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A Christmas Ham is a traditional ingredient in the Finnish and Swedish Christmas celebrations.

Before the arrival of Christianity to Scandinavia, a boar, the wild ancestor of the pig, was sacrificed to the god Freyr at the Yule celebrations and eaten (see Blót). This tradition of butchering a pig at Christmas continued after the Christianization and survives as several dishes (sausages and bread dipped in pork fat) of which the Christmas ham is the most central. Also the Germanic people had a similar celebration as did the ancient Romans, who sacrificed a pig to the Roman god Saturn about the same time Christmas is celebrated nowadays. The ham is considered as important part of the holiday setting as the Christmas tree.

Ata-Menken (Fatherland) Socialist Party is a political party in Kyrgyzstan. Its current Chairman and founder is Omurbek Tekebayev, who is currently the speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament. The party was registered on December 16, 1992 following a split between Tekebayev and the conservative Erkin Kyrgyzstan party.

The party’s platform calls for a democratic state, economic reforms and evolutionary social development. It favors reasonable compromise between various social sectors and government bodies. The party supported Tekebayev in the 2000 Presidential elections, where he came second with 14%. On May, 20, 2004 the party joined the For Fair Elections electoral alliance in preparing for the February 2005 parliamentary elections.

The party won one seat in the first round of the 2005 parliamentary elections. However following the 2005 Tulip Revolution the future of the party remains unclear.

Christmas Island is Jimmy Buffett’s 1996 collection of Christmas-themed music. It features covers of popular Christmas songs in Buffett’s musical stylings as well as two tracks which Buffett wrote for the album.

Track listing

1. Christmas Island
2. Jingle Bells
3. A Sailor’s Christmas - written by Buffett
4. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
5. Up On The House Top
6. Mele Kalikimaka
7. Run Run Rudolph
8. Ho Ho Ho & A Bottle Of Rum
9. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
10. Merry Christmas, Alabama (Never Far From Home) - written by Matt Betton.

Christmas Island is Jimmy Buffett’s 1996 collection of Christmas-themed music. It features covers of popular Christmas songs in Buffett’s musical stylings as well as two tracks which Buffett wrote for the album.

Track listing

1. Christmas Island
2. Jingle Bells
3. A Sailor’s Christmas - written by Buffett
4. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
5. Up On The House Top
6. Mele Kalikimaka
7. Run Run Rudolph
8. Ho Ho Ho & A Bottle Of Rum
9. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
10. Merry Christmas, Alabama (Never Far From Home) - written by Matt Betton.

Joe Christmas is a fictional character, one of the central characters in the 1932 novel Light in August by William Faulkner.

Raised in an orphanage, Joe Christmas knows little about his own identity. While he is presumably both black and white, Joe Christmas appears to be mostly white; in fact, there is no certainty that he is black at all, though he identifies himself as such.
His search for racial identity is central to the work.

His initials allude to Jesus Christ.

One critic described him as the loneliest character in American literature.