Gralien Report Daily News for December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas to all! Below is your special holiday roundup of esoteric headlines…

• Merry Christmas! Here are 13 Surprising and Strange Christmas Happenings
• All in a Date: Here’s Why Christmas is Held on December 25th
• ‘There are so many tears this Christmas’: Pope delivers somber Christmas message
• Elsewhere, Queen Elizabeth II Gives Her Christmas message
• Merry Christmas from the World’s Hollywood Illuminati Pawns Best Directors
• Officers Order Ohio Man to Take Down Zombie Nativity Scene
• Gaming this Christmas? Here are the top five Yeti sightings in video games
• A Punch Line In The US, Christmas Fruitcake Is Big In Calcutta
• Remember when celebrating Christmas was against the law?
• Elsewhere, this guy is a “field general” in the war on Christmas
• See-Through Portraiture: NASA’s NuSTAR captures Sun’s colourful X-ray portrait
• Red Planet Calling: A New and Cheaper Way To Get to Mars?
• Hubble Space Telescope Discovers a New Dwarf Galaxy
• Vox Offers the ‘real reason’ North Korea hacked Sony
• Elsewhere, Google’s Christmas Doodle Contains A Plug For ‘The Interview’
• After the Holiday, Here’s Why You Need to Exercise More Than Your Ancestors
• These Implantable Sensors Give Researchers New Ideas About the Brain
• Yikes! DARPA Wants Drones Nimble Enough to Zip Through Buildings at 45 Mph
• Looking at 2014, in Conspiracy Theories
• …And the Unreality of Time…

A great big Yuletide thanks to Mark Brady for links in our roundup, and special thanks to Lindsay Morrison, Janet Fitzgerald, and Jonathan Wilson for helping bring the news to The Gralien Report and its readers each and every day. These guys are amazing, and we’re so blessed to have ’em… all you folks who share news with us throughout the week!

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