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From old black and white classics to newer favorites, you’ll have these holiday classics on repeat this Christmas season.
Read moreDENTAL MAGAZINE - For lots of folks, one of the best things about the holiday season is hearing familiar, cheerful songs playing everywhere you go. Among those Christmas favorites is a tune that puts a different spin on a kid’s wish list. Everybody knows “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” which was first recorded by popular bandleader Spike Jones in 1948. It became a top-ten hit that year and was later performed by everyone from Nat King Cole to the Chipmunks, George Strait, and Elmo from Sesame Street (with some help from Michael Bublé). But not everyone knows the story behind the music.
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LEARN RELIGIONS – In the Gospel of Matthew, the Bible describes a mysterious star appearing over the place where Jesus Christ came to Earth in Bethlehem on the first Christmas, and leading wise men (known as the Magi) to find Jesus so they could visit him. People have debated what the Star of Bethlehem really was over the many years since the Bible’s report was written. Some say it was a fable; others say it was a miracle. Still others get it confused with the North Star. Here’s the story of what the Bible says happened and what many astronomers now believe about this famous celestial event:
Read moreBack in 1903, in Bulletin No. 129, the U. S. Department of Agriculture had this to say about cooking a sweet potato: “The delicate flavor of a sweet potato is lost if it is not cooked properly. Steaming develops and preserves the flavor better than boiling, and baking better than steaming. A sweet potato cooked quickly is not well cooked. Time is an essential element. Twenty minutes may serve to bake a sweet potato so that a hungry man can eat it, but if the flavor is an object, it should be kept in the oven for an hour.”
Read moreI hope each of you is looking forward to the upcoming Christmas break and will have time to spend with loved ones.
Read moreEvergreen trees (and other evergreen plants) have traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (pre-Christian/pagan and Christian) for thousands of years.
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Many years ago, near the height of the Cold War, Col. Harry W. Shoup, the new chief of the combat operations center of the Continental Air Defense Command, or Conad, unwittingly started a Christmas tradition that continues to this day.
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