Posted
10:41 AM
by Gene
And now for our annual Yahoo! news-photo links that will be disappear in thirty days without a trace:

A Christmas tree near the Bird's Nest in Beijing (Bird's Nest? What was that?);

The U. S. Capitol Christmas Tree;

The Christmas tree at Notre Dame Cathedral;

A Christmas tree in Lisbon;

A Christmas tree on "the hangar deck of the
USS Iwo Jima, docked in Manama, Bahrain";

A Christmas tree in an Istanbul shopping mall;

A Christmas tree and a Santa at the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City;

"A statue of St. George decorated like a Christmas tree in downtown Tbilisi, Georgia";

A Christmas tree at Sydney's Taronga Zoo;

A Christmas tree in Hamburg;

A Christmas tree in Taipei;

A Christmas tree in Vienna (it's there someplace);

A Christmas tree in Monterrey;

A Christmas tree in Milan;

A Christmas tree in Lima;

A Christmas tree in Managua;

A Christmas tree at the Swiss federal palace in Bern;

A Christmas tree in Bethlehem;

A Christmas -- well, it's a "giant Christmas pudding", concocted by Roger and Valerie Holley at their home in Yeovil, England;

A Christmas tree in Honolulu;

A Christmas tree in Havana (!);

A Christmas tree in Dili, East Timor;

A Christmas tree in Sao Paulo;

A whole bunch of Christmas trees in Puchheim, Germany;

A Christmas "tree" of sugar candy sticks in a Bangkok hotel;

And finally, a Christmas tree in a Christian school in Baghdad.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!