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Throughout the rest of the month, I will be sharing some festive snippets and oddities🎄
I'll be adding them to this thread ✨ Keep your eyes peeled 👀
#Christmas #History
I'll be adding them to this thread ✨ Keep your eyes peeled 👀
#Christmas #History
In cobwebbed corners of churches, are carved alms-boxes. Many, like this one at Watton, Norfolk, are inscribed, urging passers-by to ‘remember the poor’. For centuries, the collections in these oaken boxes were society’s main source of poor relief.
#BoxingDay #thread
#BoxingDay #thread
Two of the earliest poor-boxes in English churches date from the mid-14th century and can be found on Holy Island, Northumberland. However, most surviving ones – many of which are still in use – date to the 17th century.
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Boxing Day has been a tradition in the UK for centuries. Though it only officially got that name in the 1830s… and didn’t become a bank holiday until 1871. 26th December is the feast day of St Stephen – an early deacon who made it his duty to care for the poor.
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@EricHolder has asked an important question:
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
So, @EricHolder, I'm going to do just that, and I'm going to ask my ragtag bag of followers and detractors to contribute as well.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
But wait!
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
