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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - December 19
Look for an Evergreen Day Every year one thing remains the same around the holidays, people everywhere have to decide at what point before the big day theyre going to go out and hunt down a Christmas tree· Look for an Evergreen Day is about the last opportunity you have if you havent already gotten yours to ensure you have a tree for the Holidays· Even if youve already got your tree for this year, this is a great opportunity to go out and familiarize yourself with the other types of Evergreens in your neighborhood, and discover that these regal giants are around you all year round. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/look-for-an-evergreen-day/National Hard Candy Day Most hard candies are 100% sugar with flavoring and colors added. To achieve a hard candy, confectioners boil a sugar syrup to 320 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the temperature is reached, the hot pliable sugar is poured into molds or rolled and folded into shapes and left to cool. Once cool, the solid sugar becomes hardened and brittle. http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/latest-posts/
National Oatmeal Muffin Day Known for its healthful benefits, millions of people start each day with an Oatmeal Muffin.
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Daily Holidays - December 19 (Original Post)
Sherman A1
Dec 2015
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bigwillq
(72,790 posts)1. I love hard candy!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. I always keep my card handy
I don't leave home without it!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)3. Bwah
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)4. Remembering Edith Piaf on her 100th birthday:
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/edith-piaf.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/dec/18/edith-piaf-at-100-the-singer-who-defined-parisian-courage
While celebrations for Piafs centenary have been low key this December, France and the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris in particular honoured her memory following the 50th anniversary of her death in October 2013. If Piaf is a little out of fashion with todays jeunesse dorée then you suspect that could all change at any moment with, say, a high-profile cover version or a new motion picture. To paraphrase an old footballing cliche, fashion is temporary, class is permanent. Her brand of torch songs and cabaret showtunes might seem antediluvian to some, but a voice with such power to convey emotion never dates. Whats more, she led a life so bohemian and wild that she makes the Jim Morrison buried, like her, on Père Lachaise cemetery look like a calculable conformist who got a bit carried away on his gap year. Avert your ears and Piafs life was a punk opera decades before the genre exploded.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/dec/18/edith-piaf-at-100-the-singer-who-defined-parisian-courage
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)5. Last day to look for a tree, forsooth.
In my family, the "tradition" was to go out on Christmas Eve and get the cheapest, scrawniest, marked-down piece of kindling we could find. Largely because my father was a procrastinator of the first water. But also because they were always about 1/10 the price. I still get amazed at people who put theirs up right after Thanksgiving.
-- Mal