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The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...

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Donner and Blitzen – or Dunder and Blixem – might know who wrote ‘The Night Before Christmas”.

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It is a rather rare feat to find poetry composed in Bangla and compiled in the writer’s only published book that has ...

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Whatever it means to be Irish—whatever qualities of heart and mind, whatever generosity and love for the very earth and rocks ...