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Maybe she's not a Christian, or that she keeps it non-religious
to avoid offending non-Christians. Actually, she's Catholic and represents a predominately hispanic district of mostly Catholics. So, there doesn't seem to be a motive to avoiding the word Christmas in a majority Catholic neighborhood. But I'm sure it buys votes in one way or another. -Bill |
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Maybe she's not a Christian, or that she keeps it non-religious
to avoid offending non-Christians. Actually, she's Catholic and represents a predominately hispanic district of mostly Catholics. So, there doesn't seem to be a motive to avoiding the word Christmas in a majority Catholic neighborhood. But I'm sure it buys votes in one way or another. -Bill |
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"Nearl J Icarus" wrote in message news:Wr7yd.57804$Jk5.11456@lakeread01... In article , says... I find this page really interesting: http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm Going back 2k years, you won't find direct evidence of anybody. Most of the information we have about Billy Shakespeare is from his will. Verification, none. Are you joking? There are Baptism records for William, his sister Judith, his brother Gilbert (d. 1612), his brother Edmund (1580 - 1607), his brother Richard (died 1613), and his sister Joan. Also for his father John Shakespeare. William's Baptism was performed Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564. Since it was common practice, although not always true, to Baptize on the third day after birth, William's birthday was most likely Sunday, April the 23rd, 1564. According to the Baptism, and other church Records, William's mother was Mary Arden, who married John Shakespeare in 1557. A bond certificate dated November the 28th, 1582, reveals that an eighteen year old William married the twenty-six and pregnant Anne Hathaway. Barely seven months later, they had his first daughter, Susanna. Anne never left Stratford, living there her entire life. Baptism records show that William’s first child, Susanna was baptized in Stratford sometime in May, 1583. Baptism records again reveal that twins Hamnet and Judith were born in February 1592. Hamnet, William's only son died in 1596, just eleven years old. Hamnet and Judith were named after William’s close friends, Judith and Hamnet Sadler. William's family was unusually small in a time when families had many children to ensure parents were cared for in later years despite the very high mortality rates of children and also their life expectancy in the 1500s. Evidence that the great Bard was also a poet comes from his entering his first poem Venus and Adonis in the Stationers’ Registrar on the 18th of April, 1593. The playwright registered his second poem The Rape of Lucrece by name on the 9th of May, 1594. Records with the College of Heralds, reveal William applied for a coat of arms. Despite a lack of proof, he was granted his request. Later in 1599 he applied for his mother’s coat of arms to be added to his own. Court records of a dispute between William's landlord Christopher Mountjoy and his son-in-law Stephen Belott confirm that William was living in London around 1601. The playwright's name is recorded in the court records when he gave testimony in 1612 concerning Mountjoy and Belott’s dispute. Interestingly, in 1601, he bought roughly 107 acres of arable land with twenty acres of pasturage for 20 pounds in Old Stratford. 1605 when he purchased leases of real estate near Stratford. This investment of some four hundred and forty pounds doubled in value and earned him 60 pounds income each year. Some academics speculate that this investment gave the Bard the time he needed to write plays uninterrupted and we know that he was indeed thought of as a businessman in the Stratford area... This purchase was recorded for tax purposes, and to register for the deed. Yet another record confirming the Bard's existence was John Comb’s will which bequeathed to the Bard the princely sum of just five pounds. And, of course, the evidence of his will as you've mentioned. |
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:32:01 -0500, "jsmith" wrote:
The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it time we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is truly the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were taught by the Prince of Peace. This was the original message in this thread, which is off-topic in all the groups it was posted in, and yet has now taken over alt.genealogy to the extent that 2 out of 3 messages in that newsgroup are devoted to this subject. Please, people, if you reply to it, set follow-ups to alt.idiots, or some other newsgroup where it is ON topic, or else reply by e-mail to the original poster, jsmith -- Steve Hayes E-mail: (see web page if it doesn't work) Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/ |
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"Steve Hayes" wrote in message ... On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:32:01 -0500, "jsmith" wrote: The secularists have been chipping away at the word Christmas for a number of years now and are substituting irrelevant (religious ??) concoctions to diminish the value of the celebration of the birth of Christ. Isn't it time we begin boycotting those merchants who in their TV advertising are exploiting the Christmas tradition yet not acknowledging that this is truly the Christmas season. The code word "holiday" season is coming into increasing use in an effort to minimize the influence the Truths that were taught by the Prince of Peace. This was the original message in this thread, which is off-topic in all the groups it was posted in, and yet has now taken over alt.genealogy to the extent that 2 out of 3 messages in that newsgroup are devoted to this subject. Please, people, if you reply to it, set follow-ups to alt.idiots, or some other newsgroup where it is ON topic, or else reply by e-mail to the original poster, jsmith -- Steve Hayes Sorry Steve, like others of your kind, you do not like intelligent discussion. I do understand that you make your living selling Religion to the weak minded. But if the respondents here want to discuss this subject, IT IS on topic! Besides alt.idiots is your kind of NG! |
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