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Free Download Stanley Weintraub, "Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914"
English | 2014 | pages: 238 | ISBN: 1471135195, 0684866218 | EPUB | 5,9 mb
SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful time, remembered since in song and story, a world war stopped. Even the participants found what they were doing incredible. Germans placed candle-lit Christmas trees on trench parapets and warring soldiers sang carols. In the spirit of the season they ventured out beyond their barbed wire to meet in No Man’s Land, where they buried the dead in moving ceremonies, exchanged gifts, ate and drank together, and joyously played football, often with improvised balls. The truce spread as men defied orders and fired harmlessly into the air. But, reluctantly, they were forced to re-start history’s most bloody war. SILENT NIGHT vividly recovers a dreamlike event, one of the most extraordinary of Christmas stories.

Free Download Quick & Easy Christmas By Gooseberry Patch
2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1936283786 | EPUB | 7 MB
With Quick & Easy Christmas youll spend more time enjoying the season and less time in the kitchen! Each recipe is ready in under 30 minutes, or begins with just 8 ingredients or less!

Free Download Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide By Christian Rätsch, Claudia Müller-Ebeling
2006 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1594770921 | EPUB | 14 MB
An examination of the sacred botany and the pagan origins and rituals of Christmas * Analyzes the symbolism of the many plants associated with Christmas * Reveals the shamanic rituals that are at the heart of the Christmas celebration The day on which many commemorate the birth of Christ has its origins in pagan rituals that center on tree worship, agriculture, magic, and social exchange. But Christmas is no ordinary folk observance. It is an evolving feast that over the centuries has absorbed elements from cultures all over the world–practices that give plants and plant spirits pride of place. In fact, the symbolic use of plants at Christmas effectively transforms the modern-day living room into a place of shamanic ritual. Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling show how the ancient meaning of the botanical elements of Christmas provides a unique view of the religion that existed in Europe before the introduction of Christianity. The fir tree was originally revered as the sacred World Tree in northern Europe. When the church was unable to drive the tree cult out of people’s consciousness, it incorporated the fir tree by dedicating it to the Christ child. Father Christmas in his red-and-white suit, who flies through the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, has his mythological roots in the shamanic reindeer-herding tribes of arctic Europe and Siberia. These northern shamans used the hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom, which is red and white, to make their soul flights to the other world. Apples, which figure heavily in Christmas baking, are symbols of the sun god Apollo, so they find a natural place at winter solstice celebrations of the return of the sun. In fact, the authors contend that the emphasis of Christmas on green plants and the promise of the return of life in the dead of winter is just an adaptation of the pagan winter solstice celebration.

Free Download Our Favorite Christmas Recipes By Gooseberry Patch
2009 | 126 Pages | ISBN: 1933494484 | EPUB | 4 MB
Over 60 of our favorite Christmas recipes, with handy tips. Purse-friendly size make meal-planning on the go easy. Durable softcover, 128 pages.

Free Download Cindi Myers, "Her Christmas Wish"
English | 2009 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 0373752911 | PDF | 1,0 mb
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Free Download Christmas Kitchen By Gooseberry Patch
2008 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1933494549 | EPUB | 9 MB
Christmas Kitchen features over 200 scrumptious recipes to make your holidays delicious. You’ll love our Bacon-Cheddar Cheese Ball and homestyle favorites like Chicken Pot-Pie Soup & Dumplings. Yummy desserts like Mom’s Fail-Proof Fudge plus tips for festive packaging too! Hardcover, 224 pages. (9-1/4" x 6-1/2")

Free Download Bryan Furuness, "An Indiana Christmas"
English | ISBN: 0253050286 | 2020 | 242 pages | AZW3 | 41 MB
Imagine a moonlit railroad track, a rural road and barn covered with just a dusting of snow, a hound dog asleep by the woodstove, and a Red Ryder BB gun hidden behind the tinseled tree―all the makings of an unforgettable Indiana Christmas. In An Indiana Christmas, editor Bryan Furuness brings together timeless short stories, poems, plays, and letters to help you get into the holiday spirit. Lose yourself in classics like "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash" by Jean Shepherd, which inspired the beloved movie A Christmas Story, and "A Feel in the Christmas Air"by James Whitcomb Riley, along with more recent literary works like "The Myth of the Perfect Christmas Photo Family" by Kelsey Timmerman and "While Mortals Sleep" by famed Indiana writer Kurt Vonnegut. To achieve the perfect combination of Christmas nostalgia and cheer, Furuness has curated Hoosier stories that allow you to experience an idyllic holiday gathering in "Indiana Winter" by Susan Neville, feel the excitement of a child on Christmas Eve with "Earthbound" by Barbara Shoup, and face the loneliness of a drifter on Christmas night in "Howard Garfield, Balladeer" by Edward Porter. The collection even offers the chance to read a Christmas war dispatch from the late, great Hoosier journalist Ernie Pyle. Heartfelt and unique,

Free Download Christmas Cookies
by Miles, Hannah;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1788796411 | 144 pages | True EPUB | 28.34 MB

Free Download Portuguese Christmas Desserts 5 Essential Sweet Recipes!
Last updated 1/2021
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.30 GB | Duration: 1h 3m
Learn authentic Portuguese recipes with a 5th generation pastry chef from Lisbon. Popular Christmas fritters made simple

Free Download MacDonald P. Jackson, "Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?: Analyzing the Clement Clarke Moore vs. Henry Livingston Question"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476664439 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 5.7 mb
Published anonymously in 1823, "The Night Before Christmas" has traditionally been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), who included it in his Poems (1844). But descendants of Henry Livingston (1748-1828) claim that he read it to his children as his own creation long before Moore is alleged to have composed it.