 kishthedude (1171) | | The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ," later shortened to "Christ-Mass." The even shorter form "Xmas" - first used in Europe in the 1500s - is derived from the Greek alphabet, in which X is the... | |
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 manzician (4522) | | I never thought I’d be posting something like this. I had rejected the very notion of Xmas as a way for people to remove Christ from the holiday just as so many are trying to remove Him from every... | |
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 craftcatcher (2277) | | I was reading an article earlier about the possibilities of humanity in the future and for some reason my mind started thinking backwards. It happens to me a lot!
I started to think about how far... | |
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 sujaysen (133) | | 'T' is the 20th letter of the alphabet.It came to us through Latin, from the Greek letter 'tau'. The earliest form of the letter was an x-shaped mark used for checking off items on a list. The mark... | |
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 bounce58 (832) | | Are you, or have you been a member of any Greek letter organizations? Were you a member of any fraternity or sorority? How was that like? Was it all fun and games? Did you learn anything?Back in... | |
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