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Jefferson High School, Los Angeles
Jefferson High School, Los Angeles

"Sisters at Heart" is the 13th episode of the seventh season of Bewitched, an American Broadcasting Company fantasy television sitcom. This Christmas episode aired on December 24, 1970, and again the following December. In one storyline, Darrin Stephens (Dick Sargent) fails to land a million-dollar advertising account after a toy company owner mistakes a black woman for Darrin's wife. The man changes his attitude after Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery) uses witchcraft to make him see everyone, including himself, as having black skin. At the invitation of Montgomery and her husband William Asher, who directed the episode, "Sisters at Heart" was initially written by 22 black students from Jefferson High School (pictured), a school in a poor Los Angeles neighborhood. This episode, Montgomery's favorite, received the Governors Award at the 23rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Montgomery's biographer Herbie Pilato wrote that the theme of overcoming prejudice is central to Bewitched and that "no [other] episode of the series more clearly represented this cry against prejudice". (Full article...)

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Detail with Mary, Jesus, Joseph, the ox and ass
Detail with Mary, Jesus, Joseph, the ox and ass

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Falcon 9 launch vehicle's first stage, following its successful landing
Falcon 9 rocket's first stage on the landing pad

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December 25: Christmas (Gregorian calendar); Quaid-e-Azam Day (Pakistan)

William the Conqueror and his brothers
William the Conqueror and his brothers
St Michael's Church, Beetham
St Michael's Church, Beetham

There are 49 Grade I listed ecclesiastical buildings in the English county of Cumbria. Buildings in England are given listed building status by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, acting on the recommendation of Historic England. Listed status gives the structure national recognition and protection against alteration or demolition without authorisation. Grade I listed buildings are defined as being of "exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important"; only 2.5 per cent of listed buildings are included in this grade. There have been Christian churches in Cumbria since the Anglo-Saxon era. Anglo-Saxon elements to be found in the churches include the lower parts of the towers of St Michael, Beetham (pictured), and St Laurence, Morland. Many of the churches have Norman features. Gothic features are found in churches that originated at a later date, such as All Saints, Boltongate, and in additions to older churches. St James, Whitehaven, is in Georgian style, as is the nave of St Andrew, Penrith. (Full list...)

Dominostein

Dominosteine are sweets primarily sold during the Christmas season in Germany and Austria. The base consists of Lebkuchen, followed by a layer of sour cherry or apricot jelly and a layer of either marzipan or persipan. The dominostein is covered with a thin icing of dark chocolate.

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