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Penmanship requires motor coordination of the joints in the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.   Celebrated since 1961, this is Independence Day for 56 million Tanzanians.  The Christmas carol, Silent Night was first performed 200 years ago.  There are seven combinations of single-digit numbers that add up to 12. Thanks to Microsoft, Santa has been forced to switch to Windows from Chimneys.  Europeans grow 60 million Christmas trees annually.  20 million tourists embarked on cruise ship holidays last year.  This little piggy went to market in 1760 and has been going to shop ever since.  Mustard becomes spicy only when crushed. A Christmas tree will spruce up your home.  Icelandic kids are visited by 13 Yule Lads over 13 nights, who put gifts or rotten potatoes in the children’s shoes. Coffee is cultivated in 70 countries. The iceberg that sank the RMS Titanic calved from Greenland’s icy mountains in 1911. ...

A serving of reindeer meat contains 34 calories, seven grams of protein and one gram of fat. Tick, tock, tick, tock; Christmas will be here in 36 days.  The British Empire became the British Commonwealth of Nations, on this day in 1926. In Québec he is  le petit Renne au nez rouge;  in English Canada he is Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. I told my neighbour that Christmas was right around the corner; he went out to look for it.   The sensory function of taste is the weakest of the five senses.  Finns have more than 3,000 saunas.  Ushered into the world in 1928, this is the birthday of Mickey Mouse. There are three private schools on Prince Edward Island.  People who suffer from an irrational fear of St. Nick are claustrophobics.  Silent Night was first performed in Austria, 200 years ago.  The drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Québec; in all other jurisdictions, it's 19.  Men’s dress...