Who can tell me what an Advent calendar is?
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The origin of the Advent Calendar can be traced back to the 19th. Century. The first styles came from the protestant area. So religious families made a chalk line for every day in December until Christmas Eve.\nThe first known Advent Calendar which was made by handwork is from the year 1851.\n\nOther early styles were the Adventclock or the Adventcandle - a candle for each of the 24 days until Christmas, like todays Advent wreath. So in religious families little pictures were hang up on the wall - one for each day in December. An other tradition was to paint chalk strokes on the door, one per day until Christmas Eve.\n\nIn 1902 a Christian Bookshop in Hamburg published a Christmas Clock which was very similar to that published 1922 by the St. Johannis printing company. (Dominik Wunderlin, lic.phil. Swizzerland). The Austrian (NÖ) Landesmuseum is giving the year 1903 as the year of the first printed Advent Calendar. In 1904 an Advent Calendar was inserted in the newspaper "Neues Tagblatt Stuttgart" as a gift for their readers.\n\nIn contrast to the above Esther Gajek says that the first printed speciem was made in 1908 by a Swabian parishioner, Gerhard Lang (born 1881 in Maulbronn, Germany -died in 1974).\n\nWhen he was a child his mother made him an Advent Calendar with 24 "Wibbele" (little candies) which were sticked on a cardboard.\n \n   \n  Later Lang was a participator of the printing office Reichhold & Lang. He produced little colored pictures which could be affixed on a cardboard at every day in December. \n \nThis was the first printed Advent Calendar, although without windows to open, published in 1908. This Calendar was named "Christmas-Calendar" or "Munich Christmas-Calendar". At the beginning of the 20th Lang produced the first Advent Calendars with little doors to open.\nAt this time as well the Sankt Johannis Printing Company started producing religious Advent Calendars, with Bible Verses instead of pictures behind the doors.\n\nThe Advent Calendar started a triumphal way around the globe. But Lang had to close his company in the thirties. Until that time he had produced about 30 different designs.\n\nThe World War II terminated the success of this German tradition. The cardboard was rationed and it was forbidden to produce Calendars with pictures. The first printed speciem after the war were printed by Richard Sellmer in 1946.\n\nWe know that Advent Calendars filled with Chocolate was already available in 1958.
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is it Christmas already?
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http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/calendar.php?event_id=675\n\nhttp://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2006/02.aspx\n\nchk out these links and \n\nalwaya query on google befour placeing any question on it
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One on my wall. It's an Ireland calendar. I usually get the Edward Gorey ones but they ran out last year. It's in my kitchen.
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Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure that no one knows exactly when he was born, so Dec. 25 was adopted to celebrate his coming. So theres really no need to change it. For myself, I don't think the date is as important as his purpose. On the other hand, Gods timing is perfect, so I'm not going to question it or say that it's not important at all. Also Christians chose this day to counter and influence The Pegan "winter solstice". Some pegans adapted christianity, and Christians adapted the Christmas Tree. "Just one Christians point of view".
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http://www.printfree.com/Calendars.htm\nMake your own at this site.
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This is the season for church bazaars.  So I would recommend going to a church and picking up a bulletin (usually found on a table in the front entrance of a church).  Which usually lists any upcoming functions for that church and any local ones.\n\nYou can also try calling the offices.  And asking your neighbors.
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here :-)\n\nhttp://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/custommenu.html
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the ? is why by christmas
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04294b.htm\nNew Advent is a Catholic Encyclopedia.
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http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/custommenu.html?country=9&typ=0&year=2006&display=0&cols=3&space=0&hcl=&fdow=0&wno=&dhm=25&hol=&holmark=0\n\nhttp://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/
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December 30th\n\nThis means the third day before (ante diem) the Kalends (1st) of January.  The Romans counted the day itself when calculating dates, so the first of January is day one, December 31st is day two, and December 30th is day three.
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Boxing Day.  \n\nAccording to a good Canadian site: \n\nThe day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. \n\nNowadays, we often see, in certain families, gifts (boxes) given to those who provide services throughout the year.
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Okay - in order (although why all 12 I don't understand :))\nAdvent - this is the 4 weeks before christmas and is usually observed by lighting a candle each day within an 'advent wreath' which is a round candle holder with 5 candles, 3 purple, 1 pink and 1 white (the white goes in the center and is lit on Christmas Eve).  The candles are lit one at a time on the four Sundays of Advent and the same one, two, three or four candles are lit each evening, usually before dinner.  This is a Roman Catholic tradition that you can look up on line for more info.\n\nBoxing Day - this is an English holiday that started in Victorian times.  It was the day that the servants got their presents from their employers, usually in the boxes that the family had used for their own gifts the day before (hence the name).  it is a bank/governmental holiday there and is a day when unwanted gifts are given to the needy.  I don't know anything more about this holiday.  To celebrate it if you are not in Britian, i suggest you refrain from going to any stores to exchange gifts and, instead, do something nice for someone who has less than you.\n\nChristmas...whatever you normally do to celebrate this holiday, whether it be with a tree and gifts and decorations, a nice meal, etc.\n\nFeast of our Lady of Guadalupe - this is a Mexican religious holiday.  have a mexican meal and say a prayer for peace to "our lady of the americas".  Again, a roman catholic tradition, feast day.  the same is true of the feast of the Immaculate conception.  This is simply a holy day of obligation and has no festivities associated with it.  If you are catholic, you should attend mass on this day.  it is a recognition in the belief of the sinlessness of mary the mother of jesus.\n\nFestivus - not familar at all with this holiday\n\nGuess I am out of room for the others...
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Buy a hallmark calendar.  If it isn't on there, no.
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I couldn’t tell you off hand. Let me go look at the calendar...hold on.....Feb. the 28th.
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UMMM AWESOME QUESTION! I TEND TO PONDER ABOUT THIS AS WELL.  The decoration gods have just notified me about the times and dates of the decor of Christmas.  They are as follows:\n\nDec.1 at 12:01 am. and they have informed me that you have to cut down your own tree, and decorate it on DEC. 9 at 4:30 in the afternoon.  If you should have any questions about the decoration gods and times of decoration please feel free to call this 1800 number...1800-337-7378