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Steve Webb: Hello and welcome to
day seven of the 2022 encore of

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the 2009 season of the
Lifespring Why Christmas show

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hosted by James Cooper, creator
of whychristmas.com, and me, the

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OG Godcaster Steve Webb, be sure
to keep listening because James

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and I will be announcing a
contest that's coming up on this

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Friday show the ninth of
December, every day from now to

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Christmas day you'll hear an
episode from the 2009 season.

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And if you're not yet
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show, you can do that at
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back you can do that at
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support. And now here's the
show. Enjoy.

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James Cooper: Hello, and welcome
to day number seven of the 2009

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Lifespring Why Christmas Show.
Today I'm going to be taking a

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brief look at snow and ice
associated with Christmas for

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half the planet in the southern
hemisphere. It's actually summer

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at Christmas time. So why will
the snow well that's down to Mr.

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Charles Dickens and his book A
Christmas Carol. He wrote it in

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1843 and remembered the very
snowy Christmases he'd had as a

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child. The book became very
popular, and so snow and

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Christmas became associated with
each other. And of course we

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have white Christmases. Now the
most famous white Christmas is a

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song sung by Bing Crosby, who
recorded it in 1942. And it

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comes from the film Holiday Inn
set in the snowy Christmases of

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the month in the USA. If we have
a white Christmas, what are we

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going to do with all the snow?
Well built snowman Of course.

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Now the world's largest snowman
was built last year in 2008. In

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Bethel, Maine in the USA. It was
a snow woman called Olympia Snow

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and she stood 122 feet one inch
tall. Well that's 37.21 meters.

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That's an awful lot of snow. The
previous record also belong to

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Bethel, Maine, and a snowman
called Angus King of the

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Mountain. To find out more about
snow and ice, head on over to

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whychristmas.com and come back
tomorrow to find out another

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little something about
Christmas.