Return to the Advent calendar. Surprising others this Christmas... [caption id="attachment_5856" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Anthony SantellaPainter, Sculptor, Computer Scientist  www.anthonysantella.com"][/caption] Susan Harrison is living proof that attitude, ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Quotable During the Vietnam War, after a holiday cease-fire had been announced, veteran news anchor Walter Cronkite ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Fast Fact Saint Nicholas of Myra, a Greek Christian bishop of the fourth century, is the primary inspiration for ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Eating... "...While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads" — from "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better ...

Panel 2, part 1 (see part 2 and Further Reflections below) The photographs that revealed the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib shocked the world. American military personnel and civilian contractors are seen ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Fast Fact St. Francis often gets credit for creating the Nativity scene. However, his scenes were live ones—with real ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Fast Fact Canada Post, tired of seeing too many letters addressed to Santa end up in the dead letter ...

Panel 1, part 1 (see parts 2 and 3 below) The photographs that revealed the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib shocked the world. American military personnel and civilian contractors are seen engaged ...

Return to the Advent calendar. While we are all warm and snuggly around a family fireplace, men and women are serving our country in ...

Return to the Advent calendar. Advent Quotable While serving in the French army in 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher and playwright, was ...