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Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white.
#21
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perr...htning-rod

Awww, what Melissa Harris-Perry wrote about this is so sweet, and true. Love it!
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#22
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
Doesn't Babushka just mean grandmother?

It does, and there is a Russian Christmas tradition for children around that:

"In Russia, it is believed that an elderly woman named Babouschka purposely gave the wise men wrong directions to Bethlehem so that they couldn't find Jesus. Later, she felt remorseful, but could not find the men to undo the damage. To this day, on January 5, Babouschka visits Russian children leaving gifts at their bedsides in the hope that one of them is the baby Jesus and she will be forgiven."
That is truly a pile of unbelievable cr@p.
This is what happens when you believe everything you read on internet....
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#23
"Babushka and the Three Kings" (spell it however you want) is a classic Russian folktale for children.

"folktale" means made up story, so of course it's not true.
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#25
Lemon Drop wrote:
"Babushka and the Three Kings" (spell it however you want) is a classic Russian folktale for children.
It is neither, Lemon.
I spend couple years back there, speak Russian fluently (albeit with an accent), read and write, and that is anything but a classic Russian folktale.
You found some made up english story being peddled as Russian without any reason to believe that it actually is.
A century ago, this retelling of the story was given to a distant relative, Howard Neal, in a little book published by the Saalfield Publishing Company in 1903 (it had been previously published by the Werner Company in 1899). Unfortunately, the the author's name was not included in the book.

Just because someone repeats something they read on internet it still does not make it a fact....
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#26
from you link max;

"This is one of the first English retellings of this charming Eastern European legend. In this version, first published in 1899, the heroine's name is spelled Babouscka, though it's more often spelled Babouscha today. I am told that this name is related to the Ukranian and Russian words for Grandmother, and also for head scarf. In the retelling published below, she is occasionally called "the babouscka," which makes it sound like a nickname for any woman of "a certain age," whether a grandmother or not."


this is not an English story, it's Russian. It was popular up until the early 20th century. And for pete's sake it is an old folktale, why are getting twisted in knots about a folktale?
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#27
Lemon Drop, what link are you referring to? I don't see max as having posted any links in his replies.

I have to side with max in this case. It is not a Russian folk tale, but originally a poem by an american poet, Edith M. Thomas in 1907. The origins of the tale are surmised to be italian. The idea of it being a Russian folk tale probably spread like fire after the publication of the children's book "Baboushka and the Three Kings" by Ruth Robbins, for which it won the Caldecott Award in 1961.

http://readrussianbooks.blogspot.com/201...found.html
http://suite101.com/a/babushka-and-the-t...an-a313464
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#28
max's quote came from here:
http://www.familychristmasonline.com/sto...ouscka.htm

originally a poem by an american poet, Edith M. Thomas in 1907.

Looks like you're right.

thanks.
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#29
Sheesh,

Lemon cannot ever admit " Max you are right, again".




Reminder, I do not argue on subjects I do not understand well.

Otherwise I ask questions....
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#30
max wrote:
Sheesh,

Lemon cannot ever admit " Max you are right, again".




Reminder, I do not argue on subjects I do not understand well.

Otherwise I ask questions....

max, you were right but in order to show me the information, you provided a link to something that contained the same incorrect information that I had heard and thought was correct. So your response was pretty sloppy for someone so fascinated with proving me wrong about am obscure Christmas story.

Sam3 provided the helpful and correct information, not you.

If you want to show people you are "right" then learn from Sam3.
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