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Sites
of the Month for December 2003
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What
To Do This Holiday Season
SF
Chronicle Events Calendar - For events throughout the
Bay Area - you can search or browse.
Hanukkah
- From the Jewish Holiday Resource for Northern California
- includes things to do to celebrate the holiday, find an
event in the Bay Area and find a congregation.
California Christmas
Tree Association - Where to cut your own tree in California.
Craft
books and craft fairs - A listing of great books on
holiday crafts, and fairs in the area this holiday season.
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In
The Giving Spirit
Toys
for Tots - Includes where on the peninsula to drop off
toys.
Second Harvest
Food Bank - About Second Harvest and where to donate
food for needy families this holiday season.
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Holiday
Histories
Kwanzaa,
Hanukkah and Christmas - The History Channel provides
excellent information on all three holidays.
Christmas
Feliz
Navidad - Brief history of the many holiday traditions
of Mexico, including Las Pastorelas and Noche Buena.
Christmas,
Christmas, Christmas - not just for kids! Has recipes,
stories, poems, carols, and lots of links to other sites.
Merry Christmas.com
features recipes, personalized Christmas story for children,
and holiday stories.
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Kwanzaa
Official
Kwanzaa Web Site - a celebration of family, community
and culture. Contains meditations, and outlines the seven
principles. The site details the symbols used and language
used and has a biography on the founder of Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa:An
African-American Celebration has information on celebrating
the holiday as well as an excellent list of links.
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Hanukkah
Chanukah
on the Net Find out about the history of Chanukah,
play holiday music, spin the dreidel and light candles
on a virtual menorah..
Happy
Chanukah from Kid's Domain. Offers online games,
word puzzles, printable coloring pages, crafts, clip art,
and more.
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Solstice
Solstice
Celebrations - An interesting description of various
winter solstice celebrations.
Candlegrove
- Features information of celebrating the Solstice, history,
rituals, and more.
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For
the Whole Family
Kids
Domain Holidays - Activities and fun for every Holiday!
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Pearl
Harbor Day
Remembering
Pearl Harbor, a National Geographic site that features
photos, footage and first-hand accounts of the attack on
Pearl Harbor, 7 December, 1941 as well as a searchable archive
of survivor's stories.
History
through the eyes of those that lived it. Eyewitness accounts
of the attack at Pearl Harbor.
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Nobel
Prize
Nobel
Prize awards ceremonies are held in December every year.
The Nobel e-museum shows a list of who has won the prize,
a video of the award ceremony for this year, and information
on the background of the prize.
The
Nobel Prize
Internet Archive has a list of female winners of the
Nobel Prize.
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Historical
Events and Birthdays
This
month we acknowledge the birthdays of authors, a journalist,
an illustrator.
December 1
1955: This is Rosa
Parks Day. - Her simple act of protest galvanized America's
civil rights revolution.
December 4
1912: Raoul
Gustaf Wallenberg - Through a process of persuasion,
threats and an unmatched dose of diplomatic creativity,
this young 32 year old Swede managed to save the lives of
tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
December
7
1941: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-rem.htm
Remembrance of the "Day that shall live in Infamy"
1876:
Gertrud Margarete Zelle, "Mata
Hari". - Famous female spy during World War I.
December 13
Santa
Lucia Day, an observance especially popular in Sweden
and Norway.
December
19
1902: Ogden
Nash - A master of light, whimsical, and sometimes nonsensical
verse.
1946: Bill
Clinton - 42nd President of the United States.
December
20
1785: Oliver
Hazard Perry- It was Perry who who penned the famous
report of victory, "We have met the enemy and they
are ours." after the defeat of the British squadron
at the Battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812.
December 27
1899: C.S.
Forester - Author of enthralling tales of naval warfare
during the Napoleonic Wars.
1910: Mother
Teresa - Nun and Nobel Prize winner for her work with
the poor in Calcutta.
December
28
1749: Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe - Recognized as one of the greatest
and most versatile European writers and thinkers of modern
times.
December
29
1890 - In the Battle of Wounded
Knee, 200 Native
Americans were killed.
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