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To: NY Catholic
Sorry meant to post to Eisenhower and Coolidge's Christams card..they are better than a PIANO...

Puh-leeze. Sticking the Presidential seal and a generic (which is what started this foolishness in the first place) "Season's Greetings" on a card requires all the thoughtfulness and artistic talent of a chimpanzee.

111 posted on 12/10/2002 5:42:12 AM PST by steve-b
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To: steve-b
"Flor de Noche Buena"

The beautiful poinsettia, a Christmas tradition in nearly every American home during the holidays, was virtually unknown here until 1851. Dr. J.R. Poinsett, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, brought this showy plant back to his home in South Carolina from south of the Rio Grande. He, never in his wildest dreams, could have predicted that the poinsettia would become the leading flowering potted plant grown in the United States. It even exceeded chrysanthemums and geraniums in recent production quantity studies. Paul Ecke Greenhouses in Encicitas, California leads the U.S. production of poinsettias, but hundreds of other growers help us beautify our homes, churches, and almost every other public building.

Legend tells us that the poinsettia, properly known as Euphorbia pulcherrima, came into being when a poor Mexican girl had no gift for the Christ child. As she walked to church on Christmas Eve, she was deeply saddened. Touched by an angel, she gathered twigs from along the roadside. She placed them at the altar and they miraculously turned into the magnificent red 'Flor de Noche Buena,' flower of the Holy Night.

Look on the sideboard behind the piano.

117 posted on 12/10/2002 5:49:20 AM PST by Ol' Sox
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