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Old November 16th, 2006, 12:34 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
riverman
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Default Putting the X back in Xmas


"Cyli" wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:45:50 -0800, "Skwala"
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And not even until the late 19th century in civilized regions, such as,
Scotland, but that's beside the point... in the US, Christmas has always,
until recently, been identified with only one thing, the Christ story.


I didn't know that the American Indians celebrated it before being
conquered by the Europeans. Wonder how they found out about the right
time and the star and shepherds and all that.


The Mormons told them.

--riverman