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Posted on 12/24/2005 9:08:05 PM PST by SAMWolf
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 are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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Holiday observances during the American Civil War  Click the flag  Lonely camp scene from an 1862 Harper's Weekly entitled "Christmas Eve". Even with all the sorrow that hangs, and will forever hang, over so many households; even while war still rages; even while there are serious questions yet to be settled - ought it not to be, and is it not, a merry Christmas?" Harper's Weekly, December 26, 1863  Harper's Weekly depicts a family separated by war in its January 3,1863 edition. For a nation torn by civil war, Christmas in the 1860s was observed with conflicting emotions. Nineteenth-century Americans embraced Christmas with all the Victorian trappings that had moved the holiday from the private and religious realm to a public celebration. Christmas cards were in vogue, carol singing was common in public venues, and greenery festooned communities north and south. Christmas trees stood in places of honor in many homes, and a mirthful poem about the jolly old elf who delivered toys to well-behaved children captivated Americans on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. But Christmas also made the heartache for lost loved ones more acute. As the Civil War dragged on, deprivation replaced bounteous repasts and familiar faces were missing from the family dinner table. Soldiers used to "bringing in the tree" and caroling in church were instead scavenging for firewood and singing drinking songs around the campfire. And so the holiday celebration most associated with family and home was a contradiction. It was a joyful, sad, religious, boisterous, and subdued event.  "The Christmas Tree" by F. A. Chapman. Many of the holiday customs we associate with Christmas today were familiar to 1840s celebrants. Christmas cards were popularized that decade and Christmas trees were a stylish addition to the parlor. By the 1850s, Americans were singing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem," and "Away in a Manger" in public settings. In 1850 and 1860, Godey's Lady's Book featured Queen Victoria's tabletop Christmas tree, placed there by her German husband Prince Albert. Closer to home, in December, 1853, Robert E. Lee's daughter recorded in her diary that her father - then superintendent at West Point - possessed an evergreen tree decorated with dried and sugared fruit, popcorn, ribbon, spun glass ornaments, and silver foil. Clement Clarke Moore, a religious scholar who for decades was too embarrassed to claim authorship of the 1822 poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," was now well-known for his tribute to Santa Claus. "Santa Claus" made his first public appearance in a Philadelphia department store in 1849, marking the advent of holiday commercialism. For enslaved African Americans, the Christmas season often meant a mighty bustle of cooking, housekeeping, and other chores. "Reward" for these efforts was a suspension of duties for a day or two and the opportunity for singing, dancing, and possible brief reunions with separated family members. Further gestures of "goodwill" by masters who saw themselves as benevolent owners were small and the semi-annual clothing allotment. By 1860, many worried about civil unrest, fearful this Christmas would be the last before the outbreak of war. An Arkansas diarist writes: "Christmas has come around in the circle of time, but is not a day of rejoicing. Some of the usual ceremonies are going on, but there is gloom on the thoughts and countenances of all the better portion of our people."
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Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
by Jonathan Corum
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
24 miles an hour...faster than most drivers in Oregon. ;-)
I'm sorry, I've been busy ignoring the thread.
Spiderboy and I have been building an SR-71 Pinewood Derby car.
ROFL!
Howdy ma'am
snicker
ROFLOL
Any resemblence is purely intentional, but at 2 3/4" max wingspan, it's only a suggestion.
Nice bird house. I'm looking for some venting under the roof on the sides and some tiny cut corners on the bottom floor for drainage. :-)
It's very nice of spiderboy to build a nesting home for the birds.
Nice car too.
BittyGirl tv...I could watch all day!
Now that's relaxing!
Off to work for 12 hours of Fun and Frivolity.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on January 02:
1642 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey)
1647 Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676)
http://www.famousamericans.net/nathanielbacon/
1699 Osman III sultan (Turkey)
1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Québec)
1752 Philip Freneau poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1822 Rudolph J E Clausius Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1857 Frederick Opper cartoonist (Willie and His Papa, Maud the Mule, Alphonse & Gaston)
1860 William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-13)
1880 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer
1901 Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society)
1904 Sally Rand Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/sally/sallydex.html
1913 Ernest Sidey British air marshal
1920 Isaac Asimov Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1925 William J Crowe Jr Kentucky, chairman joint chiefs of staff
1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Representative-D-IL, -94), House Ways & Means Committee chair
1928 Vaughn Beals Cambridge MA, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1932 Dabney Coleman Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1936 Roger Miller Fort Worth TX, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1939 Jim Bakker televangelist (PTL Club)/philanderer (Jessica Hahn)
1949 Chick Churchill Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Grit VA, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
1968 Cuba Gooding Jr actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
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Dark Light
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In some ways the Mosaic law is to the Christian what a crutch is to an athlete. It is good when needed and used properly. But a crutch cannot be employed to win a 100-yard dash, nor can leaning on a system of legal statements ever bring us spiritual victory.
Paul emphasized the diminishing splendor of the Old Testament law by comparing it to the surpassing glory of life and liberty in the Spirit. Referring to Moses' shining face after he had been given the Ten Commandments, the apostle likened the fading brightness of his countenance to the temporary and incomplete nature of the Sinai disclosures he had received. The people of Israel would soon discover that God's message from the mount was also the standard by which they would be condemned.
Where the Holy Spirit reigns, however, there is abundant grace, and its splendor far exceeds that of the law. Imagine lighting a match in a completely dark place. The sudden burst of flame provides an impressive display of light. But if you struck a match in the presence of the noonday sun, its flickering rays would seem insignificant.
The commandments were demanding and ultimately they condemned; but life in the Spirit brings the experience of God's transforming power into our heart. —Mart De Haan
The diminishing splendor of the law is no match for the glory of God's grace.
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