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The pre-Christmas period provides so many wonderful and strange occasions with itself that one almost does not follow any more with the reports. This is also the case with the National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day, which in the USA is always celebrated on the third Friday in December.
The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BCE. It shares many aspects with calendars employed by other earlier Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Zapotec and Olmec and contemporary or later ones such as the Mixtec and Aztec calendars.
The Colonists are an extraterrestrial species and are also the primary group of antagonists in the science fiction television show, The X-Files, as well as the first X-Files feature film
The 25th of December is the actual Christmas day in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. But of course there is a suitable alternative. At least according to the US Patent Office librarian Robert L. Birch, who declared this date to be the day without L.
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (December 28, 1969) is a Finnish–American software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for many Linux distributions as well as other operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS.