Popular Post Minnesota_husker Posted December 10, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2019 Perfect place to remind everyone Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. 9 1 Quote Link to comment
Ulty Posted December 10, 2019 Author Share Posted December 10, 2019 3 minutes ago, Minnesota_husker said: Perfect place to remind everyone Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. You're wrong, but you still get a +1 7 2 Quote Link to comment
Minnesota_husker Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 24 minutes ago, Ulty said: You're wrong, but you still get a +1 No, I am right and you dont get a +1 because you need to learn your incorrect opinions have consequences. 7 1 Quote Link to comment
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Roxy15 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 A little history about the Christmas : The ancient Aztecs called them 'cuetlaxochitl'. The Aztecs had many uses for them including using the flowers (actually special types of leaves known as bracts rather than being flowers) to make a purple dye for clothes and cosmetics and the milky white sap was made into a medicine to treat fevers. (That sap is called latex!) The poinsettia was made widely known because of a man called Joel Roberts Poinsett (that's why we call them Poinsettia!). He was the first Ambassador from the USA to Mexico in 1825. Poinsett had some greenhouses on his plantations in South Carolina, and while visiting the Taco area in 1828, he became very interested in the plants. He immediately sent some of the plants back to South Carolina, where he began growing the plants and sending them to friends and botanical gardens. One of the friends he sent plants to was John Bartram of Philadelphia. At the first Philadelphia flower show, Robert Buist, a plants-man from Pennsylvania saw the flower and he was probably the first person to have sold the poinsettias under their botanical, or latin name, name 'Euphorbia pulcherrima' (it means, 'the most beautiful Euphorbia'). They were first sold as cut flowers. It was only in the early 1900s that they were sold as whole plants for landscaping and pot plants. The Ecke family from Southern California were one of, if not, the first to sell them as whole plants and they're still the main producer of the plants in the USA. It is thought that they became known as Poinsettia in the mid 1830s when people found out who had first brought them to America from Mexico. There is an old Mexican legend about how Poinsettias and Christmas come together, it goes like this: There was once a poor Mexican girl called Pepita who had no present to give the the baby Jesus at the Christmas Eve Services. As Pepita walked to the chapel, sadly, her cousin Pedro tried to cheer her up. 'Pepita', he said "I'm sure that even the smallest gift, given by someone who loves him will make Jesus Happy." Pepita didn't know what she could give, so she picked a small handful of weeds from the roadside and made them into a a small bouquet. She felt embarrassed because she could only give this small present to Jesus. As she walked through the chapel to the altar, she remembered what Pedro had said. She began to feel better, knelt down and put the bouquet at the bottom of the nativity scene. Suddenly, the bouquet of weeds burst into bright red flowers, and everyone who saw them were sure they had seen a miracle. From that day on, the bright red flowers were known as the 'Flores de Noche Buena', or 'Flowers of the Holy Night'. The shape of the poinsettia flower and leaves are sometimes thought as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem which led the Wise Men to Jesus. The red colored leaves symbolize the blood of Christ. The white leaves represent his purity. 5 Quote Link to comment
Popular Post Cdog923 Posted December 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Minnesota_husker said: Perfect place to remind everyone Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. By entering this thread, I'm contractually obligated to +1 this, though I'm lodging a complaint with HR. 9 1 Quote Link to comment
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NUance Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Merry Christmas! 7 1 Quote Link to comment
Roxy15 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Wow. This is powerful. 5 1 Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 9 hours ago, NUance said: Merry Christmas! I like your house. 6 1 Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 4 hours ago, Mavric said: I like your house. Heh, My fireplace does look like that. Maybe better than that. The rest, not so much. 6 Quote Link to comment
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