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3 unusual facts about Christmas card


Axel Scheffler

He designed Gordon Brown's 2006 Christmas cards and all seven Christmas 2012 stamps for Royal Mail.

Ruth Paine

Ruth wrote to Marina incessantly, with letters that took an almost desperate tone, but received no response except for a Christmas card.

Special stamp

Christmas stamps, with a seasonal design, and used in vast numbers to mail Christmas cards, are the most familiar, but in recent years a number of other types have appeared.


Colin Nugent

Colin Nugent succeeded in presenting Alan Greenspan with an 'At Least I Tried' badge, won a favourable response from David Miliband after a plea for him to show his left wing side and attend more military parades, and received a Christmas card from Goodwin after sending him a bag of chocolate money as a present.


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Daniel Patrick Kessler

He was given a presidential commission to paint the White House, and one of his paintings was used by President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton as their Christmas card in 1996.

Keltech

After an interview on the official starwars.com website, he received a Christmas card from LucasArts signed by George Lucas.

Maximón

This shrine differs from the one at Santiago Atitlan in that an EPROM chip, presumably from a novelty Christmas Card, has been rigged up to speakers and plays a continuous loop of a few bars from three Christmas songs at volume.

T. Allen Lawson

The painting used for the White House Christmas card depicts the view from the Truman Balcony, and shows the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial in the distance.

The Pick

Another reference is to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter when Elaine blames her boyfriend for condemning her because of the photo on her Christmas card: "Because it is not me that is exposed but you. For I have seen the nipple on your soul!"