On the eve of Christmas 2007, quite a few obituaries for incandescent light bulbs were penned.
Last night, on the eve of Christmas Eve (the last possible day I can steal before heading down south to my parents), Eden, Isaac and I met with some of the people in my new LATISM Central Coast consortium Jose Huitron, Jesse Luna, Belen Rodriguez, Jes Sofia Valle, Marea Lopez.
Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.
"He said he wanted to pray at the Church of the Nativity on Christmas Eve, even though he knew it was illegal for him to leave Israel, " police spokesman Gil Kleiman said.
Snowstorms on the US east coast and Christmas Eve falling on Friday - one of the main evenings for movie-going in North America - did not help box office performance, analysts say.
The London pop-up, located in a carpark on the South Bank of the Thames, is open until Christmas Eve (24 December), and the new show, Forever Crazy, includes a selection of the best acts from the original cabaret.
Affleck shrewdly kept the door ajar -- such speculation helps in the gravitas department --but on Christmas Eve, he gave the press a lump of coal by admitting he wasn't running.
These are among the fragments of intelligence that were available in the intelligence community on Christmas Eve, before Abdulmutallab ever boarded the aircraft in Amsterdam.
So my sense of seasonal happiness on Christmas Eve intensifies as the King's College Choir and congregation reach the final verse of Once in Royal David's City.
With due diligence continuing throughout the month, on Christmas Eve the south Londoners said that "work on the proposed acquisition of the club is continuing".
After over 28, 000 people petitioned the White House to give federal employees the day off on Christmas Eve, the White House responded with an executive order granting many of them just that.
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One carol service was held on Christmas Eve at the British army base of Lashkar Gar.
But of all my wonderful memories, a single encounter with a monk offering to share an umbrella on a cold Christmas Eve remains the single most formative experience of my life.
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The data tallies with figures from research firm Experian that suggested the number of visits to retail websites rose 86% on Christmas Eve, 71% on Christmas Day and 17% on Boxing Day compared with a year earlier, as many chains began their online sales before Christmas.
On the 24th, Christmas Eve, we have a big celebration welcoming the parade of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, our twin city, entering from this road.
In a sardonic reshuffling of classic sentimental tropes, the story ominously turns on the difficulty of getting a goose-liver dinner in Munich on Christmas Eve.
In addition to Good Friday, dancing is forbidden in many states on several of the so-called quiet religious days throughout the year, including Christmas Eve.
Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a church organist who was attacked on his way to Mass on Christmas Eve.
Additionally, a total of 27 stores will stay open until 2 am on the three nights prior to Christmas Eve.
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On Christmas Eve it emerged that a postman has been sacked as a result of the discovery in woodland in the Llanedeyrn area of the capital.
"If this drags on to Christmas Eve, there is a real possibility it could have negative consequences for the rest of the season, " said NRF President Matt Shay.
Christmas Eve on the rail network saw services from London Paddington towards Exeter and the West of England terminating at Tiverton, with limited road transport continuing to Newton Abbot via Exeter St Davids.
Camborne Hill was the venue for the carriage's test-run, on Christmas Eve - an event celebrated in a well-known Cornish folk song of the same name.
Sewage was found spraying from a blocked pipe on Christmas Eve after the pumping station next to the site was unable to cope with the volumes of sewage.
As Christmas approaches, her 17-year-old son Sari checks daily for the arrival of his permit to travel 20 minutes' drive to East Jerusalem to see his sister on Christmas Eve.
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It is capable of taking 200 transactions a second, which is similar to the amount a major bank handles on Christmas Eve.
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