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Article #4671Re: Why is Christmas near the winter solstice?
From: Sjouke Burry
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:52
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:52
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Phil Kyle wrote: > "Lora" <nightingale0@gmail.com> verbally sodomised in > news:459964f4$0$97247$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net: > > >><tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote in message >>news:1167652054.408096.70500@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com... >> >>>Dante Alighieri writes: An explanation I found a long time ago was that some Pope decide to try and kill all midwinter superstition by placing christmas at the midwinter turn. No real date has ever been available. (Source unknown).
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