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  2. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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    Homemade candy. Before sweets were mass-marketed, homemade treats of all kinds around the holidays were a common indulgence. Famous homemade Christmas goodies include fudge, gingerbread, peanut ...

  3. List of fictional cats in literature - Wikipedia

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    A young boy named Peter is transformed into a cat after an accident, and is taken in by Jennie and taught the ways of cats. Jennyanydots: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: T. S. Eliot: An old cat who lies around the house all day, but at night, teaches the rats, mice, and cockroaches to be good. Josie SCP-529 - Josie the Half Cat: Various

  4. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Wikipedia

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    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats .

  5. Yule cat - Wikipedia

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    The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and the Christmas cat [1]) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic Christmas folklore that is said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve. In other ...

  6. How old is Santa? History on the saint, how he became ...

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    How old is Santa? Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports. This would make Santa approximately 1,744 years old today.

  7. Demeter (cat) - Wikipedia

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    Demeter is a main character in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. The musical is an adaptation of T. S. Eliot's 1939 poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the character's name is given in the poem "The Naming of Cats". [1] Demeter is a very troubled and skittish female Jellicle cat.

  8. Candy Canes Are Everywhere on Christmas—But Why Is That? - AOL

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    Candy canes have a long history that some people say started in Germany back in 1670 when a choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral handed out sugar sticks to a group of youthful choirboys who had a ...

  9. Charmion (servant to Cleopatra) - Wikipedia

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    Charmion is the main character in the novels Hand of Isis by Jo Graham and Queen Cleopatra by Talbot Mundy. Charmian is a key character in The Last Pharaoh trilogy by Jay Penner. Most recently, Charmion was portrayed by Kaysha Woollery in the 2023 Netflix series, Queen Cleopatra.