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  2. Icelandic Christmas book flood - Wikipedia

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    The Christmas book flood or Yule book flood ( Icelandic: Jólabókaflóðið) is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas. [1] These books are then purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift in the country. [2]

  3. International Children's Book Day - Wikipedia

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    International Children's Book Day ( ICBD) is a yearly event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), an international non-profit organization. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on or around Hans Christian Andersen 's birthday, April 2. Activities include writing competitions, announcements of book awards and ...

  4. National Read a Book Day, a day to pick up a good book - AOL

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    The campaign brings free scholastic book fairs to Title 1 schools, school where most kids are on free or reduced lunch programs. The goal: Give each child 10 free books to build up their at home ...

  5. List of winners of the National Book Award - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.

  6. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street - Wikipedia

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    And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street is Theodor Seuss Geisel's first children's book published under the name Dr. Seuss.First published by Vanguard Press in 1937, the story follows a boy named Marco, who describes a parade of imaginary people and vehicles traveling along a road, Mulberry Street, in an elaborate fantasy story he dreams up to tell his father at the end of his walk.

  7. Christmas in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Christmas in the American Civil War. The process of Christmas becoming a national holiday in the U.S. began when Representative Burton Chauncey Cook of Illinois introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress after the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). It passed in both houses of Congress, and President Ulysses S. Grant signed it on June 28, 1870.

  8. State funeral of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    The casket was borne again by caisson on the final leg to Arlington National Cemetery for burial. Moments after the casket was carried down the front steps of the cathedral, Jacqueline Kennedy whispered to her son, after which he saluted his father's coffin; the image, taken by photographer Stan Stearns, became an iconic representation of the 1960s.

  9. The Far Side - Wikipedia

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    The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).

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