Month: December 2015

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I Remember December 7th and Pearl Harbor

I Remember December 7th by Dorothy Graham Gast   “Pearl Harbor has been bombed. Many ships were damaged or sunk” was the alert that interrupted the Sunday afternoon radio broadcast on December 7, 1941. We were living at 708 10th Street, Pascagoula, Mississippi, where the family was listening to the Gene Autry show,  when the […]

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DYK: these Christmas Tree facts?

SOME CHRISTMAS TREE FACTS  During the years from 1887 to 1933, a fishing schooner called the ‘Christmas Ship’ used to sell spruce trees from Michigan to Chicagoans. Evergreen trees were used to celebrate the onset of winter, even before the birth of Christ. Christmas tree was decorated for the first time in Riga (Latvia), in […]