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No Such Thing As Hans Gruber's Silent Night
Richard Dawkins wrote a letter in the New Statesman, published as an open letter to David Cameron, in which he wishes him Merry Christmas, adding that he would not accept substitutes to that.
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In 1886, the Rising Sun in Clapton was a pub where the landlord shot someone because they were carol singing.
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The lyrics of Silent Night were written by a guy called Joseph Moore, who was a priest in Salzburg. In 1912 the Austrian authorities decided they wanted a memorial for the two writers, but there were no paintings of…
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It was so popular within 30 years, there was a version along the Labrador coast where it was translated into Inuktitut, as in like the Inuit language.
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