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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Director:Ron HowardWriters:Jeffrey Price and Peter SeamanUniversal Pictures; 102 minutes; PGRelease:11/00Cast:Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor If you are among the millions who…

How A Charlie Brown Christmas Came to Pass

The unlikely beginnings of a holiday classic "There will always be an audience for innocence in this country." —Charles Schulz Peanuts Holiday Specials 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas…

sainfoin

(Encyclopedia) sainfoinsainfoinsānˈfoin [key] [Fr.,=holy hay], leguminous perennial herb (Onobrychis viciaefolia) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) indigenous in S Europe and in temperate W…

pudding

(Encyclopedia) pudding. Early writers on cookery class puddings and dumplings together. The earliest puddings were boiled in a bag or cloth. Later they were placed in a buttered bowl, covered with a…

Punch and Judy

(Encyclopedia) Punch and Judy, famous English puppet play, very popular with children and given widely by strolling puppet players, especially during the Christmas season. It came to England in the…

Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean

(Encyclopedia) Christmas Island, tropical island, 60 sq mi (155 sq km), an external territory of Australia, in the Indian Ocean c.200 mi (320 km) S of…

Hanukkah

(Encyclopedia) HanukkahHanukkahkhäˈnəkə, –n&oobreve;kä [key], in Judaism, the Festival of Lights, the Feast of Consecration, or the Feast of the Maccabees; also transliterated Chanukah. According…

feast

(Encyclopedia) feast, commemorative banquet symbolizing communal unity. Generally associated with primitive rituals and later with religious practices, feasts may also commemorate such events as…

Indiana, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Indiana, RobertIndiana, Robertĭnˌdē-ănˈə [key], 1928–2018, American pop artist, b. New Castle, Ind., as Robert Clark. A leading figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s, he…