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Christmas controversies. A 1931 edition of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik, published by the League of Militant Atheists, depicting an Orthodox Christian priest being forbidden to take home a tree for the celebration of Christmastide, which was banned under the Marxist–Leninist doctrine of state atheism [1] Christmas is the celebration of the ...
See media help. " I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In) " is an English Christmas carol, listed as number 700 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William Sandys in 1833. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The song was probably traditionally known as "As ...
The World Turned Upside Down. 1646 publication of the ballad with a woodcut frontispiece. " The World Turned Upside Down " is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. [1]
in the Milky Way. visibility for 18 months. SN 1604, also known as Kepler's Supernova, Kepler's Nova or Kepler's Star, was a Type Ia supernova [1][2] that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus. Appearing in 1604, it is the most recent supernova in the Milky Way galaxy to have been unquestionably observed by the naked eye, [3 ...
Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh Detail of an elaborate Neapolitan presepio in Rome. In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche (/ k r ɛ ʃ / or / k r eɪ ʃ /), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the birth ...
The " Huron Carol " (or " Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. [1] Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title ...
John Donne (/ dʌn / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [ a ] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [ 2 ] Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). [ 1 ] He is considered the preeminent representative of ...
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban,[a]1st Lord Verulam, PC(/ˈbeɪkən/;[5]22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney Generaland Lord Chancellor of Englandunder King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and his works remained influential ...