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LOS ANGELES -- (AP) All a cute, curly haired 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey wanted for Christmas in 1953 was a hippopotamus. And amazingly enough, after "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda. |
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And amazingly enough, after "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda. She promptly donated it to the Oklahoma City Zoo, where it lived to be nearly 50, a ripe old age for hippos. As for Peevey's song, it may never die. |
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All a cute, curly haired 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey wanted for Christmas in 1953 was a hippopotamus. And amazingly enough, after "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda. |
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All a cute, curly haired 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey wanted for Christmas in 1953 was a hippopotamus. And amazingly enough, after "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda. |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — All a cute, curly haired 10-year-old girl named Gayla Peevey wanted for Christmas in 1953 was a hippopotamus. And amazingly enough, after “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas” became the biggest hit song of that holiday season, she actually got one, a 700-pound baby named Matilda. |
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Among those embarrassing themselves in 2016 were (from left) Donald Trump, Gigi Hadid (impersonating Melania Trump), Michael Strahan and Carrie Fisher.
“Donald Trump: Reacted to the news of Princess Diana’s death by lamenting he never got the chance to sleep with her. Earmarked a reported teeny-tiny portion of his earnings for charity. |
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Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images (LONDON) — Prince William and Duchess Kate, and their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, will spend Christmas this year with Kate’s family, the Middletons. It’s only the second time since the Cambridges’ wedding in 2011 that they have decided to.... |
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Dylann Roof was found guilty Thursday on 33 counts of federal hate crimes. In July 2015, the self-avowed white supremacist entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, and during a prayer service, fatally shot nine parishioners and wounded three others. |
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“Silent Night”, which started life in Austria as “Stille Nacht” back in 1818, has become a standard on every commercial radio station and shopping mall PR-system from Remembrance Day on. Sometimes it’s even sung in church. So pervasive has it become that UNESCO declared the hit single Christmas.... |
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Katherine Jenkins OBE is a Welsh mezzo-soprano, singer and songwriter who brings her latest tour to the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham on Friday, December 23. KEVIN COOPER spoke to her She is a popular classical-crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. |
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This photo released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis blowing candles on a cake presented to him on the eve of his 80th birthday, during a weekly general audience on Dec. 14, 2016 at the Vatican.
It's Pope Francis' 80th birthday this weekend and well-wishers can now send him email greetings in seven languages. |
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