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Nativity scenes are very popular additions to any household in the advent season. They depict the birth of Jesus. Christian nativity scenes normally show Jesus in a manger, Joseph and Mary in a barn, stable, or shed. A mule and an ox usually accompany them. The scene also includes the three wise men, shepherds, angels and the Star of Bethlehem. The traditional scenes that show the shepherds and three wise men together are not true to the story as told in the bible. In the bible the three wise men arrived after the birth of Jesus.

Nativity scenes are displayed in homes, churches and village greens throughout the advent season. Large nativity scenes with live animals and people are created for advent nativity celebrations. Nativity scenes are called creche’s in European countries.

St. Francis of Assisi is credited with making the nativity tradition popular. In a Christmas Eve service in 1223, he staged a simple reenactment of Jesus’ birth, focusing on the manger. He made the nativity come alive. The idea caught on and manger scenes became more elaborate and took on more cultural characteristics from Italy to France, Germany and Spain. Today, almost every culture in the world has their unique representation of the nativity scene.

A typical French Noel crèche consists of figures called Santons. These figures originally made of wood, wax or clay come in their work clothes to visit the Holy Family. They bring the Christ Child presents they have made or grown, hunted or sold. They perform or offer simple gestures of thoughtfulness. They were a way of bringing religion home after the French Revolution. Churches were being sacked and closed. Christmas midnight mass and outdoor nativity scenes were banned. This forced people to set up crèches in their own homes. The displays became more elaborate over time with the whole Provencal village being recreated. Typical characters of day-to-day life: the fishmonger, baker, flower peddler, vegetable merchant, the mayor, priest, nun, midwife with her cradle, the fisherman with his nets and the shepherd with his cape and walking cane are depicted. The scenery is often developed to include trees, rivers, hills, the entire whole village scene with the focal point being the nativity crèche.

Advent festivities in Italy include bagpipers or zampognari who play old hill tunes in anticipation of the coming of Jesus. These bagpipers are popular in Italian nativity scenes. The Italians traditionally view the many elaborate manger scenes on Christmas Eve. Artisans create detailed landscapes around the manger scenes: small trees, lakes, rivers, grottoes, hanging angels and local heroes. The most elaborate and beautiful nativity scenes are set up in Churches.

Nativity scenes are common in Christian homes today, often displayed on mantles or underneath the Christmas tree. Advent wreaths, advent calendars and Christmas wreaths are also popular for advent celebrations.

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Following hot on the heels of the fantastic Black Friday deal which saw Totally Wicked customers able to grab 25% off electronic cigarettes and e-smoking accessories, Cyber Monday will see another day of online bargains!

Cyber Monday arrives just about half way through Totally Wicked E-Liquid’s unique 12 days of Christmas advent calendar promotion. So far, e-smokers have been able to help themselves to discounted E-NIC (electronic nicotine imitation cigarette) kits, E-Cigars, E-Liquids and other related goodies.

Mr Wicked reminds us, “Along with our Cyber Monday deal, customers are still able to order any of the previous offers included in the 12 days of Christmas promotion, right up to and including our twelfth night on December 6th 2010. If you missed one of our earlier offers, simply check out the advent calendar on the websites (both UK and US) homepages to select your favourites!”

Mr Wicked was also keen to point out that there are still plenty more treats and surprises to come between now and December 6th.

The Totally Wicked Christmas party has generated plenty of buzz within e-smoking communities and around the web and it’s set to increase still further when the Cyber Monday offer is unveiled this November 29th.

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Progressive Presents: Anti-Bush Sentiments Find their Way into Funny Christmas Gifts

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The Christmas buzz is beginning to sound in the ears of shoppers everywhere. Combine that with the buzz of disappointment over the last presidential election and you have the essence of the two new products just released by Blue Funk Productions—The Official Countdown Calendar for a Bruised and Battered Body Politic and The Unofficial White House Advent Calendar. These tongue-in-cheek holiday gifts are sure to raise a chuckle from people of all political persuasions, including neo-cons with a shred of a sense of humor. And the socially conscious gift giver will also be pleased to know that Blue Funk donates 10% of net profits to charity.

Blue Funk Productions is a small group of citizens that banded together in protest after the 2004 election—thus the name Blue Funk to highlight their disappointment in the color-coded map of the post-election U.S. They hope to entertain, educate and activate all who are outraged at the current state of affairs, while bolstering our alarmed electorate through the remaining dark days of the Bush League. One of the founders, Averel Wilson, offers this helpful advice: “We’ve got your holiday shopping covered for your Progressive friends and relatives. Coal should work for anyone else.” Their politically humorous gifts can be ordered online at BlueFunkProductions.com.

The first in the clever line of funny Christmas gifts is the 2007 Official Countdown Calendar for a Bruised and Battered Body Politic. This unique calendar includes everything from trivia to classic quotes to make the long road to the next inauguration seem shorter. While new atrocities created by the Bush Administration appear daily, the lucky recipient of a Blue Funk Countdown Calendar will have something to distract and entertain the mind while it endures the last tortures of Bush’s final term.

In a twist on a traditional Holiday favorite, Blue Funk is introducing the only known Advent calendar of its kind: The Unofficial White House Advent Calendar. In lieu of the predictable chocolates, cherubs and candy canes, people will delight in the cast of characters and witty lines lurking behind these White House windows.

Blue Funk also encourages advocacy with their funny Christmas gifts by donating 10% of net profits to two deserving charities. Partner Louise Rush highlights, “An important part of our goal is social entrepreneurship. We want the ten percent of our profits that we donate to amount to something meaningful.” One of these sponsored charities is Summer Search, which aids low-income, at-risk high school students. The Fistula Foundation is the second charity, which helps people in Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital located in Ethiopia. This year, Progressives can now give the gift of humor and hope with these satirical stocking stuffers from Blue Funk Productions. For more informati! on on t hese humorous gifts, please visit BlueFunkProductions.com.

About Blue Funk Productions:

Four friends formed Blue Funk Productions after they were “shocked and awed” by the results of the 2004 election. They began making satirical gifts to enlighten and entertain the politically engaged. BlueFunkProductions.com is a full service and secure online store. Visitors are encouraged to hop on the links page, where they can learn more about everything from the environment to advocacy to humor.

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April 17th, 2011

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UK2.net, a leading UK based web hosting company, are offering £5000 worth of prizes in what has to be one of the best competitions on the internet this Christmas. The 1st Prize Draw winner will receive over £4000 worth of prizes including a 3D TV, surround sound system, iPad, a desktop PC, laptop, Xbox 360, Kinect, a remote controlled helicopter and a UK2.net gift pack.

Contestants are encouraged to enter as many times as they like and can do so by visiting UK2’s Advent Calendar where they will need to click on the relevant day within December, answer the easy question and submit their e-mail address. There are a total of 24 questions which means there are 24 chances to enter.

Customers can also be entered into the draw if they purchase a 12 or 24 month contract on any of UK2’s product range. This entry is done automatically by UK2 and all e-mail addresses will then be entered into a pot where they will randomly pick a winner.

Craig McCartney, UK2’s Marketing Executive, said: “This is one of many promotions you will see from UK2 this festive season and we are pleased to be able to offer one of the coolest prizes currently on the internet this Christmas. We’ve ticked all the boxes, in terms of must-have gadgets for 2010 to create as much interest as possible and we would like to encourage everyone to enter as many times as possible to increase their chances of winning.”

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Make Someone a Star of Wonder This Christmas With a Personalised Calendar (christmas Gifts)

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Calendars have long been traditional Christmas gifts to hand over at the festive season as we wind down from one year and start making plans to celebrate the onset of the new one. The arrival of the Advent Calendar in the nineteenth century marked the beginning of a new tradition of counting down the days until Christmas. And is now perhaps the only time of year when parents will allow their children to ‘open the little windows’ and eat a chocolate before breakfast. But Advent calendars are only really fun for one month in the year, which is perhaps why we turn to those more ‘popular’ calendars for the rest of the time.

You only need to walk around the high street in the run up to Christmas. Which is roughly around July these days, to see which popstars and footballers are glamorously poised for the camera in the vain hope that we might buy them as Christmas gifts, take them home with us and worship them for the next twelve months. These commercial calendars cover almost every sport and celebrity going, even those loyal Cliff-’Mistletoe and Wine’-Richard fans will never be disappointed. And what’s wrong with that?

Well…it’s just not very Christmassy is it? Surely we can do better when Christmas gift shopping?

Perhaps you’ve often wondered what it might feel like to be observed in such a manner, or perhaps your partner has always dreamed of being famous enough for someone to want to buy a calendar of them? Well, making this happen is probably not quite as bizarre as you might think – Santa really does make dreams come true. It’s an original Christmas gift idea that combines the intimate with the professional to give you something much more unique, and something that can be treasured for a long time to come – a personalised calendar!

We’re not talking about twelve saucy photographs of your loved one draped over the bonnet of an expensive car, (though you could always make this a reality too if you invest in a Christmas gift Ferrari/Lamborghini Thrill experience day!), but by simply selecting from a variety of calendars such as the ‘For Her’, ‘Footballing Legends’ or even ‘Superdad’; and providing up to two full names, the calendar will be tailored to your requests with the names cleverly integrated into a series of colour images.

The pictures vary for each occasion or calendar and the creative images will put a smile on anyone’s face when they see their name in wonderful places; such as being partly the subject of a topiary masterpiece, or even spelled out in the stars. Depending on how honest you want to be, it will appear as though you have literally moved the stars in their honour to create a working calendar where every image can be saved as a keepsake. Christmas gifts don’t come much more any more original, or personal than that.

They make a great gift for any occasion but as Christmas approaches and we reflect on how lucky we are, then it makes sense to celebrate the people we love the most…plus it might earn you an extra roast potato on Christmas Day. As calendars are traditional Christmas Gifts, you can even place these personalised items safely under the tree without anyone guessing what they are – they come in a sturdy gift box which can be wrapped with the other presents, and pat yourself on the back for thinking of something that is not only original, but is a Christmas gift that should keep your loved ones happy for a whole year.

But don’t just stop at personalised calendar gifts, there’s an almost endless list of ways in which you can remind that certain someone just how special and unique they are. From personalised Champagne bottles, personalised mugs, engraved gifts to even the slightly more unusual (but equally brilliant) items such as personalised door mats or even a personalised apron – these intimate Christmas gifts are a great way of ensuring that you’re giving something truly unique.

Christmas is meant to be a time of giving and even if no one truly believes that you made the stars move or have a secret talent for topiary, then you can at least prove that you’re a real romantic at heart and make someone’s Christmas wish come true. If registering your loved one’s name with the Intergalactic Star Database isn’t a big enough gesture, then how about a personalised Hollywood Walk of Fame Star? Taking the term ‘star of wonder’ to its absolute max, these Christmas gifts are a sure way of giving someone a very Merry Christmas indeed.

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