(aka Bill Quinn) Merry Christmas to one and all! May this day bring you joy as you celebrate the spirit of the holiday. Christmas Factoids concludes after this day, and I only hope those of you who took the time to read and comment on what you knew, didnt know, and contributed will have the same verve as youve shown these past few weeks. And here we go! *Isaiah 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. *The internet got its first test run in 1990, on Christmas Day! It was a special moment, indeed, when info.cern.ch, the planet’s first web server, was up and running. *Gen. George Washington crossed the Delaware River during the evening of December 25th, 1776. Washington wanted to catch the Hessian mercenaries (employed by the British military) by surprise, in the midst of their holiday celebrations...and he did winning an outstanding Christmas victory, which went down in the American history books. *Sir Isaac Newton, the brilliant English scientist who first identified what gravity actually was, was born on Christmas Day in 1642 (according to the calendar being used at the time). In addition to his famous “discovery” of gravitational forces, he was also a pioneering mathematician and researcher in the field of optics. Yeah. He was pretty darn smart. *Other interesting people born on this day include cosmetics tycoon Helena Rubenstein, Egypitian president Anwar Sadat, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also the birthday of several entertainers, including Cab Calloway, Rod Serling, Little Richard, Sissy Spacek, Annie Lennox and Humphrey Bogart. *1 John 5:11- And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. And, with the dawning of Christmas Day heres a favorite for us all to enjoy... ow.ly/Gn6F0
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:00:40 +0000
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