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A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [3]
The white elephant gift exchange is also known as a "Yankee swap" or "dirty Santa," depending on where the host lives. In these games, everyone brings a wrapped gift to contribute to a shared pool ...
June 1 – 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord; June 4–6 – Osh riots; June 7–8 – 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church; June 12 – Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; June 19 – Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is established
The result in the Soviet Union was a dual approach of concessions to the United States and economic restructuring (perestroika) and democratization domestically, which eventually made it impossible for Gorbachev to reassert central control. Reaganite hawks have since argued that pressures stemming from increased U.S. defense spending was an ...
White Elephant is a party game in which players bring wrapped gifts at a set price, such as $20. From there, they draw numbers and pick the gifts out one by one from the pile. They also have the ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
6 February — Negotiations between the Polish government and the union ‘Solidarity’ opened. March 27 — 1989 Soviet Union legislative election: first contested elections in Soviet History. [3] April 9 — April 9 tragedy; a pro-independence demonstration in Tbilisi was put down by Soviet authorities, resulting in the deaths of 21 people. [4]
White elephant sales are often useful to buyers and collectors, because they provide a way to purchase older and harder to find items. In the days before online auction and trading websites, white elephant sales, along with thrift stores, yard sales and pawn shops were popular ways to procure collectibles and odd items not available in retail ...