History of the Christmas Advent Calendar

clipped from www.guy-sports.com History of the Christmas Advent Calendar As a child, Gerhard Lang's mother had made him a basic advent calendar so that he could count down the days until Christmas. She placed 24 sweets onto a piece of cardboard and each day the young Gerhard would take and eat a sweet. When he grew up Gerhard Lang made the first printed advent calendar in 1908. Later, in 1946, we see Richard Sellmer producing calendars in Germany. The US authorities had to grant him a license in the now post war Germany which led to his advent calendars becoming known and indeed very popular in the USA. Sellmer's first advent calendar was called 'The Little Town'. The calendar had pictures of many buildings in the town and you would open the windows and the doors to find nice things underneath for each day of advent.  By the end of the 1950s, chocolate advent calendars had appeared, and by the following decade they had become widespread.

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A drunk Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. Karma Mr. West - Karma!

And way to go for Beyonce!!!!

Remember - Our wowrld is MELTING

clipped from www.odditycentral.com Remember Our World Is Melting Raising awareness on the issue of global warming is not easy this days, but artists come up with all sorts of original ways to make the news. Take Brazilian artists Nele Azevedo,  who created 2,000 ice-sculptures and placed them on the steps of the Berlin Opera Hall, to melt. That’s a lot of work to watch melt away in one hot afternoon, but at least her message made the newspapers. And if one more person knows about the melting Arctic ice, than her effort was not in vain.

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Eupedia - Your Guide to Europe

clipped from www.eupedia.com New and updated pages (May to August 2009) How people aren't as similarly related to both parent ABO blood type and resistance to diseases France & Benelux DNA ancestry project Distribution of European Y-DNA haplogroups by country or region Interesting facts about genetics Brussels Guide Toponymy of Belgium European Haplogroups : origins, geographic spread and relation to ethnic groups Comparative chronological tree of European Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups Chronological maps of the Neolithic and Bronze Age expansion of haplogroups History, Culture & Sciences Travel & Life in Europe European cultures Economy & Industry Politics & Society

Visit the Brain Museum

clipped from brainmuseum.org Wally Welker, John Irwin Johnson, Adrianne Noe This web site provides browsers with images and information from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals. Viewers can see and download photographs of brains of over 100 different species of mammals (including humans) representing over 20 Mammalian Orders. Viewers will learn why these collections are important, why and how they were assembled, and why it is important to protect, preserve and maintain them. Moreover, a variety of issues in brain science are discussed.