 Extensive Advent calendar An Advent calendar is a symbol of the holy season of Advent, celebrated in December near Christmas, another holiday season. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 143 KB) Aufwendiger Adventskalender kurz vor der Fertigstellung Extensive Advent calendar for my girl friend near completion Photographed by: Tim Avatar Bartel dual licensed File links The following pages link to this file: Advent calendar ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (480x640, 143 KB) Aufwendiger Adventskalender kurz vor der Fertigstellung Extensive Advent calendar for my girl friend near completion Photographed by: Tim Avatar Bartel dual licensed File links The following pages link to this file: Advent calendar ...
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Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...
The traditional calendar consists of two pieces of cardboard on top of each other. Twenty four doors are cut out in the top layer, with one door being opened every day, from December 1 to December 24 (Christmas Eve). Each compartment can either show a part of the Nativity story and the birth of Jesus, or can simply display a piece of paraphernalia to do with Christmas (e.g. Bells, holly). Advent Calendars can also consist of cloth sheets with small pockets to be filled with candy or other small items. Many calendars have been adapted by merchandisers and manufacturers to include a piece of chocolate or a sweet behind each compartment, aimed at children. These have often been criticised for not relating to the Nativity and simply cashing in on Christmas sales. These are aimed at small children who are counting down to Christmas, because that is when Santa Claus comes. A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ...
Cardboard is a lay term used to describe a variety of heavy wood-based types of paper, notable for their stiffness and durability. ...
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December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ...
The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, December 24, the day before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas festivities. ...
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The number of doors can also increase to twenty five or twenty six to cover Christmas Day, Hanukkah and Boxing Day, and further to thirty one or thirty two to include New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. This latter act was particularly evident over December 1999, counting down to January 1, 2000 and what was largely perceived as the start of the third millennium (although the same thing did not happen a year later in the lead up to what was technically the real third millennium on January 1, 2001). Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or Festival of Rededication, is an eight day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which may be in December, late November, or, while very rare in occasion, early January (as was the case for the Hannukkah of 2005...
Boxing Day is a public holiday observed in many Commonwealth countries on 26 December. ...
For other articles with similar names, see New Year (disambiguation) New Years Eve is December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the day before New Years Day, New Years Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Years Day. ...
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The Advent calendar is normally of standard dimensions, but can be found in other shapes, such as a model of a house. There are alternative forms of Advent calendar, such as those made from felt or other material, or a chain of candles that can be lit day by day. The German city of Dresden has a giant calendar built into a fairytale castle on its Christmas market, the Striezelmarkt. Nowadays there are also digital Advent calendars. Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian DrežÄany, meaning people of the riverside forest) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony and situated in a valley on the River Elbe. ...
The Striezelmarkt in Dresden is Germanys oldest documented Christmas market. ...
In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland there is also a tradition of having a so-called 'Julekalender' in the form of a television show starting on the first of December, and ending on the 24th - Christmas Eve. Over the years, there have been several different kinds of 'Julekalender'; some directed at children, some at both children and adults, and even some directed at adults alone. A classic example of a 'Julekalender' enjoyed by children (as well as adults, if purely for nostalgic reasons) is the show 'Jul i Skomakergata'. A more modern version of the 'Julekalender' is the show 'The 24th', which is obviously something of a parody on the popular series '24' starring Kiefer Sutherland. The julekalender often leads to controversy, there always being someone regarding it as too dirty, too boring for older children, too little connection with Christmas, etc. The only stories which don't get these complaints are adventure stories that are not too exciting and who regularly mention Christmas, like Mysteriet på Greveholm. Jul i Skomakergata is a Norwegian tv-show produced in 1979. ...
24 (twenty four) is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide. ...
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966 in London, England) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning Canadian television and film actor, best known for his role of Jack Bauer on the series 24. ...
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Advent (from the Latin Adventus, sc. ...
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...
A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ...
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