Born on Christmas Day
1. Which future Chevalier came into the world on Christmas Day on Basse-Terre Island in the West Indies?
2. Melusine von der Schulenburg, born on Christmas Day 1667 and long the mistress of George I, kept a raven as a pet in her final years. Why?
a. She believed ravens possessed occult powers
b. She believed it to be the reincarnation of the dead king
c. She believed that she could teach it to speak German
3. Which 18th-century English poet, born on Christmas Day, is commemorated by a monument in Chichester Cathedral?
4. Which queen of the cosmetics industry, born on Christmas Day, snubbed Marcel Proust at a party because “he smelt of mothballs”? “How was I to know he was going to be so famous,” she later said.
The lyrics to which American Civil War song were the
