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The first Christmas draw was held on 18 December 1812 in Cádiz and the grand prize was for the number 03604. The first time that the name Sorteo de Navidad was used was in 1892. As measured by the total prize payout, the Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery draw worldwide.
Woodside is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of Queens in New York City.It is bordered on the south by Maspeth, on the north by Astoria, on the west by Sunnyside, and on the east by Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and East Elmhurst.
Customs and practices include the maintenance of acequias, [209] Pueblo and Territorial Style churches, [209] ceremonial dances such as the matachines, [210] [211] religious artistic expression of kachinas and santos, [212] religious holidays celebrating saints such as Pueblo Feast Days, [213] Christmas traditions of bizcochitos and farolitos ...
Due to this heritage Michigan was on the forefront of the antislavery crusade and reforms during the 1840s and 1850s. Another result of this cultural influence was the strength of the Republican Party in Michigan. Long considered a "Yankee" party, Michigan would remain heavily Republican from the Civil War until the 1960s.
A Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter lifting Christmas trees using a belly hook, a long line, and a remote hook at a Christmas tree farm in Oregon.. While the first Christmas tree farm may have appeared as early as 1901, Christmas tree production in the United States was largely limited to what could be harvested from natural forests until the 1950s.
Block Island Wind Farm was the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States, [5] located 3.8 mi (6.1 km) from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The five-turbine, 30 MW project was developed by Deepwater Wind, now known as Ørsted US Offshore Wind.
Christmas is an unincorporated community in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. [2] Christmas is located within Au Train Township in Alger County , and is located about 2.2 miles (3.5 km) northwest of the city of Munising .
Plantation economies are factory-like, industrialised and centralised forms of agriculture, [citation needed] owned by large corporations or affluent owners. Under normal circumstances, plantation economies are not as efficient as small farm holdings, since there is immense difficulty in proper supervision of labour over a large land area.