"A Rugrats Kwanzaa" is a television special from the American animated series Rugrats, first broadcast on December 11, 2001. It was one of the first mainstream television shows to feature the holiday Kwanzaa. In the episode, the toddler Susie Carmichael and her friends – Tommy Pickles, Chuckie and Kimi Finster, and Phil and Lil DeVille – learn about the holiday during a visit from her great-aunt. Anthony Bell directed the episode from a script by Lisa D. Hall, Jill Gorey, and Barbara Herndon. "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was praised by critics for its representation of the holiday and the voice acting; there was a mixed response to its commercialism. Cree Summer, who voices Susie, earned a nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Performance by a Youth at the 34th NAACP Image Awards for her role in the episode. A picture book entitled The Rugrats' First Kwanzaa was adapted from the script.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rugrats_Kwanzaa

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1825:

Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt

1919:

American baseball player Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth

1996:

The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called on its 1.2 million members to refuse to work, beginning the largest organized strike in South Korea's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_strikes_in_South_Korea

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

take the gilt off the gingerbread: (idiomatic) To take away the most attractive or appealing qualities of something; to destroy an illusion. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_the_gilt_off_the_gingerbread

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy. The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent the decaying human element.   --Norman Angell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Angell