The "Elvis" and the Shoe Maker
A very funny version of the Grimm´s Brothers tale
The Elves and the Shoe Maker
Canadian Insects
With a wing span of up to 114 mm, this nocturnal insect is found in deciduous hardwood forests from Canada to Northern Mexico.
In Canada it is found from the Maritime provinces West to Saskatchewan.
It is one of North America´s largest moths! Watch its life cycle!
Dick Whittington´s Cat
Richard Whittington was a medieval english merchant, a member of the Parliament, four times Lord Major of London and sheriff of England´s capital city.
Twelfth Night Kings Cake
"Roscon de Reyes" is a dessert, served the night or morning of Epiphany - January 6th-, when children in Spain receive gifts from the Wise Men or Magi, who brought baby Jesus gifts.
It is traditional to put surprises inside the "roscon": a porcelain figure of a baby and a dry bean are hidden in the dough. Whoever finds the baby will have good luck and be the king of the party, but if you find the bean, you pay for the cake!
CoaL CandY Recipe For Kids
Coal candy or Candy coal is a type of candy in the USA, Canada, Spain and Italy associated with Christmas and the tradition of giving lumps of coal in place of presents in the Christmas stockings of naughty children. In Japan it´s called "kaitaname".
Ingredients:
1 package double Oreos, a package of cream cheese and powdered Sugar.
Steps:
1. Put the Oreos into the blender or food processer to grind finely into crumbs. 2. Pour Oreo crumbs into a bowl and mix in the whole pack of cream cheese; you can use your hands to mix them.
3. Once ingredients are combined, roll into balls, place on a baking sheet and put them in the fridge for about 15 minutes
4. Remove from fridge, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and ENJOY! :)
The Christmas Star & The 3 Magi
"The Appearance of the Star" by Giovanni Da Modena (1412)
The german astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed in 1604 that The Christmas Star followed by the 
Joe Raymond / AP
Grant Mathews, a Notre Dame astrophysicist, points at a computer generated demonstration of the night sky around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ: an unusual alignment of the sun, Jupiter, the Moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in adjacent constellations.
Mathews believes The Three Magi were Zoroastrian astrologers who would have recognized the planetary alignment as a sign a powerful leader was born.
The SteadFast Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen
Walt Disney used the Piano Concerto Nº 2 by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Christmas Tree Light Up: Rockefeller Center, Manhattan - New York City (USA)
This aproximately 75 year old Norway spruce tree, measuring 76 foot and weighting 12 tons, made the 70-mile trip to N.Y city on a tractor-trailer from Conneticut last month.
It is decorated with 45,000 multi-colored LED lights and a 9 ½-foot-wide Swarovski star on its top.
The lighting up is part of a tradition started in 1933.
Trafalgar Square (London): Christmas Tree
This Christmas tree is usually over 20 metres tall and it´s typically a 50-60 years old Norway spruce, sent to Great Britain by ship.
It is a present to the people of Britain by the city of Oslo (Norway) since 1947, as sign of gratitude for the british support during the Second World War.
Arabian Night: The NutCracker by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Walt Disney used this music in his FANTASIA film
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