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FoxTrot
By Bill Amend
Crankshaft
By Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis
Andy Capp
By Reg Smythe
B.C.
By Mastroianni and Hart
Wizard of Id
By Parker and Hart
Shoe
By Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly
Rose is Rose
By Don Wimmer and Pat Brady
Peanuts
By Charles Schulz
Last Kiss
By John Lustig
For the first time in a long, long time they both, (the Nativity and Hanukkah), start on the same day. May the light and remembrance be a good time. A time to reflect and remember the lamp that stayed lit for eight days while new lamp-oil was made and purified.
The miracle of the one-day supply of oil miraculously lasting eight days is described in the Talmud, committed to writing about 600 years after the events described in the books of Maccabees. The Talmud says that after the forces of Antiochus IV had been driven from the Temple, the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned. They found only a single container that was still sealed by the High Priest, with enough oil to keep the menorah in the Temple lit for a single day. They used this, yet it burned for eight days (the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready). — (From Wikipedia — Hanukkah)