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LIST
-Find the celebrity whose birthday is close to, but not during, Hannukah this year. (The closer, the better.)
Dec 26-Jan 2
Dec 26-Alan King (Comedian), 1927, Richard Widmark (Actor), 1914
Dec 27-John Amos, 1939 (Actor), Louis Pasteur, 1822 (Scientist)
Dec 28-Denzel Washington, 1954 (Actor), Woodrow Wilson (US 28th President), 1856
Dec 29-Mary Tyler Moore, 1936 (Actress), Andrew Johnson, 1808 (17th US President)
Dec 30-Rudyard Kipling, 1865 (Author, Nobel Prize winner),Davy Jones, 1945 (Musician - The Monkees)
Dec 31-Anthony Hopkins, 1937 (actor), Joey McIntyre, 1972 (singer)
Jan 1-Betsy Ross, 1752, J. D. Salinger, 1919
Jan 2-Sally Rand, 1903, Roger Miller, 1936
-Find an image of something big and red.
I almost took the Wrigley’s Gum Pic.( http://www.lafayettejeff.org/DECA_Website/Products/BIG red.jpg )
http://www.wku.edu/images/bigred.jpg
-Name 3 interesting uses for reindeer.
1.) Hat Rack
2.) Christmas light holder
3.) Backscratch
-Find a website dedicated to the Winter Solstice.
http://www.equinox-and-solstice.com/html/winter_solstice.html
-Who started Kwanzaa and when?
It was founded by Dr. (Ron Everett) Maulana Karenga in 1966. (December 26-Jan 1)

-Find a wacky image of Santa Claus.
http://www.countrysingles.com/images/santa-airplane.jpg
-Name 10 movies related to the holidays.
1.) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer
2.) Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
3.) A Christmas Carol
4.) How The Grinch Stole Christmas
5.) A Charlie Brown Christmas
6.) It’s a Wonderful Life
7.) Miracle on 34th Street
8.) The Year Without A Santa Clause
9.) Little Women (I shall change this to White Christmas)
10.) A Christmas Story
These are actually the top 10 from this site: http://fun.familyeducation.com/christmas/movie/29689.html?page=9

-What are two things done specifically during Ramadan?
1.) Fasting is one of THE major parts of Ramadan
2.) Eating, drinking, sexual intercourse and smoking are not allowed between dawn and sunset
3.) They are to try to read the entire Quaran
4.)At the end of the next New Moon, the have a Festival of Breaking the Fast which they also donate large quantities of food to the poor.

-Find an image of a yule log.
http://web54.sd54.k12.il.us/schools/naturecenter/images/Holiday_Yule_log.jpg
-What's the word for "candy" in Polish?
suikergoed (Dutch)
rzeczownik cukierek (Polish)
czasownik kandyzowaćc (Polish)
-Find a website related to chimneys.
http://www.csia.org/
-Find an image of some wacky Christmas decorations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t9P3-A7Atk
-Find the title of a Christmas carol in French.
"Les Anges dans nos campagnes" is a traditional French Christmas carol, which was long ago translated into English as "Angels We Have Heard On High.”