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The famous Icehotel is open – again (VIDEO)
The Icehotel in the village of Jukkasjärvi, about 17 km from Kiruna, Sweden, was the world’s first ice hotel. READ MORE
The Knights of Malta (VIDEO)
How the Knights of St. John managed to attract to Malta the greatest artists of the XVII Century.
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Creative Christmas Marketing Campaign by Spar (VIDEO)
The 2012 advert shows Christmas trees popping up all over Ireland in some unexpected places, like the bottom of a swimming pool or a baggage carousel.
Any Good? Well the advert itself is quite modest; however, Spar followed up by placing Christmas trees all over the country in unusual places causing quite a PR stir. This is a well thought out advert and it just so happens that the Spar symbol is a green Christmas tree.
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The Lighting of the Most Famous Christmas Tree (VIDEO)
Topping the 12-ton Norway spruce is a 9 1/2-foot-wide Swarovski star
If there’s anything more iconic than the New York City skyline, it’s the New York City tradition of the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
With a flick of the switch, a 76-foot Norway Spruce officially became the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Wednesday (December 04) night after it was illuminated for the first time this holiday season with some 45,000 lights in a ceremony that’s been held since 1933. The tree, which made the 70 mile journey to its new home on the bed of a tractor-trailer, will remain on display until Jan. 7.
Performers appearing at this year’s event were Mary J. Blige, Jewel, Mariah Carey, the Goo Goo Dolls and Leona Lewis.
The workers who were building Rockefeller Center set up the first Christmas tree in 1931 with the first tree-lighting official ceremony held in 1933.
The tree pictured above was erected during construction of the building, when workers decorated a 20-foot balsam fir tree with a “string of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tins cans.”
Rockefeller Center Lights 2013 Christmas Tree
Happy Flags Celebrate the World’s Happiest Country (VIDEO)
To celebrate Denmark being named the world’s happiest country, Coca-Cola created the ‘Happy Flag’ campaign, inspired by the Danish tradition of welcoming newcomers and returning citizens at the airport.
Advertising agency McCann noticed several similarities between the identities of the country and the soda pop brand. Aside from the bold red and white coloring, the white crossing in Denmark’s flag is fit into the swoosh of the ‘O’ of the iconic logo. Coca-Cola set up large posters where people could take free flags to help create an even bigger celebration for new arrivals.
In just one day, 2,400 flags were taken from the poster, bringing an unmeasurable amount of happiness to the people of the airport.
Magical Interactive Billboard (VIDEO)
Courtesy of a little digital magic, the boy in this poster knows when it’s a British Airways plane. And that really is the actual flight number and where it’s flying in from.