Monday, December 24, 2018

"All is bright": Christmas Classic "Silent Night" Turns 200

By Reader-Researcher R.C.
Mon, Dec 24, 2018 11:48 a.m.

"All is bright": Christmas classic "Silent Night" turns 200

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/12/24/christmas-classic-silent-night-remains-loved-200/2386663002/


Christmas classic 'Silent Night' remains loved on 200th birthday

The song's beginnings truly lie in Oberndorf, a sleepy village on the Salzach River, about 12 miles north of Salzburg. On Christmas Eve in 1818, Mohr, newly assigned to the St. Nicholas parish ...

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https://www.history.com/news/world-war-is-christmas-truce-100-years-ago


World War I's Christmas Truce - HISTORY

Far from an organized, top-down ceasefire, the Christmas Truce instead was a series of small armistices that bubbled up from the men in the foxholes deciding to fraternize with the enemy.

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