But of all my wonderful memories, a single encounter with a monk offering to share an umbrella on a cold Christmas Eve remains the single most formative experience of my life.
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In the story, whose details vary among productions, young Marie Stahlbaum receives a nutcracker on Christmas Eve from her mysterious godfather with an eye patch, Herr Drosselmeier.
So the traditional outdoor Nativity scene unveiled on Christmas Eve next to a giant illuminated Christmas tree in St Peter's Square has been paid for not by the Holy See but by the taxpayers of one of Italy's poorest regions, Basilicata, in the heel of Italy.
This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, driving back to Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
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We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
Ghattas said that authorities remained hopeful the number of visitor bookings would recover so pilgrims could enjoy the city's planned events, which included a Christmas tree lighting ceremony on December 15, and a choral festival before midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.
This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, on their way back toward Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.
Conductors, who took industrial action on Saturday, are again on strike on Christmas Eve and plan a further stoppage on New Year's Eve.
Sewage was found spraying from a blocked pipe on Christmas Eve after the pumping station next to the site was unable to cope with the volumes of sewage.
Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.
It is capable of taking 200 transactions a second, which is similar to the amount a major bank handles on Christmas Eve.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
The chapel at King's College is the venue for the Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which is broadcast to millions around the world.
The wards reopened on Christmas Eve but now a new outbreak has led to a visiting ban being imposed on wards 21, 34, 35, and 37 until at least Monday.
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Police said they prevented the bombing in a train station in Madrid last Christmas Eve, arresting the alleged plotters and seizing those who were planning to carry out the attack hours before it was to have taken place, Acebes said.
On Christmas Eve Kent Police reported a body had been found in the sea off the Dover coast.
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Because when I was little, I used to have a hard time going to sleep on Christmas Eve, too.
Needless to say, on this Christmas Eve it was less a case of "Jingle Bells" than it was of "Blow the Hooter!"
On the 24th, Christmas Eve, we have a big celebration welcoming the parade of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, our twin city, entering from this road.
On Christmas Eve it emerged that a postman has been sacked as a result of the discovery in woodland in the Llanedeyrn area of the capital.
"If this drags on to Christmas Eve, there is a real possibility it could have negative consequences for the rest of the season, " said NRF President Matt Shay.
The London pop-up, located in a carpark on the South Bank of the Thames, is open until Christmas Eve (24 December), and the new show, Forever Crazy, includes a selection of the best acts from the original cabaret.
The legend goes it was sung by the angels on Christmas Eve and written down by a monk.
The Christmas Eve 1806 protest led to a riot in which dozens were injured and a policeman was killed.
In a sardonic reshuffling of classic sentimental tropes, the story ominously turns on the difficulty of getting a goose-liver dinner in Munich on Christmas Eve.
Of course there's an exception to the winter discounts: unless you're extremely flexible, it's usually hard to find a deal between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
On the eve of Christmas 2007, quite a few obituaries for incandescent light bulbs were penned.
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