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Happy Christmas Bokeh!
Demo Advent Calendar
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Painstakingly crafted by Finnish artist Antti Pedrozo and Dutch artist Michel de Kok.
Photo by allerleirau
Cover of Wham!’s Christmas classic by Jimmy Eat World.
The Big Picture has twenty-five remarkable space photographs lined up for us for Advent. There’s more than one star in the East!
NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed entertainment program produced under the auspices of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Every year on Christmas Eve, “NORAD Tracks Santa” purports to follow Santa Claus as he leaves the North Pole and delivers presents to children around the world.
The service began on December 24, 1955. A Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper. The advertisement told children that they could telephone Santa Claus and included a number for them to call. However, the telephone number printed was incorrect and calls instead came through to Colorado Spring’s Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center. Colonel Shoup, who was on duty that night, told his staff to give all children that called in a “current location” for Santa Claus. A tradition began which continued when the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) replaced CONAD in 1958.
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
A collection of stunning macro photographs of snowflakes.
Stellar Plates or ‘common snowflakes’ are thin, plate-like crystals with six broad arms that form a star-like shape, forming when the temperature is near -2 C (28 F) or near -15 C (5 F).
Christmas tunes performed live on iOS devices.
Performed by the cast of Scrubs
A Siberian tiger in its enclosure is photographed through a frozen window at the zoo in Eberswalde, Germany.
Some really nice letterpress Christmas cards from Hello Lucky
Wow. It’s like they’ve been shaped with a precision cutting tool.
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
by Chris_J
Merry Christmas from the team at Torchbox.
Are you like me and think Christmas is starting earlier and earlier every year? For example, all those decorations up on 5th Avenue – those are for next year.