According to the good folk at Wikipedia the very first record of a Christmas celebration took place in Rome on this day in 336.
While it is past unlikely Jesus was born on this date, one of the heroes of my youth Robert Ripley was, in 1890.
His cartoons occupied my imagination throughout my childhood, opening doors to the weird, the fantastic and the unlikely.
For which I remain eternally grateful…
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