When were the first commercial Christmas cards sold in the city whose name the Times added to its masthead in 2012?
1843
Title: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Passage: ``Rockin 'Around the Christmas Tree ''is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958. By the song's 50th anniversary in 2008, Lee's original version had sold over 25 million copies with the 4th most digital downloads sold of any Christmas single, and has since been recorded by numerous other music artists.
Title: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Passage: ``Do You Hear What I Hear? ''is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair, married at the time, wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regney had been invited by a record producer to write a Christmas song, but he was hesitant due to the commercialism of the Christmas holiday. It has sold tens of millions of copies and has been covered by hundreds of artists.
Title: Merry Christmas, Baby (album)
Passage: Merry Christmas, Baby, is the first Christmas album by Rod Stewart, released on 30 October 2012. The album has proved to be a top 10 success in many countries including the UK, US, Canada and Australia. It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 2012 with over 1,000,000 copies sold in the US.
Title: Standard 52-card deck
Passage: French playing cards is the most common deck of playing cards used today. It includes thirteen ranks of each of the four French suits: clubs (♣), diamonds (), hearts (♥) and spades (♠), with reversible ``court ''or face cards. Some modern designs, however, have done away with reversible face cards. Each suit includes an ace, depicting a single symbol of its suit; a king, queen and jack, each depicted with a symbol of its suit; and ranks two through ten, with each card depicting that many symbols (pips) of its suit. Anywhere from one to six (most often two or three since the mid-20th century) jokers, often distinguishable with one being more colorful than the other, are added to commercial decks, as some card games require these extra cards. Modern playing cards carry index labels on opposite corners or in all four corners to facilitate identifying the cards when they overlap and so that they appear identical for players on opposite sides. The most popular standard pattern of the French deck is sometimes referred to as`` English'' or ``Anglo - American ''pattern. there are 12 face card in the rack. In which king, queen and Jack of every suit.
Title: Pokémon Trading Card Game
Passage: The Pokémon Trading Card Game (ポケモンカードゲーム, Pokemon Kādo Gēmu, ``Pokémon Card Game ''), abbreviated to PTCG or Pokémon TCG, is a collectible card game, based on the Pokémon video game series, first published in October 1996 by Media Factory in Japan. In the US, it was initially published by Wizards of the Coast; The Pokémon Company eventually took over publishing the card game in June 2003. The game has sold 23.6 billion cards worldwide.
Title: Little Mikey
Passage: Little Mikey was a fictional boy played by John Gilchrist in an American television commercial promoting Quaker Oats' breakfast cereal Life. The ad was created by art director Bob Gage, who also directed the commercial. It first aired in 1972. The popular ad campaign featuring Mikey remained in regular rotation for more than 12 years and ended up as one of the longest continuously running commercial campaigns ever aired.
Title: 2018 FIFA World Cup
Passage: Total number of yellow cards: 219 Average yellow cards per match: 3.42 Total number of red cards: 4 Average red cards per match: 0.06 First yellow card of the tournament: Aleksandr Golovin for Russia against Saudi Arabia First red card of the tournament: Carlos Sánchez Moreno for Colombia against Japan Fastest yellow card from kick off: 1st minute Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1st minute Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90 + 8th minute Aleksandar Prijović for Serbia against Costa Rica, Cédric Soares for Portugal against Iran Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 118th minute Fastest dismissal from kick off: 3rd minute Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 90 + 4th minute Shortest time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 9 minutes Igor Smolnikov for Russia against Uruguay (booked in the 27th minute and again in the 36th minute) Most yellow cards (team): 15 Croatia Most red cards (team): 1 Colombia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland Fewest yellow cards (team): 1 Saudi Arabia Most yellow cards (player): 3 Sebastian Larsson Most red cards (player): 1 Jérôme Boateng, Michael Lang, Carlos Sánchez Moreno, Igor Smolnikov Most yellow cards (match): 8 Belgium vs Panama, France vs Argentina, Colombia vs England Most red cards (match): 1 Colombia vs Japan, Germany vs Sweden, Uruguay vs Russia, Sweden vs Switzerland Fewest yellow cards (match): 0 Argentina vs Iceland, Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia Most cards in one match: 8 yellow cards Belgium vs Panama, France vs Argentina, Colombia vs England
Title: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Passage: The story was published as a book by Random House in 1957, and at approximately the same time in an issue of Redbook. The book criticizes the commercialization of Christmas. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named it one of its ``Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children ''. In 2012 it was ranked number 61 among the`` Top 100 Picture Books'' in a survey published by School Library Journal -- the fourth of five Dr. Seuss books on the list.
Title: Christmas Tales
Passage: Christmas Tales is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, it released on the November 23, 2012 in Norway. It has peaked to number 34 on the Norwegian Albums Chart.
Title: Nintendo Switch
Passage: The Switch includes 32 GB of internal storage, and can be expanded up to 2 TB using a microSD, a microSDHC or a microSDXC card. If the microSD card is used, the Switch will only store game save data on the internal memory, leaving data that can be re-acquired on the microSD card. Save data will always be stored on the console, regardless if the source is a physical Game Card or a digital download copy. At launch, there was no way to transfer save files from the internal memory to the microSD card or another Switch console, though save game and profile transfers between Switch consoles were added in a system's 4.0. 0 update in October 2017. While microSD and microSDHC support was available at launch, microSDXC card support was later added to device's software via a system update. The Switch does not support external storage units at launch, but Nintendo stated that they were looking into adding this feature in the future.
Title: Christmas card
Passage: The next cards were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley in London on 1st May 1843. The central picture showed three generations of a family raising a toast to the card's recipient: on either side were scenes of charity, with food and clothing being given to the poor. Allegedly the image of the family drinking wine together proved controversial, but the idea was shrewd: Cole had helped introduce the Penny Post three years earlier. Two batches totaling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each.
Title: Christmas Time Is in the Air Again
Passage: "Christmas Time is in the Air Again" is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her second Christmas album and thirteenth studio album, "Merry Christmas II You" (2010). It was written and produced by Carey in collaboration with Broadway composer Marc Shaiman. Lyrically, it is about finding love during the Christmas season. The track garnered positive reviews from critics, with one describing it as an outstanding performance and the only song on the album that could compare to one of Carey's previous Christmas singles, "All I Want for Christmas Is You". It was released as a promotional single in December 2012. An accompanying lyric video was released, and Carey has performed "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again" live on NBC's "Christmas in Rockefeller Centre" event and during her December 2014 Beacon Theatre residency called All I Want For Christmas Is You, A Night of Joy & Festivity.
Title: Christmas, with Love
Passage: Christmas, with Love is a Christmas album and the fourth studio album by British singer Leona Lewis. It was released on 29 November 2013, by Syco Music and RCA Records. Work on the album began in February 2013, during which Lewis began writing "immediately" after the release of her less-commercially successful album "Glassheart" (2012). In June 2013, it was revealed (and later confirmed) that Lewis' fourth studio album would be a Christmas album, based on the recommendation of Syco boss Simon Cowell. Lewis enlisted two producers for the album: Richard "Biff" Stannard and Ash Howes, with Lewis herself contributing to the album's production. This is Lewis' first album to be released in North America since 2009's "Echo", as her 2012 album, "Glassheart" was not released there.
Title: Christmas
Passage: The First Congregational Church of Rockford, Illinois, ``although of genuine Puritan stock '', was' preparing for a grand Christmas jubilee ', a news correspondent reported in 1864. By 1860, fourteen states including several from New England had adopted Christmas as a legal holiday. In 1875, Louis Prang introduced the Christmas card to Americans. He has been called the`` father of the American Christmas card''. On June 28, 1870, Christmas was formally declared a United States federal holiday.
Title: Spuds MacKenzie
Passage: The dog, a Bull Terrier, was not without its share of controversy. Shortly after Spuds' rise to fame it was learned that the dog, who was portrayed as male in the commercials, was actually female. The ads were also the subject of attacks and calls for censorship by temperance - oriented groups. Soon after the ads were first aired in 1987, Senator Strom Thurmond began his own media campaign, claiming that the beer maker was using Spuds to appeal to children for the purpose of getting them interested in their product at an early age. By Christmas 1987, more legal action resulted from Budweiser's use of ads featuring Spuds dressed as Santa, which is illegal in states such as Ohio.
Title: Raspberry Pi
Passage: The first generation (Raspberry Pi 1 Model B) was released in February 2012, followed by the simpler and cheaper Model A. In 2014, the Foundation released a board with an improved design, Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+. These boards are approximately credit - card sized and represent the standard mainline form - factor. Improved A+ and B+ models were released a year later. A ``Compute Module ''was released in April 2014 for embedded applications. The Raspberry Pi 2, which added more RAM, was released in February 2015.
Title: The Times
Passage: On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the London 2012 Olympics and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, The Times added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.
Title: Call the Midwife
Passage: "Call the Midwife" achieved very high ratings in its first series, making it the most successful new drama series on BBC One since 2001. Since then, five more series of eight episodes each have aired year-on-year, along with an annual Christmas special broadcast every Christmas Day since 2012. It is also broadcast in the United States on the PBS network, with the first series starting on 30 September 2012.
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