...roasting on an open fire...

It is National Egg Nog Day. I wonder why. In a multi-kulti blending, on this date in 1997 a Chanukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City for the first time. While we are on the subject of flames today in 1851 the Library of Congress catches fire, burning 35,000 books in the process. One of them, perhaps, is the Bible, which on this day in 1968 is the printed matter aboard NASA's Apollo 8 Mission; astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders, the first men to orbit the Moon, recite passages from the Book of Genesis which are transmitted back to Earth on live television. Today also marks the first radio program broadcast, in 1906. It comprises a poetry reading, a violin solo and a speech. On a sad end note, it is on this date in 1991 that 1,025 pound Walter Hudson dies at the age of 46. Probably some of that extra weight was due to the over-consumption of egg nog and chestnuts.

Today we offer a duo of T-Shirts, representing those two seasonal culinary delights — the yellow Egg Nog T and the grey Chestnuts T, respectively from the CafePress.com Egg Nog and Chestnuts shops. They are stylistically so similar that I suspect the same designer is behind them, probably alternating between drinking and eating both substances at this very moment.

Peace.

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