The Black & White Christmasphere ornament features white land masses with silver latitude & longitude markings on a black ball. Each Christmasphere comes complete with an elegant gold cord & matching gold cap. The 8cm (3) Christmasphere is an ideal Christmas tree decoration for any home & any tree; exquisitely crafted, each sphere is hand silk-screened on the interior surface for long-lasting beauty. Spherical Concepts ...

The Clear Christmasphere ornament features exquisite silver land masses with red latitude & longitude markings on a clear, see through ball. Each Christmasphere comes complete with an elegant gold cord & matching gold cap. The 8cm (3) Christmasphere is an ideal Christmas tree decoration for any home & any tree; exquisitely crafted, each sphere is hand silk-screened on the interior surface for long-lasting beauty. Spherical Concepts ...

The Crystal Christmasphere has translucent white land masses & longitude & latitude markings, silk screened to look like hand etching. Each Christmasphere comes complete with an elegant gold cord & matching gold cap. The 8cm (3) Christmasphere is an ideal Christmas tree decoration for any home & any tree; exquisitely crafted, each sphere is hand silk-screened on the interior surface for long-lasting beauty. Spherical Concepts ...

The Gold Christmasphere ornament features exquisite metallic-gold land masses with silver latitude & longitude markings, on a clear, see through ball. Each Christmasphere comes complete with an elegant gold cord & matching gold cap. The 8cm (3) Christmasphere is an ideal Christmas tree decoration for any home & any tree; exquisitely crafted, each sphere is hand silk-screened on the interior surface for long-lasting beauty. Spherical Concepts ...

` Just you think, ` wrote one soldier to his family, `that while you were eating your turkey I was out talking with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!` Christmas, 1914. The first winter of the First World War. In a conflict infamous for its horror & brutality, enemy shook hands with enemy. Soldiers shared rations, exchanged souvenirs, & even played football on a frost-covered No Man`s L&. This Christmas truce was not just a brief interlude in one place. The ceasefire between the trenches extended over at least two-thirds of the British line & there were similar ceasefires in the French & Belgian sectors of the Western Front. In some areas the peaceable mood lingered well into 1915. But behind the festive cheer & acceptance of shared experience, the inevitable renewal of hostilities loomed large. Malcolm Brown & Shirley Seaton have combed war diaries, talked to participants & consulted a wide range of contemporary letters, diaries & newspapers to produce this unique account. ...

A satisfyingly challenging puzzle adventure for young children with a picture puzzle to solve on every double page. Designed to help develop essential skills including visual discrimination, sorting & matching, this book also tests readers` comprehension, maths & logic skills. Stickers add a further interactive element. ...

Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating & drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phenomenon, or has the emphasis always been on spending? Just who is, or was, Santa Claus? & for how long have we been exchanging presents of underwear & socks? Food, drink & nostalgia for Christmases past seem to be almost as old as the holiday itself, far more central to the story of Christmas than religious worship. Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, in the fourth century, the Archbishop of Constantinople was already warning that too many people were spending the day not in worship, but dancing & eating to excess. By 1616, the playwright Ben Jonson was nostalgically recalling the Christmases of yesteryear, confident that they had been better then. In Christmas: A Biography, acclaimed social historian & best-selling author Judith Flanders casts a sharp & revealing eye on the myths, legends & history of the season, from the origins of the holiday in the Roman empire to the emergence of Christmas trees in central Europe, to what might just possibly be the first appearance of Santa Claus
- in Switzerland!
- to draw a picture of the season as it has never been seen before.

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Christmas has been all things to all people: a religious festival, a family celebration, a time of eating & drinking. Yet the origins of the customs which characterize the festive season are wreathed in myth. When did turkeys become the plat du jour? Is the commercialization of Christmas a recent phenomenon, or has the emphasis always been on spending? Just who is, or was, Santa Claus? & for how long have we been exchanging presents of underwear & socks? Food, drink & nostalgia for Christmases past seem to be almost as old as the holiday itself, far more central to the story of Christmas than religious worship. Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, in the fourth century, the Archbishop of Constantinople was already warning that too many people were spending the day not in worship, but dancing & eating to excess. By 1616, the playwright Ben Jonson was nostalgically recalling the Christmases of yesteryear, confident that they had been better then. In Christmas: A History, acclaimed social historian & bestselling author Judith Flanders casts a sharp & revealing eye on the myths, legends & history of the season, from the origins of the holiday in the Roman empire to the emergence of Christmas trees in central Europe, to what might just possibly be the first appearance of Santa Claus – in Switzerland! – to draw a picture of the season as it has never been seen before. ...

In this vivid & compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan`s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly & Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbour, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly`s & Jared`s lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, the couple`s adopted son, Mateo, grows to appreciate the opportunities for both self-realization & oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies & protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s & they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly & Jared & the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots & attempts by activists to galvanize a response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure & destructive power of hard drugs, & brings to life the ever-changing city itself. ...

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood
- determined to become a `permanent foreigner`
- packed a rucksack & two suitcases

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