one of his best performances. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece; Pauline Kael wrote that he ‘may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived’. He also starred as “The Dude” in the Coen Brothers’ classic cult film The Big Lebowski.
In 2000, he received his fourth Academy Award nomination for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 Terry Gilliam movie Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991′s The Fisher King). He plays the role of Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger in the 2008 Marvel motion picture, Iron Man. In July 2008 and July 2009 he was shown in the Comic Con teaser for Tron Legacy, the upcoming sequel to Tron; leading fans to assume he would reprise the role of Flynn from the 1982 classic film.
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