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The 'mere accident of history' that popularized a white Christmas
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| December A.D. 2023
| Adriana Navarro,
Posted on 12/22/2023 7:25:04 AM PST by lightman
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Currier & Ives, "American homestead winter," c1868. 1 Print : Lithograph. Popular Graphic Arts Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:25:04 AM PST
by
lightman
To: lightman
During the "Little Ice Age", the Thames River in London used to freeze up, allowing for ice-skating and other ice related activities.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:29:19 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
To: lightman
I recently saw a joke to the effect that a Hallmark movie cannot be set in the South because unexpected snow is terrifying, and it always ends up with a fight at the Piggly Wiggly. Sounds about right.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:29:24 AM PST
by
cdcdawg
(Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
To: lightman
It snows in winter.
Film at eleven.....................
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:29:33 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SamAdams76; lightman
I agree. Since the song White Christmas is a reminder of the Little Ice Age, then perhaps it should also be a reminder that our current Modern Warm Period is neither unprecedented nor something to hate like the warmageddon Dims make it out to be. Warm periods are the best time to live.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:34:31 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Red Badger
And while astronomical winter arrived yesterday true meteorological winter is still a few weeks away.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:34:46 AM PST
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: lightman
I was so cold here yesterday I had to wear socks................
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:35:56 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: All
Roockefeller Center Christmas tree in snow.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:37:05 AM PST
by
Liz
(WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
To: lightman
Very few comic strips featured snow regularly, but two of the all time greats, “Peanuts” and “Calvin & Hobbes” made it central, with Peanuts emphasizing the Christmas linkage. Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz grew up in Minnesota, which is a great location to be guaranteed a white Christmas. Calvin creator Bill Watterson grew up in Ohio, near Lake Eriw, so he saw lots of snow growing up, as well.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:42:43 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: lightman
Interesting. The idea of a white Christmas has even creeped into songs about the Nativity itself; for example, “In the Bleak Mid-Winter.”
It’s supposed to be in the fifties on Christmas here in northern Indiana, and that suits me fine.
To: lightman
Christmas tales and carols have long since invoked images of silver bells...'Evoked'.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:44:00 AM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
To: cdcdawg
” Sounds about right.”
BS.
To: lightman
nearly half of the contiguous U.S. historically has had a 50% chance or less of actually seeing a white Christmas. Wow! It probably won't snow in the South at Christmas. What an analysis!
Here in Central Kentucky, it usually snows a little around Thanksgiving, but does not snow at Christmas. It waits for about Jan. 10 for bigger snows.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:48:53 AM PST
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: TexasGator
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:50:58 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: lightman
"Thank you, Santa!" 
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:52:23 AM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: lightman
Why is the connection between snow and Christmas so strong?
Because it’s fu&&&ng Wintertime!!! Morons. Some third grader needed a subject tor a report and this was what he came up with.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:53:52 AM PST
by
webheart
To: lightman
The author: Adriana Navarro “Adriana Navarro is a digital journalist at AccuWeather and has covered beats from breaking news to weather retrospectives.
Her primary focus and interests are in disaster equity and intersectional climate solutions.”
In other words, your Christmas celebration is a lie and has no meaning.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:55:46 AM PST
by
Venkman
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
No actually invoked. The song says silver bells. That is an invoke. Saying the tinkling ringing sounds of silver would be evoked.
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posted on
12/22/2023 7:57:25 AM PST
by
webheart
To: lightman
The Little Ice Age was a period of unusual cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere that spanned from the early-14th century through the mid-19th century (1300 through 1850)Cold weather over more than five centuries doesn't sound all that unusual to me.
To: lightman
White Christmas, white Hanukkah, white Kwanzaa.
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posted on
12/22/2023 8:06:53 AM PST
by
Gman
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