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.
"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.
He then stuck around Washington not for priorities of defending U.S. security, but for the Christmas Eve passage of the Senate's monstrous health care bill.
Bothinaa Mohammed and her three children were sleeping soundly the morning of Christmas Eve.
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.
The chapel at King's College is the venue for the Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which is broadcast to millions around the world.
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.
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.
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.
An offer for the club from the group of investors was accepted earlier this month and it was hoped the deal would be completed by Christmas Eve.
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 cover of last year's Christmas issue showing Adam and Eve was censored in five countries.
In Russia, where Christmas Day has only been a public holiday since the collapse of Communism a decade ago, Orthodox believers celebrated Christmas Eve in venues ranging from Moscow's vast new cathedral to a shell of a church in the war-torn capital of Chechnya.
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.
In Bethlehem itself, Christmas Eve Mass was celebrated at the 1, 700-year-old Church of the Nativity, on the spot where it is believed Jesus was born.
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.
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