This musical wraps up with "A New Deal For Christmas", featuring FDR, Daddy Warbucks & the gang
Annie
Their 1964 "Christmas Album" includes "Little Saint Nick", called a rewiring of their hit "Little Deuce Coupe"
The Beach Boys
Dec. 25, this year:
5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer
1914
"Foxy" name for an ill-tempered woman
Vixen
The coldest recorded winter temperature in the U.S. was the Jan. 1971 temp of -80 at Prospect Creek Camp in this state
Alaska
On New Year's Day, many souls brave icy waters to take part in a swim named for these ursine creatures
Polar Bear
A group of homeless people begin the not so merry "Christmas Bells" in this Jonathan Larson musical
Rent
This "Duck Dynasty" family's "Duck the Halls" album included "Ragin' Cajun Redneck Christmas"
The Robertsons
December 25, 1776:
2,400 U.S. troops cross this river for a surprise attack
Profession of Michael Flatley & Martha Graham
Dancer(s)
In the Southern Hemisphere, winter begins in this month
June
Let's have a race using this craft whose name comes from a Native American word for "sled"
Toboggan
This musical auntie sings, "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute, candles in the window, carols at the spinet"
Mame
In 2012 this a capella group released its first holiday offering, "PTXmas", an EP with 6 classic Christmas songs
Pentatonix
Dec. 25, 1837:
U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee
Seminole
Kohoutek or Shoemaker-Levy 9
Comet(s)
Following "hot" or the name of a liquor, it's booze, hot water & sugar to take the chill off winter
Toddy
Snowboarders use a U-shaped structure called a half this to perform radical tricks
In 2018 these mind-blowing magicians with monikers like the Deductionist debuted their "Magic of the Holidays" show
The Illusionists
Rolling Stone calls this "Wall Of Sound" producer's "A Christmas Gift for You" the best Christmas album of all time
Phil Spector
December 25, 1939:
The Battle of Jelja commences in the "Winter War" between these 2 foes
Finland & Russia
We certainly hope this reindeer knows his way better than the same-named "party" of 1846-47
Donner
Hibernation uses a natural form of this serious 11-letter condition that results from a dangerous drop in core body temp.
Encyclopedia Britannica calls this sport "a game similar to lawn bowls but played on ice"
Curling
Based on the 1954 film, a musical called this composer's "White Christmas" livened up the holidays in 2008 & 2009
This "Russian" orchestra directed by Paul O'Neill has had numerous Top 10 holiday albums including "The Lost Christmas Eve"
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra
December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the "Bulge"
Bastogne
In the '70s Volkswagen rebranded the Passat in North America & named it this
Dasher
Stranded on his farm one winter around 1937, Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Quebec invented this transport
the Snowmobile
Nordic combined events start with a ski jump & end with one of these long alliterative races