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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they became gifts and symbols of good ...
John of Salisbury (late 1110s – 25 October 1180), who described himself as Johannes Parvus ("John the Little"), [1] was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres.
Think diamond rings, nostalgia throwback gifts (like a Tamagotchi, perhaps), a new designer wallet, miniature card games. The only limit a small gift knows is its size, and that isn't stopping it ...
For bad little children. Which goes back to the idea, common in Europe, that the Christmas gift giver — whether Papa Noel, Sinterklaas, or Weihnachtsmann — dispensed punishments as well as prizes.
The Gift has been very influential in anthropology, [3] where there is a large field of study devoted to reciprocity and exchange. [4] It has also influenced philosophers, artists, and political activists, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and more recently the work of David Graeber and the theologians John Milbank and Jean-Luc Marion.
One of our favorite new gifts for 2024 is a subscription to Storyworth.This services sends an email prompt to your recipient every week for 52 weeks, then collects their responses into a bound ...
In comparing the techniques of African healers and Western techniques, T. Adeoze Lambo, a Nigerian psychiatrist, stated in 1979, "At about three years ago, we made an evaluation, a programme of their work, and compared this with our own, and we discovered that actually they were scoring almost sixty percent success in their treatment of ...