KALODERMA Christmas poster by JUPP WIERTZ , C.1926.
Christmas Dinner - JC Leyendecker, 1905 on Flickr.
PURITANS CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS?
“OUR LORD DOES NOT NEED YOU TO THROW HIM A BIRTHDAY PARTYYYY!!!!”
-Actual Oliver Cromwell Quotation. ;D
http://virginiaplantation.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/christmas-during-colonial-america/
President & Tad Lincoln’s Christmas of 1863
During the Christmas season of 1863, the Lincolns’ son, Tad, had accompanied his father on hospital visits and noticed the loneliness of the wounded soldiers. Deeply moved, he asked his father if he could send books and clothing to these men. Packages signed “From Tad Lincoln” were sent to area hospitals that Christmas.
Lincoln voted in favor of keeping Christmas day a workday, because he felt he would be wasting taxpayers’ money if he took the day off. It was not until 1870, when then President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the bill that made Christmas Day a national holiday, that the day was actually considered anything special.
What a sweet little boy <3
Christmas Submission Time!
New Year Week (Themed Submission):
Original Holidays Steampunk Costume
Model: Thea Theodosia
Accessories: Otherworlds
Photographer & Submitter: Bill Hinsee
Another Christmas postcard from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (anti-communist forces of Ukrainian Nationalists).
40s of the 20th century.
Christmas greetings from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (anti-communist forces of Ukrainian Nationalists).
40s of the 20th century.
Saint Augustine, Sermon 192:
“Today, ‘Truth has sprung from the earth’; Christ has been born from the flesh. Celebrate the feast with rejoicing; and let this day also remind you to think about the everlasting day, and to long with unshakeable hope for eternal gifts. Having received the power to be so, have the nerve to be children of God. For your sakes the bringer about of all times was himself brought into time; for your sakes the founder of the world appeared in the flesh; for your sakes the Creator was created. Why let yourselves, while still mortal, be amused and distracted by mortal things; why put so much effort in holding on to this fleeting life, as if it were possible in any case? A far, far more brilliant hope has lit up the earth: the promise of earthlings of life in heaven. To help up believe in this hope, something much more unbelievable has been paid for us in advance; in order to make gods of those who were merely human, one who was God made himself human; without forfeiting what he was, he wished to become what he himself made. He himself made what he would become, because what he did was add man to God, not lose God in man.”
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Unknown Russian, Lenin with children at Christmas, mid-20th century
[Insert joke here]
Something for the Bolsheviks in Tumblrland (looking at you, Comrade Feastingonroadkill)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4d67caFA1qbsiuuo1_r2_500.jpg)
Unknown Russian, Lenin with children at Christmas, mid-20th century
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Something for the Bolsheviks in Tumblrland (looking at you, Comrade Feastingonroadkill)
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Puck magazine cover, 12 Dec 1900.
