[Pdr] The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm (and a very special Xmas digest!)

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THE FORGOTTEN TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM

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**To mark the 200th year since the Brothers Grimm first published 
their/Kinder-und Hausmärchen/, Jack Zipes explores the importance of 
this neglected first edition and what it tells us about the motives and 
passions of the two folklorist brothers.* *
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/20/the-forgotten-tales-of-the-brothers-grimm/>

*Christmas Festive Bonanza Digest*

To celebrate the festive season we have put together, just for you our 
beloved readers, a little Christmas digest including all our festive 
content from this year and last. Enjoy!
(You can also see it on the website here 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/22/christmas-festive-bonanza-digest/>)

    DIARY DAYS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST

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With December 25th fast approaching we have put together a little 
collection of entries for Christmas Day from an eclectic mix of 
different diaries spanning five centuries, from 1599 to 1918. Amid famed 
diarists such as the wife-beating Samuel Pepys, the distinctly 
non-festive John Adams, and the rhapsodic Thoreau, there are a 
sprinkling of daily jottings from relative unknowns – many speaking 
apart from loved ones, at war, sea or in foreign climes.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/18/diary-days-from-christmas-past/>

    A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF SANTA CLAUS

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Contrary to what many believe, Santa Claus as we know him today – sleigh 
riding, gift-giving, rotund and white bearded with his distinctive red 
suit trimmed with white fur – was not the creation of the Coca Cola 
Company. We’ve put together a little pictorial guide showing his 
evolvement through the ages.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/13/a-pictorial-history-of-santa-claus/>

    SCROOGE, OR, MARLEY’S GHOST (1901)

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Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost, directed by Walter R. Booth, is the oldest 
known film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel A Christmas Carol – 
featuring the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge confronted by Marley’s ghost and 
given by visions of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/10/scrooge-or-marleys-ghost-1901/>

    THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1905)

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1905 version by the Edison studios of the poem first published 
anonymously in 1823 and generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, 
although the claim has also been made that it was written by Henry 
Livingston, Jr. Musical accompaniment added later, made up mostly of old 
cylinder recordings from the same studio and period.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/12/24/the-night-before-christmas-1905/>

    SANTA CLAUSE CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964)

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction film that 
regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly 
featured in the “bottom 100″ list on the Internet Movie Database, and 
was featured in an episode of the 1986 syndicated series, the Canned 
Film Festival.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/18/santa-clause-conquers-the-martians-1964/>

    YULETIDE ENTERTAINMENTS (1910)

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Yuletide Entertainments: Christmas recitations, monologues, drills, 
tableaux, motion songs, exercises, dialogues and plays, suitable for all 
ages, by Ellen M. Willard; 1910; T. S. Denison & company, Chicago. 
Christmas recitations, monologues, drills, tableaux, motion songs, 
exercises, dialogues and plays, suitable for all ages.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/12/22/yuletide-entertainments/>

    SANTA CLAUS PROVES THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS (1925)

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Santa Claus Proves There is a Santa Claus (with song “Christmas Comes 
But Once a Year”) by Ernest Hare (1925). Hare’s recording career began 
when he became Al Jolson’s understudy in the Broadway musical Sinbad 
during 1919-20. After he met Billy Jones in 1919, they went on to do 
numerous recordings together for Brunswick, Edison and most other major 
U.S. record companies of the era.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/12/23/santa-claus-proves-there-is-a-santa-claus-1925/>

    A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1900)

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A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he 
convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In 
the short text he meditates on the questions of death, morality and 
man’s main task in life which he concludes is “To be honest, to be kind 
— to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a 
family happier for his presence.”
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/21/a-christmas-sermon-by-robert-louis-stevenson-1900/>

    YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS (1897)

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When Dr. Philip O’Hanlon was asked a question by his then eight-year-old 
daughter, Virginia, whether Santa Claus really existed, he suggested she 
write to The Sun newspaper. The response to Virginia’s letter by one of 
the paper’s editors, Francis Pharcellus Church, remains the most 
reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the English language.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/21/yes-virginia-there-is-a-santa-claus-1897/>

    ILLUSTRATIONS OF SNOWFLAKES (1863)

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The illustrative plates from Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of 
Nature (1863), a collection of poems, extracts, anecdotes and 
reflections on the theme of snow and the snowflake. According to the 
preface of the book, apart from the first few geometrical figures at the 
top of the first plate, which show the primary geo- metrical forms under 
which the snow-vapor crystalizes, all the other forms shown are 
“representations of individual crystals, actually observed and sketched 
with the aid of the microscope”.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/04/illustrations-of-snowflakes-1863/>

    THE SNOWFLAKE MAN OF VERMONT

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Weather scientist Keith C. Heidorn takes a look at the life and work of 
Wilson Bentley, a self-educated farmer from a small American town who, 
by combining a bellows camera with a microscope, managed to photograph 
the dizzyingly intricate and diverse structures of the snow crystal.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/02/14/the-snowflake-man-of-vermont/>

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