Chances are, many of you are probably aware of the operetta, "Babes in Toyland" by Victor Herbert. This age of fairy tales is unique as only a couple of years earlier, "The Wizard of Oz" was published. This story and it's music has been adapted for both stage and on film over the years, and even my introduction to it was from the Disney film from the 60's. And out of everything that I've seen, there was one piece that stood out to me to the point where I personally couldn't think of Christmas

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Long time no see from me. I just wanted to come in and say I'm not dead, and that this story is still going strong. I've been having some serious writer's block and also been distracted by other stories and other ideas floating around my head. Plus, I actually started reading stories on here again, which is something I don't often do anymore. I can never find really good stories that just draw me in completely and captivate me, leaving me wanting more.

Until now.

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Now there's some debate about this particular carol. Especially about when exactly this tune was written. Some would say that it was jotted up around the 1940's while others say that it is as late as 1955. But regardless, the thing that this carol stands out among the others was the author. Her name, was Katherine K. Davis, a forgotten composer who has only this carol in which people remember. If anything, this carol was stolen and was up on the radio. Fortunately, her credit was restored, and

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Ladies and gentlemen of this fine website, this may not affect you (non-Americans), but on this day 18 years ago, a national tragedy occurred, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon, and possibly the White House, but we may never know. Anyway on this tragic day, over 3,000 Americans were killed in the Twin Tower attacks and hundreds more at the Pentagon. The cause of these attacks? A group of terrorists called Al-Qaeda, led by a man called Osama bin Laden. These attacks led

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As for now, you may have Emo-Treble in your stories and not the comedic Treble, let's see how this goes

Also this vine is so savage.

Because I live in Canada, the Sun and Moon demo won't be coming out until later.

Now I don't have anything to get me through my History presentation.

I am in Yorkshire this week for a particle physics meeting in Sheffield. Before this, I decided to take a detour to Wakefield, and visited the National Coal Mining Museum, built on the site of Caphouse Colliery, where coal was extracted from 1780 until 1985. This was partly a research trip to learn more about mining for my planned Underground Science book. And partly just an excuse to visit somewhere new and have a fun solo travel adventure.

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Today's carol comes from what many would consider a classic in our childhoods. What I'm talking about, is that on this year in the mid-sixties, the animated short, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as aired. A special that has seen reruns every December like the Nutcracker, and those who have seen it have a special place in their hearts for it - including me. It was one of those things that I had looked forward to as a kid, and as an adult, I especially love the opening number that has been

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Friday, August 2, 2019: The Second Day of the Final BronyCon

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Today's piece has been a favorite for carolers, church hymns and the media ever since it's publication. I'm talking about "Joy to the World," by G. F. Handel... or, did he write it? Truth be told, there is some mystery about who actually composed this. There are some scholars who believed that a certain bars is very similar to what Handel used in his Messiah. However, others would think that it might have been a group effort. But regardless of who exactly wrote it, many of us can agree that it

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Before going further I'm going say this, historically December 25 was the Roman holiday known as the Day of Saturnalia, which was there celebration of the "birth of Saturn." Let that sink in for a moment as we go forward. There's a lot of old traditions that the olden time Christians appropriated as a means of bringing in other cultures to the faith, some of those old traditions are even practiced in some form today, I'll share those more with anyone interested.

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Day 5: 1582. Finishing up the Renaissance with a carol that not only withstood the test of time, but at the time it was as popular as jingle bells.

The national Flag of Kuwait was officially adopted on September 7, 1961. The flag has the Pan-Arab colours of white, red, black, and green. These colours are found in the flags of most Arab nations. Each of the colours on the national flag of Kuwait has a significant message for the people of Kuwait. The flag consists of a black trapezoid on the hoist side and three equal horizontal bands of Green (top), white, and red. The flag

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So I'm studying up on Early Modern English (not Old English, mind you) in preparation for a short essay on how to write Luna-speak. Fun fact I found: "derring-do" (the inspiration for Daring Do, if you didn't get that), which is a noun usually meaning "adventurous nonsense" in today's usage (as far as I can tell), started out as a verb phrase way back in the sixteenth century, "dorryng do," which literally means "daring to do," and implied manhood and chivalry ("Robin Hood's awesome. He's

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OK, so you may have noticed that in Chapter 10, the most recently released brick o' text, George Cowley proposed a Mission Twelve which could test a powered landing on Equus, on the premise that the skill was absolutely necessary for the future moon landing. The proposal was killed with extreme vehemence by Cherry Berry and Chrysalis because it was too dangerous, even on paper, to consider.

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Grumpy and Clarence, the Litch King, Lord of the Dead, were planning a quiet Nightmare Night in Grumpy' cave.
A Rom mare comes to Grumpy for a contract to heal her dying sister.
Her band's gratitude takes the form of a PARTY!

I've always tried my best to put a bit of the theatrical spirit within If You Give a Little Love, and just for fun, right now I'd like to show you a little bit of how a slightly more obscure play made it into the story. If you don't care about this sort of thing, please feel free to just read the new excerpt, ignore my Twilight-style lecturings about the history hidden behind the passage, and skip straight to the stars at the end for something that I want everyone to see. But if this

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Something occurred to me not too long ago. A question that has the potential to be a story in and of itself if someone wished to try and answer it. That question is:

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IN WHICH THINGS WILL HAPPEN
Okay, so… I don't really feel like doing any sort of intro. Have some uncensored Green Day.

And if you'll follow me past the jump, I have some actual news for you.

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