"Merry Christmas" ^-^

  

The word Christmas comes from the words Cristes maesse, or "Christ's Mass." Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus for members of the Christian religion. And it become tradition for all of us especially for christian to celebrate it. 

 It is impossible to forget that Christmas is coming. Colored lights decorate many town centers and shops, along with shiny decorations, and artificial snow painted on shop windows. In streets and shops, 'Christmas trees' (real or plastic evergreen 'conifer' trees) will also be decorated with lights and Christmas ornaments. 

Shopping centers become busier as December approaches and often stay open till late. The traditional Christmas Christian songs, and groups of people will often sing carols.By mid-December, most homes will also be decorated with Christmas trees, colored lights and paper or plastic decorations around the rooms. These days, many more people also decorate garden trees or house walls with colored electric lights.

In many countries, most people post Christmas greeting cards to their friends and family, and these cards will be hung on the walls of their homes. Traditionally, Christmas cards showed religious pictures - Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus, or other parts of the Christmas story. Today, pictures are often jokes, winter pictures, Father Christmas, or romantic scenes of life in past times.

So, how about you? What makes you to celebrate Christmas Eve?

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How far do you know about K.F.C ?

I bet everyone likes to eat KFC. So do am i. But doyou  know who found out KFC? If you don't then read this:

The Kentucky Fried Chicken® was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders (born on September 9, 1890) at the age of sixty-five.  KFC® is currently one of the largest businesses of the global food service industry and is widely known around the world as the face of Colonel Sanders. 

Every year, over a billion KFC® chicken dinners are served featuring the Colonel’s “finger lickin’ good” special recipe.  The Colonel has spread his industry currently to more than eighty countries and territories globally.  

At the age of forty, Colonel Sanders began cooking for travelers in his service station located in Corbin, KY.  However, rather than coming in for service for their cars, hundreds of people began coming to the Colonel’s station specifically for his food.  So he expanded his new up-and-coming business by moving across the street to a hotel and restaurant that seated one hundred and forty-two people.  While cooking here, Colonel Sanders perfected his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices for his special recipe that is still used today.  

With his special cooking techniques, Sanders’ station became famous and he was recognized for his amazing cuisine by the Governor at the time, Ruby Laffoon in 1935 when he was made a Kentucky Colonel; hence the name Colonel Sanders.  In 1939, Colonel Sanders’ restaurant won the top spot on Duncan Hines’ “Adventures in Good Eating.”

After his amazing start-up in 1952, the Colonel devoted himself for the rest of his life to his chicken franchising business.  To spread his famous recipe, he spanned the country in his car from his small business in Kentucky to cook his chicken for restaurant owners and their employees.  If his subjects loved it like his other customers had, the Colonel made a deal with the establishment, saying that they would pay him a nickel for each chicken they sold in their restaurant.  So many restaurants agreed that by 1964, the Colonel had over six hundred franchised outlets in the United States and Canada for his chicken.  Also in 1964, Colonel Sanders decided to sell his interest in the United States company for small change (only $2 million) to a small faction of investors, such as John Y. Brown Jr., the governor of Kentucky from 1980 to 1984.  However, Colonel Sanders continued to be the public spokesman for KFC® and in 1976, he was named the world’s second-most identifiable celebrity by an independent survey.  

With this new group of investors undertaking the Corporation, KFC® expanded and matured quickly.  The Corporation was listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 16, 1969, only three years after it had gone public on March 17, 1966.  Then, after the KFC Corporation® was acquired by Heublein Inc. on July 8, 1971 for $285 million, the company grew to an enormous three thousand and five hundred franchised and company-owned restaurants world-wide. 

Subsequently, Heublein Inc. was next acquired by R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (currently RJR Nabisco, Inc.) in 1982, making Kentucky Fried Chicken® a subsidiary of Reynolds.  After that, in October of 1986, PepsiCo, Inc. made a purchase of $840 million from RJR Nabisco, Inc. 

However, in January of 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. revealed that it would be making KFC® and its other small quick service restaurants – Taco Bell and Pizza Hut – into an independent restaurant company known as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.  The company also stated that it would change the corporation’s name to Yum! Brands, Inc. in May of 2002.  This corporation, which currently owns A&W All-American Food Restaurants, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants, is the world's principal restaurant corporation in terms of system units, having a stifling thirty-two thousand and five hundred units in over one hundred countries and territories.  

Sadly, after traveling two hundred fifty thousand miles every year visiting his restaurants around the globe, Colonel Sanders died of leukemia at the age of ninety in 1980. 

Interestingly enough, this enormous, global corporation all started with simply a sixty-five-year-old gentleman and a chicken.  

 

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Ukelele story..

Thanks to Mandy Nikko, because of her i know Ukelele. It looks like a guitar but actually it was Ukulele. The name starts with this story: 

When the Ravenscrag arrived in Honolulu on the afternoon of August 23, 1879, it was carrying 419 Portuguese immigrants from the island of Madeira to work in the sugar cane fields. It had been a long and hard journey of over 4 months and some 15,000 miles. In celebration of their arrival, Joao Fernandes borrowed his friend's braguinha, jumped off the ship, and started playing folks songs from his native land on the wharf. The Hawaiians who came down to the dock were very impressed at the speed of this musicians' fingers as they danced across the fingerboard and they called the instrument "ukulele", which translates into English as "jumping flea". You see, that was the image conjured up by those flying fingers.

2nd Story:

Queen Lili'uokalani thought it came from the Hawaiian words for "the gift that came here", or "uku" (gift or reward) and "lele" (to come). Another legend says the instrument was originally called "ukeke lele" or "dancing ukeke" (ukeke being the Hawaiian's three stringed musical bow). The name, being mispronounced over the years, became "ukulele". Another theory comes from a story about Edward Purvis, an English army officer and the Assistant Chamberlain to the court of King David Kalakaua, who was very adept at playing the braguinha. Since he was small and sprightly, the rather large Hawaiians nicknamed him "ukulele", the whole "jumping flea" thing all over again. Still another version of the origin of the world "ukulele" is attributed to Gabriel Davian and Judge W. L. Wilcox, who was a member of a well-known island family. According to the story, the two men were in attendance at a housewarming party at the Wilcox home in Kahili, where Davian was playing an 'ukulele he had made himself. When one of the guests asked what it was called, Davion jokingly replied that, judging from the way one "scratched at it," it was a "jumping flea". Wilcox, who was fluent in Hawaiian, was asked for the Hawaiian translation and is supposed to have answered, "'Ukulele!".

 

 

 

 More info check this web http://www.geocities.com/~ukulele/history.html.





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